Some like it hot

Others…

Not so much.

At 96° today at the farm, pretty warm for this neck of the woods. Daddy insists that it is not that hot, compared to other places he has lived and worked, but for those unaccustomed, it’s pretty doggone warm.

That’s why we got to the farm bright and early this morning, not too long after 9 o’clock. Planted the last of the years corn.

Takes 82 days for this variety to reach maturity, so it will be the end of September before we get anything off of it, if we do. It might just mold in the husk, depending on how September goes weatherwise. But we have the seedand the space, Why not put the two together and see what happens?

The goal was to get the berry picking done before it got too hot, and the girls did a good job with the raspberries.

But Evie was running out of steam by the time we got to the red currants. Fortunately, those are very easy to pick, and it doesn’t take long to fill up a bucket.

Then we hung out in the shade for most of the rest of the day. We ate the last of the ribs from our last pigs, with mommy’s barbecue sauce done up in the crockpot.

These guys are going to be in the freezer by the end of the month as well.

The only reason they came out in the sun for the picture was because we dumped food on the ground.

Our last surviving locust tree. Not sure why this one survived and the other five didn’t.

Meat birds are starting to look fat and tasty.

After that, we came home in the late afternoon to make supper.

And eat lemonade popsicles to cool off, and get these red current berries in the freezer, so they will keep until mommy’s steam juicer gets here.