Fabulous Fourth

We hit the road to the black hills for the fourth.

Which face is the silliest?
We saw plenty of dinosaurs on the trip, with adventures at the dinosaur park in "Rabbit" City and then the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs.
But what Tess wanted to do the most is go swimming, so we had to stop at Evans Plunge and get our fill of the hotel pool.

Our garden is growing like mad. Unfortunately so are the weeds. I made blue-barb jam the other day with our rhubarb crop. We are currently eating lettuce and spinach. We also got 11 new hens. They are small and able to crawl right through my electric netting so we have been doing a lot of chicken wrangling and herding to try to keep them from being dog snacks. The bees are doing good and enjoying all the sweet clover that is around this time of year.