My little business...

 

The reasons I get up and go to work...

• To pay for my girls collage eduction
• To buy that kick-ass Dyson vacuum I have always admired
• To pay for that last trip to the dentist

Thank you to all of my faithful and loyal customers over the past season.

You came and picked produce to feed your family, share with a neighbor or impress your co-workers.

And I am grateful you picked my farm to visit!

A Little Farm Life

 I picked a few treasures in the garden the other day.

We have had a stretch of dry weather that is going into the record books.

Therefore, my garden is overwhelmed with cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and beans.

But all this dryness means it is dusty.

It has been windy too.

The wind comes from the East, right down the Columbia Gorge.

And into our island.

And this is the view from the Poodle Palace.

The youngest farmer daughter has finely moved in...

and she was offered a job else where today.

What to do... take it or stay?

And look at how our Tug has grown!

He tops the scales at 55 pounds.

He is a big boy!

He still barks at cats and eats apples off the trees.

But we love him.

The view from Mt. Hood

We recently spent the night on Mt. Hood at Silcox Hut with Mr. Farmer's family.

We were celebrating my father in laws 85th birthday.

This first photo is from Silcox Hut looking south at Mt. Jefferson.

A very smokey view as there is a forest fire to the south east of Mt. Jefferson.

 This is Mt. Hood the next morning. 

Beautiful!

Not a cloud in the sky kind of morning.

Our family hiked up to the hut and hiked down from the hut.

Part of the way down, we followed the Pacific Crest Trail.

Beautiful!

And the work continues on the Poodle Palace.

We hope the youngest farmers daughter will be moving in soon.

The house does not smell like dogs any more... yeah!

Every wall upstairs has been washed and painted,

The wood floor has been cleaned and waxed.

    And the carpets have been shampooed.

Doesn't this look wonderful!