Date Night, Farmer's Market, Sewing, deer

Last night (Friday) was date night for Debby and me, we had a baby sitter for the pods and went out and had a very enjoyable dinner. It was nice for just the two of us to go out for a change.

On Saturday mornings there is a farmer's market just down the road at Riverside park in Harriman. We all went and Debby bought some fresh produce, the kids had a good time at the playground. There was live music in the park. One vendor had local honey and he gave the kids flavored honey filled straws which they enjoyed.

Debby went to Gina's today for her monthly sewing class, it was awesome! They introduced the new Bernina 830 sewing machine. We'll just add that to the Debby wish list.

On the way back from her sewing class Debby stopped at the farmer's market near Farragut. Debby learned about heirloom tomatoes and they had free range lamb, chicken, eggs, beef, etc. Debby bought some light blue eggs laid by free range arucana (sp?) chickens.

The weather is beautiful, sunny, clear, 54 degrees at the house this morning. The sky was gorgeous last night.

The pigeons got a bath this morning. I'm planning to do some work on the pigeon lofts, I've got to get the young bird team ready for training and the fall young bird races. I noticed one of the young birds was missing some feathers and had a wound on his chest, perhaps he flew into a wire or something. I had this happen to one pigeon last year.

This morning I saw a Momma deer with her baby at the edge of the woods and the pasture. I have seen them a few times before, I plan to put out another salt/mineral lick and perhaps some corn for the deer.

Puppy runs off most of the deer, we would like to change this as we enjoy seeing the deer. Hopefully we will make some progress in this area, but it's a difficult task since puppy is definitely part hunting dog. We have a shock collar but it only works out to about 75 yards, we need to get one with more range.

Sadness, three out of our seven tadpoles have died. These are the tadpoles that came from uncle Paul's farm, they are supposed to be tree frogs. The tadpoles have been transferred to a new aquarium home.