Wining and Signing

Delina came over on Tuesday to pick some plums.

They are still ripening, but there are lots to be had. She looks triumphant.

She plans to make wine from them, so she brought a bottle of her homemade backyard wine to share. I have to get her together with Karen and Glen!

And speaking of wine, our grapes are growing like crazy. This is the huge old grape on the back fence. This portion is under the sink roof, so it doesn't have as much foliage.

This is by the gate.

And outside. It's going to be a good crop this year, and we'll have to make some wine!

Buddy harvested a bunch of the onions. I got some mesh bags from S&S and Rick hung nails in the basement, so we've got the first harvest of red onions stored there. These are a mix but mostly white and yellow. One yellow onion was ginormous! They are curing on the big screen right now.

Yesterday we decided to pull the first of the potato patches. The Ricks strain to pull up the chicken wire. I don't know who told them to wear matching outfits, but it sure is cute!

Look at all those potatoes!

We've had people parking right in front of the gate, so I decided it was time to paint the sign. It's not the greatest, but it was all freehand so I did my best.

Does it work? Well... no. The very next day some guy parked his oversize pickup right in front of it.

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Weather Note
Much nicer! We're getting the early summer weather we were gypped out of. It's been in the 80s and 90s with cool nights (as low as mid 50s). I can totally take this sort of weather. I'm actually sitting outside as I type this, because Titus is painting in my kitchen and ... I need to be out of the way!
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A while ago, one of Catherine's garden porn mags had a bit about making a bee home. So we decided to do it! We just drilled and screwed together some scrap wood. It fits right in! Farm grade!

Yesterday, Buddy had the sprinkler going in the glen, and a whole flock of tiny gray-and-buff birds (peewees or titmice of some sort) came to bathe and play in the water. I had a hard time taking a picture of a bird until Buddy helped me out.