Home Sweet Home

Memorial Day Weekend is here and it is finally time to welcome summer.  Sunday’s forecast promised extreme heat upwards of 90 degrees, so we spent our Saturday doing all of the yard projects that we wanted to complete for the weekend.

The garden is now planted.

We doubled the size of the garden this year, but it still feels small.  We planted lettuce, spinach, chard, several varieties of tomatoes and peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, squash, carrots and beans.  Now we just have the tough task of keeping the squirrels from eating everything.

Thanks to our rainbarrel made from a reclaimed industrial food product container and pallets, we have all the water we’ll need to water the garden this year.

And finally, we got the chicken coop raccoon-proofed so that the little ladies can stay in the coop all the time, assuming we continue having these lovely warm nights.

We ultimately moved the coop to this area better protected by our fence.  Last I checked, our little chicken ladies were sleeping soundly – not a care in the world.

In all, it was a really productive day on our little homestead.  Which means that we can spend the hot, hot Sunday hibernating in our air conditioning, watching movies and generally not accomplishing anything useful.  We’re looking forward to it!