Typical late July with temperatures near 100 and high humidity. Almost too hot and muggy to get anything done. The afternoon showers cool things off but after they pass the sun returns and you almost need gills to get a breath of air.

The calves are growing and two of them need new homes. We have guests coming this weekend to look at pigs. Hope they buy a bunch. One or two at least.

The garden is almost done for the first round. Purple hull peas are done. Green beans are almost finished. The butter beans came on late so I should get more from those vines. As soon as I can get the sweet potatoes out I will replant some white and red potatoes, onions and garlic. I should get a second crop of potatoes if we don’t have early cold weather. I dug up about 30 lbs of potatoes earlier this week.

I picked up the meat from the steer and hog I had butchered. The hog weighed 190 lbs and the steer was 500 lbs +/-. The meat filled up our large upright freezer and two shelves of our small 10 cu ft upright. We shouldn’t be buying beef or pork for a while. If I time it right we shouldn’t be buying it ever again. I just need to make sure I send something to the butcher before running out.