July Harvesting

The dill is 4 feet tall and fully crowned in seed heads for pickle making.

Tiny pots of zinnia are blooming

The thornless blackberries are full. I pick about a quart a day. I fight the junebugs with a spray bottle of dish soap and water.

After too much rain we now have a 2 month drought here in the Ozarks. But I still water                                  and get some tomato each day. We have well water and so far, so good.

We are staying home since this virus began back in February- no church, no out to eat, no nothing.  We use and app to order Walmart groceries curbside pick up. We make a list of what we need, they have it waiting at a certain time, they load it and no money is exchanged. When we get home, we clean everything and out stuff away. We do no other shopping, straight home. Mask on and hand sanitizer following.

The virus is now hitting every state hard including the Ozarks. The death count is climbing and starting to hit home. When you have a town population of 500 and only 2 people wear a mask, you can see how this will play out. They think they are immune to the big city problems out here. But with summer travel, summer visitors, aged population and lack of social distancing things are getting real here. They are so in denial and wanting things to get back to normal out here as in the rest of the USA. The only normal has been the seasons and nature. Our town is 40 min. away from a hospital that has only 20 beds and no on site doctor. The big hospital is almost full and it is 2 hours away.

But the Ozark spirit will hopefully push us through this pandemic. At least we have a farm, food to grow and eat and that is all we need.

I am busy finishing up a quilt project and sewing masks as needed. No one wants a mask to wear here so I do not bother making any until asked. But I have made some very special ones that are machine washable for friends having to go through chemo. It is pretty sad how resistant everyone is all over the USA about mask wearing. Like a bunch of spoiled children. This pandemic has shown the world just how dumb our country is right now. But I can't worry about how the world see us. I can only deal with my world, Ruthlynn's World for the time being.