| Author |
Garden Gate:  OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2  |
|
NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
473 Posts
473 Posts |
 Posted - May 01 2009 : 7:01:23 PM
|
LOL, about snails being cute!
No, that is not this year's prices. I don't know if they have changed. It sounds like the peaches will be ripe from mid-May to early August, different varieties are ripe at different times.
I want to learn how to can because I want to know what exactly we are eating and also you don't have to worry about the electricity going out when your food is put up in jars!
Yay! For the rain. I don't think that we have gotten any. Maybe tomorrow!
Farmgirl Sister #554 |
 |
|
|
Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
22944 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2009 : 8:44:28 PM
|
I can understand Snails being cute...but Slugs are gross! They give me the willies! In Wyoming were I grew up we only had snails about a quarter of an inch long- same with slugs. Then I moved to Idaho/Washington and I found a slug that was almost 4 inches long and about as wide. It was the most disgusting thing ever! Uuuugh...I get the full body shivers just thinking about it.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
www.awarmheart.com
www.farmgirlalee.blogspot.com
www.allergyjourneys.blogspot.com
Put your pin on the farmgirl map! www.farmgirlmap.blogspot.com |
|
|
|
Miss2Missus
True Blue Farmgirl
407 Posts
Karen
Asheville
NC
USA
407 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2009 : 8:59:17 PM
|
snails are pretty cute, but we had a scare here last summer about poisonous ones, i think apple snails but dont quote me on that one. i actually think the slugs are kinda cute myself. i just know the damage they do. :( but it was always fun to tap their little antennas and watch them suck them in.
i want to say you just poor the beer around or near what you want and the little slug lushes find and drink themselves to death before they get all puddly.
Karen ^_^
http://apple-and-eve.blogspot.com/ |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 01 2009 : 9:23:17 PM
|
Ya'll are crackin' me up about the snails/slugs!! If I were you, Nikki, I'd try the beer just to see how fast a drunk slug will slither! I can't really say that I've ever looked at a snail and thought Well, aren't you the cutest thing God ever plunked down on this great big ol' earth?!
Sorry, Kris. Couldn't help myself. Maybe snails in your neck of the woods don't look like our snails.  I remember the movie you're talking about and LOL! I loved the mailman! And I'm so jealous of your rain. Rained for a good part of the day about 20 miles north of me. We had just a few measly drops and some thunder. But it feels fantastic outside! At least we're getting the cooled air effect from it. Not nearly as muggy.
Alee's right, it is cool that we live so close to one another! Nikki, are you and I the only farmgirls in Bama? And about Homestead Hollow, I'll probably pass on it (although I'll regret it later 'cause I'll get impatient for October to get here!) I'm eat up with vet bills what with having to take that little dog (Harley) Wednesday to get the stick unstuck from his mouth and then that big dog (Emma) today for her annual and then little dog has to go back next Wednesday for his annual. He was supposed to get it today with Em, but has to wait 'cause he's on antibiotics. Soooo, all that to say I'm short-o-funds right now and I can not go without buying SOMEthing! Even if it's just food! I've been working with two different buyers lately who are dragging their feet about buying a house and they just do not understand that I have a habit to feed!
Oh, and the hubs has been a couple of times but gets aggravated at some of the prices of things that he knows how to make. Well, that and the blacksmithing demonstrator works with him and there's some weird man-hang-up thing about that I can't figure out.
I, too, want to can this year! And I'm very impressed with a feedstore having a kitchen full of stainless! Wow! I've always been the freezer type, but the freezer was given away during our D-I-V-O-R-C-E and the hubs won't buy another one until he gets the garage built. My grandmother's offered to come help me. And she's also offered to bring me veggies from my Uncle Virgil's BIG garden that I didn't plant in mine. Yay!
Lisa, I can't wait until I can begin harvesting from my garden like you are yours!! Makes my mouth water, too!
