What is Ready Now?

This morning we picked the first of the blackberries and our very first RIPE PEACH!!! Yeah! I don't think we will have enough of them to sell, but we will be selling blackberries. Farmer Jeff just picked some beautiful summer squash. We are growing 10 varieties and they are all so sweet and wonderful I have a hard time singling out a favorite. Last year it was the pale green "round geode" and this year is the stubby, chubby dark green and pale green striped zucchini-like squash called "bush baby". Yum!

I also picked 2 baskets of cherry tomatoes. They are actually "green grape" and for some reason this year they are very yellow instead of pale green. We also planted another little yellow one that is like a jelly bean and that is so sugary!

The girls are laying eggs after their summer heat break. Production slowed WAY down when it was so hot. I took Madison, the gray Silkie Splash rooster, Anastasia, the Silver Spangled Hamburg female, and Lucretia, our darling Belgian Booted Bantam with me to my interview on our local FANTASTIC radio station, the KRUSH (krsh @ 95.9). They were pretty funny! I was holding Lucretia and she started chatting up a storm which prompted Madison, ever protective of his girls, to start kicking up a ruckus! All on air! I am hoping I can get hold of the interview or direct y'all to a podcast of the interview. It was a lot of fun!

Farmer Jeff came with me to the station and made everyone breakfast! Big, tender, fluffy biscuits, filled with some Eastside Farm Fresh Eggs that were scrambled with some of our very own fire roasted chiles, all topped off with Farmer Jeff's incredible bacon! YUM! He baked off some extra biscuits and we also brought one of our last jars of Indian Blood Peach Jam. Our host, Ziggy the Wine Gal, was snacking on those during the radio break!

Can you tell we have fun doing what we do? Fear not, we also get to do things like dishes, cleaning chicken poop off of Madison's back before the radio show, pulling the dogs out from under the house, laundry, paperwork and THEN playing in the dirt!

Enjoy today. Enjoy breathing, tasting food, walking, speaking. Enjoy life. It is precious!