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Garden Gate:  OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2  |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
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USA
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 Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 06:56:58 AM
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Girl, you are just gonna have to put your big girl panties on and can those peaches!! (Want me to let you borrow Grandmother? Hee!hee!)
My tomatoes are ripening on the vine. I think this weather has really messed them up though because they aren't getting fully ripe before the skin is starting to shrivel around the stem. Kelly, I had so many big green tomatoes on the vine when we went on vacation, I picked the largest ones and spread them on the counter when we left. We were gone for a week and got home and only one on the counter had started turning and none in the garden had. I've been freezing them whole until I have enough to justify Grandmother making a trip up here. And I'm thinking I might get her to show me how to do pickled green tomatoes. YUM!
My squash is producing like crazy, too!! I have 4 plants and have a crisper full of squash that I'll freeze when I get around to it. I think I'm gonna slice them in lengths though. Maybe they'll last longer that way instead of slicing them in circles.
Well, Nikki, I told Brian about Lovin' Man's fattening field of corn and sorghum. Brian said to pass along that he'd be more than happy to help with the eradication of those pesky deer and birds. Then I told him what Lovin' Man said about him not being real and us your imaginary friends. He started laughing and said he thinks Lovin' Man is probably right. I said, "Well, how can he be right if he doesn't exist because if Nikki's imaginary, then he's imaginary, too." He said that a man who'd go to Selma to plant sorghum and corn for the purpose of hunting is definitely real because that's hard work. Then he walked off to "play" in his shop before I could argue further. Exasperating man!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
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Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 3:14:43 PM
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Hey ya'll. I'm back!! I have missed ya'll SO much. I think I had MJF withdrawals. It feels like I've been gone for years.
The Dell guy came Tuesday and put in a new mother board and fan. Turned it on and the screen went blank. So he said "well shoot, it's not the fan it's the screen." So he called and ordered a new screen and it came Wed. I hooked it up and it worked fine and stayed on and looked really nice sitting here on my clean desk. But I could not connect to the net. Nuttin'. So I have been on the phone with Dell trying to figure it out. We did lots of stuff yesterday and the guy finally said I would have to download a file because the mother board the guy put in was too big. Not the right one. SO I went to the place I bought the computer from today and got a USB thing, came home and called Dell to help me install it. It would not work either. So she had me take the monitor apart and take the dial-up card out and put it back in right. It finally started dialing but never connected. So back on the phone with Windstream. We finally figured out the user name and password had been changed. So put that in right and here I am. But it's slower than Christmas now. But strange to have typed all this without it shutting off. Nice.
Now I am tired. I will check in later. All is well and glad to see everyone still here. Kelly, I hope you are better by now.
Oh, Nikki, I had to save that beautiful picture for my screen saver. That is awesome, girl! I would love an 8x10 of that. If you can make some I'll gladly buy one from you.
Kris
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KellyWall
True Blue Farmgirl
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Kelly
Apison
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Posted - Jul 03 2009 : 7:01:03 PM
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| Kris, I am finally well. Thanks for asking. Tonight I pick another 30 pickling cucumbers! I am soooo done with pickles, I am giving them all to my mom so she can make some. It is so amazing what is growing in my soil, not a drop of any kind of fertilizer, just a good mixture of dirt I guess, my dad cheated and used miracle grow and I produced much more produce! I am proud of my small garden. Just overwhelmed with the quanities! I guess you live and you learn, this is my first garden. I made a cucmber salad for the 4th, it is marinating in the fridge. I hope everyone likes it. Ya'll have a safe and happy 4th! |
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 05:17:31 AM
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Yay, Kris! So glad that you have got your computer up and running. I know how frustrating it is to have to rely on others to fix it. I have not clue about such things, so any problem with it seems insurmountable. Oh, I am glad that you like the photo! I will bring you a copy of it as a hostess gift when we come to visit you!
Kelly, so glad that you are feeling better. I am laughing at how your garden is outproducing your dad's. How awesome! You show him how to do it, girl!
Oh, Cherry, I know. I need to put some big girl panties on my shopping list. HA! I wish I could buy "nerve". Pickled green tomatoes! That sounds yummy. Have never had any!
