Harvesting

Been harvesting daily amounts of tomatoes, picking up ground apples and watering. Usually takes about 3 hours to finish. The apple trees are loaded and it seems they are larger than ever before.

Harvest Time

Every day now picking much tomatoes. Soon it will be time to start canning them. This year makes up for last. Very grateful for this harvest.

Harvest

It is that time of year when the garden needs harvesting along with the orchard.

Tomato

Mostly watering and picking up walnuts from the ground that the squirrels have dropped along with the apples that trees are eliminating. This week daily pickings of tomatoes has begun.

Smokey

Much smoke from the fire that is burning in the area and jumped the Yuba River in this county. Ash is falling all around Fairview Farm. Reminiscent of last year's fire seanson. Much ash collected in the spider webs, a pink sun in the sky that can be stared at for much time and the darkness like a nuclear winter.

Windy

The fires seem to be filling up the canyon with smoke here at Fairview. A couple of fires are not that far away. Not to mention the one in Santa Cruz mountains.

Cooling Down

Not much going on except for watering and picking zucchini with an occasional cherry or pear tomato. Last night and this morning skies were very similar. What could this mean?

Onward To Pears

Finished picking peaches. The last 4 days have been canning those tasty peaches. Now on to picking the Bartlett pears.

Cool Day

Temperatures are on the cool side today. Woke up to 50*F on the deck. Brrrrr!!! The coolest morning since the unseasonable weather in June. Keep picking the peaches. Oh they are delicious.

Peachy Keen

The peaches are ripening. Picking up some that have fallen on the ground and trying to pick them off the trees before the birds devour them. A good crop this year for the young trees.

hot August

Spied the first ripening tomato on the pear plants. What a feeling to finally see the efforts that were made way back in March an now. It is good