Our first Concord Grapes!

I’m proud to reopen my blog today, August 1st, 2011. This year has been very good to me so far, and I’m thankful every day. I’ve been incredibly busy and productive. Our daughter has experienced a similar upswing this year and is excitedly about to begin her Senior year of high school. I can just SMELL the potential in the air for the future, and I hope you too are excited about your own. If not, just TRY it.. find something to really GET EXCITED about and GO FOR IT!

Now, let me update you on the food crops:

Today we clipped our first haul of grapes, EVER! Concord for jelly and juice, someday. I expect with this small amount, we’ll only be able to toast a sip each! As the years progress, the yield should increase. But never the less, it’s all very encouraging.

Peppers are in full bloom right now. Banana peppers seem to yield more than any of the other peppers I’m growing, which include Italian Red, Giant Green, California Wonder and some Yellow Bells. But I just can’t live without the others.

This is the last of the Yellow Roma tomatoes, as I didn’t care for them as I should have and they become lost, so to speak, during my July hibernation! However, there are still 8 more tomato plants, JUST NOW starting to really bloom & fruit, although there aren’t paste tomatoes in there, we’ll have some great big juicy varieties for salsa and sandwich slicing.

Tonight I will get some detailed photos of the chickens once they’ve gone to roost. Its that time of year, when I begin to thin out the flocks, to accommodate those birds that are coming up and will soon begin to lay. I will have laying hens and a few pullets to offer for sale. My newest group of Blue Australorps are SO beautiful, I can’t wait to show them off to you and begin offering babies next year!

Ok, that’s all for now,
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Take care!
Dawn
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