Mural app is fun to play with...

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End of the growing season is upon us...

The last of the cherry tomatoes are ready to be picked, the Roma's are really starting to come in now too.














The Basil is going to seed as is our Broccoli now, I could have kept it cut and had 3-5 more meals out of it.

We've dried several batches of herbs, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, yeah I know... Basil too.














The Morning glories are just starting to seed up too. So many volunteers around the yard don't know it it's worth the effort to save them.

Hopkington Fair 2010

James and the friendly sheep. A great time was had by all this year, the dust wasn't intolerable, James thought the sheep were pretty cool, Rabbits and few odd breeds of chickens with the feathers on their feet.

Texting is getting out of hand, Jason Texting...

Texting is getting out of hand, even Jason at the haunted house is Texting...

Listening to the Barking Dogs...

Sitting down reading the morning blogs and all of a sudden Gordon our (Beagle lab mix) starts barking and barking.

The usual banging on the window, yelling at him, threatening to bring him in, %&#$! dog expletives wouldn't stop him. Rose opened the window shade and saw Gordon with his hair all up on his back barking towards the neighbors property, and look what she saw...

A great Blue Heron just standing there looking back at us. You can see the dogs Kennel in the corner of the picture, so this is what he was seeing. We've seen them at our pond and flying overhead before, never just standing in the yard though.

Several rounds of Good Dog Gordon ensued!

Neighbor put in a small pond a year or so back, he was complaining last week that the water level is very low due to the dry summer maybe there was a good frog crop this year.

End of the season already...

The last of the volunteer Morning Glories were flowering this morning, the nights are getting cool, good camping weather.

Tomatoes

Tomatoes are coming in, slowly but surely...

The Picasa 3.8 is available now...

The Picasa 3.8 ReadMe

Here there be Dragons

Dragonflies that is, as is typical for the 2nd week in August we had our annual Dragonfly day here on the farm, thousands of them doing there best to keep the mosquito population in check. And I might add doing a fine job, between them and the heat it's been a pretty good year bug wise around here.

Garden Picking

Looks like Broccoli for dinner tonight. The garden is coming in, the Summer squash, and Zucchini are about done and we'll probably pull the plants this weekend. We're picking Broccoli twice a week, we're still waiting for peppers lots of small ones.

Roma tomatoes have been coming in 2-3 a day but the pace is picking up now that the nights are getting cooler. Only one ripe red one this morning.

The "Black Krim" heirloom tomato we grew this year is fantastic, low acid, prolific and delicious on a tomato sandwich. They really are a blackish color inside too.

Surprise!

Rose was watering one of the large potted Petunias that sit up on the granite wall this morning and the plant moved... Can you see it?

A 16" Garter snake had somehow climbed up into the large pot and had nestled down in the foliage didn't take to kindly to being watered.

A good hunting spot for him I suppose, letting his dinner come to him.