Today's To-Do list.

While trying to sort my thoughts today I decided to jot down a quick to-do list. I thought it was a neat glimpse into my day so I decided to share it. I would normally walk my dog Dio every morning for an hour but he is currently displaying a slight limp and gets the day off to rest and recover.

Chickens-Done! Gathered eggs or rather stole them from our currently broody hen, Mama, cleaned and changed waterer, freshened feed and fed our food scraps from yesterday.

Make sourdough to rise.

Hang onions/shallots that are ready to dry. Trim the dried garlic for storage.

Clean out chicken house and add contents to manure pile.

Pick at weeding the garden. (This is done everyday to some extent)

Start sowing rye as a cover crop in the cleared areas of the garden where kale isn't being transplanted.

Transplant kale into garden.

Pick through the strawberries for any ripe or rotten ones that need to be removed.

Harvest tomatoes that are ready, maybe make salsa depending on yield, pick ground cherries and green peppers that are ready and train peas toward fence.

Pick green and yellow beans to be pickled this evening.

Work on my summer newsletter for blog.

This should take me until 2:00pm when I have to get ready to head to town, provided I go start my sourdough right now!

Pansies and Violas.

Geranium.

Purple Coneflower.

Black Eyed Susan.

The lone free-ranger.

Basil I can take indoors when times get tough. Mountain ash berries hanging off the tree in the background.

Everbearing strawberries still going strong.

Strawberries again.

Fall planted peas with our onions.

Again.

I love leeks!

Dwarf Sunflower.

Kale in the cold frame bed. The cold frame will hopefully not be needed to cover these cold weather crops for a few more months.  There is also one lone pea growing here as this was formerly the pea bed in the early spring. After the peas were pulled out I worked in some compost and manure for these new crops.

I will probably have to pull the volunteer pea out due to size unless I can train it to grow up the fence in a way that does not interfere with the remaining crops.

 Cold frame bed with the girls in the background.

Cold frame bed contents. Kale, green onions, radishes, spinach, lettuces, beets, swiss chard and rutabagas.

More kale transplants for the garden. They will act as a cover crop after food function. 

Green Onions.

Jalapeno Peppers.

Chanterelles.

After spending three hours on the ATV trails yesterday we came up with these two chanterelle mushrooms in o.k. shape. We obviously need to find a better spot to look. This is our second excursion over the last few weeks that we have come up near empty handed. I would never consider our mushroom hunting trips to be wasted time as the weather and fresh air are divine. At least we are eliminating the areas we know the chanterelles do not grow abundantly. 

"In every walk with nature one recieves far more than he seeks" - John Muir   

Strawberries and Ground Cherries.

Dwarf Sunflower.

Again.

Kale transplants for the cold frame bed.

Ground Cherries and the plant they grow on.

Close Up.

Again, in their paper casings.

One of the smaller rutabagas.

Plum Tomatoes.

Green Pepper.

Beautiful Beets.

Our ever bearing strawberries are producing their second crop of berries.