Busy Busy

Hello friends!

We’ve had a busy few days on the farm here, but we’re finally slowly making some progress!

First of all, we are getting really close to pulling off the surprise birthday party for my grandma. Don’t worry, she doesn’t know this blog exists, so there’s no worry about spoilers. She’s gonna be so pleased.

We got the cake ordered and the photos all back for the decor. I’d say we are probably about 70 percent ready, which is just awesome. I’m really excited to see it all come together.

On the farm itself, I switched to a summer schedule at work. It took forever for the weather to work itself out, but I am now working on the farm a little in the mornings before I go sign in to work. It’s such a better schedule for me, but it only works in the summer when the sun is up and it’s not completely frigid. It’s my favorite schedule.

We got the sprinklers fixed in the pasture. And then refixed. And then rerefixed. See, we knew we had some that had gotten busted in the last few weeks, so we went out and fixed about seven of them. Lots of digging, sawing, gluing, and wondering where on earth the pipe actually was. Then we took about three hours and mowed the pasture, to give the good grasses a fighting chance against the weeds. It was very hot, very dirty work, but it looks so nice and I’m hopeful lots of those grasses will flourish. Anyways, while doing that I personally took out two more sprinklers we had to go fix. I’m very good at accidentally obliterating sprinklers. Unsurprisingly they don’t like going through the mower. But I didn’t get stuck this time, which is a first.

Then a couple days later, while troubleshooting why the pump had no pressure, we ended up blowing the top off four sprinklers. See, rerefixed.

I think the girls have been scratching on them too, they are so itchy and we have had so many broken ones this year.

We finally got the potatoes in the ground. That’s all we are planting this year, because we have had such odd weather and now are having some irrigation issues. I’m excited though. I’m going to make loaded baked potato soup and fries and chips and mashed potatoes and…I feel we’ve done this conversation before. It’s gonna be fun, plus we’re Idahoans, so we gotta grow potatoes. It’s a rule, they make you promise when you buy land. That’s the truth.

Anyways.

We’ve had a new truck temporarily join the farm lately. A little blue thing parked in front of the garage. It’s a birthday gift from some of my cousins to another one haha. He’s gonna be a driver real soon. Everyone’s been working on it, so it’s been fun to have a revolving door of cousins always out and visiting. Lots of little ones running around and playing in the sprinklers.

Joe recently got a pretty exciting gift. Eighteen whole tennis balls! I was going to dole them out one by one, but on a whim I got his attention and turned the whole bag over on the porch. He lost his mind. He’s been so funny too, every day he goes out and pulls out each one and takes them out to the yard. Sometimes he will bring one up for one of us to throw a few times, and then he will sit and chew on them. Rearranging and rolling and dribbling them like a basketball. Then when we are done for the night he helps put them all back in the little backet I bought him. I’m thinking I am going to need to keep that little basket fully stocked. He is so cute with them, and he loves them so much.

Sweet bean is currently curled up on the couch snoring like an engine, because he played so hard earlier. Being a happy dog is a full time job you know. 

Anyways, I’m looking forward to all the craziness in the next two weeks. We’ve got the surprise Birthday party and a wedding, the festival, and a few things at work; June is just going to be ending with a bang it seems. It’ll be fun!

Until we chat again my friends!