Happy 4th of July! I keep saying this but a LOT has happened. The old farm just 'ain't' what it used to be...

The boys brought more toys and then played in the mud...and when they were all done, we had a floor!

And then there were posts...pictured is the very first post, set after a lot of discussion, measuring, sawing, and looking through that little view finder thingy. (This is why they do not let girls play...)

And this is what it looked like after the very first day of setting posts!

And while all of that was happening, the bulldozer came back and made us a pond...or at least, the start of the pond. The plan is to catch rain-water off of the roof and flow it to the pond where it will be used to water the gardens.

And lastly, our shed, whose door never got put on last winter, became the birthplace of 4 little swallow babies...who, as you can see below, are just about ready to leave the nest. And before I left on Monday, did just that. Now we are re-considering putting on the door...it seems that swallow babies come back to the site of their birth-nests...and build their own nests. We like the little swallow babies so much, we might not be able to put the door on.