On Tuesday my son was out cleaning up the wood area with the loppers. The white leaves are the dying grape vines.
We had rain Tuesday night and the hay is windswept in the pastures. It didn't get knocked down, but is no longer standing up. This is the front pasture.
I had spoken with the hay guy from last year the week before Memorial Day. He told me they weren't round baling as they couldn't afford the plastic. They planned to chop it like silage. That would leave me with no mulch at all so I said I would see if I could find someone to bale it. If not, I'd let him chop it. He said they wouldn't be cutting for 2 weeks. They cut everyone here except me on Memorial Day weekend and didn't even call to say they were doing it. So now I have all this hay and so far, no one to cut it. This is the middle pasture.
Our local organic strawberry place had sent out a newsletter last week saying the strawberries would be coming in a couple weeks. Then I got a notice on Tuesday night that they were opening the picking! I was feeling far too crappy to be able to go, but I sent the notice onto my friend.
She called me at 7AM on Wednesday morning saying she was going to go but I was probably too sick? I agreed and she said she'd pick a flat for me too! I offered my big flats and she stopped and picked them up.
She picked 10# for herself and 13+# for me.
I offered the use of my kitchen for the processing so we worked together, each at a sink. She finished before I did because I got several phone calls, one of which was the mulch would arrive in 20 minutes. So she finished up and went home and I finished my 13#, above.
The woman arrived with the mulch and even unloaded and stacked it for me. She also said she might know a farmer who would cut the hay. So I am waiting for a call back on that. I gave her a baggie of strawberries.
I got some strawberries for eating, these 10 quarts, and what I gave away. I have not yet inventoried the freezers, so I don't know how many more strawberries I will need for the year. But it will have to wait until this coughing stops. It's some better and the UTI is healing so I felt a lot better on Wednesday.
This year, as I mentioned before is going to be the year of the coreopsis. It's even outgrowing the yarrow. Here and there, there are single other flowers, but very few.
On Thursday I hope to fed the house plants and seedlings. It's to rain most of the day. I have plenty of paperwork I can do, plus continuing to set up my husband's computer so I can use it.