Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

 

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? The lady slippers are blooming. I really like getting out in the woods this time of the year looking for them. We got several messes of fish on the lake this morning. The fish were biting good. I gathered some spinach & got several more asparagus spears this week. Kevin had to have breaks put on the front of his truck. That was an unexpected pretty penny. He got mulch to clean out the chicken coop & got it ready for the baby chicks scheduled to start hatching at just about any minute now. We ran over to Home Depot & got materials to work on building the kitchen & bathroom in the camper. We had a good time at the Wilson Goat Farm Trade Day. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you all about how the sale went then were having fish for suppers this weekend & going to look at the rhododendrons at the fairgrounds.

We went down the evening before the sale & set up camp. The camper was simple & cozy inside with the cots pushed together to make a bed & a small fold up table ready for my morning coffee. There was a porta-john on site for the bathroom facilities. The Wilsons invited us to their house for a fish fry, but we had already ate at Kentucky Fried Chicken on the way there. We walked down to visit for a few minutes & did end up having a couple pieces of the fish & some hushpuppies. 

  

I took my little dog Rose on a walk around the farm as the sun was setting. There was bubbling peanuts slowly simmering getting ready to be put in cups & sold. I don't care for boiled peanuts, but I know a lot of people that do, including Kevin. Several canopies were set up & a few covered utility trailers were sitting here & there. The blackberries were starting to show their white blooms. Curious horses & donkeys came to check us out & say hello. A couple of wagons had been put away to the side. The fields were full of yellow flowers. One of the best things was the smell of the fresh cut grass.

  

We got the tables set up & everything in its place by daylight. The morning temperature was in the chilly low 60s. Folks came out early looking for good finds & deals. We had good conversations catching up with family, friends & meeting new people. Many conversations were about the blackberries in bloom, explaining the cold spell we got mid-week being blackberry winter, now the weather is expected to turn hot for the summer. We met a guy that knows probably everything there is to know about marbles. Most of the crowd disappeared after lunch. By 1:00 most the sellers had packed up & left to beat the heat. The afternoon temperature got up in the high 80s. We stayed a little longer to greet a few last-minute onlookers & to help clean up. 

There was a good turnout of sellers & browsers. It was fun & interesting seeing what all was there. It was the kind of day where you never know what treasures you'll come across.

I spotted a couple pets among the crowd that I couldn't resist getting a closer look at. 

        Do you know what this is?

                 It looks like a badger,

       It's not a ferret,

              It's not a hedgehog,

What is it?

It's a groundhog. I don't think I've ever
seen a baby groundhog, have you?

It's a dachshund. 

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Go out & have a wonderful weekend. 

Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing? The iris are blooming, seeds are coming up in the garden & I didn't get any asparagus this week. We worked on the camper, Kevin did the work & I helped hold things. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll show you around the gardens & tell you how the enclosed trailer camper transformation is going, then were heading out to the Goat Farm Sale this weekend.

The kitten's eyes are open. Meet
Poppy & Bristol. 

Kevin has already been having to water the garden. There's not much in yet, just a few cold weather things. The onions look a lot better after being watered. The strawberries are doing good. We're getting 9 to 11 eggs a day, so all the hens are laying.  An extra rooster along with 2 of the hens are going to the farm sale. The iris & azaleas are beautiful in bloom. The snowball bush don't seem to have any snowballs this year.  

Lettuce

    

Radishes

Nest box in the chicken house.

41 eggs in the incubator. It holds
42 but the turner motor won't turn
the trays with one of these large
size eggs in the space in front of it.

The iris are scattered around, I 

This dark pink one is up
at the chicken house.

enjoy walking around looking at all of them.

This one I call the old fashion 
kind is beside the house.

Iris the cat, Moma to
the kittens.

   

This different white one is over
in the rock gardens.

This dark purple one is
down by the creek.

We are ready for camping. We got the wiring, lights, ceiling & windows put in the camper. Next, we'll be working on putting in a kitchen, bathroom, table & a bed. For now, we can use cots, a fold up table & the little camp stove.

2 windows to be put in.

  

Doing the wiring 1st.

The lights work.

      

Me on standby to help when needed.
If you're like me, the heat & sweat
sneak in unexpectedly giving your
skin an icky yeast infection, you are
not alone. 

   

Cutting a hole for the big window.

Squirrels cooking in the crockpot for
supper, they smelt sooooo gooooood.

It fits!

Insulation in the ceiling.

Putting up the ceiling &
installing the lights.

Windows done.

Crappie

Kevin had good luck fishing this week. I stopped by the book fair.

Bass

I got this book for Grands. 
They have a little pug
that looks like this one.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been? Get out & have a wonderful weekend.