Newly born baby ducklings

This Lunar Moth flew into the Cider room just after nightfall the other day

All the baby kittens relaxing in front of the store one afternoon

That's one proud mother

Well, yesterday was the first day of summer where the temperature with heat index didn't reach over 100 degrees. The sun was behind the clouds most of the morning, the humidity was low, and there was a nice breeze. All the perfect ingredients for peach picking. So Tiffany and I strapped on our boots, jumped in the truck and headed into the orchard to start picking for today's farmers market. We picked for about 3 hours, and had the entire truck bed and backseat filled with peaches, and it was time to head back to the house. So we got in the truck, and I turned the key, but nothing happened. The battery had died. So we grabbed the cellphone, and called Rosi, but the call was dropped (There really isn't good cell service out here). We tried again, 6 more times, and finally got thru. We told her what was up, and she said she would send Luke out to jump the truck. So while we waited, Tiff and I explored the the creek that ran along the back side of the orchard, nothing but rocks. It looked as tho water had roared thru here a long time ago, but not anymore, It was kind of sad to see... Luke showed up in the car, and got the truck started, so we followed him out of the orchard in the car. We got back to the house, unloaded the peaches, than relaxed a bit before feeding and watering all the animals.

The highlight of the week occurred a couple days ago. A film crew from a television show called "Bluegrass & Backwoods" came to the farm to interview The Lovelle's and shoot footage for their upcoming season. All that morning we we're running around the farm preparing for their arrival. Getting the grounds cleaned up and the store organized, getting the lawn mowed, cleaning the porch, and making sure the store was fully stocked with peaches. Just as Tiffany and I were putting the last peaches on the shelves, They were pulling into the driveway out front. So Tiffany and I bolted upstairs to shower and change out of our sweaty clothes. Once we were clean and dressed we ran downstairs as fast as we could only to find out we had to go and change back into our picking clothes because the film crew wanted us to pick peaches on camera. So we ran back upstairs and changed once again. After that we all proceeded to pile into the truck and Rosi drove us out into the orchard, and the team followed. Then we all picked a few boxes on camera while we talked amongst ourselves. While picking, the host of the show interviewed Tiffany and I about woofing and our travels. After the picking was thru, we changed out of our sweaty clothes again and I showed the film crew around the property. Showing off everything from the Baby ducks and the baby pigs, to the baby bunnies and the baby kittens. Then once Luke got home from work, it was time for the important interview. Luke and Rosi looked so nervous at first, but after the first couple of questions, they both warmed up to the idea of being on camera. After the main interview, the crew left and everyone could relax. Everyone except for Luke, who doesn't know the meaning of the word relax, he immediately found something that needed to be done, and started working on it. The whole day was alot of fun and now we're all ancy to see the show once it airs. Apparently it will air sometime next spring on 2 networks in Kentucky, and even a few in Europe. Don't worry, we will post the video to our blog, as soon as we get our hands on it.

Sunday morning Tiff and I had the opportunity to go to the Bravard's and help bottle more wine. We jumped on the chance, and spent all morning bottling wine. The first half of the morning went smoothly, but once we hit the third kind of wine the "Lady Genvieve", Things started going wrong. First off Jim forgot to clean the remnants of red wine out of the reservoir tank before pumping white wine thru it, So by the time the wine reached the bottler, it was a dark amber color. We tried to fix the problem by dumping the discolored wine back into the main white wine tank, but we didn't want to do that too much or else the whole batch would be ruined. So we attempted to bottle some of the wine into personal bottles, and that got rid of much of the tainted wine. But as soon as we started bottling the wine to sell we managed to reach yet another snag in the line. Within less than a minute of pumping the wine thru, the filter clogged. Jim cleaned the filter and turned the pump back on only to see the gauge shoot back up to maximum capacity within less than a minute. So Jim made the executive decision to call it quits for the day and send us on our way, but not without first paying us for our time and giving us a couple complimentary bottles of wine. The Bravard's are such nice people, and Tiff and I both love going out there to help them out.

As soon as we arrived back at the farm, everyone was in panic mode. There were no peaches picked for the store, Rosi and Luke had just gotten home from church, and there were cars lined up outside the store waiting for peaches. We pulled in, loaded the car with boxes, and pulled out again to pick. Filling two boxes, driving back to the store, delivering the peaches, driving back out, picking three more boxes, driving back and delivering, than driving back out to pick again. It went on like this for about an hour, until we pleased every last customer and the store was stocked again. It's work like this that really makes you appreciate a good nights rest come nightfall. Thankfully, peach season is almost at an end, and we'll probably run out of peaches by the end of the week. It's been a whole lot of fun, but it will be a nice change of pace to work on projects that arnt just picking peaches.