Poop & Prints

Alistair headed off for a day at Grandma's today which freed up the rest of us to have an especially busy and productive Saturday.  Here's what we got up to - prepare yourself to be exhausted just reading it!

1) Transplanting our growing seedlings into bigger containers. We have so many now that Ian even made us a second grow stand! With the cost of lumber right now there is no better way to say "I love you", right?!

Look at those beautiful eggplants!  Ooohh! Ahhhh!

Well established rosemary and lavender.

Peppers and onions, of course.

2) Planting our next crop of broccoli, cabbage and lettuce.

3) Maple sap collecting and boiling.

Yesterday's boil.

Today's boil.  We're getting there!

4) Direct sowing our cool season greens garden and sugar snap peas.

5) Building our hoop greenhouses over our pallet gardens.

This morning.

This afternoon.
We are a farm of mini greenhouses!
Now to wait for sprouts.

6) Archery practice

7) Looking for poop and prints.

Nature's scavenger hunt anyone?

When you need to keep everyone busy, you think of
creative ideas for getting out and about.
Searching for poop and prints seemed like
as good a reason as any to get outside.

Deer print. You can even see the toes!

Deer poop.

Bird poop. Maybe turkey? Maybe crow? Maybe wild duck?
Impossible to tell but no turkey tracks so likely something else.

Coyote poop.

Fairy house complete with a moss garden out front.

We followed lots of deer highways
and got epic soakers.  Everyone's boots
were sloshing by the end.

A day for the books to be sure. I love planting season! And Saturdays - I love those too!