The morning after we got back from Winthrop, we had our hay delivered.

It was 4 tons that we got to load into the hay loft.  Thankfully it was a cool morning

I did get injured in the process.  This is a bruise on my right thigh after the hay elevator was pushed into it.  Great fun!

The next day I was cut by a long screw in the rabbit hutch that contains Fluffy and her chicks.  Fluffy is a very protective hen, and I was just trying to keep from getting pecked.

These screws have gotten me a few times so Tom kindly sawed them off so this will not happen again.

We have a lot of chickens now.  I am progressively letting more of the growing chicks out of the weasel proof pen into the barn.  It is getting a little chaotic.

I let the three young turkeys out too.  I have been nervous about letting them out as I have had bad experiences with young turkeys in the past, but they are doing OK so far.

Here is one of the recent graduates.  Isn’t she pretty?  She may be my new Henny-Penny.

Here are some other colorful graduates.

It is definitely berry season here.  I gave up on the idea of picking and processing the champagne currants we have so I have been giving them to the chickens.  They love them.

We have picked about 10# of blueberries, and there will be a lot more.

I made blueberry muffins but also blueberry pork chops.

Our raspberries are doing well too.  Usually we get plenty of golden raspberries, but this year we have plenty of red raspberries too.

It was enough to make my yearly Buttery Raspberry Lemon Cake, but this time using only the red berries.

I have also been dealing with the vegetable garden.  There has been a lot of weeding as well as putting up plant supports.  I picked peas and shelled them in front of the Mariners game.

Tom made Oven BBQ Chicken and the peas accompanied it.

I also made Sheet-Pan Pizza al Taglio.

And Fish Tacos. All of the recent meals have been really good.

Roscoe is still dong well.  He enjoys knocking over the do-dads near my computer.

Wally likes to do the chores with us.  Yesterday he climbed on the tractor bucket.

The pigs are getting bigger and love the mud to keep cool.  Tom said today he was sweating like a pig.  Pigs don’t sweat so I wondered where that term came from.

Hercules was picked up by his owner yesterday morning.  Here is what his injured eye looks like.  I hope he does well.  It doesn’t seem to be bothering him.  But it’s not pretty.

Yesterday we also went to a Brewfest with my dad and Mo.  It was Mo’s idea, and it was a great one.  It was at McMenamins Anderson School in Bothell.  We sampled some ciders, explored the school, and caught up in the sunny weather.

Today the Power Wagon that has graced the back of the donkey pen for many years has finally found a new home.  Tom used the tractor to pull it from the pen.

Then I got recruited to steer it through the gates while Tom pulled it.  It was quite the experience.

But then in the afternoon, it left our property, finally!

That has been my week.