An old friend, a cousin and garden update

I had a surprise today visitor today Big Ronnie, I wrote about him in January in looking up an old friend. We talked about an hour about old times when we were growing up together. I told him I was writing all those stories down . And that Kenny Ray loved to listen to the stories. When I got home this evening I called my cousin Nova, to see how everyone was doing and to ask her if she would write down some stories or anything that her mom and brothers and sisters would like to add to the book I have been writing about my family. My family has always passed loved to tell stories and I want to write them down for future generations from humble beginnings as share croppers thru the great depression to a small farm that was the garden of Eden for my Grandmother Sarah Belle Brewer. I may post some of it here or on my other blog Ramblings of a Appalachian American after some final editing. I posted a picture of the first tomato of the year here today I took the picture Sunday June 6 just before I popped it in my mouth. we have a lot of heat and rain here last week and the weeds are growing strong I need to get a hoe in the garden maybe tomorrow evening. The rabbits are reaching havoc on my beans I have replanted some spots 3 times now.I think I will replant again and move the ole Jack closer to the garden.

I went over to my mother's house this evening to set a post and tie a tree to it to straighten up.

We walked back to garden and I noticed a Japanese beetle on her sunflower I will check my peach tree in the morning as they always attack it first. I need to spray something on it to try and save as it is loaded with peaches. It looks like it will be a good year for fruit the apples are so loaded down I think the branches will break . I picked some cherries for the first time off one of my trees about a pint and I have about a dozen plums also. Looks like i might get some canning done

next week as the beets and cabbage should be ready. I had my first losses of chickens Saturday

2 of them got caught under the pen as I was moving. I still have 110 on pasture and 6 turkeys.