May in a Nut Shell

Here is the monthly overall update from the previous month! I posted a few things already, but wanted to share some more, because, well, you know me! I love sharing photos! :)

The Farmers' Market in Springfield started going on Wednesdays in addition to Saturday mornings. So now we are doing 3 farmers' markets a week! 2 in Springfield and 1 in Branson :)

Wednesday morning market

Tree climbing with Ashley and Autumn after church.

I had to add this one in simply for humor! Ashley is blocked out by the leaves!

Okay, that's better.

They went out to the woods to play while Mom fixed the fence, after our neighbors 3 calves got through it and decided to hang with our cows.

Our cows and the extra ones hanged around for the afternoon

Little Farmers

Joe as he watches me plant lettuce and green beans:"Maddy, I planted two plants together. Will they splash together?"

My shadows

Just for fun, I took Katherine out to see the pigs. I think she thought they were dogs or something. She really wanted to pet them.

And then to the garden.

Mom had a birthday!

We went to the produce auction and ended up bring home a ton of plants!

I stayed pretty busy the following 2 weeks figuring out where they should be planted, planted them and finding supports for all the tomato plants. In all, I have planted 220 tomato plants, around 80 peppers, probably a little more, and I lost track of everything else. I plan on doing a lot of canning this summer!

We always get the best pictures of her with the cats

We went to the Branson farmers' market and we were all set up and ready to go and still had a half hour left before it started, and it was so hot out that day. So before market started we went to the lake off the Branson Landing and cooled off and went crazy with pictures.

Selfie with the beautiful bridge in the background

She always has to get a picture with a goose

The water felt great on a really hot day!

We like to make it look like we are on vacation when we are really there because of work related stuff :)

This beautiful flower was by the campground off of the lake

We also processed our first round of 130 chickens..... and we are already processing another set next week.

And these pictures were cute so I had to put them up.

Izzy's rabbits just looked so cute sitting the the door way like that

Yes, this one counts as a sky shot, but I felt like posting it anyway. You will probably see it again in the annual sky picture post. (That's Izzy by the way!)