Today after harvesting in the morning for Bon Appetit, we worked on our market signs and display. The ladies loved that we were home, since we let them roam when we are. They are constantly exploring, taking dust baths, finding new perches and hiding spots, herding each other around to new foraging areas. The Australorps (vultures...) are officially iridescent green sheen over their black feathers today and yesterday was the official pullet puberty voice change to early cluck speak versus bird singing. And their feathers are all so soft. Big personalities and only about 3 months old.
Much sign painting, fabric and wood activity occurring. Also we sold our first peppers of the season! And finally unleashed our Papalo herb out into the world. It was our best harvest yet. The only slow veggie is the eggplant, high demand, plants look great, but the fruits just maintained status quo this week. It's been cool and cloudy with some rain and they are not putting out until there is some more HEAT, but they are so pretty and the eggplant we've eaten so far is sooooo good, we've put it in everything from burritos to eggs. Dusky and Oriental Express. Excellent.
Our earliest pepper is the Islander in it's meaty deep purple state. Jalapenos are hot and the Hungarian Hot Wax are pretty, yet mild.Here's a new drawing Neil just finished for a show he's in with Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA.
We're also sending off a piece we made together - the horse and fish over there on the right of this blog - to a show at UWM, where we met back in the day... titling it 'Hollywood Hills' after the place we made it while doing a bizarre art residency, which we'll have to write about someday.
