Garlic Harvest

After D harvests the garlic, it is hung in the shed.

When it's a bit dry, it gets cleaned and trimmed.
This garlic is "Music".

 

We had two rainbows, both double in one day!
The clouds with this one were really pink!

 

Garlic!!!

We have several varieties of garlic
This one is Georgian Fire.

We should have plenty to eat and to plant for next year.
(Did you know that garlic is planted in the fall, just like tulips and daffodils.)

Rainbow and Strawberries

This is a terribly wet year.
We got a lot of rain:
   May      6.1 inches
June   11.6 inch
       July     6.25 inches
But tonight the sun came out and we got a double rainbow.

Magical.



We are getting fewer berries than last year, but they are wonderful. 

These are strawberries from three-year-old plants -
Mara des Bois strawberries.

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

Probably not - yet.

We ate two and have these in the fridge waiting for more.
It will probably have to be a tart. . .

a tiny tart.

These are the first Northstar cherries.

5 Leaf Clover

Today D brought me a Five Leaf Clover!

That's supposed to be even luckier than a four-leaf clover!
We'll see. . . 

What a difference!

We have tied our previous record of one nice day in a row.  Time to put the chicks into the sun.

The pullets are gawky now.

Tonight they will sleep in their cage in the coop with the big ones.

Tommy and the Pullets

It has stopped raining.
Time to give the pullets a taste of the outdoors.

Tommy is fascinated.

He checks them all over.

Once he's sure they are safe, he relaxes a bit.

"See, I'm doing my job!"

They're fine. 

"You can go weed. . . I'll keep an eye on them."