Don't let the pretty flowers fool you, it has been HOT down here in NC! Temps in the low 100's and upper 90's. Which I guess is close to the norm, but after fall, winter, spring, it seems I always manage to "forget" how miserable July and August are down here.
Despite the weather things are going well. The garden has been providing a good supply of fresh vegetable, and we have put up enough beans, pickles, squash, peppers to see us through the winter already. the tomatoes should be coming in any time now. We have gotten very little in the way of rain lately and have been watering parts of the garden every night. I feel we are just managing to keep things from burning up.
I completed the walkway from the garage to the house. That was a major project I will gladly cross off the "To Do" list. The rocks were watered for the picture and to clean them off., they are not that shiny.
This is an evenings quick picking of summer squash, peppers, and a few stray early tomatoes.
These are some of our 26 teenage chickens, should start producing eggs by October. I am pretty sure I heard a young rooster crow the other morning! We will see.
And this is Momma Buff who went "broody" this spring and hatched out these four chicks from a friends fertile eggs(well her chickens' eggs!) She has been a good mother to these. She also hatched out five of our own guinnia eggs a few days after these, unfortunately she did not want anything to do with them,and killed one. At that point I had to seperate them. They are alive and well under an intermittent heat lamp.
Our guinna hen went broody on a nest of 20 eggs out in our field, but that might be a whole 'nother story....
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