Last week Alex and I went to Maryland to visit family and Cris stayed on the farm the whole week with the 2 dogs and cat. Kitty took a couple days to adjust to his surroundings but is fine now. He is not allowed outside though, not until he is used to the area.
We put our Memphis house on the market and had a couple people look at the house. It is not the best time to sell a house but hopefully we will find the right buyer and the right price. The house has never been so clean….even Alex is keeping his room clean, but that could be the $20 he gets for keeping his bed made and floor clear of clothes etc…
The well is not installed yet. We ended up changing well companies because the other kept giving us the run around… it was always, “next week”. The new company (which came with recommendations from friends) drilled yesterday and hit sand around 50 ft. which is good. They went to 95 ft. and stopped. Tuesday another person comes out with a pump to see how the water flow is from 95 ft. If it is good, then they install the pump and holding tank…..if not, they dig some more. When the well is ready to be hooked up to the house, we get the electrician to run the electric and then FINALLY, we will have a well. (update - well is not deep enough so they are coming out again to drill....no well yet!)
Two weeks ago we had friends over to make shitake mushroom logs. Cris hooked up a barrel of water to the house so we could at least use the bathroom. That was handy and appreciated by all. The mushroom plugging went great despite the heat. Afterwards we all went inside to the air conditioning to have a wonderful meal and conversation. Cris made two different mushroom dishes and others brought dishes from items out of their gardens.
I thought it was hot two weeks ago, that was until we hit this weekend….. The heat and humidity are horrible. We are not getting as much done as we had hoped for fear of heat exhaustion. This morning we weeded the cabbage and ended up a drenched mess. This evening we hope to start weeding the okra plants. Last week while Alex and I were in Maryland, Cris weeded the 500 strawberry plants and then covered them with weed block…. That took him 3 days because of the heat and humidity.
We are thankful that it has rained…not like last year when it was so dry. I think that is why the weeds are so bad this year….not really weeds but just grass. Our cows will have some wonderful grass to eat because it grows like crazy.
Since we are limited to what we can do outside, we “went to town” to pick up materials to make a solar clothes dryer (clothes line) and we installed that today. I plan to buy a used washer when the well is ready and will only wash on sunny days so I can use the clothes line. We will see how long that lasts before I beg for a dyer.
We are also pricing the sheeting that goes on the bottom of the trailer. As soon as the well is installed, we hope to get the heat pump and then we can put the sheeting up…that will keep the dogs out from under the trailer. They love hunting for frogs.
Cris has been mushroom hunting around the property and has found chanterelles, which are in season right now. They are all over the place. Our dinner tonight will consists chanterelles freshly picked, and freshly picked cucumbers, lettuce, peppers, tomatoes and onions.
The potatoes and remaining onions are ready to be dug up but the ground is too wet so that will have to wait. We did some more tomato staking (the tomatoes we planted outside, not in the greenhouse), weeding and then called it a day at 6pm…. Just too hot for man and beast.
Our farm home is currently a mish mash of furniture and boxes and there is NO method to our madness, as they say. We are slowly moving items out to the farm but some items have to stay at the Memphis house since it is for sale and we want to make it look nice for potential buyers. We will not have the storage space we have in Memphis so we are coming up with ideas to create storage. Our project list just keeps growing. Luckily, my daughter Lindsay has moved into a townhome and needs furniture...I am glad I can pass some of my mother's furniture onto her granddaughter.
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