This Old American Foursquare

Matt and I have never been to an agricultural fair, and it did not disappoint. Blooming onions, rickety rides, and the ubiquitous carnival fare were all present, but I was more excited about homemade ice-cream, fresh milk, and a lady making her own yarn. We saw proud 4H students show off their prized cows, goats, horses, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and more. There were quilts, garden vegetables, honey, pickled vegetables, and other crafts vying for a blue ribbon. There was also a lumberjack competition that was more stressful than fun for me to watch. If this fair was Grahamsville's 144th, I can't wait for the 145th! 

 It's been a minute. So here's a few things that happened since my last blog post.  We got in touch with our patriotic side with some fun bunting, which surprisingly held up during multiple summer storms including a microburst! We had a few trees milled for future projects including window trim! What did we learn? Stacking boards is a lot of work and you can never have enough stickers. The smell of cherry, ash, maple, and apple seasoning in our garage is beautiful. We seriously need a truck. Our test pollinator and wildflower garden is surviving! I tested using weed tea as fertilizer but couch grass is persistent.  I planted a second test garden and the deer demolished half of it even with deer-resistant  plants like black eye susans, mint, and salvia.  I'm discovering more wild flowers that have come up in the seed bank and we have four wild blueberry bushes!