Beauty Farming Life

We spent the long weekend tossing future ideas around, so I guess you can say that we were daydreaming and planning! We don't have a washer at the farm.  Don't really need one at this time.  There is a space for one (where our utility sink is in the mudroom) so someday, we can definitely have one.  Or of course, I could buy a washboard tub and a wringer but 2nd Man proooobably won't go for that.   But even without one, we are considering one of these: Hills Rotary 7 Clothesline Why you might ask?   Well the obvious of course, that sun dried laundry is amazing!  We're considering this part of the infrastructure for the future and we can store it in the barn when not in use. We were talking this long weekend and what we'd like to do is occasionally take a freshly washed and still wet load of items to the farm when we go out one morning and let it dry while we are there.  I guess we'll have to time it juuuust right, ha.  ...

After I mowed over the weekend, we roamed around planning (and daydreaming).  Here is our dilemma.  We have some fruit trees on "standby"...bought and being cared for but still in containers until the Fall when we plant them and of course we'll be buying more.  There are two places we are trying to decide between.  We have already planted a few trees scattered around the property but it turns out they are too far from water sources and therefore, much more difficult to care for.   So we've narrowed it down to two spots: The first spot is here.   This is just behind the house.   Our backyard I guess you'd call it.  A big, wide open space with a water faucet on the back of the house.  This space is bigger than the other one.  Plenty of room for the trees, and we'll still have space left in the backyard so it's not like we're giving up our yard.  It's not too close to the house either, this picture i...