June 25-26, '10

I was in Texas the previous weekend, but Sally came out for a day. She happened to try a nectarine and it was ripe, though small. She picked about 50 and brought home. We wished she had picked more, because this weekend they were all gone -- just pits on the ground. I'm afraid the same will happen to my peaches and apples. (One apple branch has broken due to the weight of the fruit.) The pears look healthy, but many leaves from one branch of this 3-in-1 were beginning to dye from the hot dry weather. I watered it.

Garden
We had about .75 inches in the rain gauge, and were so glad because it has been hot (we set a record high on the last day of Spring). The garden was still dry and Sally watered Friday and Saturday. She picked a bunch of onions and more green beans, but they had really slowed down. The black berries were ripening though, so I got this bowl full. Found a few wild ones also, but nothing significant (lots were still red).

House
We arrived early, because I took the entire day off. It was 79 in the house, in spite of the hot week. Seems strange since the A/C at home runs practically all afternoon just to get the temperature down to 78. After turning on the window unit most all weekend, it got down to 77 in the house. I can't quite figure out why it doesn't get hotter inside, but I am glad.

Mowed/Weedeat
I mowed everything but the barn/spring level, and cleaned up most of the back and around the house with the weedeater.

Spray
I sprayed the apples, and then tackled the weeds: sumac, knapweed, and the Viney thistle. I sprayed 4 gallons below the spring, and 8 gallons up in the top pasture and the field we've let grow up (right side of the road coming in).

Thunderstorms
There were storms all around Friday afternoon, be we didn't get any rain -- though it did cool things off. And then Saturday, just after lunch, one came through and we got some hard rain. Tender and I were eating watermelon on the porch during the worst of it. It was amazing that Tender never even whimpered during all the thunder -- distracted by the anticipation of the next byte of melon. Surprisingly, the rain accumulation was only .25 inch.

White Oak

Here is the white I got for Amanda a couple of weeks earlier. You can sure tell why they call it white oak.