Winter Catchup

So much has been going on, and I'm so behind on blogging about it! I finally finished the art grouping on the kitchen wall, and I really like it. Notice the growler in the corner! I love having herbs and peppers hanging ready for use.

Last weekend was busy. Friday we all congregated at the farm.

It was warm in the middle of the day, but it quickly cooled off.

I had finally finished Rick C's hat.

Buddy and Rick model their hats.

And here's Rick's.

Then on Saturday (last week) we had another beer tasting with Karen and Glen. This was Rick's turn, and he did more IPAs. It's a big, and delicious, category!

Here are all the beers we tried. The winners were Ruthless Rye (I picked that one out right away!), Mongo, and Leafer Madness.

In the middle of last week, we had an irrigation failure. The big central pipe just shattered from all the UV and the freezing. Rick and Buddy fixed it up, and it's working fine now.

I put some new straw out to discourage any spring weeds and generally dress it up a bit. I'm proud of how much we have growing in the dead of winter. We finally pulled the lettuces/daikon bed out, and the chickens are on it in this pic. Then we have onions and garlic, arugula, broccoli, favas, and lettuces.

I planted another row of favas to the left of the older ones in row 5a.

I've also been working on cleaning up the irises along the edge of the tub enclosure. This is where we're going to flag the pathway.

We got serious on the back of the bar. This shot was taken half way through, but we finished digging this out and put the chickens on it. We are all ready to put the mulch on now.

Buddy gets down! He clambered right under the lilac and roses to get some stubborn weeds out.

While we were digging, Rick found this nasty fellow. Has to be the pupa of a tomato hornworm (sphinx moth).

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What We're Eating
Pizza! This pizza has homemade crust, homegrown tomato sauce, homegrown hot peppers, homegrown broccoli, and homegrown arugula. It also has mozzarella and Canadian bacon. MMMMM!

For the beer tasting, I cooked lima beans and dove breast beans, with steak and cornbread. The beans were both scrumptious.
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