Summer Harvest

 This is one "t-shirt full" of our first larger harvest of

the sugar snap peas from our garden this year.

 

 Jesse working in the garden.

 

 A few potatoes we pulled early.

 

 These are some of the fruit trees in

our orchard (they need some tending to)

that we planted last year a month or so

after our wedding (which was in March).

 

 

 Our blueberries are looking great.

 

 All of the summer wildflowers look

beautiful now like these black-eyed susans

that were out by the road.

 It won't be too long now before all of the wild blackberries

are ripe and ready to pick.  We can't wait to make some cobblers

and other wonderful dishes with them.  Be sure to check

back on our blog for more recipes when the blackberries

are completely ready for harvesting.

 

 A delicious salad made from our own garden!

 

 Our little Gavin is growing so fast.  It is so

hard to believe that he's already two weeks old!

 

 The bee yard is thriving with thousands of tiny,

buzzing, hard workers.

 

 Jesse found this little bird's nest

while he was cutting the grass

the other day.

 

 One of our main projects now is getting the

sawmill shed built. Pictured above are the trusses for

it.  They were Alice's Grandpa's that he was going to

use for a building to put his sawmill under, but after he

passed away, they came here.  I'm sure he would be proud to

know that they are being put to good use, still going over

a sawmill.  Behind them you can see a few of our beautiful

Alabama hills; the foothills of the Appalachian mountains.

 

The site for the sawmill shed has been measured,

strung out, and soon to start being built.