Harvesting, Weeding, Reseeding, Creeking, Punching

My morning started with picking squash. Even as early as I was out it was still super humid amongst the plants. They are 4 feet tall and a complete canopy that traps the moisture. I find myself dripping sweat by the time I am done. I pulled 34 pounds and am only waiting on one variety, the crookneck, to start producing.

After the squash I made sure to get to the strawberries and pick through them. I have missed picking them a few days and that has lead some to go bad, but most of them are still good. I got 1.5 pounds bagged and in the fridge.

Around noon I spent a while in the garden pulling weeds and reseeding a couple rows. I pulled 3 buckets of weeds and seeded the 2 end rows with Flat of Egypt beet seeds from my plants last year. I am not sure if the seeds are viable but will find out soon with the heat as they should germinate quickly if they are.

I dumped the weeds on top of the bale for the sheep and alpaca. It makes it so they fight far less about the stuff and are able to all stand around and pick at it.

I got the truck loaded up with the barrels for getting grain this morning.

The cucumber row in the main garden needed to get another row of fencing as the plants are starting to get close to the top of the bottom fence. I'm super anxious for the cucs to start producing this year.

Once Hive account@stryeyz got home from work she and I went to the creek to soak for a while. We ended up seeing 5 different crawdads in the pool! I picked up one, the same one from before, and moved it out of the walking path to the area by the falls. With this many crawdads so far I am getting more curious as to just how many are in the pool. There is a blatant difference between the males and the females as well, the color of the males is brighter orange and has bright white dots on the claws where the females are a lot more rock colored, to blend in better.

R was being extremely rambunctious in the house and I had to kick him outside and put the gloves on him so he could throw at the bag. I have to redirect his energy to this since he has been throwing things around the house and bashing his toy cars like he is trying to destroy them. I figure it will be better for him to put that energy into the bag and not trying to break everything around him.

This morning I have been all over. I went to town and dropped off barrels at one brewery, picked up grain at the other brewery, then drove all the way out to the valley to drop off the first co-op sales of the season. 98 pounds of squash going to 2 different food boxes the co-op does. I have to go north to get bird feed, then this afternoon we have our Azure order to pick up.