Oh! And I went up the road today to buy more honey and the gentleman said it was "gooseberry" honey. Well, he didn't slow down talking (had to show me his new calf) and I didn't think about it until I left if I misunderstood him. I've heard of gooseberries, but....??? Did I hear him right? Anyway, he doesn't have any hives on his property and doesn't tend the 100 or so that he and a friend have scattered from Moody to Ashville (about 15 miles apart), BUT, and this is the exciting part!! I told him I'm interested in learning beekeeping and he's going to talk to his friend and see if he wants to place some hives on my acreage and when he comes out to tend them, he can teach me! Isn't that exciting?! Well, he said that's if his friend has any extra queens. He said he sold out of them fast this year and nearly depleted his workers too much. (Oh! I hear the sweet sound of rain on the chimney!!!!) Anywho, I asked him why he thought so many people were taking an interest in beekeeping and he said that for most of them it's a novelty hobby, but there are a few who are generally concerned about their disappearance. I told him that that's the reason I want to do it, because I'd been reading everything I could about that and felt I could help in some small way. He said, "Little lady, I knew you's a good 'un!" Don't you just love sweet, old farmers?! (And now the rain's POUNDING the roof! Doin' my happy dance! Oh, yeah, doin' my happy dance!)
Good night, ladies! My heavenly Father's singing me a lullabye!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
473 Posts
473 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 05:46:50 AM
|
Oh, Cherry, I just love the way you express yourself! I laugh multiple times when I read your posts! I hope Baby Girl made it home safely and germ-free from the Crawfish Boil. Wonder if she liked LL Cool J? Talk about OLD school! Yay about getting to keep bees and learning from a pro. Your dreams are coming true! I didn't know that we had gooseberries around here. THAT sounds interesting. Have you tried the honey? Was it strikingly different? As far as I can tell, I think that we are the only Alabama girls, unless they are afraid to admit it 'cause we'll talk their ears off. Ha! Oh, yeah, if you are married for any real length of time you must admit that you have at come close to a D-I-V-O-R-C-E once or at least thought about it. Marriage....it's the toughest job you'll ever love or was that the Peace Corps?
About shopping for something. My brother and I laugh about how we feel rich when we shop at the thrift store because we can look out across that wide expanse of junk and afford to buy whatever we see!
Oh, Alee, yuck! Four inches long! I'm gagging and shivering at the thought of THAT!
Karen, "the little slug lushes find and drink themselves to death before they get all puddly". All puddly. Funny! I would go for the beer if it was my last option. Because, dang, if someone from Sunday school doesn't happen to get in line behind me when I am buying what looks like hooch for a party when it is all just innocently going to be used for cooking or killing, in this case. Then I feel like I have to explain and it just gets worse and worse.
Last summer I got a tiny bottle of brandy to make this spicy shrimp recipe while we were at the beach. Mom and I made a small batch because we didn't know how it would turn out and it was REALLY good. We made another batch and kept tasting it and saying that it needed more brandy. We ran out pretty quickly and raided the condo's liquor cabinet where each bottle had only a few tablespoons left in the bottom. So we began by saying, "Hmm, needs more brandy. Needs more vodka. Needs more rum. Needs more tequila." We stopped when it came down to the bourbon. Did NOT want to go there. All the while we are laughing and pouring and stirring and adding ingredients. Surely, the alcohol was cooked out of it by the time we tasted that "brandied" shrimp. I don't think that we were tipsy, but it sure was fun!
I checked my marigolds this morning. I can't tell if the Epsom salts and people hair did any deterring. I guess I will know by tomorrow when I go out there and they will either be stumps formerly known as plants or not.
Farmgirl Sister #554 |
|
|
|
NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
473 Posts
473 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 06:05:42 AM
|
Kris, I can't go by without commenting on the feed store that has a pimped out kitchen. Now that is not something that we see down here in Alabama! Sounds like they are way ahead of the curve when it comes to what the next big thing is going to be. They must have a one of those trend predictors on their team. My grandmother used to can and make jelly but I never appreciated it. I was like, "Oh, THAT'S homemade." Like it was inferior because it DIDN'T come from a store. The effect of advertising brainwashing.
Farmgirl Sister #554 |
|
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 07:29:58 AM
|
Nikki, that reminds me of my "liquer" story. I make my own vanilla using vodka and organic vanilla beens. Well, I needed to add more vodka and was out. So had to go to the liquer store for more. And sure enuf, there is someone I know from another church in there. Now what he was doing in there I don't know and didn't ask. So hurried up and went to the counter and explained to the guy what I was using the vodka for and he just goes yeah, ok. Like he didn't believe me. But it's true. It makes the best vanilla. And lasts forever, too.
