How Does Moopa and Mooma's Garden Grow?

After leaving Ohio, we traveled to South Carolina to visit Himself's college roommate and family. Twenty years ago we made the trip when the girlies were little. Since then, Moopa and Mooma built a beautiful log house on 10 acres where they have a small farm.

We know we are close when we see the water tower that looks like a peach though up close it looks more like a butt.

Everywhere we traveled in South Carolina we could see these trees with pretty pink flowers. Mooma and Moopa had one. Tree is a Pink Myrtle

Some Brown-Eyed Susans and Zinnia (I think)

The porch swing

The Cement Pond

More flowers

Rose of Sharon (I think)

Mooma's chickens. The two in the foreground lay colored eggs and the stripey chickens lay regular eggs.  The hens weren't mature enough to begin laying eggs. To help them learn sitting technique, golf balls are in their nesting area.

Mooma let me feed the chickens sunflower seeds from my hand. The brown and white hen was very gentle with her pecking. The stripey ones, not so much. The chickens have names. One was Hei Hei from the Disney movie, Moana. I don't remember the names of the others.

Sadly, a week or so after we left, Moopa told us two of the chickens were lost to a ground predator. (fox or coyote)

Moopa had grabbed a bucket of cow chow and a broom handle to bang on the bucket. He banged the bucket and called, "Shook, Shook, Shook" and the cows came running.

The cows are how Mooma got her nickname. Mooma and Moopa's daughter had her own daughter. Moopa thought Mooma needed a hipper name then Grandma or Nana. A friend of Mooma's started calling her Mooma around the baby. When the baby began to talk, she called her grandma Mooma. 

Now, I don't think Moopa is too thrilled when I call him Moopa. I just think they should be a matched set. The granddaughter calls him Papa. She's 3 years old now so the entire time I was with her, I got her to call him Moopa. The nickname didn't stick, but I still call him Moopa.

The Black Angus cows have names, too. I think this is Thelma with her daughter Louise. Named because they manage to run away on adventures.

Are you looking at me?

Yum

Running for treats.

This is Moose. He's Daisy's seeing eye dog.

View of the Blue Mountains. I think there are some wild turkeys running through the field.

Some of the bounty from the garden.

Guinea hens

This old gal is Daisy. She's deaf and blind, but Moose helps her get into trouble and get where she needs to go.

How does your garden grow?