Summer Living

We are really enjoying living out here on the land, it's really too good to be true!  Here are some of the things we get to enjoy on a daily basis!

Home grown tomatoes, there is nothing like it!

A beautiful view with a beautiful sunflower

The hops

loads of cucumbers

Tomatoes!  These are the Roma tomatoes, but we love them all!

More sunflowers

Our first apples from the orchard

Matt and Landen enjoying the view

Grapes from the vineyard (yes, we have a vineyard. Crazy, huh?) And they are DELICIOUS!

Fresh picked produce.... zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes, asparagus, apples, and peppers 

Hanging out at the shed

The men of the land...

Not bad, huh?

A turtle we spotted on our way back down

Off the path

The first apple ever picked from Kinnaird orchards...hope it's delicious!

So many cucumbers....making some pickles

Score Update

I stand corrected.....Bear-5, Kinnairds-0

Bear vs. Kinnairds

So, the bear visits again.  She has gotten in our trash about 4 times now.  After the first 3 times, John came out and built this little trash/tool shed against the house.  We thought we were in the clear, but the bear tested it out last night and after a few tries (it was very loud), she successfully broke it by ripping of the board with the latch on it.  I came out on the stoop to attempt to scare her off so that I would hopefully have less trash to clean up this morning and realized she also has a cub...so I promptly came back in and locked the door.  The cub climbed a tree and was adorable.  Mama Bear ran to make sure her cub was ok, then came back to drag off more trash.  I'm pretty sure there's another bag out there somewhere a little farther up the driveway.  

Must bear-proof out trash bin!

Score:

Bear-4

Kinnairds-0