This feed store was going down hill in business over the last few years so got a new manager, a woman, and she came up with all the new business ventures. It is so clean and very pretty in there now. Yep, put a woman in and look what she can get done!! In just a little short while that place has picked up and gotten people from miles around coming in. It really makes ya want to just go see what's going on in there. Really nice place now.
And I think it's best to pour the beer in a little shallow dish so they crawl in and drown. That's what I have been told, but it is pretty funny to think of a drunk slug, which I guess they would be, swimming around in beer. LOL!
Cherry, sounds like good honey. And good luck on the hives. I keep trying to get someone to put one here. I guess I'll just have to get my own. We have thousands of bees here, so I'm not too worried about them. I'm glad you got some rain there. It's still pouring here. I just went to the mailbox and the ducks were swimming in their little "pond". Such happy creatures.
And I am practically in Alabama myself. It's just 15 miles from me to Mentone. And I just go up over Lookout on 136 to Trenton and turn left on 11 and it's just a few miles South of there. So we could all get together one day. That would be fun. And there is another Tn. farmgirl that's really close, too. I have met her and it's fun to get together and actually see faces of people that I have talked to here.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
Edited by - kristin sherrill on May 02 2009 07:32:44 AM |
|
|
|
Miss2Missus
True Blue Farmgirl
407 Posts
Karen
Asheville
NC
USA
407 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 08:47:23 AM
|
if anyone does try beer, i found out today how to do it. My dad took me over to his garden and there was this tuna can that was filled with what looked like water and tin little yellow peppers. aparently, it was beer and slugs. he fills the tuna can with any old beer he has lying around. so you don't pour it all over the garden.
Bright note. My watermelons came up today!
Karen ^_^
http://apple-and-eve.blogspot.com/ |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 10:57:55 AM
|
Not to dis the other posts, but this one makes me laugh 'til I cry! (The hubs is beginning to look at me strangely!) But, baby girl did make it home safely and is now officially in love with LL Cool J! She has 4 pages of pics on her MySpace & two videos. She was showing me her pics last night and kept saying, "Isn't he pretty, mama? Mama, he's so beautiful!" And she got into an argument with one of her friends about how old LL is. She told him, "My mama used to listen to LL and she's almost 40 so he has to be AT LEAST that!" Gotta love 'em!
The honey tastes very smooth with something of a vanillay aftertaste. (Speaking of vanilla!) I don't think much about going into the state store. I give my buyers a thank you gift at closing and have had some requests a bottle of this or that. And my girlfriends and I like to get together and try out "girly cocktails". There's also a local winery here and I have fallen head-over-heels for their muscadine wine. But the funny thing is my mama! She will not step foot in a state store for the life of her for the very reasons ya'll mention! Well, she bakes her own bread and came across a recipe that called for Bailey's Irish Creme. Now she's in a quandry!! She really wants to try this bread, but she really doesn't want to be seen buying the Bailey's! She calls me up one day and says she has a favor to ask of me, would I please pick-up some Bailey's for her? Now, I'm the eldest of 3 and we are ALL of legal age and I live the furtherest from her! I asked, "Mama, why'd you call me and not Sharon or Bryan?" She said, "Well, baby, it's no secret you've got the most practice!" Oh. My. Goodness. And I was (am) the good child! Just ask her or my daddy! So I bought her the Bailey's and smoothed my feathers by promising me a loaf. Well, I'll be Tom Brown if she didn't call me a week later and ask me to get some more. I said, "I know you didn't bake up all that Bailey's!" And she said, "No, I've been putting a spoonful in your daddy's coffee. He's starting to like it better that way." My daddy told a different story! He said that Mama had been putting a spoonful in her hot chocolate she drinks before bed when it's cold outside. But nooooo, it doesn't end there! I little while after that, she called and asked me to get a bottle of Jack Daniels for Daddy "because he has a flu or something that needs to be knocked out of him". So, yes, I'm my mama and daddy's supplier of alcohol! Lawd, help! Nikki, you need to pass along that recipe 'cause we love shrimp and my mama doesn't so I won't have to worry about her trying it and then sending me to buy brandy just so she can make it!
