Interesting Discovery

Well when you are trying to build and expand on your homestead you are bound to have to step back sometimes and do some repairs and maintenance too. I spend the last weekend doing a complete upgrade to our home heating system (whole separate post there!) but needless to say at some point during the process I had to walk back past the garden to empty ashes from the furnace. Well what do you think I expect to find when I get down there.....

 

It appears as though something decided that all the hard work I did to make a gate for the garden wasn't worth trying. Something flattened one side of my fence and must have wandered around the garden...although I saw no damage to any of my vegetables. My only guess is that a nice Pennsylvania black bear decided to come through and take a look. This wasn't his first message. He also once bent the aluminum pipe that holds up my bird feeder to get a suit block and ripped apart the cage it was held in.

On a good note I went back down to the garden today and bent the stake and fence back up and did some harvesting. I got 4lbs of Roma tomatoes off that I will add to the collection that will become sauce later this fall. I also peaked at a few cucumbers that are getting ready to go that I might be making ANOTHER round of pickles this weekend. I'm hoping the others batches turned out ok before I keep making more and more!
 

Once I get a few pictures taken I will give an overview of the furnace upgrade and I"m sure I'll have some more stories by then. If you're near NEPA like I am enjoy the beautiful cool weather!!