Snapshots and snippets of the beautiful, crazy world right out our front door.
If you’d like to share some of your own photos or a blog post, please leave a link in the comments!
For the past few weeks, we’ve had a lot of sun and dry weather. Approaching rain clouds fizzled away to nothing and only a few drips of water landed on our property. Then, this week, two major storms came through – one producing strong wind and quarter sized hail in addition to torrential rain, the other just heavy rain. Within a few days, over 4 inches of rain filled our water barrels and ponds.
What’s happening out your front door?
Glad to see/hear your plants are bouncing back from the storm! We had a high wind storm recently, and a few of my stems snapped as well. Fingers crossed they pull through!
PS – The ducks look so, so happy. What fun!
Everything seems to be doing just fine! The tomatoes were all indeterminate, so I wasn’t too concerned about them. But even the plants with giant holes look like they were never bothered!
good luck with yours!
Hurrah for a duck pond! But wow, that’s a lot of storm damage 🙁
I hope your garden rebounds quickly
It’s finally raining here today, I’m super grateful for all the cool weather loving vegetables really needed it. This weekend we’re finishing the polytunnel (apparently it takes 3 weekends to build one when you have a 1 & 4 year old 😉 ) and cleaning out the chicken coop (fun!)
Have a great weekend!
Sounds like a busy weekend full of great homestead projects!! Good luck getting the tunnel finished!
Wow! I can’t believe the damage to some of those plants, Teri. I’m glad to hear that they’ve bounced back.
Looks like the ducks had a blast, though. How fun!
Outside our door we don’t have as much excitement right now, but I’m fussing merrily over our beans in a square foot garden raised bed. So far so good!
Thanks for sharing a peek outside your door!
(PS: that mud slurry photo is adorable!) 🙂
Beans sound great! What kind are you growing, Tracy? I came home to the mud slurry photo. My husband was home with the kids, and they were just having the best time! Glad that they can be kids and get dirty!
Beans this time around: “Ideal Market” Green Beans, Purple Podded Peas (good for soup, I hear), Sweet Snap Peas, beans from my Dad – we’re guessing Italian beans of some sort? And beans my mother refers to as “Nary’s Beans.” 🙂 I have no idea who Nary is, but I’m growing her beans, LOL!
that’s great! What a nice variety! My kids just planted a few different beans in their beds, although I’m not quite sure how they’ll do, since I didn’t supervise the planting this time! Depth is a little variable when a 3 year old is planting!
Great pics! Come along and see ours at Unruffled Forest Farm!
Thank you! I will!
We’ve talked about building a small pond but it is so dry here we figure it won’t hold water for long. We’re actually having quite a drought. I would love to have a few heavy rain storms since our garden is really struggling to grow even though we’re trying to keep it watered in such dry conditions!
What kind of soil do you have there, Annie? Ours is heavy clay, so it really sticks together well and holds water very effectively. I’m sorry to hear you’re having a drought. We had two months without water last summer and I spent so many hours hauling water in buckets from our pond, all the while feeling grateful that we even had a pond! Good luck!