GRANDDAUGHTER HELPING WITH THE HARVEST!

It's been a busy, cold rainy season. Planting has been a little difficult in between the rain. The vegetable garden was first priority to get in. The next was our herb garden. 

Tarragon

Cilantro

Parsley and tarragon

Since my girls were off at camp for a week, my granddaughter Isabella Grace came to stay with me.

We harvest a bunch of goodies to put in the dehydrator.

She cut the stems off of the dandelions.

We got one dehydrator ready and fully loaded with dandelion flowers and leaves, rosemary, hyssop, plantain and peppermint.

We loaded the second dehydrator with white clover and dandelion flowers.

~~ WARNING KISSING INVOLVED ~~

Tim is kissing the cabbage.

Isabella Grace kissing cabbage

I kissed the cabbage

If you are wondering about the kissing the cabbage thing

Justin Rhodes kisses the cabbage when he sees it. He is a homesteader Youtuber that we watch. It's a thing!

Tim (Grandpa), Krystal (Grandma) with our beautiful granddaughter Isabella Grace.

Purple carrots

Snap peas

We are out harvesting what is ready.

And tasting everything fresh. This little girl is learning all kinds of new things and where her food is grown.

Isabella Grace being silly with the peas.

This is what we got today.

Cauliflower pickin'

Cauliflower face!!

Sweet peas are really sweet.

We gave these a quick blanch and bagged for the freezer.

Don't forget the homemade strawberry jam. Super excited for the first harvest off of our 300 strawberry plants. Not only are they picked and ate daily and the wild rabbits took out several. We were able to harvest some too.

Isabella even had time to play with the dogs.

Nothing like being a kid outside in the country.

COOKING IN THE SUNOVEN!

Cooking in the Sun Oven!!
It's so easy to do and the food doesn't burn.

I have many ask me questions about my sun oven. Many don't understand how easy this is to use. It is light weight and easy to set up. You just need sun or enough light to cast a shadow. It's that easy. It heats up the oven area with the suns rays. It keeps the food moist and doesn't over cook or burn your food.

This is the sun oven set up.

The side view. We put a brick on the leg to hold it down from the wind. It comes with a stake to put down. I just find it easier to move the brick and move the oven to follow the sun.

On today's sun oven cooking is our Wingless Whole Chicken.

Yes wingless. I cut the wings off for the dog to eat, since nobody eats it from the whole bird.

Loaded this up with tons of herbs. Note their is no WATER in the bottom of the pan. Doesn't need it as it will cook it will create its own juice.

Having some baked potatoes.

Slathered them with olive oil and salt.

No water needed either, that simple.

I put the pan in the oven and closed the door.

Temperature was already coming up to 250 degrees.

It gets hot! Not 500 degrees hot but oven cooking temperature hot.

I let it cook all day and just moved the oven with the sun.

Did some garden work on this beautiful sunny day.

The meat was falling off the bone and so juicy.

Baked potato was just split right open and begging for butter, cheese and bacon pieces.

After a long day in the garden my meal cooked for me.

Nothing gets better than that. We are looking into getting another one of these ovens. They really are awesome to cook from and no electricity was used in making this meal.

WILD STORMS AND BEAUTIFUL SKIES ON THE FARM!

This year has been cold and a rainy spring season into summer.
We had some pretty bad storms blow through here. I will tell you some of it was pretty scary. We have had the sirens go off twice so far. A few tornados in the next town over. Our pond has filled up and overflowed. Working on the garden to have it washed away by the amount of heavy rain we received. It sure has kept us busy. It made moving chicken tractors harder with water logged wood.
But we managed and moved on and now on to the next thing.

Here are some storms that moved in and beautiful skies we have had over the last 2 months. It is sure pretty out here and feel blessed to call this home and so thankful of the beautiful pictures God gives me everyday to enjoy.
I sure wished I could show you the beautiful stars at night and how bright the moon shines here. You just have to be here or where you are to enjoy it.

This storm came in fast as we were preparing for it.

Our pond is full and so is our creek.

It's been so muddy to get to it right now.

Tim and I have been down there but forgot to take a picture.

Red Moon

We had a couple of mornings with heavy fog.

It was so thick you couldn't see in the pasture.

Tim and I out taking a walk and we are so blessed with what is around us.

Out taking care of chores and noticed this.

Driving towards more rain.

Working in the garden.

Thanks for coming along and enjoying the scenery!