My tomatoes are really rolling in now, so it was time for my first BLT of the year. Local bacon and some great bread with lettuce from the garden.


And almost finished with the first chair I've ever made. It is an exact copy of a 60 year old chair that finally lost the battle of wood boring insects that invade every piece of wood furniture in France.



All hand cut mortise and tenon built from a slab of chestnut that was cut at my neighbors place about 5 years ago.

And my horse makes sure I get everything square.


Pete

Always enjoy your pictures Pete,

Thank you.

very nice Pete

looks great

Thanks for the pics.

Nice.

I always like the picture of the landscape you put on here, where is that you actually live? Lol not your addres
But a town a person could visit with a rented car to see the areas you post?

Nice do you know the breed of swine that came from I know large blacks are big in France but not sure what other breeds are big there?

NE Wildlife.... I live in the very southwest corner of France in the Basque country. A village close to the farm is Saint Etienne de Baigorry. If you Google it you'll see lots of pictures of the area. It really is beautiful and the ocean isn't very far away.


Bob Iowa, the big breed around us is called a Basque pig, (porc Basque), they are a white and black pig with long ears that eat acorns and chestnuts 3 months out of the year. Lots of my neighbors raise them. The hams are excellent and the other cuts of pork are great but a bit too much fat for my taste. The bacon in my BLT was from a white pig I'm sure, but it was darn good.


Pete

Thanks,Pete. I have heard about the Basques.

Nice shots, Pete ...I like how your window opens to allow your friend to have a visit and maybe a treat from the garden

Sharon....

Thankfully the fence has kept her and the donkeys and goats from getting into the garden. I used to grow sweet corn and sunflowers along the edges but they all got nipped off. I swear that the greens of leeks and onions are the favorite thing for them


Pete

Oh Im sure they would love to have a grand party in such a garden !

What I meant, was that you reaching out the window and handing out a treat would be accepted readily , too. Sorry, I didn't clarify that accurately .

They are the most spoiled animals in the valley. That's certain. Thanks mostly to my wife.

Pete

Well Pete, thats a good thing, in that when you want them to listen to you and cooperate pronto, they will. They can be caught up, injuries treated , or located and loaded into a trailer easily .

All the ones in my care, owned by me, or not, would come running to greet me, as soon as they saw me in the field. My chooks included, especially them !

As for the chickens I got sick of feeding the foxes about two months ago, so I gave my remaining hens to a neighbor. She is generous giving us eggs. I miss having them but hated losing them to the foxes during the day. If I had to keep them in the coop every day, I'd just buy my eggs.



Pete

Great pictures as always Pete! No offence intended but that horse looks like it has clandestine intentions.
I do not trust horses. lol

Zim

We used to get pigs that looked like that when we would breed large white sows to hampshipe boars, never realized that there was a breed that looked like that, now I can say I learned something today.