Few pictures

Not sure what flattened this plant.  It looks like something sat on it. 

Our first harvest of squash and zucchini. 

Just a pretty flower growing in the yard. 

Watermelons are growing fast.

cucumbers

The squash and zucchini were very tasty. I put some in the freezer already. I can not wait to taste the watermelon. Things are really growing. Am I surprised? Why yes I am. Remember, we have no idea what we are doing. Some things I am just making up as we go along :)

Catch up!!

Well Brian has been gone a bit now. Things have been busy and I have not kept up with things. The garden is growing like crazy.  The deer and rabbits have not been in the garden much but they have been eating the leaves off the fruit trees. The poor pear and apple trees are half naked. I bought some more marigolds and Karmin planted them on one side of the garden. We put out more dog hair and some sweet treat that should help detour the deer away from the garden.

We have seen two baby rabbits and one baby brown snake. They were all very cute. We have baby watermelons in the fruit garden and baby tomatoes on the vine. Hope there are enough tomatoes to make salsa, pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce. Including the plants we got from the bank we have 62 tomato plants still going strong.

The girls are all grown up. Millie and Kaza are huge. They look like full grown chickens but they are only about 10 weeks old. They are living full time at the cabin now. We made them a 5 gallon feeder bucket and bought them a 3 gallon water bucket. They seem to have made the adjustment from inside chicks to outside chicks pretty well.

Pictures to get us caught up :-)

Garden in May

Little tomato plant

little squash plant

garden end May - start of June

Brian figuring out what goes where.

fencing for chicken coop

Melissa putting up supports in the garden.

Start of the new chicken run.

What a good daughter :)

The run is coming together.

Looking good.

FINISHED!

I think it is s chicken condo!

supports done

Millie and Kaza going for a stroll.

fresh peas

purple potatoes

My car was not made to haul this!

Karmin and Haley working hard. 

Putting up extra fence.

Nice new shavings.

The girls first visit to their new run.

Plants growing - including the asparagus.

fig bush

fruit garden

fruit garden in May

flower bed

flowers Karmin planted

Melissa hauling the girls.

Making a feeder for the chickens. 

The girls having outside play. 

Karmin and Melissa working on the bird feeder.

You go girls - power tools!!

bird feeder

How many bags you ask? 15

Sun going down at the cabin.

just beautiful and peaceful

The garden around June 2nd

The garden June 12th

growing like crazy

CRAZY asparagus

Millie and Karmin - June 13th

Karmin and Millie

The Girls

Millie

Millie

Kaza

Kaza

zinnia - to help keep deer away

zucchini 

squash

marigold to help keep deer away

Millie and the home made feeder.

Why yes - - there are plants growing in the gutter :o

squash - June 13th

picked two days after this picture

almost ready

first of the tomatoes

tomato plants we grew from seed 

professional grown tomato plants - can you tell a difference?

Bee helping things grow. 

Leaves missing thanks to the deer.

Better to eat the leaves then the garden. 

Fig plant growing as fast as it can. 

darn deer 

fruit garden June 13th

baby watermelon - June 13th

Oh the blackberries!

many, many many blackberries

just starting to ripen - June 13th

baby plum

Baby brown snake in the garden. Isn't he cute!

praying mantis

This is a dead flower and yes Karmin planted it. 

Here are a couple of the live ones she planted.

Moon rising at the cabin. 

Millie