the heat is on

Hello, the thermometer was reading 95 (in the shade), so I decided to get a respite at the computer center. 

What a difference a little heat makes!  Plants are growing quickly now, peppers are setting fruit, tomatoes are ripening fruit, the late melon wave is sprouting, and the mid day dunks at the river are absolutely necessary for maintaining any semblance of sanity

We finished hand weeding the allium block today, getting it done about a week earlier then I had anticipated.  This was due to my supreme onion weeding posse to whom I am forever indebted to and whom I will shower with onions and shallots as soon as they have been harvested and cured. 

The electric fence has been doing its job, as I haven’t noticed any bear activity since it was powered up.  This could be due to 4th of July fireworks that lasted all day for five days, and the addition of Roy “Campy” Campanella to the farm roster three weeks ago.  Campy is our rescued American bulldog buddy, and he is enjoying his new home after spending about 10 months in the county animal shelter.  He has been shooing away critters pretty well at night, and managed to get skunked earlier this week, a right of passage into the society of farm dogs. 

Off to the river with me!  Catch you later.

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