Galloway Farm

I nearly walked past this cool Phasmatodea aka walking stick today.  They are super still and fun to watch just because they look so interesting.  Walking sticks also have cool cousins, the walking leaf insect.

  A quick video of Flower, Sister, Puff & Pearl taking it easy in the shade on a hot day.  You have to admit that being able to scratch your ear with your foot is a pretty cool talent.

No, this isn’t someone’s hairy arm…it’s one of several creepy piles of Granddaddy Longlegged spiders (aka Harvestmen) on my shed.  Not sure what’s going on here and pretty sure I don’t want to.

A few minutes aboard the John Deere bush hogging the goat/sheep pen and suddenly I’m farming a thousand acres…

Ray Sadler, a local photographer & friend of mine, spent the day capturing some great shots!  You can catch the full slideshow here or the individual shots here.

These giant grasshoppers are everywhere right now.  We tried to catch one and it flew through the air at least 25 feet!

 

Only guys would build a huge fire in 100+ degree TN heat.  A few dads and the kids had some time to kill and one spark is all it took to light this brush pile.  These flames are actually close to 15 ft in the air.  For reference, the box like structure in the left side of the fire is a six-foot tall storage cabinet.  The entire pile burned to ashes in about ten minutes or less.

For the second year in a row, we’ve lost our peaches to disease and bugs.  We sprayed them once with a name brand fruit tree spray; but we’re going to have to find a more effective treatment if we want to enjoy our own summertime peaches…

We recently added two night lights in the kids’ area for nighttime fun.