Our version of retirement: Living a childhood dream

She loves the boardwalk (I like it too)
Maybe lay some rock on the sides
and some planters

Do need the gate
Otherwise the deer will have a feast on the garden

Yeah, the plantings....it's a waiting game now
I like the boardwalk and also the slab bench.

I love anything done with wood and rock, especially if it was gathered by the artiste.

Did you do the chainsaw carving by your shop? I like that even though you are no longer off grid, you are incorperating wood and rock at your new place.

Logs, rough sawn lumber, and flagstone where my favorite media when I lived in the mountains, off grid, east of you for 15 years.
 
Incredible year for gardening
Normally, the strawberries are done by end of June
The hot summer stifles new blossoms
But
The cool evenings have coaxed 'em back

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My lady planted tomato seeds a bit ago to see what would happen
If I'd have known they'd flourish, I woulda built racks

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I don't think we'll be buying tomato plants next year
 
Damn, that's a hell of a price - great deal.
'Twas
Him and I exchange our treasures
This one was pretty special to me
So he offered the chip in of a hundred bucks
It's a good friendship

Reminds me, I need to travel that twenty miles up the path to visit him and his bride
Good folks

Woody sits down here, out by the shop door

Doesn't move much

But does get gussied up for winter

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Been the year of the plum
Last year, nothing, nada, zip

This year the limbs are breaking for the weight of the fruit
Gonna be canning in a couple days

We love stewed plums (or prunes??)
However, first we're canning plum jam
(I'm a jam freak)

Stage one
picked
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Stage two
washed

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At this juncture, I stay outa the kitchen
But....
Within earshot for moving the full canners
 
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Harvest Time

Got about ten bins of these

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The newly enclosed deck came in quite handy
(no steaming up of the kitchen)

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Decided to prune the plum trees while picking
Didn't get too nuts with the loppers
The trees are holding up the rotten fence

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Goin' to the recycle depot tomorrow

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Yes, I tarped it

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'Twas a good day
 

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