Plum Crazy

I'm certainly feeling crazy! Too much work and too little time, with the painting on top of it all. Last Friday, Laura and Bill gave us a wonderful surprise. Laura brought all the fixings for a special omelette salad over to the farm, and cooked us all up a meal.

She used fresh produce from the farm.

And fresh eggs. Notice the professional stance: wine glass in one hand, pan in the other.

The omelettes are sliced up.

Lovely! There are tons of greens, red onion, chard, zucchini, and a nice layer of smoked salmon in there.

Everyone enjoyed a lovely gourmet dinner, cooked right at the farm out of farm ingredients. And Laura even brought a lovely present: this totally cute, customized bird house. Notice the puzzle piece artwork.

Even though I've been stupidly busy, I have tried to keep up with the farmin'. I pruned the grapes back a little. The new bean rows are all mulched, and I've got the chickens on the garlic area that Buddy's been digging up.

And we got the onions bagged up and hung in the basement. This is just the reds. We have whites and yellows on the rack still.

Then, as we were sitting there with the plums falling all around us, we thought, hey! We DO have that drying rack. So we picked.

And cut the fruit. I cut a bunch too, honest! Rick J has the more important task though, pouring the growler.

Buddy and Catherine help lay them out on the screen.

This would make a great jigsaw puzzle.

Rick also laid out some bricks to show how the arch will go, although the actual door won't be quite that big.