Something About Shoes

There’s really something you can tell about a person by looking at their shoes. When I was young, I always loved getting new sneakers — for sure, I would run faster — “ya know what I mean?”  Here is a normal weekend view  – muddy, wet, and yes, stinky shoes. After this weekend, my hiking…

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Garden Calendar 2016

  Jan Even with such a warm winter, not much happening in Jan. However, my friend from work (Martine!), shared some good Pacific Northwest gardening tips. Here’s to Belgium hospitality with a bunch of inspiration! Here is how the garden started–a well used place in the yard, the entrance way to the pasture. Feb On the…

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Bee Calendar 2016

Jan Ordered my nucs. Beekeeping 101 class at Bees in the Burbs. Really fun to be around folks who want to play with bugs! Feb Beekeeping 201 class at Bees in the Burbs. For this one, suggestion to keep good logs of everything. Here at the Jons Glenn Farm, with a little help from my…

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Bloom Calendar 2016

In my last beekeeping class, the Prof suggested that we keep a calendar to log blooms. Jan Nothing blooming yet, but we’ve had another warm winter. Feb About 1 mile north of us, fields of Daffodils started blooming yesterday. But officially, in here at the Jones Glenn Farm, daffodils started to bloom 2/28. The cheery…

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Berries 2016

Berry Patches The weather here has been warm again this winter, so I’m baking on another early summer. Here are the patches as of February 2016. Raspberries I found a local farm called Spooner Farms to buy 50 new raspberry plants. Our original raspberries are summer bearing and the fruit is small. So, I decided…

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Transition to Reconstruction

After a couple long days working in the barn this weekend, I’m nearing the transition point from disassembly to reconstruction. I removed the remaining interior stall walls, and also a couple non-supporting posts to make room for maneuvering the big glulam beams into place. Boy was that fun moving the beams from outside where they…

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