Another Hot Weekend in Memphis

Sandy Bush-Hogging

(I love my hat! It keeps the sun off)

The Dogs and the "Turkey Incident"

(Notice Teddy's mean bark...he was ready to kill)

What we picked Friday

With all this heat, we have been trying to do only what is necessary on the farm so we don't get heat stroke.

The past two weekends we have bush-hogged the fields. The tractor's alternator is not charging the battery so that is something to add to Cris' to fix list. We have to stop about every couple hours to charge the tractor battery with the truck for now.

We use a pump at the pond to water the vegie garden since it has decided to never rain again. The tomatoes are very slow growing in this heat but once it cools off, we are hoping for great things to happen. The cucs, zucs, okra and squash are growing like crazy. We have pickled alot and plan to make zucchini bread this weekend.

This weekend Nugget chased a wild turkey into the pond. Teddy, who hates the pool and will NOT swim, decided that a turkey was reason enough to learn how to swim. They chased this poor turkey around the pond. Teddy kept trying to pull it closer to shore but ended up only pulling out turkey feathers. I really believe Teddy would have killed it if he could have gotten ahold of it. The turkey would peck at Teddy every time he went for the poor things head. We managed to get the dogs and tie them up to the barn to give the turkey a chance to run away; which it eventually did. Nugget was exhausted from swimming around the pond. It was funny to watch.