I have jerk chickens, update on some of the garden, a very long day and soggy day, and attempting to bubble gum fix my coop 😊
Well I have some cool news! I have TWO pumpkins!!
They are about the size of a softball if not a bit bigger.
I also got an okay amount of green beans.
Wish I could figure out the best growing technic for Alaska/my area. I have all these great ideas for peas and green beans, but it never works out for some reason.
I love what 
My carrots are growing okay. My kids keep trying to eat them every chance they get.
I found one ripe raspberry.
No I didn’t share. It tasted amazing too!!
Then the last thing for the garden...
I had my cucumbers sitting outside the green house in a tote of water so they could absorb from the bottom. Well my chickens found them.
Freaking jerks 😠😒
But being angry wont bring my cucumbers back. They ate three by the way, two of the biggest and one small one.
Well yesterday I had to run to Anchorage to make a house payment and land payment. We also went to Costco. Remember it’s two hours away.
Please note I put the dried blueberries back, payday shopping had a hold of me
So I drove two hours in, spent two hours in Anchorage. Went to the ASPCA thrift shop, bought growler bottles to make mead from cranberries. Then drove two hours home.
Then a kid insisted the world sucked major because they couldn’t fish.
So we went drove another 45 mins to got fishing, at 10pm...
It was raining.
My kid made me wear a garbage bag poncho. They got the idea from me, but still.
This is the whole lake. The little white dots are my kids in white garbage bags. LMAO!!!😂
Shortly after taking the photo I MADE the kids move closer, with a lot of complaining and arguing with me they finally came closer.
We sat in the rain in our garbage bag ponchos for two hours so they could get their fishing fix.
We lost four hooks, and one bobber.
We caught nothing but a chill.
This is how dark it was at 12:09 am when we pulled anchor.
Then we drove back home, another 45 mins in the van.
That night my belly and back started to hurt so bad from the Endo. I fell asleep in a heating pad sandwich.
As for today I tried to sit on my ass and veg out, HA!
That didn’t happen.
I fit full sheet of plywood cut into two 4’x4’ sheets into my van. We got six 2”x6”x8’ boards, another bucket of roof paint, two bricks of sawdust too.
My coop floor is starting to rot. 😞
So now it’s bubble gum time, we cleaned the floor and layed the plywood in. I should have bought more. But I put it where it really needed it.
Sorry guys I didn’t have my phone for photos, it was at 6% and charging.
We are now prepping for winter full force. Fixing things that we noticed in the winter, adding insulation where needed.
The coop door broke off the henges this past winter, so I have to fix that. Right now they have a screen door.
Well that’s been the random small stuff here on the homestead. All that I can think of right now anyways.
I hope you all are well. I am so tired I want to sleep the whole day tomorrow. But it’s back to picking berries. I just hope it isn’t raining again. 😞