Animals
But there is always room to love a soul who needs it.
And a Newfie?...returns that love 100 fold!
- Sunday Funday
(I stole the title of today's post from my son and daughter-in-law... it's what they call Sundays at their house, and it seemed fitting!) As predicted, it was a quiet, but lovely weekend on the farm.Aside from a couple of errands run on Saturday,...
- Praying For A Happy Ending
There is nothing I would like more in the worldthan to be able to tell you a joyful tale of a puppy rescued andthe family that lived happily ever after. Actually, before yesterday, that tale was true.What I have come to realize is that our dog family...
- Autumn Gardening
Amazingly, it is mid October and soon the end of this year's gardening season.You wouldn't guess that, though, if you looked at my garden.So much of it is still going strong. The garden fences are totally covered in flowering vines and gourds...just...
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...
Animals
A Rosie Day in the Garden
Thanks so much for weighing in yesterday on our
potential adoption of Rosie the Newfie!
I could have predicted what your response would be.
While it is true that I am very busy and
life is very full.. it is full of the things that I love the most.
life is very full.. it is full of the things that I love the most.
But there is always room to love a soul who needs it.
And a Newfie?...returns that love 100 fold!
And so, dear Rosie is coming for a farm visit on Thursday night.
She will meet the family and we will see how we all get along.
At that point we will make a decision.
My guess is that all will be fine.
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| enjoying the air conditioning in my foster home |
So, enough of that!
I wanted to show you a couple of lovely things in the garden.
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| Orange Coneflower |
This box is new this year...and holds beans of all sorts...
green beans, lima beans, Christmas limas (dry bean) and this
incredible Chinese Red Noodle bean...
It is a green bean variety...red on the outside, green on the inside.
Outside the garden, hanging in the green bean vines...
Hubbs' old work boot (the other is planted) repurposed as a birdhouse.
I took a lot of time last summer planting perennials around the border of the garden.
This summer they are lush and lovely...
a wallpaper of sorts for this outdoor room I call my garden.
And then on the lower corner of the garden...
the biggest grapevine ever!
Believe it or not...that huge mass of grapevines that spreads in either direction
from the corner... is just one single grapevine.
This single grapevine will supply us with grape jam and grape juice to last
through the winter.
Amazing!!!
We try not to waste anything on the farm...
especially our produce.
Even lettuce that has bolted finds a welcomed place with the pigs...
To that, Ginger and MaryAnn say... "Lettuce Eat!"
- Sunday Funday
(I stole the title of today's post from my son and daughter-in-law... it's what they call Sundays at their house, and it seemed fitting!) As predicted, it was a quiet, but lovely weekend on the farm.Aside from a couple of errands run on Saturday,...
- Praying For A Happy Ending
There is nothing I would like more in the worldthan to be able to tell you a joyful tale of a puppy rescued andthe family that lived happily ever after. Actually, before yesterday, that tale was true.What I have come to realize is that our dog family...
- Autumn Gardening
Amazingly, it is mid October and soon the end of this year's gardening season.You wouldn't guess that, though, if you looked at my garden.So much of it is still going strong. The garden fences are totally covered in flowering vines and gourds...just...
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...
- Garden Explosion!!
It seems like just yesterday, I was planting seeds in tiny pots in the greenhouse. Now, months later, cold weather is just a memory and the dog days of August are upon us, and those tiny seedlings are mature plants bursting with produce. Thirty tomato...