Life on the Farm

[chamookman]

What a spot by the "Big" Pond  ! Bob

[Pappy]

Looks like a fine place to relax and enjoy the view.
 Pappy

[bjrogg]

Looks like a fine place to relax and enjoy the view.
 Pappy

Yes Pappy it certainly is. As my cousin who comes back home from California every summer to visit says. “It’s a great place to reboot the soul”

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

What a spot by the "Big" Pond  ! Bob

It really is a great spot Bob. Would love to share a bonfire with you there sometime. The lake is way down again. My brother has been fishing with his waders and doing good.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Had a big long comment almost finished then pressed the wrong key and closed out the screen by accident

Remove the fruit this year. See how it grows and maybe leaving a light crop next year. Looks great! Looks like the bloom made it through the spring frosts so you ought to get some fruit from the bigger tree. 28 degree F for 3 hours is a 90% kill during full bloom. We made it down to 29 for 30 min one night this year. Interesting to see the timing difference. We are about a month ahead. Lodi(July apples) will be ready in a month about. But a long way to go on Stamen and Rome with a mid October pick date. The season for Primary apple scab is over and I think I got through things well this year. Lots of early mornings, maybe tonight I can post a few sun rise pictures from the last month. Need to turn my attention to some of the field crops soon.

Been hot and dry here for a while. No rain in the forecast either. Odd for this time of year in SW Pa. Think the last rain was May 20th and that was less than .5"

Worked hard this week to finish everything to be able to do some work in the shop this weekend. I better start by cleaning up my mess:)
Mike   

         

Yes I forgot to mention that the big tree I got the graft material from did set fruit. So glad. My wife and I really like the apples it produces.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Wheat is starting to head out. Probably about six to seven weeks till harvest. Still lots of stuff to get ready in the shop, which has been sit aside for now. With my brother still on the DL. My nephew and I have been to busy in the fields to get much shop work done.

Hopefully I can get along in the fields more myself now and my nephew can get some time in the shop.

Bjrogg

[chamookman]

I'm guessing Your Brother is Fishing for Smallmouth Bass when wading ? Bob

[bjrogg]

I'm guessing Your Brother is Fishing for Smallmouth Bass when wading ? Bob

Yes. Bass .

Pulled a few lunkers out of there. It’s a pretty popular fishing spot. I’m sure it was even back when the native Americans were still here.  It’s a shallow flat area. If you watch long enough you will see them jump out of the water for bugs.

Bjrogg

[Pappy]

All the wheat has been cut here and most have beans planted over the stubble.  my corn is waste high now and could really use some rain, been a very dry spring here again this year.
 Pappy

[bjrogg]

All the wheat has been cut here and most have beans planted over the stubble.  my corn is waste high now and could really use some rain, been a very dry spring here again this year.
 Pappy

Yes we are definitely behind your neighborhood Pappy.

Corn is probably a week behind normal and it’s still pretty cool here yet. Had to find a shirt with sleeves again. You need to have a portable closet around here . You never know what you might get for weather around here.

It’s been a pretty decent spring for rain here. Could use a little rain again, but not serious yet unless you are trying to plant beans in ground that was tilled a few weeks ago. That’s dried out as deep as you worked it.

It looks like it’s going to rain every day. It’s like twilight all day long. I’ve seen raccoons running around four hours before it’s actually twilight. Hope they get those forest fires out soon. I’m sure all my crops are missing out on photosynthesis they need because of all this smoke.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Our pinto beans came up good. Getting their first tri foliates .

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

Been busy . Nephew in the shop and myself in the fields.

Still smoky haze. I hope they get these fires under control soon. I can’t imagine how much fire it takes to make the sky so hazy this far from the source.

A couple pictures of the hazy sun shining. Hard to capture in pictures.

Bjrogg

[bjrogg]

One more

Bjrogg

[Pat B]

We can't smell the smoke but you can easily see the haze over the mountains here. They say it could go on all summer. Just pray for the wind to change directions for relief.

[bjrogg]

We got a really nice slow half inch rain over the past 24 hours.

My daughter said that her dog Zoey gifted it to us. She passed away a year ago yesterday and my daughter still really misses her.

We did of course get these two. One a knuckle head and the other has a licker problem. Licks everything.lol

They aren’t Zoey, but we love them and they love us in return.

Bjrogg