We've Been Busy & Friday Foto(s)

And just like that it's July!

It has been a while since I did an actual post about what we have been doing. There has been so much happening that I haven't really had the time or the energy to sit down and record what's been going on around here.

In June we went to the Mother Earth News Fair in Albany, OR - man it was a HOT day! We sat in on a bee keeping seminar that was given by Bee Thinking out of Portland, OR as well as a talk all about keeping chickens. The hoop house was officially completed and the tomatoes & pepper plants were planted within the indoor garden. Then the task of starting to extend the existing fence that was created to be a  privacy fence which we plan to enclose where our Garden Boxes are located. We are currently thinking up some other ways to deter the deer since the fence will not be that tall and the deer would still be able to jump over. We'll see...

Tom and Team Renfro working on the gate post.

Tom and Doug getting post #2 dug & set

The discount strawberries that I picked up at Freddy's now have a home and are looking good. They will spend this summer with some bush beans...looking forward to having a crop of tasty berries next June!

Strawberry patch 

June seemed to just fly by! I celebrated my birthday by playing in the garden and being with Team Renfro and also had my hair colored the day before my birthday - professionally - for the first time! Let's throw in the Half Marathon that we did on Father's day and how much that hurt!

Today we managed to start AND finish an inexpensive tomato cage project. I have been wanting to make these tomato cages for a while. We had planned to go to Home Depot to get the fence stock, but on a whim Tom wanted me to go to Pioneer fence which is much closer to home. He was able to get a roll of about 50' for $20 cash - BOOM! We are good to go!!

It's hard to see what we did - but got 7 put together pretty quickly!

There will always be a project to work on, but there is satisfaction in the end result whether it's something we grew ourselves or a project that we wanted to do to make this a farm biz in progress.