Sweet passage of a cold front

More pictures taken over the weekend of how things are progressing. The "big" fields are planted in field corn again this year. The corn is about waist high now and makes for a pretty picture looking out the field towards our woods. It won't be long before the corn will be taller than I am and then the view will not be quite as scenic.



The boys are still on a roll. Mike had some office work this morning so they did not get planting until later in the afternoon. Even so they got about 5000 more plants in the ground. More broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and some plants that we will call mystery vegetables since the writing on the labels that marked each flat had washed off. The weather has cooled off considerably with the passage of a front. I'm sure the guys really appreciated that while working in the fields today. Makes for nice planting weather. Even the chickens celebrated the cooler weather by laying lots of eggs today. The hot weather is a big stress on them too. The lows are suppose to be in the upper 40's tonight though so morning chores tomorrow are going to feel a bit chilly compared the hot weather we had over the weekend.



The early sweet corn is looking good. Almost knee high. Well it is almost the fourth of July. It is hard to believe that Mike's parents will be picking sweet corn on their farm very soon. Amazing what a couple hundred miles of latitude will do for slowing down the growing season. The beans and the peas are looking good too, but it will be a bit before there is anything to pick.

My day was just long, plain and simple. Up at 5:15am. My little lawn tractor broke, again. So I am back to using the wheelbarrow to haul feed and water out to the meat chickens on pasture. Just a pain. Tuesday's are my long day at the clinic and add some grocery shopping to that and I didn't get home until 7pm. Then evening chores. Dinner after 8pm. Then Mike and I walked out to the blueberries to plan how many we could pack in this week's CSA's. Only the family packs will get them. Sitting here winding down and off to bed soon.