Busy Day - August 8, 2024 @goldenoakfarm

I have a hard time utilizing info on a computer. I do better if it’s printed and I can read it over and over. The manual for the new camera was 212 pages. It can do some mighty nifty stuff, far too nifty for my capabilities. So I only saved 96 pages to print. That kept me busy for a couple hours first thing on Thursday morning.

Once it was done, I finished the laundry and then cleaned the kitchen. I sat down for a while waiting for the grass to dry. It was a cool cloudy day and by 10:30AM it was still wet.

Then I remembered I was going to go do a much better job pruning the forsythia, so I went out and spent an hour on that. Now the branches don’t grab my hat as I go by.

I started mowing at 11:30AM and I did the area around the 7th Fence garden. I was going to have my helper friend start there weeding.

He got that pretty well cleaned out and I’d asked him to cut down the tall stuff in the rest of the Fence gardens.

They are still weedy, but the tall dead stuff or weeds are gone.

The grass wasn’t terribly high but it was terribly lush from all the rain we’ve had. Once I started on the mower with the permanent bagger, I was clearing the chute after each pass around an area. I must have done that 20 or 30 times. I finally got the yard done at 2:30PM.

My helper friend had finished the Fence gardens and he harvested these 4 Kabocha squashes plus about 15 cukes. He got the cukes washed up and into gallon jars of cold water.

I had to go to the barn to mow so I got him the house phone and set him up to weed the New South garden.

I was hoping he’d be close enough to hear the house phone ring when the mulch guy called. So he got this garden mostly cleaned out by the time it started to rain at 3:15PM. He couldn’t hear the phone when the mulch guy called twice. So now we know.

I was frantically trying to finish the mowing by 3:30PM when the mulch guy was due. I had 20 more minutes of mowing when it started raining, so I finished in the rain and got soaked. The mulch guy didn’t come because of the rain.

I got a shower and my helper friend prepared 2 large cucumbers for a snack for me. I didn’t have anything else lined up for him, so he left early.

My brother came home and wanted a pepper for his supper. He found these 3 tomatoes, with cracks from the rain. Three others had rotted. And he found 1 nice Kapija pepper for his supper.

On Friday my helper friend is back for 4 hours at 8AM, so I’m hoping I can manage to make more zucchini ravioli. I might be wiped out from all I did on Thursday.