It's a beautiful morning here at Goodness Grows Farm. After a very late night of fitting goats (that means using a clipper to trim their fur in a way that highlights their positive attributes and hides their flaws - I also view this as trickery and do not think fitting animals should be permitted in shows, but that is an entire different post) and a very late supper, we are off to a semi-slow start this morning. Well, the children are at least. Erik was up at 5:30 to get his equipment ready and loaded to travel to South Pointe to work with Western Pennsylvania Geothermal to complete a Geothermal project. I was up at 6:45 to tend to Whit.
Maggie woke around 8:30. She laid down on the couch and I put Whitaker next to her and this is what happened:
Then I decided to go outside and pull some of the mint that is growing everywhere in my one flower bed. I'm not opposed to it running wild as it has - I knew it was a terribly invasive plant, but it's starting to cover the steps leading to the play set, so I wanted to pull some of the stuff covering the steps. As I reach down to pull some of the mint out, I see this:
Our friendly (but scary) garter snake. I know he is good to have around the house - I just don't like seeing him so much! He's been getting around quite a bit. I'm not sure I like that so much!
Being out in that flower bed led me to see this:
My dad gave the kids big pumpkins last October for Halloween. We put them on our stone steps and didn't throw them out before the first snowfall. After a long winter of massive snowfalls, the pumpkins had rotted and decayed leaving nothing but a large pile of seeds that had started to sprout. I threw the seeds off to the side - not even scraping up any dirt for them to root into. A month or so later, here is my pumpkin patch. I couldn't figure out what those pretty yellow flowers were in that part of the bed - I knew I hadn't planted anything there. How exciting. Although, if they grow anything like the last batch of pumpkins I tried to do - Big Max Pumpkins - everyone will be pretty disappointed. My Big Max's turned out to look more like "little oranges."
Not even a two year old gets excited about carving a little orange!
