Kousa dogwood fruit
Wednesday was a day of chaos around here. Inspectors, plumbers, excavators, my intern, one lot of pullets leaving, and then my brother calls and says he’s bringing my mom and a young friend and coming to get his lot of pullets, and will be here around lunchtime. I was also working in the New Herb garden trying to finish that, and watering the little trees in rotation.
The first lot of pullets left an hour early, and that was just as well. My intern and I finished the New Herb garden around noon and went to catch the chickens. My husband had been in and out running errands and had just arrived back with the chicken crates sent out on Sunday. We got the pullets sent on their way and caught all my brother’s birds and put them in the shade.
I got a quick shower (still hadn’t run out of propane) and my intern and I set the kitchen up for lunch. I called my brother and asked what to do for lunch and they decided on pizza. I had my husband get me some sushi while he was out. My intern had brought her lunch, just as well as she’s vegetarian.
My brother and mom arrived at 1PM and we’d just sat down to lunch when my intern hears someone come up the driveway. Sure enough, it was the long awaited electrical inspector. So my husband leaves his lunch and walks the inspection. There were 2 tiny problems to address, but we passed.
He comes back to his lunch and shortly the plumbers arrive and connect the propane to the house. He goes off again to get them situated and we chatted around the table for a while. My brother wanted to wander the gardens, but my mom wanted to sit. So we put her in the new living room by the windows so she could watch and set off.
The first flowers on the New England aster in the 1st fence garden
We first walked the newly finished New Herb garden. My brother noticed my mom wasn’t by the windows, so we went to see what she was up to. She decided to finish walking the New Herb garden with us. Then she sat down again.
We went out to the backyard and ate some Anne raspberries. Then we went over to the Kousa dogwood and my brother tried out the fruit. This is the first year it’s had a real crop of fruit. I’ve been sort of thinking about doing something with it.
For a little tree it’s pretty loaded with fruit.
We went down and looked at the little trees. It’s amazing how much they have grown from the little sticks we planted in late March.
Inside my husband, and the young friend my brother had brought, were talking hunting and fishing. Then they went up to the barn to check that out.
I pulled a large bunch of branches out of the lemon verbena pile and sent them home to scent my mom’s bedroom and the main area of the house.
When they headed back home in late afternoon, I got the plantain I’d harvested into the dehydrator. I left the lemon verbena for Thursday.
My helper friend will be here on Thursday and we will be doing inside chores and loading dehydrators.
It was a very long busy day and we were both very tired by suppertime.
Absolutely LOVE the smell of Lemon Verbena! It has an incredibly invigorating effect. I love smells like that around the house. I always used to dot rose geranium essential oil around my moms room because that was her favourite...
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That dogwood looks cool I didn’t know it was edible. I’ve also never smelled lemon verbena so I’ll ha e to figure that out!
My husband says it smells like lemon Pledge, the furniture polish. I think it's much nicer than that!
Hahaha, I don't mind that smell but at least it gives me a sense of what it does smell like, thanks!
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