Slugfest

Barkley in desparate need of a sun break!

Today was another really wet one! Did I mention my poor tomatoes yesterday? We harvested lots of orangish ones to ripen in the window. The broccoli seems to love this weather! We also gathered more peapods, squash, and beans.

Tonight for dinner I made a stew with lots of veggies and dumplings in the crockpot. Alex made wholewheat French bread in the bread machine, and Ari made oatmeal walnut cookies in the oven. It was a good day for comfy food.

The wet weather has really brought out our least favorite beasties -slugs. We had a slug stomping contest. I won!

During the brief early afternoon glimpse of sun, we visited Kelsy Creek Farm to look at the bigger critters. We saw horses, pigs, cow, goats, sheep, chickens, geese, rabbits, and bees. We especially like the Polish chickens with their crazy feather head-dos. We kept our distance from the bees (they were busy).

(A special message to the Hearns: Send sun, we see by the international weather report that you guys have some! Even mum had thundershowers today.)