Sorry it's taken us so long to get back to the website, we've been very busy with the earth.

The orchard is done flowering and the teeny apple buds are showing all over the place, even on the Asian pears this year. This is exciting for us because these are grafts that we started 3 years ago, and it will be fun to see them fruit!

The end-of-year school play was a vaudeville, with Marx Brothers skits, juggling, and running gags, instead of the standard Shakespeare (which is never really standard).

Don is working on windmill designs, and has finally completed his dragon, which has been sent to the art park on San Juan Island. You can see it now on the dragonworks forge page. We're very proud of it.

He also built a new greenhouse for my tomatoes and basil, and a beautiful front gate for the farm (to keep the dogs from wandering onto the road).

The Chicks are feathering out and we are looking forward to filling the chicken tractors with hens again. The goats had a bumper crop of fur coats this year, and now they are looking svelte and eating everything they can get their lips around.

Check out the gardens. It's all in bloom.

The columbines are filled with bees and hummingbirds, and so are the blackberries, and the Peruvian lilies too. Now we are knee-deep in weeds and harvest.

Viva Summer!