We had planned on having 3 full days up at the farm. Weather put a kibosh on those plans. The trees we had planted, as well as everything else, was getting watered, so we did not head up until Sunday afternoon, which meant that the drive, getting camp set up, getting firewood, and cooking dinner, used up most of the time we had there Sunday. Monday was productive, but since the trip was as abbreviated as it was, there were some things not done. 
The two apple trees on the property that appear to be more standard apple trees and not crabs are pretty much done flowering now. Hopefully they have set good crops as I am curious to see how they taste.
Windmill is still a climbing attraction for the kids.
Day ended with the kids roasting marshmallows, and then, while Patti and Violet crashed out, me and the girls stayed up and watched the stars and talked.
Monday morning started wet. Not from rain. Just heavy dew and high humidity.
Nell and I made a coffee run, and when we got back everyone else was up and we got to making cages to protect the trees from deer. 450 feet of 60 inch high concrete remesh was turned into 30 cages. Does not finish that project, but gets it well on its way.
Yeah, a lot of photos, but I really dont feel like filtering and deleting them, so just going to have a long post here without a lot of typing.
Just a cool spider shot.
A lot of deer in the neighborhood. This is about a mile from our property.
This was on our property. Right by the Antonovka apple trees.
By 1 pm it was about 80 degrees and we were getting overheated so we headed up to the lake and we all went in the water. About 45 degrees, but when you are hot, cold water is nice.
When we got back, Patti and I worked at putting in a row on the far southern end of the property of apricot seedlings. These are from our friend Renville Tom, and we have a lot of them.
Things I did not get done: No trellis built for the hops yet. They are flopping on the ground. I have wild plums ( 6 big pots ) that are not in yet. Poppies. regular garden plants. I did get in a Russian Black Currant but forgot to take a picture of it. And it is late, I have to get up for work and getting kids off to school in 5 hours, just drove 4 hours home, and I am going to bed.
