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the parental dahlia that furnished the seeds of the new baby mystery dahlias; deep purple foliage and brilliant orange blooms… … and the results are in! the first mystery baby, grown from saved seeds is yellow! sunflower volunteer, having been messed with in photoshop to bring out its peachy coloration. . . . → Read More: around the farm 
before summer snuck completely by us, we swept the cobwebs out of the playhouse that is sitting right there in our front yard, and made it into quinn’s domain. he set up his kitchen inside, and promptly began to play a game of chess against himself.
speaking of play, our living . . . → Read More: around the farm 
the farm now features a chest freezer and a “pantry”. there is no before picture of the pantry because a pile on the floor is too unruly to be captured in pixels, but here is the fuzzy after photo.
there’s my furniture (is a chest . . . → Read More: around the farm 
as i was readying my camera to attempt to take pictures of quinn chasing dragonflies, i got this “awesome” shot of my man’s elbow, and our two grubby yardwork pantlegs. sitting on the bench in the backyard, taking a break, as we do. i love mistake photos that capture just exactly how it is. . . . → Read More: around the farm 
the bees have moved on to this new favorite attraction. golden-chain tree. fixes nitrogen, makes bees very happy and lights up the yard with bright yellow blooms. another corner of the yard is painted purple. one more nice surprise in the shrubbery department is the tall oregon grape (Mahonia aquifolium) at the . . . → Read More: around the farm 
grab your binoculars (upside down seedling pots work well for this) and hang on for this week’s garden tour. i think beans are miraculous. i’m just saying. scarlet emperor runner beans are the kind of plant you can literally watch growing. if i could sit and do nothing else, i would do just that. . . . → Read More: around the farm 
after over 2 weeks of no rain, i put some seeds and starts into the newly dug bed just in time for a good soaking. i’m hoping for a bumper crop of cilantro, i saved a lot of seed last year and put most of it in just now, gambling on this good soaking . . . → Read More: around the farm 
we’ve been celebrating rich’s daughter’s graduation this past week, and had gorgeous weather in which to put family members to work in the garden. rich’s parents visited for a week and helped us clear the way for digging the second half of the garden. i had hacked down the salmonberry in very early spring, . . . → Read More: around the farm 
last week i made some new compost bins. look at that fine joinery (haha, i did not take any closeups, because i perform joinery with scrap ropes off the beach, not fasteners.) how i know my man really, really likes me: he let me fill up his truck with manure. i mucked out my friend’s . . . → Read More: around the farm |
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