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Fluffy clouds above give the air of tranquillity while gopher war is waged below. These are flares you stick into the gopher hole.This week the gophers chewed off two zucinni plants at the farm.

This is me standing behind the tomatoes in Gilroy, notice the healthy zuccini. No gophers.

The Poor Man's Orchids are going crazy in Gilroy. One of Mom's succulants is blooming

Every time I am up at the farm I work on the sprinklers to keep the fruit and vegetables coming. I went by the mushroom farm and got a truckload of compost to take up there.

Lots of rabbits and plenty of evidence of foxes around the farm. On the way out we stopped at Grandma Chaney's house and found this bobcat out in the grass. The neighbor across the street says that a mountain lion was strolling up Meadow Song just last week. We noticed an absence of deer, I think they have left the area while the lion is around!

We love sharing the area with the wild animals.

Looks like we will be busy with other things for the next two weekends. The next farm report will be three weeks from now. Do we live here and visit there of do we live there and visit/work here?

Love to all, Mom and Dad

A Good Time Was Had By All

A fitting end for an unfit sign






I got in some baby time.








A double birthday party!





























Summer fun in late May!

Not many pictures but plenty of memories. The "Grover Compound", long spoken of, has come to be.

work weekend, what's new!

This weekend we got the house ready inside, painted two more picnic tables, got the water on to the park, and other stuff.

Some wild flowers are still blooming in the park.

What are these?! We put bird netting over the cherry tree to save some for us.

1973, apprentice plumber, digging plumbing trenches with a pick and shovel. 2009, pre-retiree digging plumbing plumbing trenches with a pick and shovel! I repaired the water lines that were broken by a backhoe doing a soils test.

Claire wants to see some of the inside of the house. That is the living room and a peek into the breakfast knook.

Grandma Chaney brought us lunch and tested out the picnic tables






All in all, another great weekend at the farm.

Love to all,

Mom and DAd

Here are some of Mom's flowers from her yard in Gilroy.


Columbine, Peonies, and Roses

More Peonies

I finished making this potting bench for Mary Jane
on Mothers Day.

Can't wait to see everyone up at the Farm.

Love Dad.

Once a month, Schonce a month!

Once a month, schonce a month. This is our fourth weekend in a row!

Notice the newly painted picnic table that Grandma Chaney gave us.

I went over to say hell-o to our neighbors. Zoom in and check them out.

I got the drinking fountain going in the side yard. I'll work on the one in the park next.

Mom's azaleas are really blooming now.

Freshly mowed the day before, a peaceful morning in the lower garden


Can't wait until we are all there.

Love, Mom and Dad

Weekend two, more farm fun

Another trip to the farm and the first thing we did was unload our camper right in the front yard. Mary Jane says "There goes the neighborhood!"








We set to work on removing the weeds from around the fruit trees and spreading mulch around them for weed control and water conservation.















Mary Jane must have mowed an acre and a half. At one point I had to turn the mower lights so she could finish up one area in the dark.



























We weeded the grapes,vegetable garden and berry patch





This pile of weeds is 8' across Mary Jane pulled and piled most of
them



























I call this Sherman's garden. Last week he wanted to know where we were going to plant the tomatoes. I said I wasn't. Then we looked around and started pulling the weeds from this raised bed. Saturday I planted tomatoes, squash and green beans. I set up an automatic watering system so without much care there should be tomatoes for anyone who visits.




There were weeds 2' high in the grape bed. Now it looks great.

Mary Jane pulled all of the weeds in the berry bed and we planted six owllala (spelling?) berry plants.

All in all we worked our tails off and had a great time doing it!

Notice the blog is not backwards this time.

Next time I'll have a picture instead of that shadow-head!

Love to all,

Neal and Mary Jane