Do you know what is funny about the farm? Lovin' Man has never hunted on it. He had a game camera and it took some photos of deer eating out there and we were looking forward to monitoring their growth, but someone trespassed and stole the camera to keep from being discovered and he hasn't tried to put up another one. I think he just likes riding the tractor. I think that is the only reason that he plants anything down there is so that he has an excuse to ride that thing. Ha!
Y'all have a great Fourth of July! I'm going to go play out in the sun all day long and stuff myself with bar-b-que and watermelon!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
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Posted - Jul 04 2009 : 1:26:41 PM
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It is just me here all by myself. I took Abby to the Nashville airport Thurs. to fly to Colorado Springs for our family reunion this weekend. She'll be back Tues. Heather and her hubby Jeff took Kansas to Madison, Ga. to stay with his parents so Heather could go with him in the big truck to Calif. They'll all be gone about a week. My hubby was supposed to be home this weekend but they kept him out. I think he;s in Arkansas waiting til Mon. for a load. So it's just me. I am having a very quiet day here by myself. It's really nice.
I am waiting on a guy to come get 3 of my goat kids this afternoon. He's getting the only 2 girls and a wether. He lives up the road from here at the foot of Lookout Mt. It's so beautiful there. They should be happy there, if no coyotes of cougars get them. And I think someone else will get one of the wethers soon, too. So that will leave me with 7 kids. I have got to get them moved up front so I can put the does out back again. Milk production is slacking off already.
I hope ya'll are having fun today. Can't wiat to hear what everyone did, especially Alee. Lucky girl!
Kris
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 05:52:47 AM
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Ya'll will never duess what I woke up to this morning. RAIN!!!! I was so happy to hear it. Just a light rain but it will be here all day I hope. I can just hear all the plants and trees and grass slurping it up amd thanking God for sending it our way. Honestly, everything aroung this area was turning brown fast. I already can tell it's all going to be green again. Thank you, thank you, Lord, for sending this rain our way. We really did need it something awful. I talked to my sister in Col yesterday and she said it has rained there every day. She's so tired of always being wet. I told her if I could I'd trade in a minute.
I watered the poor droopy new squash and zuc and tomatoes last night. I had put newspaper mulch on about half the squash and zuc and they were the droopiest. I was going to take it all off but they all had perked up when the sun got off them. I watered them all really good and now all this rain!
I have one little almost ripe tomato on one of the plants. I keep forgeting to pick it. I wanted it to ripen good out there before I did. I got some from a friend the other day and have been having bacon and tomato sandwiches for breakfast. On sourdough bread. That is the best thing I ever ate. But I went to Aldi's yesterday to get more bacon and they were closed. I thought at first they had just shut down. But there is still stuff in the store. Must have just been for the 4th.
Kris
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KellyWall
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Kelly
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 08:33:55 AM
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| Kris, its raining here too! I was so happy to see it this morning, we really needed it, a nice slow soaker. I just finished freezing my squash, zuc, and green beans taking a rest before I start the peppers, I have never froze peppers, but read about doing it. I got the coolest ziplock freezer bagger, with the special bags and tool you can suck all the air out, much cheaper than an electric one! I think i paid 4.00 for it. It works so good, gets all the air out. We had a long day at the inlaws yesterday, cooked out, swam and shot fireworks with the kids, everyone loved my marinated cucumbers w/ tomatoea ans mozzerella! They were so fresh and yummy. |
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
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Posted - Jul 05 2009 : 10:51:16 AM
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Hello, girls! We've got rain, too, and I am sooo happy I didn't have to get out there and do my rain dance. I had just 'bout made up my mind that it was gonna come down to that, and Brian and La would have busted a gut laughing at me and that's something I'd just rather not deal with. But, God is good and took pity on all these little brown plants and grass!
Kris, I am so happy your 'puter is up and running and you're back with us. I did miss you! And I'm so happy for you about getting your goat kids sold! Slowly, but surely, huh? Did you enjoy your peaceful day yesterday? We spent the day at the lake with friends. Good food and good company! I stayed on shore all day, but Brian and La rode the waverunner and went out on the boat to tube. The kids made us laugh until our sides hurt out there on that tube! It's just wide enough for two people, but of course, they had to push the limits! Two of La's friend-boys laid on the tube while she tried to hang on by laying on top of them and holding on to their vests. Silly girl would get slung off every time! She doesn't weigh more than a minute. And we could hear her laughing uncontrollably each time they slung her off! Our big drama for the day was watching a waverunner on fire. Don't know who it belonged to or if anyone was hurt, but it was floating out from a pier and looked like a bonfire had been started on it. We also watched a fabulous fireworks show Friday night at one of the marina's. It was almost 30 minutes long, accompanied by music, and left us all oooohing and aaaahing. We were told that the lady who owned the marina spent $8000 dollars on those fireworks. I haven't decided if those 30 minutes were worth the $8000 price tag, but I sure did enjoy it!
Kelly, don't you just stand a bit straighter and smile a bit wider when people tell you how much they love your vegies from your own garden?! I took some of my squash and cooked it on the grill and some of my maters and received many compliments about them. My friend Allie was telling everyone and anyone that they came from my garden. Made all the sweat worth it!
I'm headed off to subdivision duty now. I don't know how much traffic there'll be, if any, with this wonderfully rainy day, but as sure as I don't go, there'll be potential buyers out or my broker will decided to ride around and check on us. I sure wish I could just stay here on the couch and watch a black and white or work on my cross-stitch. Brian and La have headed back to the lake and an afternoon to myself feels like a good thing! Oh, well.
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 05:05:01 AM
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Thank God for this rain! I hope that I will never complain about it again. Ha!
Kris, I hope next year you will be able to go to the family reunion! Glad that you sold some kids and it sounds like they are going to get to live in a beautiful place and have happy lives. Your breakfast sandwiches are making my mouth water. I may try to duplicate that, but I don't have any sourdough. Bummer.
Kelly, your marinated cucumber and tomatoes with mozzarella sounds so good! I need to get something to eat right now or I am going to start chewing on my tongue. Oh, y'all are making me so hungry!
Cherry, that sounds like so much fun. I'm so glad that La is having a fun summer! Strange about the waverunner on fire. Did you get a picture of it? That would be a cool photo, but poor people. You didn't see anyone on shore with a fallen countenance?
I'm in the middle of making bacon. My own countenance has fallen since I just discovered mold on the french bread that I was planning on using to make a sandwich. Oh, well.
Real quick, for the 4th we went to Spring Valley Beach in Blount County. They have the biggest pool that I have ever seen! We enjoyed it a lot.
Y'all have a great day!
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
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Posted - Jul 06 2009 : 07:11:48 AM
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Nikki, I don't know if you like grits, but I am having one of my favorite breakfasts this morning. II had some pigs butchered not long ago, so I have lots of sausage. I take grits, sausage, srambled eggs and ripe juice tomato and mix it all up and it's too good! You have got to use ripe juice tomatoes, too, or it's not as good. I love this. And my sourdough bread had a little mold on the top and I just cut it off. I don't know how bad that it to do, but the bread was still good. And I didn't get sick. I hate to waste things.
I just had to stop and go rustle up my cows from down the road. Darn. My neighbor just came and said they were both out . I know how, too. There is one spot where they could just walk right over and get out. I had put some cattle panel over it but that must not have worked. They walked right back in with me and now are in the yard eating apples. I need to call a friend and see if he'll come help me get it fixed. Oh well, another day in the life of a farmgirl.
And yesterday, as I was trying to scramble eggs for breakfast, I look out the door and there are some goats in the garden! So I took the pan off the stove and ran out to get them out. I thought they were back in but looked out as I was putting the pan back on the stove and there is another one out there. So out I go again. I just went ahead and put them all out back. By then I was shaking I was so hungry. And mad. Darn goats. So now they are back out with the kids. I am not needing milk right now anyway. There are about 8 gallons in the fridge and no one here but me right now.
Then we also had about 16 baby guineas hatch yesterday morning, too. And I lost one of the newer baby chicks. My first casualty. This morning it looks like there are still 7. And about 15 or so guinea babies.
And the guy is coming this afternoon to get the 3 kids!
It rained alot last night, so the gardens are looking pretty good now. I hope to be picking beans Tuesday night or Wed. morning to go to the FM. Lots of people needing beans.
Sounds like ya'll had a good weekend. I can't wait to hear from Alee.
Kris
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 05:40:19 AM
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Yum-eee, Kris! I love grits! You are making me so hungry! - Funny about you cutting the moldy part off and eating it anyway. I considered doing that myself!!! But I just settled for bacon and tomato slices. Was going to melt mozzarella over all of it, but what was the point with no bread? LOL!
You farm animal's antics are making me laugh. I can't wait to meet the gang. How fun that will be! I hope that you will give us a goat milking demonstration! But maybe we will be getting there too late for that.
I love guinea hens. I love their dotted feathers. So pretty. Once my dog went up to the neighbor's house and killed one of his guinea hens. He came trotting down the road with it in his mouth, so proud. Well, one wing was slung over his head, completely covering it and it gave me such a fright because from a distance it looked like he didn't have a head at all. I was just a kid, so the idea of a headless dog running down the road was not incomprehensible to me yet. Ha!
One of my big, big, big tomatoes is turning red! I am thrilled!
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cherry
Odenville
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USA
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Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 09:13:18 AM
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Nikki, my friend, Allie, did get a pic of the floating bonfire formerly knowns as a waverunner. (I need to get copies of all her pics!) In our little group, La saw it first 'cause she was out riding. She came back in and got her friend-boy, Lee, Allie's son. Then we all ran down to the point of the slew and could see it across the main channel. There were many spectators, both on the shore and in the water. Allie said something about the kids being out there without their license and the marine police coming, but I assured her they had more to deal with than checking every boat and waverunner out there watching.
I always think of Charlotte's Web when I'm around a bunch of farm animals. Wonder what your critters would say if they could talk, Kris? I bet they've got a look-out watching you and when you're distracted, they send out the call, "She's busy in that 'big barn', now's our chance for an adventure! Hurry before she sees us! Hurry!" There's a show that comes on Nickleodeon about Shaun the sheep and all the antics on this farm. I've watched it with my nieces and our friend's 3 yo son. It is so funny! The other farm animals are always getting into trouble and Shaun is always having to get them out. It's one of those kid shows that adults can appreciate. I bet most all farm animals are like that!
Nikki, that's hilarious about your dog! I'd have thought the same thing with my imagination!
Hurray for ripening vegies! I'm hoping that we got enough rain to last for a few day. It was kind of scarce up here compared to other areas. On my way home yesterday, there was a clear line across our road where the rain just stopped. Wet on one side and dusty on the other. Ugh!
So, let me tell ya'll about when Brian came home last night. It was around 7 and he calls my cell and says, "Bring the shotgun down here, I've got my eye on a snake." I told him ok and went and got the shotgun. La asked what was going on and I told her that her daddy wanted the shotgun to kill a snake and her eyes got real big and she said, "I'll drive!" So we get in the truck and head down the drive, not knowing exactly where Brian is. As you come in our drive-way, you make a turn and it dips down and then comes back up the hill. Where it dips down is a spring and we have two big pieces of tubing under the drive as a culvert. Brian was standing right there, looking off in the growth around one side of the drive. I took him the shotgun, but by now the snake had disappeard into the tubing. Brian was hellbent and determined to kill this snake! It was a good-sized rattler and the dogs like to go down there and play in that spring. It was really thick on both sides of the drive, but he got down there and poked around, trying to see if the snake came out on the other side. This went on for about 10 minutes until he decided to go get the tractor and bushhog around the tubing. So he passed the shotgun off to me, strapped on his Glock and got the tractor. He bushhogged as much as he could without getting the tractor stuck, then got down and poked around some more. He saw where there was space under the tubing and figured maybe the snake had went under the tubing instead of in the tubing. I had got him a rake, so he started banging on the pipe on one end with me on the other side, standing at the ready in case he drove the snake out. Ya'll we fooled with that stupid snake for over half an hour! We didn't see it again and Brian had bushhogged my favorite blackberry patch and I got "et" up by mosquitoes and no-see-ums! Stupid snake! You know it was probably long gone before he even brought the tractor down! But he was just like a little boy on his snake "hunt"! Geez, Louise!
~~Cherry~~
http://cherrymedarlin.blogspot.com
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
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Posted - Jul 07 2009 : 12:59:54 PM
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Wow! Ya'll sure had a time. Now I can just imagine that darn ole snake hiding somewhere close by laughing at ya'll trying to find him. At least ya'll gave it your best shot. I sure wish you had gotten it though. I hope like the snake in my chicken yard, it's long gone by now and never to be seen again.
I sure would like to see that show. It sounds just like my place.
Nikki, I hope you get that mater before the birds do!
Kris
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 03:53:24 AM
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Cherry, oh my gosh! I hope that y'all will find that snake or maybe y'all did totally run him off the place with all of the bush hogging and commotion. Scary!
Glad that your friend got photos of the burning waverunner. Did you spot anyone crying on the shore? That, I would presume, would have been the owners. Poor things. I bet they had some 'splaining to do!
Yeah, Kris, you are surrounded by rascals. They plot and plan when you have your back turned. It isn't fair. There are more of them than there are of you! But that is to their advantage. Strength in numbers, baby!
You know, that is so weird about the rain stopping short. I remember riding in the car as a kid and going through a bunch of fierce rain and then nothing. I would look through the back window and see that wall of water pouring down, seemingly sitting there in one place. I wonder if that sort of thing happens everywhere.
Oh, I didn't know that I was supposed to watch out for bird, too, with my tomatoes! I will go out directly and check on my babies! I am eating a handful of cherry tomatoes as I type. Yummy! I have two Mr. Stripey tomatoes that are beginning to turn and one big tomato (a hybrid that doesn't have a cutesy name so I have forgotten it). All the other ones are growing and growing but not turning red.
I hope y'alls gardens are being prolific! Isn't it wonderful!
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Alee
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 07:38:41 AM
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Hi Ladies!
I am home safe and sound from the farm fair. We drove all day on Thursday to get there- we were so tired by the time we got to the bed and breakfast. Then we slept in a bit on Friday and went to the reception on Friday night- though we got there a bit late due to some bad directions (my fault). Then we set up our stall on Saturday. On Sunday we were all so bushed from the past couple of days- we didn't do a whole lot and then the marathon drive back with a horse on Monday!
Alee
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
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Cherry
Odenville
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 4:36:16 PM
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Alee, you have gone non-stop for what? the past month and a half?! I hope you have a chance to recover now that FF is over and you have Tala home! How did you do at FF with your cutie-patootie dolls and doll clothes? I sooo wish I could have been there! Silly, I know, but I kept my latest issue of MJF mag with me all week-end to feel closer to all of you! It was like a security blanket!
I was laughing right along with that ol' snake, Kris! Brian just cracks me up! He was so focused on finding it. I understand that though. We think Emma, the big dog, might survive a rattle snake bite, but that little dog Harley probably wouldn't. And he's Brian's baby, although you'd never hear Brian admit that! I hope we did run him off. We just have too many critters up here and I don't want to deal with the heartbreak it'd cause us if one of them were bit. Now what's really funny is when we come across an armadillo!! That is a true family bonding moment! Did ya'll know they spring up in the air when you shoot them? Seriously, like they get 3 foot of air! Every time we swear we're gonna video it but we always get too excited to remember the camera
Nikki, we were so enthralled with the burning waverunner, we didn't even notice anyone crying on the shore. I know there wasn't anyone in the water around it. That was the first thing I thought of with La riding around on one. What if it caught on fire while she was out there in the middle of the lake?! Oh, the way a mama's mind works cause later I asked Brian if he'd thought that and he hadn't. It was so unexpected though!
We had two nice rain showers today. I picked about a dozen ripe tomatoes yesterday and 5 almost ripe's. I've been freezing them until Grandmother can break loose and come help me can. I stopped at William's Orchard Monday and bought a cup of Chilton county peaches. La's already ate about 4 of them! If we have another closing this week and I can get another check, I'm gonna try to go to Pepper Place Saturday morning. I'm hoping to get some more green beans to supplement the ones I have so I can freeze some. I'm feeling very much like a gardening failure with Brian giving me a hard time about my corn! Dratted corn! Dratted Brian! I'm still hoping it'll pull through. I'm so consumed with that corn, I've dreamed about it! I dreamed that the stalks were knee high, because I keep repeating to Brian "knee-high by the 4th of July" and mine is, but the ears were no bigger than my little finger and were clumped together like banana's on the tree! Ugh!
~~Cherry~~
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Alee
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 6:04:44 PM
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HI Cherry!
Your garden sounds great- even your corn! My garden is not looking so hot. I am hoping to put some good time in with it over the next few weeks. My yard, my house, my garden all need a lot of work.
Thanks for asking about farm fair, Cherry! I sold 2 of the 4 dolls and some soap, but I didn't do as well as I had hoped. Mom didn't do as well as she had hopped either. However I did well enough to cover my portion of the stall rent so that is great. It was a wonderful experience altogether. I sold a lot of my laundry soap.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 6:35:49 PM
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Oh my gosh, Cherry! My throat is raw from laughing about your armadillo shooting antics. I love it! I had to tell Lovin' Man what I was laughing at. I love how y'all get too excited to think about getting the camera! - Yes, I know. That is what I would have thought, "What if my child had been on that thing when it caught on fire?" Yet another danger to worry about because WOW that scenario never entered my mind! But I am certainly adding it to my repertoire of cautionary tales. I love sharing those things.
Alee, girl, you have got to be plum tuckered out! I hope that you will please take a little break before your tear into the garden and house! So glad that you had fun at the BBB! Did you see many FarmGirl Sisters? I am going to have to go hunting for some photos of the event! I bet that was a total blast to be at!
Hey, Cherry! I was thinking about going to Pepper Place this weekend! I don't know if I will be able to motivate Oakley to come with me. Maybe we could shop together. That would be so fun!
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - Jul 08 2009 : 7:44:01 PM
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Cherry, so glad you got more rain. When did you plant your corn? I have some ears on the Hickory King now. It is already taller than me. I am not trying to brag, but I planted it in April. I have got to weed out there. The pig weed is almost as tall as the corn in some places. I have discovered the goats like it. So I've been cutting it down and hauling it out to the goat yard. That way the seed can't sprout in the garden! It sure does hurt, though. I hate that stuff. It's pure wicked. Stickers all over it.
I just got done weeding some in the other garden tonight. Pig weed all over that one, also. Abby helped haul it out for me. The beet rows look nice and neat. The squash and zuc, too. I put newspaper around about half of them. Weeded around the tomatoes. They look awful. And most of the cabbage is going to seed now with all the heat. I guess I'll have to plant more in the fall if I want to make kraut.
This morning my mom helped pick beans. We got a small basket. I also picked a small basket of field peas. No wasps this morning! And got a few squash and zuc. So I took it all to a friend who wanted it and she bought it all. Not enuf to go to the market today. I am getting frustrated. The bean plants are full of flowers but no beans. Last year that's all I did was pick beans all summer. I have only had a few good pickings so far. Everyone's asking for beans and I only have a little now. Not very good for business. I hate to keep saying in a few weeks I should have some. This is just a strange year for me in the garden.
Cherry, there are lots of armidillos in S. Ga. too. I have never seen one shot, though. Only dead on the side of the road. Kind of like possums. I did see my hubby shoot a sick raccoon. That was not pretty.
Alee, you have been gone from home for awhile. I guess it's strange being there now. You'll be busy catching up. I'm glad you had a good time at the farm fair.
Kris
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - Jul 09 2009 : 12:02:38 PM
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The armadillos are something to be seen! Even La gets moving when we find one outside! There was one night around midnight when we heard banging around on the front porch, one was out there in the cat food. Brian hollared, "Armadillo!" and we all jumped into motion! La and I grabbed fashlights and turned on all flood lights, Brian grabbed the shotgun and out we went! The armadillo was running along the foundation of the house and Brian kept yelling at us to get it away from the house. Hello!! Disease-riddled, pre-historic looking, rotten-flesh smelling creature on the loose! We were doing everything we could to "herd" the stupid thing away from the house, but it just wasn't co-operating. I think we'd made about 3 laps around the house before Brian got the bright idea to get in it's path so it'd run away from the house. As soon as it took off across the yard to avoid him, Brian blasted it. It kept springing up in the air over and over and he couldn't get off another shot. He was just as funny as it was, trying to take aim, gun going up and down as he tried to get a bead on it. It would stop and we'd stand there, too afraid to get too close, asking each other if it was dead, and then it'd startle us and make US jump as it'd spring right back up again! La and I started singing that song "Jump Around" and doing our dying-armadillo-dance! Finally Brian was able to get in another shot and the nasty thing died. The next day I was telling my sister about it and Oh! My! Goodness!! She gave me up-the-river about killing one of God's creatures and enjoying it so much! She kept trying to make me feel guilty about it, and eventually I just had to tell her that from now on, we'd live-trap them and bring them to her house to turn loose in her yard and she could enjoy them tearing up her yard and the possibility of one of them biting one of her animals and giving it rabies or leprosy or some other disease! Ugh!
Kris, I planted my corn in mid-May. Brian thinks I didn't thin it soon enough. I think time will tell. Brian did listen to me about tilling some manure into my little garden spot. I suggested it to him after what you said about using it in your garden, Kris. So he's gonna get me some as soon as he finishes a few little side jobs he has going on right now. Yay! And I'm hoping he'll get me a little tiller for my birthday. Yay! (OR this beautiful old Corona typewriter I found at the flea market!)My beans aren't doing much of anything either. Remember way back when and we were loving all that rain (until we got sick of all that rain)! I think everything got thrown off kilter!
Nikki, I'll know tomorrow if I have the moola to go to PP! I'll let you know!
~~Cherry~~
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Posted - Jul 09 2009 : 2:59:37 PM
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Ok, I went to the garden to weed and I swear the seed companies put weed seeds in with the veggie seeds. Just about every single plant has a pig weed or morning glory or some type of weed growing bigger than the veggie plant. So nearly every time I try to get the evil weed I get a veggie plant, too. So there is no use doing it. ANd then I can stand out there whacking away at one of those prickly evil weeds and never hit the roote. What's up with that? They go to China, they're so deep. So I don't know if I did any good or not. Probably not. Because tomorrow all those big pig weeds I just cut down will have seeds that will have germinated and tripled all over the place. It's a never ending battle with those things.
I'm tired. I need a vacation, ya'll. Gardening is too much like work. But I need to fix dinner because my hubby's home.
Kris
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Posted - Jul 10 2009 : 06:32:59 AM
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Kris, LOL! You are so cute trying not to brag about your corn being over your head. Go ahead and crow! You deserve it! Brag whenever you can because, like in your next post, those weeds will come along and practically knock you down. But please don't be discouraged, you know that things will always end up working out. Sit back, drink some lemonade, regain your strength and then head back in for round two. You know that you love it!
Cherry, that armadillo killing circus that you just described is a scream. So funny! Yeah, I do recall hearing some tale about them carrying leprosy. Can I just say, "Super scary!" to that one? And some people actually eat those things. Not me. No way. I might try possum IF it had been penned and fed for several months on anything that was NOT carrion. Way back, a president visited Montgomery (can't remember which one) and THEY actually served possum for dinner. Now what I am not sure about is if they were trying to honor him by doing so or if they were really laughing behind his back while he scarfed it down and claimed that it was good. That part wasn't recorded for posterity. - I hope you get to go to Pepper Place. That would be lots of fun! I don't have much cash either since I am saving as much as I everly can for our trip to see my sister next week.
Alee, that is so cool that you got to see everybody! How very, very fun! Did you see MaryJane and Renee and Dawn?
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Posted - Jul 10 2009 : 8:45:34 PM
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I mowed down my little scrawny corn today. I need to til and plant some more. It was just to puny and yellow. At least my squash and zuc look good. And my 4 rows of beets. I keep them weeded. I also had some newspaper and got a bucket of water and soaked them and put them around some of my cucumbers. I need a whole lot more. I could use all the feed sacks, too. I have tons of those.
It's just been a boring day around here. My DD Heather and hubby should be getting in tonight or in the morning from Calif. She got to see my aunt in Stockton while they were there. It sure has been quiet around here with everyone gone. But the hubby got home Wed. and Abby got home reallt late Monday or Tuesday morning from Col. So we should have Kansas back by Sunday and back to normal. And we'll have the other 2 grand girls this weekend. I'm just rambling now. Sorry.
I hope everyone had a good Friday. Good night, ya'll.
Kris
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