It's been a busy week. With the late snow storms this spring, it's taken us this long to get our tractor safely into the field. But on Monday we finally were able to get the cultivator out there, and followed it with the potato planter.
Thanks to a bunch of volunteers who came out with Joe Niessen (our potato guru), we've got 4 or 5 acres of potatoes in the ground, and just in time too, because on Wednesday, we got rain. Rain and hail. Lots of rain and hail! Then the sun came out for an hour or so, and then we got more rain and hail!
Needless to say, we have to wait a little longer to get our mulch down to plant the rest of our veggies, as the tractor would once again sink to the axles in mud. But we are eagerly awaiting the day that we can get out there again, as our greenhouses are full. No more room at the inn! We'd like to start seeding a few more things, but there just ain't room to do it!
The only animal on our farm that seemed to enjoy the stormy day was our Muscovy duck, which reminded me of the swan living down at the end of our road. He showed up one day after the snow melted, in a 'lake' in the middle of a cattle farmer's field. he was a youngster without a mate, but we're pretty sure he was a trumpeter swan, and boy was he big!
We thought our Muscovy drakes were big. Then we thought Canada geese were big. But this boy made them all look like bantam chickens, he was so big! I'd say he was over a yard long, and who knows how big his wingspan was.
I wanted to take a picture of him with our telescopic lens, but he'd moved on before I could get down there with a camera. The field lake is quickly drying up, and we think he's moved down to the reservoir lake a few kilometers away. We shall miss him.
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