Our town had quite a rainfall last evening. It was pouring.
Lasted a good long while too.
From our sons house, 8 miles away.
Two and a half inches of rain.
You can see one of their many pumpkins growing; see the orange?
Our backyard water gauge.
Right at One and a half inches.
With ours being on the fence and theirs being much more out in the open.
No matter, it was a lot of much needed rain.
My daughter-in-law says her garden is very happy.
This is from just one day of picking from their garden.
She often sends me pictures.
I have been given a quart of sweet pickle chips.
Her family mostly eats dill pickles; but she went and made me my own jar.
(The top of the jar says peaches...she was recycling her lids.)
I also have some sweet tomatoes to eat like candy.
They are so delicious.
My daughter-in-law was born and raised a farm girl.
Gardening is just a way of life to her.
They have chickens too!
These are the newest to the coop.
They will lay dark brown and green eggs.
They have to stay in their own space until they are larger
and then will be added to the chicken coop with the rest of the chickens.
I get all the eggs we want.
I really notice the difference between store bought and fresh eggs.
This is their chicken coop my son built.
My husband helped my son run electricity to the coop.
Now the light comes on at sunset and the chickens know
it's time to go in and roost.
My son just recently built and added on the cupola
and weathervane.
I so enjoy getting to see the garden and chickens.
Seems like a lot of work to me but they love it.
And my granddaughters are growing up just the same as their mommy did.
I think that is a very good thing.
