What happens when you leave the Farm for the week ?

Jellystone Park!

 

We try to,every year around tax time,to schedule a get away from the Cranberry Acre, because if we don't get it scheduled something always comes up on the farm and we will never go. Everyone needs time away to relax, our place has been at the Jellystone Park in Luray, Virginia. If you have never been at one of these and you have small kids, you need to try and go. It's an amazing place for adults and kids, plus it's Yogi Bear you all!

 

With going away for a week,  it usually sets me into a tizzy, worrying about the critters, but we have great babysitters to watch them all. There still all my babies so I still worry.

 

It had rained up in Northern Virginia and it apparently rained here in the Southern part also, because my garden, which I weeded pretty heavily the day before, turned into a Jungle of weeds! I spent a morning after we got back weeding as much as my back could handle, I still haven't gone back. With the rain came pretty veggies!

 

To my surprise I came home to tomato plants that had doubled their size and started to produce fruit!

 

My Romaine lettuce started growing into beautiful heads of lettuce and my freebie,

 

Pumpkin plant also took flight and is growing on the chicken fence.

 

My Gala apple tree also has some pretty fruit on it, so excited about making Apple Butter and apple sauce this year.

 

 

Looks like Ms. Griffin is also excited about the growth in the garden, she has been trying to get at my Romaine lettuce all morning.

 

When we left for vacation we had Ms. Silver laying on about 20 or so Guinea eggs, well something took of with them and we have no clue what took them,I'm thinking Black snake because of the lack of eggs and no broken shells!

Larry and Curly are now laying on the nest, so maybe they finally have gotten the idea, we will see.

 

I can not believe what a week did to the chicks! We left and they still had all this fluff, now they are taller and have feathers. It was pretty crazy to see them this way thinking they were still the little fluff balls they were.

 

On Saturday I had let the chicks out in the yard cage to get some socializing in but, these two on Sunday became pretty sick. We are now nursing these two back and are saying a little prayer that they pop out of whatever has happened. Everyone else is nice and healthy, so I think it is something that these two got a hold of when they were outside. It really sucks to loose a baby, but these two are holding on and seem to be a little better this morning. Always a guessing game when it comes to sick birds.

 

My pretty, pretty Lily flowers! I have these planted in my flower bed and absolutely love them. I am now waiting for my yellow and peach ones to flower, they are almost there so of course there will be pictures when they do bloom.

 

I really do not have any idea what these are and if anyone knows, give me a shout. They come up every year and are very pretty, but have no clue what they are.

 

So we are now playing catch up on Cranberry Acre! I have a lot of weeding to do in the garden and now have baby chickens to tend on. I can't believe how much everything has grown, furry, feathered and green. So funny how when you leave for a week it all seems have changed so much.