This is a picture of our back entry, actually it's our main entry.
Right now we can enjoy our patio because the mosquitoes are
not out yet. This entry leads into our mud/laundry room and then
into the kitchen. The solid brown door( behind the rustic bench)
is an outside entry to our pantry, we also have an inside door.

You can click on the picture to enlarge, then you can see
the hanging flowers. We so enjoy sitting out on the swing
or at the table after a long days work. The trees are full
of birds singing and it's just so peaceful and quiet.


We cleaned out about half of our herbs( along left side of picture)
and hoed weeds from between herbs and down the pathway.
You can see the grape arbors in the background, they are just
beginning to bud. Both grape vines are Concords.



Not much to look at yet, nothing is up yet. Mike and I
have been working out some problems in our gardening,
one of which is getting the rows to flood quicker. We
decided to make a pathway down the middle and make
two mainline irrigation pipes, down the herb path as well as
down the middle pathway,with 3-4 spickets, ea. to hook 20 ft
hoses and bubblers to. This way we can irrigate 6-8 rows at one
time verses currently we irrigate only 3 at a time.





The rhubarb is ready for the first harvest and I can't wait
dig out our favorite rhubarb recipes.
Around the rhubarb I planted asparagus( last Fall) and they
are doing well, although it will be a few seasons before we
get a good harvest.





The garlic and our walking onions. Yes the onions are still in need
of serious thinning. I was waiting for our pump to be up and running
so I could water good the day before and then thin. I'm going to
chop up the ones we thin, freeze some and dehydrate the
rest. I chop up the tops as well. Anything culled is fed to
the turkeys, they absolutely love them.

Speaking of turkeys, we only have one poult, so far *sigh*
This is one lucky poult, it has two mamas and they both
are doing a wonderful job. We still have three hens setting,
one is getting overdue, so her eggs may not be any good. We
try not to bother them, as they will leave a nest if bothered
to much. We will candle her eggs tomorrow. As I said in an
earlier blog, turkeys are not an easy animals to raise. I'm
praying we do get several to hatch and survive from the
two remaining hens. I'll try to get a picture of the little poult.
That all depends on if I can get his two mamas to move out
of the way long enough.