Monday, June 23, 2014

Views from the farm

We have five new baby kittens!  This one Ally named "Dalmation" 
This little guy is named "Slippers".  He has a brother who looks almost identical whose name is "Boots".  

The Carola Gold potatoes are growing and flowering.  It will be an excellent potato crop this year!
The golden potatoes have a lovely yellow flower.  Our Norland Reds and Fingerlings have purple ones.

This long and frigid winter was hard on many bushes and plants.  Between last summer's drought and the winter's cold very few blueberry plants actually flowered this spring.  We will have no U-pick this year and no blueberries to take to the market.  In a way, it is a good year to rest, recuperate, and make reserves for next year's crop. I will not be in any shape to pick blueberries for a month given that surgery is one week away.
The garlic scapes are beautiful and scrumptious. I  collected about 400-500 of these this weekend.  I will be making garlic pesto and freezing.  The house will smell deliciously garlic.

Today's Journey Joys:  blueberries and black raspberries ripening, potatoes blooming, friend's coming to help me clean prior to surgery next week, finger nails healing, banana muffins fresh from the oven.

Melancholy

I shouldn't write when I'm feeling like this.  Emotionally fragile and oscillating between tears, fears, and frustration.  Yet ...