It's a Beautiful Morning!

I strode around the farm on this lovely morning armed with a camera. My walk resulted in some lovely, albeit random pictures from various corners of the farm. Enjoy.


The strawberries are big and healthy. Here's hoping they produce well this year!


Our half acre potato patch is almost completely planted. We have two more rows which we'll do today. There will be great celebrating when this chore is done! Lots of work. In fact, my last blister just peeled, which is a sure sign that we're almost done!


Lazy horses basking in the sunshine. Mule looks paranoid as she watches me look over our potato patch. She does not want her mid-morning nap interrupted with more plowing!


A super hero swings his sword and throws his cape to the wind as he charges off in the direction of a chicken squawking in the woods. (He's been diligently trying to find us a broody hen for several days now.)


The girls have been getting out on a little bit of grass now, resulting in they're giving us more milk than we want and enough cream to add a gallon of ice cream to our normally rich diet. Yum!


We did something silly the other day... We planted our barn roof with flower seeds (yea, that was my idea! ;). We threw a little soil up there to help germinate the seeds, but the composting bales are already beginning to sprout grass, so it should be a lovely living roof by mid summer!


While I was up there, I took some pictures of the surrounding barnyard.


And our two acre garden...


With all our raised beds...


...and the solar shower and root cellar shed.


Off the other side. If you crane your neck, you can almost see the creek down in the ravine.


The round garden, Theresa playing with her bunnies and our volleyball net beyond.


We shoveled out a big mound of clay from the garden. It had been left over from when we had our root cellar dug two years ago and I was anxious to get it out of the garden so it's considerable footprint could be used for other things. It was amazing how fast the kids shoveled out that pile! However, I do think that that job added a few to my annual potato planting blister count... :)

And then I meandered over to see Theresa playing with her bunnies...

"They're so cute Mary, they're just adorable, look how they're bouncing around, aren't they just adorable Mary??"

Yes, yes they are...
Michael made new gates for our round garden with some recycled materials...


..while Stephen completed the other garden fence over to the root cellar shed. Ha! Take that chickens!


The chickens have made my front flower beds suffer with all their scratching and dust bathing. So far pretty much only my irises are coming up this year.


Oh, laundry laundry... never ending job around here. Some rainy days in a row have left us with full lines this morning.


And more to do yet as well.


Also on the list for today: mow the yard. I wish some four legged critters could just do it for us, but we can't have them in or around the orchard and I think I would take a baseball bat to anything that would dare munch on my tender little lilac bushes (they're in front of those stakes).


Inside the safety of the garden fence, I have lilies and hollyhocks coming up. The girls keep asking me, "don't you have enough flowers now?" but the answer is always regrettably: no. There are still several I want to add this year. I'm obsessed... terribly. :)


Despite a few frosts lately, life is thriving inside our wonderful, wonderful greenhouse.


I have nine flats of flower seed started, and they're all coming up. Yayy!! :)


Check out the thermometer reading! Weew! It's 58 outside right now... And our greenhouse isn't heated or even insulated at all yet!


Well, that's all for this lovely morning. Now I have to go get to work on this lovely day...

You have a beautiful day too, alright?! :)