Wait what???

This is what we saw when we looked out our window this afternoon!! Seriously, all three of us went a little pale. It was hilarious, confusing, disturbing, and oddly fascinating all at the same time. SO, what do you do in this moment, naturally you get out your camera and wait for it to happen again.
And happen again it did. In fact, it happened again and again and again!! Miss Delicious mounting Lady Tasty is not something I ever thought I would see. Now rest assured she is not confused, instead she is claiming dominance. We did a little research and found that when new ones are added into the pasture there is a struggle for dominance. Well Miss Delicious is definitely now the herd leader!!

We woke up and found...

It seems like every time I garden there is a day when I wake up and I am shocked!! Today was that day. We have had super wet and cool days lately, and apparently the vegetables are loving it!! Take a peek at what we found!!!

Tomatoes growing
Yellow Squash or Spaghetti Squash forming
Green Beans flourishing
Zucchini ripening (we have actually already harvested 2 and eaten 1, yumm)
Cucumber getting plump
Broccoli sprouting
Peppers getting juicy
Oh and check out the size of the tomato plants, I swear all overnight!!
Looks like I need to get the pressure cooker and hot water bath ready!!

Summer Fun with Lauren!!

With Todds sister, Lauren, here for the summer (welcome Lauren!) we have been trying to do all sorts of fun things. We have so far been to My Fair Lady, CMA concert, Nashville Sounds baseball game, and then a whole lot of working! Here are some pics thus far in the trip...

This was us at a fantastic performance of My Fair Lady!! It was dark, sorry

Here is the stadium from our nose bleeds seats at the CMA Fest Concert...
At the concert we got to see oodles and oodles of different performances. We saw Chris Young, Clint Black, Trace Adkins, Josh Turner, Thompson Square, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, and Rascal Flatts!! It was awesome!! Poor Lauren, she got to see concerts outside of Utah. The girls behind us went through all the different stages of drunkness. We saw happy and buzzed, mean and drunk, crazy embarrassing wild, sweaty and light headed, sick and nauseous, vomiting and mortified, to finally passed out and dirty. It was hilarious!!! Todd enjoyed watching her the most, although he did sing along with Rascal Flatt's on Life is Highway!!
Oh and PS- Mormon Night at the Nashville Sounds games brings BIG stars!! Check out who Lauren captured at the concession lines...
It has been fun for us, hopefully Lauren is enjoying the summer too! More to come...

Attention Attention...

We have more cows!! Last Saturday we were blessed with two more beautiful heifer babies!! (That is completely appropriate and correct use of the term)
Introducing Betsy Joe. She is a gorgeous Black Angus, but has some white markings from a Hereford cow that was about 4 generations back. Apparently, these cows are more friendly and will soon be our favorite of the herd.
And this lovely lady is Countess Yummy Tummy. She is super fun and so far very curious! She is the smallest of the bunch, and so far the one that misses her Mommy the most. She is slowly coming out of it though.
They have all mingled together very nicely. Miss Delicious is still the team leader. She gets right up front and pushes the others away if she thinks there are treats involved. Yes, cows do have treats. They will lick them right out of your hand!!
See Lauren getting right in there?! They will eat anything you give them. Well, when I say anything I mean if its hay, sweet feed, range cubes, or some sort of grass. So far so good, they are talking a lot so I will try to catch it on video for you!

Garden Update!!

We went from this....
To....
In these top two can kinda see the onions, potatoes, corn, beans, peas, squash, and cucumbers!!
These two above show a straight shot for the beans and peas. You can also see the gourds and zucchini up front!
Here is a shot at the peppers and tomatoes! They are hard to see because, well, they are kinda taking a while to get big. The weather went from HOT to cold to HOT HOT HOT to wet wet wet. However, they are coming along and trying their hardest to get up and going.

So far we have harvested cayenne peppers and 1 zucchini. We have more zucchini, yellow squash, tomatoes, and peppers growing now. Its only a matter of time now, well and weeding!!

Poor Chick...

The other day I was out back working. Lulu is usually always by my side, but for some reason she wasn't there. I did however hear a strange cluck. It was more of a Bwack...cluck...save me...Scream of a Bwack. I ran around front to find out where Lulu had been. One of the chicks had gotten out of their pen and was being used as a ball. Lulu was throwing her up into the air, catching her in her mouth, and then again throwing her up. It was awful!!
I yelled at Lulu, and went to check on the chick. She was ok, damaged emotionally, but ok. You see we used to have 32 chickens and we are now down to 17. 10 were given to a neighbor, and the others were murdered. Lulu (and probably Kaylee) have been eating very well these last few months.
(PS- I know I look stoned here, but what can I say? It was a very long day for the 2 of us)
That night when I went out to close the chicks up for the night I found my sweet tortured soul, and brought her in. You see she needed some one on one love with Todd and I. So, for the next 30 minutes or so she hung out with us on the couch.
Are we crazy?!?

Garden

Can you believe it, the garden is finally in!! After weeks of being put off from the weather, it is finally in!! I cant wait until harvest time comes, yum!

In our garden this year we have...
Tomatoes
Pumpkins
Cucumbers
Squash
Zucchini
Pepper and more Peppers
Corn
Beans
Peas
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Onions
and Gourds (for bird houses next year)
For all of you Ut friends, no my garden does not have trenches. Out here we get enough rain that I will not need to flood trenches along side of my plants! Awesome huh?