She planted a flower/herb garden on two sides of the raised bed garden and it is absolutely thriving.

Found this on the way past the garden for our morning walk. Getting into high summer now!

Chickens finally started laying eggs. Looks like just the ISA Browns are laying so far. Small eggs, but well formed and delicious !

The project to re-furbish the gray house for use as my office has kicked into high gear. Love this contractor too, flexible and extremely detail oriented. I’m getting some idea of how much I don’t know about this stuff.

Ace is interested but not too sure about these large cows on the neighbors property.

Guineas made a point of flying to the top of the chicken tractor and dropping a few poops on the chickens to let them know who is boss in the barnyard.

Can’t get enough of these.

We found this nice stand of black cohosh growing along one of our paths. This plant can be useful for women to relieve menopause symptoms among other things. Interesting facts here.