It has been some times since I posted last blog, a good friend sent a e-mail to ask, is everything OK with us.

Actually we are all doing fine, less farm work, we have more time to enjoy our relax season. I grew some vegetables in my garden, Chinese cabbage, green beans and cherry tomato are all ready to eat. We  can’t eat it all, gave some to a friend and Sonny’s music teacher. Last Friday, I went to garden and saw some of Chinese mustard getting old, I harvested most of them, about 20 pounds. I made 1 gallon jar of mustard pickles yesterday, and was thinking who I can share this with who will enjoy it too?

We have 10 laying hens now, more eggs than we can eat,  it’s a good gift for whoever visit us or we visit. Almost every day Sonny and I go to collect eggs together, the chickens  stay in the upper coop now, we usually take the longer way so we can pick wild thimble berries. Before we go up, everyone picks a number,to guess how many eggs we will get; but Sonny picks 3, 4, or 5 numbers, so he can win most time.

We bought new pulper machine from Columbia last year and stored the equipment at a friend’s farm for quite a while. Our friend Steve was in Hawaii in February, he had experience with moving heavy goods. With Steve as the leader, our friends Mark, Matt and Burni,  and Terry moved the machine to the right spot in our building.

Since then, Terry was busy with this new project. Tearing the old rusty roof down, taking the old floor apart and rebuilding it, putting the new roof on. Every day he spent some time up there, he didn’t need much of help from me, except the time when he put the new roof on. Taking his own pace, he finished the project in 3 weeks. He is an amazing man.

We went to Kollette and Jason’s music party last Saturday, their farm grow mac nuts and coffee. Like us, as a farmer, they can slow down with farm work now. They have a beautiful farm, nice place for hosting a party, kids can running around in the farm and have fun. It was a nice sunny day, with music, friends, food, everyone seems enjoyed the time a lot. We stayed there until 9pm, later we heard that some people spent the night and next day there.

When we were getting in our truck to the party, Sonny asked me what was the reason of the party. I told him, it was a music party, Jason and his band, some local musicians were going to play some music.

Then he said, ” How about having a party at our place tomorrow ?”

” What is the reason for the party?” I asked him.

He said: ” Just to have some fun.”