The Summer has been very rainy and thankfully our Garden is on an incline and the water has not stood in our garden and caused our crop to rot! When I say crop some of you may think big like an acre garden but not so!
Our little garden is in a fence in area of about 30 feet by 60 feet. 12 Tomato plants, 4 Pepper plants, 4 Zucchini, 4 Summer Squash and 4 Cucumbers! Not a very big garden I know but it has been a wonderful yield this year with all the rain! Had it been in the lower bottom like my friends is I would not be getting very much. His corn, tomatoes and other vegetables just got too much rain and stood in water too mush. His garden turned out pretty pitiful!
How has your garden faired this year? Do you have plenty of vegetables or has it been flooded where you live also?
My sister in Law and her two daughters came in a couple of weeks back and we got some good pictures of the old barn on the Home Place and the old Deep Mines that their Grandfather supplied coal for the old homestead from. Of course the mouth of the mines have been built up so they will hold water and a pipe has been run from the mines to a water trough and they keep the cattle fresh water this way.
I remember the mines my father and his family used for several years to get coal from. It was pretty much like the ones in these pictures. They had to crawl back in them and dig coal with a coal pick and mattock to get enough coal to do them through the winter months. The coal supplemented the wood they cut and split every year. Times were different then!
The Barn reminds me of the old barn on my Grandmothers place. It was not hardly as tall as this one but held tons of tobacco! We would help set tobacco every year and then hoe and water it from the creek nearby. Cutting it was the chore of the adults. I was not old enough to cut it but I was old enough to help grade it! We all pitched in and worked until it was done and ready to take to the market. It was a good time of year for everyone benefited from the work when the tobacco was sold!
The chickens have dwindled terribly. They had around 20 in the spring and the varmints have snuck in the fence and eaten all but the three here. Raccoons, Skunks, Fox, they really are capable of killing and eating your chickens. They forgot to close up the Hen House a couple of times and they paid the price! Needless to say our source of fresh eggs will have to found somewhere else now.
So many things going on this summer. Peoples garden vegetables ready to can and freeze, folks getting back from vacationing, school getting ready to start back, some have already started back. Hay cutting and bailing, Cattle to be taken to the Sales, folks already starting to think about the upcoming holidays, etc. It is just a busy time! It could be stressful but put in perspective it will all work out fine! Summer is ending soon and we will all meet the fall.
Fall of the year is a time I enjoy immensely and love the colors of the mountains!
So, what is on your agenda this time of year with summer coming to a close? Leave us a comment in the section below!
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