And that feed store is absolute proof as to why women can be smarter than men! The hubs builds spec houses and I can not tell you how many times I've been on-site questioning why this is like this or that's where it is. Especially when alot of it's just common sense. Some as simple as to which way a door swings. The last house we did, the garage door swung in towards the kitchen. I told them to change it. And then I got "the" look. So, I just explained that if I'm coming in from the store, loaded down with groceries, I do not want to walk around that door to get to the kitchen. You could see the lights going on in their dense heads, but they never admitted that I was right. When I came back the next day, the door was switched out. Same thing in real estate when I work with our new construction builders. I've give serious thought to getting my builder's license just to bring some practicality and common sense to the whole business! We have one builder who absolutely LOVES the cookie-cutter concept! Drives me insane! I mentioned it to him one day, telling him I understand the cost-effectiveness of it, but can he not swap-up some things? He told me that they add differences to the outside. Like that was enough. I said, "But Mr. Cato, we women like that what we have is different and unique to what other women have. We want them to envy us. Women are the final say-so in which house is bought. If a woman walks in a house that is identical to the houses on each side of her, she's gonna go elsewhere. You've got to mix it up on the inside, too!" He's slowly beginning to listen. At least he's using different countertops now.
Kris, we should make you an honorary Bama Girl! But you're gonna have to learn to drive faster! Hee!Hee!
So happy about your watermelons, Karen! Love me some watermelon straight off the vine!
I suppose I should mention some news from my garden, huh? Well, after the most welcome rain, I'll be putting down some pinestraw around some of my little veggie babies later this afternoon when I get back from subdivision duty. But for now, that duty calls!
Have a great Saturday, ladies!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 11:04:09 AM
|
Oh, and Nikki, the hubs and I actually did get divorced! But neither of us liked it too much and we remarried a year later. We like to say we went temporarily insane for that year. Or that we'd been there, done that, lost the t-shirt in the process (as in nothing left but the shirt on your back). Now that's an all day story in itself!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
22944 Posts |
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 4:36:02 PM
|
Cherry, I'd love to be an honorary Bama girl! What an honor. Technically, we are the tri-state area anyway. So I should be part Tenn. girl, too. My 2 kids were born in Tn. just over the line in East Ridge.
I don't know if ya'll saw my wet seed post. But I just put as much as I could on cookie sheets to dry. I left my 5 lb. bag od field peas in the wheelbarrow and with all the rain the bucket was full of water with the peas in it. Soaking wet for 2 days now. So I was wondering if this had happened to anyone else and if they dried them out and planted with them, did they grow? I'll try it and see. I hate to waste all that seed. I don't think we could eat them now, could we? I don't know if they were treated with anything,but they just look like dried peas. I should probably not do that.
I just love your stories, Cherry. Your mom must be a hoot. I kinda-sorta look after a lady who is almost 92. Every night she has her Old Fashioned drink. Has been for 50 years. But she goes down to the liquer store bout once a month for a half gallon of Jack Daniels. And every night about 5 she fixes her drink and has a little bowl of pretzels. She swears it never affects her at all, but she sure does wobble when she walks after a drink! If I had one I'd be fallen over drunk. She puts like 3 jiggers in. But ya just get used to certain things and at almost 92 I ain't arguing with her! She can have that drink!
And that is so cool that you remarried. Lots of people do that these days. How long this time? And did ya'll get any of this rain? My garden was under water we had so much. I had to put boards down just so the goats would come out to get milked tonight. They hate getting wet and don't like to walk in it, either. I know, they are spoiled goats. But I love the milk and I gotta make the girls happy!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 5:51:17 PM
|
I was out looking in my cold frame and what I thought was the basil I planted several weeks ago is not basil. I had run out of cell cups so I used the ones I had planted mini pepper seeds in and thought they weren't going to come up so put the basil seed in them. Well, what I thought was the basil that came up a few weeks ago is not basil. It is the little mini peppers! The basil is coming up, too! I should have known that wasn't basil because they come up with 4 little bitty leaves. These had two very narrow leaves. I had already pulled up a few when I realized what they were! (I thought they were weeds.) That is too weird. So I think they should be ok planted together, don't ya think?
I can tell every kind of seed when it comes up but I have never done pepper seeds before. Always just bought plants. Live and learn. I have some that I got in the seed exchange I need to get in the dirt soon. Hope I don't do that again.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 7:02:24 PM
|
Alee, I thought that was probably what he meant. