Animals
- What's Growing On
I want to thank all of you for your concern over the Edith situation.Order is restored and the threesome are back to their usual routine... following me around the farm. This stretch of hot and sunny weather following a very wet spring hashelped the...
- Working On The "long" List
After what seems like weeks and weeks of weeding,the strawberry patch make-over is almost complete. Just a bit of mulching to be done today...and then I can sit back and wait for the berries. Hubbs was determined to make my strawberry patch as low...
- It's Strawberry Picking Time!
Oh, how I would love it if you could reach through your computer and help me pick strawberries! We have thousand and thousands ready for picking. I picked for a short while and before I knew it had 12 quarts filled...and never made a dent in the patch....
- Minerva, Master-weeder
Amazingly, since Minerva has taken up residence in the garden, it is virtually weed free (we won't mention that I spent the entire past week on my hands and knees). Regardless, the garden is the best it has ever looked at this point of the season....
- Winter Warmth
Today was a day of preparing for winter. Our little guest house has been insulated and today new energy efficient windows were installed. The cutest little wood stove was installed today as well. Looks like we will be toasty warm when the snow flies!...
Animals
Help Wanted
Wanted: Gardeners, Planters, Weeders
to replace present work force.
Salary - none.
Benefits - many!
Must be willing to start immediately.
If you thought Phyllis looked bad yesterday,
you should see what I look like today!
Here is the best part of me....
the rest, I just cannot show you.
I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the strawberry patch.
Half of the patch is still buried beneath its winter blanket of straw
and many many weeds.
While the other half is weeded and transplanted...
ready for the warmth of the sun.
Tiny plants like this will grow and flower over the next two months
and then burst forth with fruit in June.
I have been working like a "dog", on hands and knees.
As for my help, and why I am placing the above ad...
Well, here they are....
sleeping on the job.
Hickory is the only one enthusiastic about the work,
but at 16, her pace is a bit slow.
So I ask you...
where does the phrase "working like a dog" come from?
Because, if you ask me....
it's more like napping!
Speaking of "hard at work"....
Here's Hubbs on the backhoe, cleaning up some shale that washed into the pond.
I'd say he's in his element...
a big boy with a big toy!
- What's Growing On
I want to thank all of you for your concern over the Edith situation.Order is restored and the threesome are back to their usual routine... following me around the farm. This stretch of hot and sunny weather following a very wet spring hashelped the...
- Working On The "long" List
After what seems like weeks and weeks of weeding,the strawberry patch make-over is almost complete. Just a bit of mulching to be done today...and then I can sit back and wait for the berries. Hubbs was determined to make my strawberry patch as low...
- It's Strawberry Picking Time!
Oh, how I would love it if you could reach through your computer and help me pick strawberries! We have thousand and thousands ready for picking. I picked for a short while and before I knew it had 12 quarts filled...and never made a dent in the patch....
- Minerva, Master-weeder
Amazingly, since Minerva has taken up residence in the garden, it is virtually weed free (we won't mention that I spent the entire past week on my hands and knees). Regardless, the garden is the best it has ever looked at this point of the season....
- Winter Warmth
Today was a day of preparing for winter. Our little guest house has been insulated and today new energy efficient windows were installed. The cutest little wood stove was installed today as well. Looks like we will be toasty warm when the snow flies!...