Baby Turkeys, Grain Run, Co-op Delivery, Harvests, Culls, Fence, Fenceline Trail, Azure, Grilling - Friday

This is one of the black turkeys. Super cool looking especially compared to the bronze.

They all settled right in and I was thankful I put the lights in despite it being mid summer since the morning was about 41F so a bit on the chilly side.

I was out soaking at the normal time but had to get out a bit early to leave for town.

My first stop was to drop empty barrels at the first brewery.

I I stopped at the second and picked up 4 barrels which got loaded onto the trailer. I then drove all the way to the east side of the valley to the industrial park to our co-op building.

I got to the co-op just after 8am which is when I would normally get there without having to stop for grain.

Once home I unloaded the grain into the sheep pen and everyone came running for the still steaming grain.

The turkeys all settled in nicely and spent their first morning safely ensconced in the brooder hut.

Then I finally got to go out and pick in the gardens. This is what it looks like as I try to find the squash buried under the plants. It is a lot like a jungle and is about as humid as one.

I am marking certain plants and squash that I am going to let grow out so I can save the seeds from them. This is the first of them I am doing so with. It is the Desert or Dunja summer squash and it is a large green variety. I need to find at least one of each type of squash to save seeds from this year.

A slightly slimmer 19 pounds for the day.

I had to go through the squash and cull the bad. I pulled 75 pounds from the cooler and threw 43 pounds to the birds and sheep and kept 32 pounds that we have to use that is not saleable.

I even went through my bag of culls and had to cull the culls. Still though I have over 260 pounds in the cooler that needs to get sold.

I laughed watching the turkeys. At noon I was standing watching them and one was passed out standing up with its head laying on the back of another. It eventually fell over on its side and woke up suddenly.

The tomato row still needed the upper fence line put on it so it I got out my long tape, bolt cutters, and I measured off the right length.

I got the fence up without damaging any of the plants.

I headed across the creek and found that one of the other wormwoods was ready to harvest. It wasn't a ton but enough for another bundle which got hung on the clothes line next to the others.

I am still using these lockwire pliers that I got from the air force well over 20 years ago. The things are insanely useful and I used them to fix the top and bottom fence of the tomato row together.

@stryeyz came hone from work early so she could take the boys to town for a birthday gift for J's classmate's birthday party in the afternoon. While they were gone I headed up the hill to the upper pen with a rake and I spent the next hour getting my mile in but also clearing the fence line trail. I started at the gate in the northeast corner and worked the north fence line first.

I then made it about halfway down the west side before I set the rake down and walked the rest of the circuit.

In the densest areas on the east fence line I cleared the trail trough the saplings, breaking the branches out of the way and kicking over some of the standing dead.

I made the loop back to the rake and continued my way around. I finished the west fenceline and quickly finished the south.

The southeast corner has a boat load of pine cones but I was able to skirt most of them by hugging the fence.

Mid way up the east fence line and the sapling groves were the hardest part of the process.

Passing under the eagle's nest tree I raked numerous bones away from the fence with the other debris and soon was at the northeast corner.

It was only 30 feet left and the trail was finished in a full loop as close to the fenceline as I could manage. It gives us the maximum distance possible for walks around the loop so we are more likely to be able to get a mile from the door of the house, through 2 loops of the pen and back.

They got home not long after I was done with the trail. While the cacophony of noise was going on in the house I went out and picked more cucumbers. I ended up with 12 of them and gave my mom some.

Super annoying. I was in the tool shed and looked over at the brooder hut and I saw a turkey not moving. I walked over and it had gotten it's head stuck in the fence and one of the older birds had pecked the top of its head and it was dead. Not too happy with that.

I had to refill the birds waters and the alpaca got her soaking as well.

The boys were at their birthday party and we went down to meet the truck for the Azure drop for the month. It went rather quickly since it was only a half pallet worth and soon we were back on the farm.

@stryeyz went to pickup the boys from the party and I got burgers grilled for her and I, the boys ate there.

Soaking was rather nice after the quit busy day I had. I had put the birds in before I was out to soak but got a text from my mom that a couple of birds were perched in the elderberry bush so after soaking I went and grabbed them and tossed them in the coop.

Today I am not sure yet. I have so much that needs to get done but the freedom exchange is this morning and J really wants to go. I am not sure I can spare the hours of the morning. I need to get the harvest done, the yard is a disaster as I am in mid cleaning of the car port, I STILL haven't gotten a load in the freeze dryer yet and really have to, and I still need to get the railing installed on the studio deck.

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