I’m on vacation this week and part of next. I’ve prewritten and scheduled posts for this week and next, so y’all won’t have to go without.
I’ll be posting on Instagram while I’m gone (which automatically posts to the Love & Hisses Facebook page as well as Tumblr). If you’re not on Instagram, Facebook or Tumblr, no worries – I’ll do a massive roundup post once I’m home from vacation, so you won’t miss anything.
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Crooked Acres Friday.
To round out this week of Crooked Acres-ness, I have pictures of stuff growing around the property. We didn’t plant a garden this year, not because of the weather or anything, just because we didn’t want to. We’re getting our produce at a local farmer’s market this summer. But there’s still plenty of stuff growing around Crooked Acres!
Blueberry bushes in the back yard. I actually got enough blueberries this summer to make a batch of muffins. The blueberry bushes were SUPER happy, at least until we had a couple of weeks of super dry weather. Now they’re less happy, but I expect they’ll bounce back okay.
Blueberries. YUM.
Teeny tiny muscadines (wild grapes) in the back yard.
The muscadine plant (which is growing up the fence) really took off this year. I don’t expect we’ll get too many muscadines this year, but hopefully next year we’ll get a bumper crop.
Baby lemon on the Meyer lemon tree. It’s a potted tree, and we move it into the garage in the winter, then outside in the summer. Sometime around Christmas, we’ll get three or four lemons.
That mess right there is our compost heap. You probably can’t tell from this picture, but it’s covered in tomato plants. You can hardly go two feet in any direction on this property without running into a volunteer tomato plant.
The Hydrangeas in the front flower bed have been particularly happy (and pretty!) this year.
We have mimosa trees growing around the edge of the property. I think they are SO pretty, but according to Fred they make a big mess when they drop their flowers.
Mimosa flowers, up close.
Pears. We have quite an abundance of apples, pears, and nectarines right now. Whether or not we’ll actually get to harvest any of it, I don’t know, but so far, so good.
Persimmons. This is the first year the persimmon tree has produced any fruit.
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I put the game cam out because Fred is pretty certain we’ve got a southern flying squirrel living in that tree, and we hoped to catch it on camera. No luck so far, but we did catch the very rare Southern Climbing Archie, so it was worth having the camera out there.
(The look on his face cracks me UP.)
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Previously
2015: Roundup: Belushi
2014: On Tuesday, we leap.
2013: He’s kneady, I guess you could say.
2012: No entry.
2011: If only Ciara could make herself comfortable.
2010: Could we fit any more cats in one picture?
2009: No entry.
2008: “Rowr. Rowr, I say.”
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.