18MAY2017
What a hectic couple weeks. With the rain that we have had the dry spell has finally come and so many here in Kentucky, are mowing and baling hay, plowing fields for crops, or putting in gardens. We have been getting our fields ready here at Crooked Beak Acres for our produce season. Starting off a couple months back plowing with our horses to now laying the plasticulture for our beds. Yesterday nearly broke us as we put in all of our plastic for the main field. It took longer than I had expected, nearly all day and our machine broke on the last two rows. Actually it would have been our last as it was the end of our supplies so we have to find somewhere local to purchase more plastic and drip tape. Go figure. I think we initially figured exactly how many rows we would need according to how many plants we were planting but didn’t figure in all of the extra items we have added since. LOL… Basically the last two weeks have been nothing but getting the garden ready.
We finally got our shoeing stocks up. Whoo-hoo. The farrier was happy for them. They need a bit of adjustment, but for the most part, we are all extremely happy with them. Mike and Mark were great with them last Friday, but Duke on the other hand…to say the least planted his feet and refused to move. Even with the tranquilizer. Maybe next time he will be better. Tonight we will be putting our first plants in the ground. I’m pretty excited about it and am quite happy about moving on to the next phase of this entire process. Yep…you guessed it. Now we have to maintain it; meaning keeping the weeds out and putting up the packinghouse. For us, this consists of a commercial greenhouse that we picked up this past winter. We will use it for packing the vegetables this summer and for hay storage for the horses. We also have to build some type of “cold room” where we can store picked peppers and the cut flowers. What a chore this project has been. HaHa. John’s not laughing but that’s all I can do to keep my sanity. As for fitness, you ask. Who has time at the moment? On the back burner again! Here are some photos for your laughter. Oh, love the one of our makeshift row-marker.
