I got to the first brewery to find 4 barrels full and a tiny bit in the other.

Knowing I had more grain to load at the other brewery I tried to pile the 4 barrels in far to the front to try to leave room.

I rather like the grain runs this time of year, the dark feels better to be shoveling in than the bright summer mornings.

Tried to get a shot of the pavilion roof as I drove by.

Got the second brewery and had to make some decisions on loading.

Given this was the space available for me to load the 4 barrels to...

I got 3 barrels crammed onto the trailer with a healthy amount of slop over. I used the ramp to get the lightest of the barrels into the bed of the truck then up ended it after I closed the tail gate.

One MASSIVE load of grain that was an excellent 2nd test of my truck.

Fucking gas prices at $4.17/gal!

As I headed home the sunrise was beginning.

Just past Cat Tails the open field had a killer layer of mist shrouding it.

Then the corner by Woolard Mt Spokane was visible.

Then the best view of the mist and sunrise.

The burn scar had a nice layer in it as well.

I got home, got my post done, got the boys to school, then went out to harvest in the garden. I'm nearing just pulling the squash plants now as production has tanked.

I opened the coop door to weigh the squash and as the door opened my barn spider snagged a bug that I flushed. I saw a little bit of movement as she grabbed it then hunkered down to inject it.

She really is a badass! I'd love to find a way to keep her alive over winter if possible but it gets well below freezing in the barn. I would have to bring her in the house our the studio but the food supply is not the best over winter.

I was picking in the greenhouse and pulled this lipstick pepper off the plant and saw THIS!!!! WHAT IN THE LIVING HELL?!?!?

I'm pretty sure somehow the pepper grew to the stem of the plant because it pulled off with a bit of a pop.

Just incredibly odd looking!

Moderate amount in the basket for the day.

Once the harvest was done I went to unload the grain. The sheep and alpaca were quite pushy about getting their snouts buried in the grain.

One hell of a lot of shoveling...

I managed to get the trailer emptied to various spots around the pen, tipped the bed liner, then had the last bits in the truck bed to remove.

The bad part is the pen becomes a marsh in winter when it isn't frozen...

Sprayed the truck bed out good which needed to be cleaned anyway.

Anyone need any belladonna for anything? It grows wild all around the farm. Now is the time when the berries are ripe if anyone needs I can gather.

Spent some time in the gear shed piling rack and ropes into the haul bag for after my SIV. Art and I will have a few days in Blogget canyon so want to make the most of it.

The elderberries are looking pretty dank right now with their full ripeness.

AS are the chokecherries.

@stryeyz co-worker asked about corn stalks so I popped the few out of the garden that I have for her.

The hay bales needed covering so after moving them farther down the pallets I slid the pallet covers over them. These bales are smaller than the prior so the covers fit a lot better. I put my shitty old tarp over to help keep the covers from getting too sun baked. This is the 4th or so year I have reused these and still have more than half the roll left I originally bought. VERY much getting money's worth out of the roll.

Our first session went pretty well despite my trepidations. Afterwards we headed to Panda to pickup dinner then bolted for home.

After a new episode of Futurama headed out to soak, which got interrupted by J's Minecraft fiasco after he fell for a honeypot... Trying to teach him NOT to fall for that shit but sometimes the hand has to touch the stove.

I just ordered a new sleeping bag as my old Mtn Hardware crazy legs bag is 30 years old and Klymit has their own version now!!! Super Stoked! Also got one of their sleeping pads though this trip I will be using my crash pads to sleep on.

Today I'll get the boys to school, go to PT, then to Napa for the exhaust gaskets, get harvest done, work on truck, then J has the next CC meet at his school so it will be a nice 7 minute drive there.

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