Wet summer!

Its been a very wet and muddy summer so far in North West Arkansas. Especially with a big chicken yard right beside the house. yes, you read that right, we built a huge yard around the 4 coops we have, so we can let them out every day and not worry all day about them. Haven't quite coyote-proofed it yet, but they'll have to work at it to get in, and by that time, we'd be home to lock the coops. The chickens, rabbits, ducks and guineas are in there together. There's no grass growing, but its not very overcrowded either. Its quite a nice area. I love sitting out in there with them and giving them little treats. Its so funny to watch little chicks grab big bones and race across the yard. :D

I don't have pictures today for this post, but I will try to get some for the next.


The garden is doing great, we've got lots of peppers! Not quite enough to sell them though. We've been selling beans however. Made $55 so far just by selling beans! isn't that just great?! Its such a liberating feeling, being able to make some cash from your garden, living and thriving off the land. We've cleared out red garden, the one by the highway. Cleared I mean cleared the grass that was as tall as we were and isolated the poor okra plants that were bring suffocated by the grass. Just a little worried about deer, really hoping they wouldn't notice the tall okra plants! ;)

Arkansas traveler tomatoes are doing pretty good as well. Had a few already, made salsa from ingredients entirely from the garden! and that's including the onions!