Farm Update.

There's a lot to say, it has been way too long!

First and foremost, my laptop is dunzo! I went to get a diagnosis on it the other day and it now won't start. So from now on I will only be blogging once or twice a week from the local library computer. Local, meaning not that local. So continue to check back for I will continue to blog! So if you ever need to reach me send me a text and I will recieve it probably a day after you sent it and then sometime in the week drive into town and call you!

For the farm. The high tunnel is infested with white flies. I took some fish emulsion to it the other day and hopes that will help to decrease them. After some research their eggs hatch every three to four days so they just keep coming. They have overcome all of the new growth and have started to kill many of the beans plants. Ultimately, I have decided not to plant anything new in the high tunnel and am going to put in a cover crop. It will probably be beans since I have some leftover seed. In that case I won't really have to start seeding and maintaining the outside garden until the end of August. Come to think of it, that's not too far away. I tore out the six cages of tomatoes. It was a hassle to do but made many capterpillar friends in the process and only spotted one black widow. Outside we have been ontop of maintaining weed growth with the beds, but oh that nutsedge.

This past week was spent clearing trees and over hanging branches on the electric fence for the upcoming livestock. It seems to be a trend as we have been doing that a lot lately. We walked the back fields that are behind the elcetric fence where I had never been and Larry has only been several times since he has lived there. I was terrified for my life for I was sure that we would see a snake. We saw plenty of gorgeous banana spiders but no snakes. I did see my first live armadillo that everyone continues to say carries leoporsy but I'm still thinking it's a wives-tale.

Lincoln and Jackson are well but desperate for a new house. I keep mentioning that I want to build on since theirs collapsed. I am sure that we will eventually get to it. We have been discussing what it will be like when the new livestock come and what their reactions will be. It brings us many laughs thinking about them interacting with other animals. My cans of fig products I made a while back were finally opened and they were to my disatisfaction. So we thought we'd play a little game with Jackson. Dog fennel grows in abundance but the donkey and horse don't seem to like it so we poured some fig jam all over dog fennel to try to get them to eat it and it worked with the donk! We were laughing so hard. So we are going to do this daily in hopes that he starts to eat the fennel. I doubt it, he is to smart and knows we are on to something.

In all, things are well. I'm finally starting to get into the groove of things down here. Life is slow and I'm struggling to slow down, it's a process but I will get at it. All my love!