A Weekend on the Farm

We spent the weekend filling two more raised beds with 3-way garden soil and planting the beds and flower pots.  See Dayle using the bucket on his tractor to fill the beds?  I was documenting it and also giving him hand signals when to drop the load and to move back or forwards, etc.

See the soil falling in?

Almost done with the first one.

Raking it even.

All done.. and raked and ready to plant.

First were the Dahlias in the left bed and also the right, and then we planted the Zucchini that I grew from seed on the far end of it, we think we can train the vine down to the ground.  We'll see if that works.  We had ordered some fancy Dahlias and then our friend at the bottom of the road put a notice on Corbett Area on Facebook that she had divided her Dahlias and had put the extras on a table at her house and Dayle went down and adopted some.  It will be fun to see how they do.

We've made this bed our "potting bench" and have planted many pots we had with new flowers.

I've named this our "Salad Garden".  The lettuces grow bigger every day and very soon we can harvest some leaves for our dinner.  :-)

Our kitchen gardens aren't far from our back door.

The big pink Rhodie is looking nice.

On Saturday Dayle made home made burritos filling and I rolled them up.  We just cook up a lb. of ground beef, add some chopped onion, then add some salsa, heat up some refried beans, grate some cheddar cheese.  First you spread the beans, put a big handful of cheese over that and top with the meat sauce.  Roll up and top with ranch dressing, we use Uncle Dans ranch dressing packets and mix it with mayo and sour cream to make a dip.  It's a garlicky herby mix.

We had our dinner while watching the movie "Downton Abbey".  I have to be honest, it was neat to see all the characters but so many of them hardly got to say a word and too much time was spent on the one character, Thomas Barrow.  Plus, we did not like the DA staff drugging the King and Queens cook and locking their butler in his room and pulling a trick on the servers to send them away.  I thought the movie was a disappointment as I thought it was not near as good as the series.  

That being said, I loved all the scenery of the town and the abbey and the Characters.

A final shot.  I wonder if they will make a 2nd one?

Our mail lady saw our pond when delivering a package and said she had about 100 fish in their pond.  I said.. if you want to sell any, we could use a few more.  On Sunday morning she dropped off two goldfish and refused payment.  Isn't that nice?  They are not afraid of Keiko at all and fit right in.

Our Peony bloomed!  Isn't it luscious?

What a center!

The 2nd one nearly open.

There are 6 flowers on it this year, I need to get another photo of them all at once.

A few of the 4th of July rose are opening.

The Bonfire Begonia is coming up strong.

This is what I see from our kitchen window.  Swoon.

The little African Violet will soon be covered with flowers.

This Lilac is opening.. it's neat as this blooms AFTER the other ones and the blooms are delicate and small.

The Clematis is in bloom.. I love the colors in this one.

And a solid purple one in the same clump.  :-)

And a purple Iris hiding under the white lilac.. gonna have to dig it up and move it.  :-(

Lots of strawberries expected!

Dayle spoiled me on Mother's Day, a baked potato, green beans and grilled filet mignon!  Fresh snipped chives from our garden on the potato, along with a dollop of Uncle Dans.  :-)

I got a shot of the Rose Moon the other night.. 

A few hours later I got this shot, it's higher in the sky and whiter.

We're watching the series "Anne With an E" and are really enjoying it, it's on Netflix.  It's about Ann of Green Gables.

I'm happily reading this series - The Seven Sisters - I'm on book two and it's really GOOD!!

Sorry for such an epic post.. but that is what is going on here.  How are you passing the time?  Do share.

((hugs)), Teresa :-)