It is nice to be able to do chores in the daylight.
Iris and Darla look particularly majestic in the sunrise.
Snow is starting to get big. She is about the size of a small cat.
And she looks like one when she runs.
Saturday morning I noticed this.
The fence was attached to this fence anchor by only one staple, which means that when one of the animals scratched herself against the other side of the fence, she was pushing on that top strand held in place by only on staple. That’s because when we stretched the fence last summer, I didn’t go through and inspect every post. My fault. So I had to splice the wire and re-attach it, putting a staple on every wire this time.
I also need to go down this fence and put in two more fence brackets on each T-post like I did in the south pasture.
Later in the morning we had friends visiting the farm, so we just chatted, fed the animals and let the kids play all morning.
In the afternoon was when I got the comfrey planted, and then worked in the garden a bit.
Row one is cleared out, and ready for compost and getting covered with plastic for a few weeks until the tomatoes are ready to go in.
And the weeds can go to the pasture as a snack for the cows and sheep.
Elder trees are starting to put out umbrels.
What is this little herbalist up to?
She is weaving grass into the garden fence to decorate her “house” where she makes her “potions.”
Took about 30 minutes to go out to the pasture and dig out this black berry bush. Those Himalayan blackberries are insidious.
We tried to dig worms for the kids’ upcoming fishing trip with Deedee and Papa. We got a nice bagful, but then Seppi changed his mind. He dumped out the bag of worms and said, “The fish don’t like worms. We had horrible luck with worms last year. Fish like garlic bait. We are never fishing with worms again.”
So they didn’t have any worms.
They did well enough anyway.
Little Farm in the Big City 