Farm Picture of the Day: Stormy Weather

We may not have had a lot of rain but we've either had some wind or the limbs on the pear tree are getting too stressed. I did thin the pears but apparently they are still weighing the tree down too much.

Farm Picture of the Day: Rainbow

Farm Picture of the Day: Raining!

Our yard looks so brown because we have not had much rain this summer.

Luckily, we are finally getting a little bit of rain this afternoon.

Farm Picture of the Day: Chicken Yard

Farm Picture of the Day:

A year ago, we had our first hatching.

Picture of the Day: Mr. Sneaky

One day this quail just showed up and started hanging out with our chickens. At the request of a friend, we named him Mr. Sneaky.

Farm Picture of the Day: Eggs

The results of today's egg gathering.

Farm Picture of the Day: Herding and Chickens

Two pictures today.

Beavis crowing

The rut that Brogan has made around the chicken coop from his "herding."

Farm Picture of the Day: Pears

Our pear crop is looking good this year, so far. We pruned the trees in late winter and thinned the pears once they started growing a little bit to give them some room to grow. They should be ready to pick at the end of August. I'm thinking pear preserves may be in my future.

An Update of Sorts

We haven't posted here much this spring and summer because we haven't really been doing much around the farm. We started fencing off our garden area early in the spring. We had all the posts put in and 1 1/2 sides fenced in with wire.

Matthew ended up getting sick with a lingering infection that we finally got cleared up within the last month and, now, we noticed the 2" x 4" welded wire we used is too loose because the posts are so far apart. So, we have undone the worst of the fencing and have started to reposition the posts so they are closer together.

We got 2 of the 5 posts in today but with the heat and the lack of rain making the ground so hard, that was as far as we got. Hopefully, we will get the other 3 posts done this week and will be able to get the ground tilled soon so that we can have a late summer/fall garden.