Summer is here

Summer has arrived in Southern California, and we celebrated it with, what else, a Biergarten Party.
I spent the last few days getting things ready while staying at Michal's, and yesterday, we had about 50 people over in the afternoon. We saw some new neighbors and friends of friends.
Everyone had a great time, at least the people we talked to, and the kids had fun when we took them over to Chicken-house to see the chickens and the goats. Of course, now some of the parents are in trouble.  There children now want a goat, too.
As always, there was a great variety of food and drink; everyone contributed something, and in the end, we were left with some very nice half bottles of wine, thanks to whomever.

The garden is ready.  Patricia planted the flower-boxes, and they look great.

Ready for business; just waiting for our friends to fill up the tables.

Michal is staring to grill the sausages.

Natalie's family brought the biggest Pizza ever. It hardly fit through the
gate, and we needed to bring out a special Pizza table.

One of the highlights was chasing the chickens at Natalie's.

And then there was the spectator lineup.

Meanwhile, back at the farm, everyone is enjoying themselves 

We are all very excited; Aariel is in her fourth month, and it's going to be a boy.

Here's Patricia getting ready to be Oma with Danny.

Here is Jessica teaching Jack and Jaiden to hold
onto the goat.

Sparta is loving her goat.

Then there is the Goat pulling contest

All in all, another great party.  Hope to see you in a month or so at the next Biergarten Party.

Eddie is not ready to go home jet.

One little job at a time

Patricia and I have been busy doing our thing around Ryan and Aariel's place for the last week.
On Monday, I got to spend a little time with Michal, burning some Sugar-pine cones we had collected at Anza.

Sitting there in front of the fire with a glass of Port.

In the meantime, Patricia is building an above-ground garden, well above,

with a little help from Aariel. On the right, you can see a bit of Ryan supervising.

And it's done, just the right height for the veggies.

It's now time for planting

with Aariel inspecting.  She's not supposed to have her pregnant hands in the dirt!

Here I am walking Sasha and Banjo.

One of my job's has been to paint the garage floor.

First everything had to come out of the garage,

so I could paint it

and put it all back again. Here's the finished product.

Patricia and I are still looking for a place to live, an actual settle in place.