What do you do when you realize it's been a looooong time since you last blogged? You just start blogging again!
So much to catch up on and it won't happen today because here is my "tentative" plan for the day....
bees
berries
mow
house
ride
So I hope to take a look at the bees, pick the bursting crop of blueberries and raspberries, mow some of the yard, pick up and vacuum the house, and brush and ride my horses. Not much. I know that it's not really realistic that it will all get done either.
The blueberry bushes are loaded!
This is my "fight the Japanese beetles" plan. Every year the beetles show up just about the time the berries are getting ripe and decimate my crop. This year a put the sheerest row covers I could find over the plants and had no beetle destroyed berries.
(The dark shape is my labrador retriever, Daisy. She finds a little shade by the row covers. She has to be close to me but the old girl is really suffering from the heat)
I wait until the berries are bursting with sweetness and sometimes there are berries that get mushy. Those go into a bucket for the chickens... or they're pitched over my shoulder into the turkey pen as the turkeys gobble at me and wait for these little treats to fall from the sky.
Time to get to it!
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