Back in the Saddle Again

The first couple of days right after vacation are usually busy for everyone. It's the same with farm families.

The Farmer is cultivating or harrowing almost daily right now, to keep ahead of the weeds. Once the weeds get an upper hand, it's all over. This is our second year of cultivating instead of spraying the weeds. It's definitely a science and an art. Especially as half the field drowned out and needed replanting. You cultivate baby plants differently than you do larger plants. The Farmer ended up cultivating only the older corn and beans. So he rode down half the row with the cultivator down, and then lifted it up when he got to the new plantings and rode to the end of the rows. Turned around and reversed the sequence. Our good friend Joe didn't mention these sorts of situations when he told us how to make the switch from spraying to mechanical weed control...

While we were on vacation having fun, the bills continued to come in. So yesterday I spent a couple of hours catching up with both personal and farm books.

We decided to enter, last-minute, the Washington Square Art & Antiques Market (Saturday, July 12) and another show in October. So I filled out paperwork and mailed it in.

The Critter Barn is testing our little composter. Before the Farmer delivered the composter, he needed to fix a door on it. Sometime soon I'll blog about our composting system. 

I have the opportunity to reweave a bunch of rag rugs for the cabins at a nearby camp. They need them ASAP. So I banged on rugs for several hours yesterday. 

While I was busy with rugs, my mom worked with the kids on weeding flower beds and putting down bark. She called it Landscaping Class. 

And, we had delicious homegrown beef roast for supper. Yum. All in all, a good day.

Oops! Oldest daughter just called from camp. Pink-eye. She needs to be toted into town. Guess I'll do an errand run while I'm at it.