Our beets are starting to come in....

This is our 1st year growing beets... Brian loves them and I just found out I like em too. We've picked a couple lately... 45 yesterday evening :) I decided to try canning some this morning, looked up recipes... didnt have the ingredients for any fancy kind ... So I canned plain ol beets. They didnt turn out the way I wanted them too, they lost alot of coloring. I will try and try and try again........I also went and pulled some more up today for dinner... I just boiled them, pretty good. Going to roast them in the oven for dinner tomorrow.

1st canned beets of the season

If you have a good beet recipe feel free to share.... Thanks

Lets take a trip down berry lane...

Its a BEAUTIFUL morning in Hart County today... sun is shining, birds are singing, Sally Sue our lil roo is crowing and berries need picking...
So I thought I'd take ya'll along today, before the heat wave hits,
its going to be in the 90's again today!

Good Morning Chickies...

Heres where all the picking starts... just got to work yourself in there and be on the lookout for snakes. Havent ran into to one... yet!

I really need my honey to do some weed eating down in the berry patches... with all the rain we have gotten lately the weeds have really taken over!

These are our big berries... I'm thinking they are wild blackberries?
What do ya'll think?

Oh and here our the dew berries...

Found this guinea a couple of weeks ago... sitting on her nest of eggs in one of the berry patches. She doesnt blink or make a sound when I'm picking, she just watches me... cant wait to see her little keets running around.

Muffin Time...

Went ahead and made some Fathers Day muffins with the berries I picked this morning...

Pretty good if I do say so myself... the boys and I had to try one :)

Nothing like fresh picked veggies and fruits...

Picked this stuff today........... Going to have me nice salad for lunch and make some Fathers Day muffins with them berries :)

My How Our Garden Has Grown........

Since we've been getting all this rain lately the garden has really shot up! Everythings off to a great start...

Baby Zucchini... Bring on the Zucchini bread :)

Baby squash... I ♥ squash! Cant wait to pick some, so many good ways to cook it! I love to slice them, brush some olive oil on the with alittle seasoning and grill or oven roast them... soooo good!

Our 1st lil cucumber... nothing like homegrown cucumbers! I will be making tons of pickles this year too!

1st time we are trying this plant... A Peanut Plant... let ya know how it goes.

Red Radishes... Brian and I have been eating the heck out of em lately... looks like these need to be picked!

Beets, Beets and more Beets... we got another 8 rolls in our small garden, going be canning ALOT of Beets :)

Good old leaf lettuce... going to pick me some tomorrow for a salad tomorrow along with them radishes ;)

3 roll of green beans... Yumm-O

Tomatoes and peppers... and weeds we still need to pick!

We planted this last year... our lil green grapes... its really grown!

Just look at them lil grapes... going be good!

I dont know what the heck this flower is but it sure is purtty.... bought and planted it last year too

Flew The Coop....

Looked out the back door this evening and what did I see... 5 baby guineas looking at me, lol. Well we are in trouble now, they are testing their wings out and flew to the top of the run and the ChIcKeN ShAcK roof and there was 2 chickies out of the run... Dylan and I had to rounded them up and but them back in... I need to go read about wing clipping! Looks like its about that time, one day we are going to but a net or something for the run.

This is my favorite pic of Sally Sue so far... I just think its BEAUTIFUL of him.

The Grass Really Is Greener On The Other Side...

When it comes to Chickens that is, lol
We are adding on to the chicken run so they can get out and have some nice green grass. They really like it...

The guineas are doing great with the chickens now... they still pretty much stick together and they come out into the chicken yard when they feel like it.

Also we let Cinnamon & sugar out of their area in the coop today, we've been trying for acouple of days now but the other chickens where really being mean to them. They picked at them alittle at first but by the end of the day everyone was doing fine.