All the mulberries are coming on nicely, just this week we've noticed some nice purple edible ones on the trees near the driveway, but now they're literally everywhere. The Hawaiian Mulberries are coming on a little later than the rest, but the few I have seen ripe I ate immediately, and the taste is sweeter than that of the regular ones.

Aside from that, everything else is coming on nicely.

We've been taking it kind of easy this past week. Ben has been in New Mexico for four days, and Nick's main work has consisted of the irrigation, which we've been getting more water since the Sand Factory near our property is suffering due to the economy, and they have the largest water share in the Valley. So, when they have excess water its basically a "free for all", as to who gets to use it, but we're pretty on top of things and get first dibs until there is a published and followed water schedule. Everyone in the valley, depending on how many shares of water they have, gets an allotted amount of time to irrigate their yard, farm, or whatever.

Aside from that we've done odd jobs around the place. Spread some mulch in some places, took out some invasive willow trees, and miscellaneous other things. We still have some work to do this week, but its nothing too bad.

I've been doing soil samples here, trying to find an area of the property that has decent clay content in it to mold some adobe bricks to make a walkway through the garden with, but have had no luck. The soil, at least in the areas I've done samples, is about 85%+ sand. Looking for about 70% sand to 30% clay. So in the mean time, i'll work on making forms and making an area that bricks can cure in the sun.

Went to the fair last night, snapped a few photos.