A Perfect Weekend

This was perhaps one of the most beautiful weekends at the farm yet this year. The weather was perfect (only interrupted by an intense display of lightening during a magnificent thunder storm Friday evening). The farm is still so very green and lush. The animals are all healthy and happy. The long awaited arena is finally finished and the riding surface is perfect! Briggs and I have much work ahead of us...but we have a perfect place for long hours of practice!



This weekend marked the true beginning of our BeeHaven Acres Farm harvest. Our strawberries are producing a very high yield. A couple of minutes' picking Friday night and Saturday morning quickly yielded 15 quarts of strawberries.


Our meals included a salad of fresh-picked lettuce, spinach, onions, broccoli and radishes topped off with a dessert of fresh strawberry pound cake with ice cream and fresh strawberries. We consumed as many of the berries as was humanly possible and froze the rest. If time allows, I will make homemade jam. Last weeks' jam-making fiasco produced strawberry syrup instead (which, by the way was great on our pancakes Sunday morning).

Finally, I had a bit of time for some goat bonding. Here is a picture of our little Princess.....O'Malley. What a sweet soul she is.