But first, the cuteness!
Just a bit of video of the outside cats after putting out their breakfast. I checked on Broccoli’s babies and got to pet them a bit. They were curled up together in a corner of their new bed, so I did not try to pick them up. I did hear some growling, so Broccoli was somewhere nearby, but I didn’t see her until she was heading towards the front of the house. I did leave food for her in the old garden shed, though, as well as some in a sheltered spot outside of it.
Several of my daughter’s double tulips are fully open now. Some of the tulips that emerged don’t seem to be getting flower buds at all this year. Hopefully, they will survive to bloom next year.
I harvested more rhubarb this morning, this time from the ones in the north corner of the old kitchen garden. This is the best year we’ve had for rhubarb since moving out here, and the first time we’ve ever had such a good harvest from this particular patch. We might even be able to get more than one harvest from it this year! The rhubarb on the south corner has already given us two harvests.
I did not put our transplants out this morning. It is really windy out there! The pots would get blown all over the place. I was hoping to at least get the weed trimmer out and do the paths between the beds I need to work on, but it’s even too windy for that. The mosquito netting that was placed over the chain link fence beds is a fine enough mesh that they are acting as sails in winds this high. They are well secured on the fence itself, but the ground staples are getting pulled out of the ground in places, and the netting is billowing. I couldn’t even find some of the ground staples that got pulled out; they were flung somewhere out of view! This is happening because of the wind direction; the netting is being blown away from the fence instead of into it. The good thing about that is that the winds are also blowing the elm seeds away from the garden beds, instead of into them, so the billowing netting is not a problem, in that respect.
It’s not even noon yet, and we’ve already reached our high of 21C/70F. The predictions for afternoon rain have changed. We are now expecting thunderstorms – and I’ve already been hearing the thunder.
Parts of the lawn are finally dry enough to more or use the weed trimmer on, but the weather isn’t going to let that happen today!
Oh! I’m hearing more thunder. It might be time to shut down the computer, before the storm hits!
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 