June 9th: OMG IT'S STILL RAINING. We are all suffering from "play house fever" as PeeWee Herman used to say. Actually, it stopped long enough for Dwayne, Max and I to go fishing. Well, Dwayne fished, Max rolled in dead smelly stuff and I did some rock hunting. I just can't get over the amount of space for the amount of people that are here.
June 10th: Guess what? It's raining. Dwayne measures it daily and since they've been back they have had over 5" of rain. I'm getting worried about him. He's looking a little pale with a glazed look in his eyes. The rain and lack of activity is slowly taking it's toll. He seems to be taking it harder then the rest; becoming unresponsive and lethargic. Alton and I play on our laptops, Garth sews....Dwayne needs a hobby! The object sitting on the log are 2 sets of antlers that the guys found in a field somewhere. They are locked together. You can only imagine the rest of the story. It holds the rain gage. I think I'll take this opportunity to show you some more of the land and "stuff".
Alton researched high tunnel green houses on line and found plans through 2 universities. They picked the one they like best, and built it. This is what that looks like. Their goal, of coarse, is for a bigger and better.
The garden started out 4-5 acres in size, and an additional 3-4 acres were fenced last year. The fencing is beautiful, and they did it themselves! Most of the province plants oats, wheat, canola, flax, peas, lentils, soy beans, fava beans and supplies a good part of the world with food. This particular "farm" is known around the area as "the garden". (LOL) Everyone else are farmers; we're all "gardeners". I think they all are trying to understand these "boys" and what they're doing. They see them as gardners. Dwayne said he thinks of themselves as "Gentlemen Farmers"(in Dwayne's sense of humor). Wait until we put the purple dinosaur out at the road. It's not purple now, but it's going to be. I believe with pink poka-dots. If you look at that piece of machinery (old combine) you can just see the mouth there infront, and the eyes. We'll use old hoes and rakes to make eyelashes. There is a piece on the back that comes up to be the tail. Not that anyone will ever go by it to see it! .
To the left is part of the newest addition of the garden. Please take note of this as being "before". You can witness "after" later in the summer. I have heard it is beautiful when everything is up and the flowers in bloom.
So, if anyone would like to come volunteer any spare time I would even give you my bed! Seriously. I mean it. At this point the garden is not on the web anywhere. I am in the process of teaching them to get something out there! They think it's too soon they're not ready. I guess it involves a lot of rules and regulations to do mail order. I said to just do something out there that will at least tell people who they are and what they are doing. Their primary income on the crops is by hitting as many farmers markets as they can. It's actually quite lucrative, but a lot of work. Like everything else involved. That's what it means to "Start A Business".
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