Just Another Monday

I'll give you two guesses as to what city we visited this weekend:

If our photos weren't good clues . . . we visited good, ol' St. Louis. We were in need of a couple of days away from the farm, and knew it was now or not until September as all our baby poultry will be coming soon. We don't think it is nice to try to pawn off all those noisy, needy little guys on family members for a whole weekend, so we try to only take trips before or after their 18 week lives.

We only truly spent 1 day in the city, but enjoyed getting a taste of things, and have a feel of what we want to see the next time we go. We visited Grant Farms, the Dent-Grant historical homestead, Anheuser-Busch Plant, a quick visit of the St. Louis Zoo, and then roamed the park area around the Arch. Neither of us had a grand desire to go up in the Arch . . . it was dizzying just to look up at it. We have to say though, that not having a GPS, the maps provided in the Visitor's Bureau Guide were awesome! We managed to get to everywhere we wanted to go, even when our Google Maps we printed out ahead of time didn't take into account road construction, etc.

But enough of that. Back here on the farm, it's a gray, damp Monday. But there is a suprising spring warmth to the air (there ought to be . . . it is May!). Since everything was already damp, I got the hose out, and scrubbed down the stock tank and cover (being particle board, its a little worse for wear after exposure to water and cattle all winter) that we pulled out of the pasture last night:

And rinsed out some seed starting kits . . . which might be funny since they're just going to get dirty again, but hey if they're coming back in the house, the less dirt the better

And then surveyed the garden, where the peas have finally popped, and are getting ready to reach for their trellis

The older radish seeds that we planted kinda thick, anticipating a poor germination rate . . . well they outperformed our expectations:

The potatoes that I was beginning to think had rotted in the ground are finally showing up:

And the rhubarb is begging me to come pick some, and turn the acidy smelling stalks into some delicious muffins :)

Also . . . the asparagus is up . . . I think it will start appearing on our daily menu soon, and I just glimpsed the buds of some strawberry blossoms this morning.

(A side note . . . sorry the photos are sorta of wierd, I'm trying to figure out if my camera lens has something on it or if my camera just has issues!


Happy Monday!