Jon & Steve planting a honey locust tree in front of Steve's house
Jon & Steve planting a maple tree in front of the chicken coop at our house
Jon puts the finishing touches on our maple tree
View of the house looking northward from the tree
Jon and Steve had a busy Saturday morning this past weekend. They planted 8 trees at Steve's house and 1 tree at our house. Not only were the trees large and mature, we had a severe rainstorm the night before which turned the soil into mud. They had to wrestle some of the trees to get them into position but the overall effect is really nice now that they are all planted. We are excited to have a new maple tree on the south side of our house. It will eventually mature and provide much needed shade for the hen house.
Now that fall is upon us we are preparing for winter and trying to get as much as we can done before the ground freezes. We will be busy winterizing the garden as well as planting new bulbs for the spring. It will be exciting to see how it all turns out next year.
The onion field across the street
Jon & Robin gleaning onions in the hailstorm
onions!
These pictures really do prove that we live in East Podunk. We have an onion field (this changes from year to year), a small pasture with steers and a mobile home across the street from us. We are lucky to be good friends with the farmer who farms our the land on our street. He let us glean onions from his field after it was harvested. Unfortunately this coincided with the aforementioned rainstorm and we had to get the onions out before they rotted. Geagen and I even went out with the Baby Bjorn before the rain started again. Spike even followed us out in to the field to lend a helping paw. Jon and Robin got caught in the hailstorm and were absolutely soaked. We got lots of onions (2 twin sheets full) and we will let them dry out and then get them into our root cellar so they will last all winter. I guess we don't have to worry about putting onions in our food storage. Now we can concentrate on other things in our food storage.
Spike strikes a thoughtful pose
1 comment:
Susan I love to read your blog. I can see that you are so happy and you have a beautiful home and daughter...she looks just like you from what I can tell! I am working on getting settled and will send some pictures ect. on when I get unpacked and organized...hopefully before the holidays. We are living in North Plains...pretty podunk too for northwest oregon. You'll have to look it up. I am VERY impressed by your foodstorage/domestic skills and you have inspired me. I missed canning season this year but I have all of my jars and will be right there with you next year. you look so happy and it makes me smile. Love you,
Crystal
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