Monthly Archives: August 2014

my little treasure hunter

Posted by Danielle in Sweety Girl

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Rylann is 10 months now. She’s a crawling, scooting, babbling, little monkey who can sure make her way around the house. Cupboards, drawers, and baskets are treasure chests to her, and I am now wishing I didn’t have “pack-rat” tendencies.

 

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After carefully inspecting it, then throwing it aside, it’s on to the next treasure, and before you know it every room in the house looks like a burglar ransacked the place. It keeps her busy. Who needs toys when you have all of mama’s “treasures” to find.

And there is no point in putting everything away throughout the day, because as soon as she catches a glimpse of me picking up, she’s either insulted or even more intrigued, and makes a dash straight back to what I just cleaned up, and happily puts things back the way she left them.

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[Exhibit A and Exhibit B]

My new tactic…wait until she’s having her bedtime bottle in her bouncer seat, and run around room to room restoring the balance, so I can at least wake up to a tidy house. Win win for now I guess. At least until I get those safety latches installed, or I spontaneously become like those people I kind of envy with the “museum” houses.

The never ending “to do” lists

Posted by Danielle in Uncategorized

So it has been a while… There has been a lot happening on the farm as more products have started to come on. Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, cucumbers, peaches, plums, and some early apples are ready. Markets are going good, the store is picking up, and so far “knock on wood” the rain has arrived as needed.image


As always there are many things to do around the farm. The packing line is ready to go, but the bin tipper needs some tinkering. The irrigation system for two of the orchards has yet to be installed. The recently purchased potato sizer and wash line will soon be set up. All of these projects and more are always a juggling act of priorities for Spencer and my father in law. Between the day to day happenings, picking, packing, tractor work, and loading and going to markets, it becomes hard to squeeze in other things. I try to help with paperwork, errands, and other smaller projects as I can. Right now I am painting racks, and intend to get all of the end posts numbered in the orchard out back by the end of the season, but as I am learning it is hard to get things done with a little one.image

Sometimes I think there must be a better way to make sure things get done on time, and more efficiently, but their way of running things is their way. It would drive me crazy if I had to work like they did with a hundred balls in the air, and an ever changing list of how and when things get done. In my opinion they take on too much; however in the case of my father in law, if he wasn’t busy doing all the things he does, he would still find something else to do.

The farm has been expanding and will always be evolving. In the coming years hopefully it will still allow Spencer to have quality family time. He says down the road he plans to just grow fruit, and do more wholesale. Maybe then we will actually get to take a vacation or even a weekend getaway in the summer. Right now though I will have to enjoy the evenings, Sundays, and some of the rainy days with him.