We're returing from the land of neverending grey and rainy days (photo heavy)

Yes folks, we've had grey and rainy days for so long now that  when we woke this morning to this we were ever so blessed!

Welcome back Montana blue skies!

                             Our tomatoes are ready to be planted in the greenhouse

                       This temperature was at 6:30am, it's supposed to be almost 70F today!

 The garden seems so behind and we're actually very thankful that everything seems to be germinating and doing well, especially after a week or more of truly being under water. In a weeks time we received over 10" of rainfall. There has been major flooding all around us and the river we are on is extremely high and we've not even begun the snow pack melt  It's been in the news HERE, many of the towns flooded are within 10( Joliet flooding) to as far as 100 miles(Hardin) from our location.  Tomorrow and Friday are supposed to be wet again, this won't help. It seems as if we are now to get a few dry days followed by a few wet days. Flooding is a concern as is being able to get the remainder of our garden planted*sigh*

                    Raspberries are doing well, but the strawberries are yellow, and don't look good at all.

 This is lettuce it's been planted since mid May and this is all the taller that it is. For a week or more it was submerged under 4-5" of water, so we're just glad to see that it survived!

 Garlic is looking good as are the weeds! LOL!!!!

 Thankfully we've been able to support our CSA members with salad crops from the greenhouse, while it's been wet and cold outdoors it's been a pleasure to work in the greenhouse!

 Tomatoes are scheduled to be planed in the greenhouse tomorrow and the eggplants are waiting their transplant as well, we however did manage to get our peppers planted. Our second crop of radishes will be ready for harvest this week for our CSA members. The green onions are about done, they are getting to big and almost a woody texture, so we'll sub in herbs and other crops such as Rhubarb and Asparagus!

 A shot of some Late Flat Dutch Cabbage we have in the greenhouse, as well as some of the "HOT peppers.

 Chives are doing well with the moisture levels

 Raspberries coming along, now we need to work on cleaning and thinning them out a bit. :o)

                         Our Freedom Ranger meat chicks, we've only lost one and they are ready to be butchered, maybe this coming weekend, if the weather is nice. It will be nice to have fresh chicken in the freezer again, all we have right now are stew hens.

 Take a look at this BIG Roo! I'm betting he'll dress out 6+ lbs and the blessed thing is that he's able to walk, run and even flit about, not crippled like some meat breeds would be at this point.  We've found a breed and we're sticking with them.

 The tulips are just now beginning to open, Irises are a few weeks out yet I'm betting.

 This is NOT supposed to be a water garden, the soil is so saturated it won't drain off, we'll have to drain it by hand this afternoon. Poor chives are still growing, amazing!

 Lilacs all around our area are thick and beautiful this year, as are all of the fruit trees in bloom! Praying for a good apple crop this season, we're running seriously low in our pantry.

 Poppies about to bloom, it will be nice to have some color and it's right outside one of our bedroom windows

 Worked on cleaning up herb beds and flower gardens yesterday and here is proof, LOL!!!!

 The fire pit it full, now to have a fire and roast some Marshmallows :o)

When it was raining I made good use of my time indoors and mended a pile of clothes I had, including 6 pair of Mike's jeans which I patched in several places. Working with metal roofing and construction is hard on clothes.  Anyway I felt good about getting some much needed projects done.

We have 12 poult turkeys and all are doing fantastic( even in the cold rainy weather). I'll get photos of them ASAP!  Ginger and Angel( our goats) are doing great and their kids will hopefully be going to their new homes this weekend.  Ginger is giving us 2-3 qt. of milk a day and we're still sharing it with her wether, although he is self weaning and eating more hay and grazing more. :o)

It's going to be a busy few weeks so our posts will be limited, sorry, but we have to get thing planted and catch up around the yard and gardens. I miss not having more time to visit your blogs and to even reply to your comments, but as I always say; "Life Happens" and we take it a day at a time here on The Never Done Farm!  :o)

Blessings to each of you this week, we're praying for sunshine filled days and more energy to get more things done! LOL!!!