Where we are

Hello All:  I know it's been some time since I was last on here. During my time away I contemplated letting this blog go altogether.  I have enjoyed my time here but I don't like what I have felt was this constant pressure (that I have placed on myself) to be a hip and fun blogger like all the ones I read.  However, after much thought I want to give blogging a try again.  I am not sure how I am going to fit this into my daily priorities but I will try. 

So let's start fresh!

This morning after playing Farmer John I went around taking pictures all of the life we have in our front and back yard. 

These are three of the five fruit trees we have planted over the last year.  There are two apples, two peaches and an Asian pear.

Here is Squish enjoying an apple from this morning.

This is a new planting location for us this year.  When we bought this house there was a walled in area that once housed a spa.  I had high hopes of this one day being the perfect chicken coop but when the Daddy-O decided he needed a pool I figured it should go in here for safety reasons. 

In here is a mess of melons and various kinds of squash.  You see our first mound of compost didn't get hot enough to kill all the seeds in there so every time we use that compost we get a load of surprises.

 These are newest planters we have.  This was left over culvert from our rainwater harvesting set-up...

  In the newest planters there are tri-colored green beans, snap peas and more squash.

 This is one of our three grape vines.

This is kind of an overview of our main and original garden area (less most of the junk stacked up on the left).  It's not Homes and Garden pretty but it functions for food production.

In this area we have sugar pumpkins, corn, tomatoes, acorn and butternut squash, zucchini, okra, watermelon, garlic, bell peppers, pablanos and a few remaining onions.

Every year we try to find news places and food to plant.  Our new goal for this year is to set up aquaponics.  It's important for us to be as self reliant as possible for our food.  Neil was fortunate enough to get drawn and then to shoot an elk late last year so that has been our main protein source.  Unfortunatly, Neil was not drawn this year so our new goal for protein consumption will be the fish we raise in our back yard through the aquaponics system.

I hoped you enjoy seeing our little piece of this earth.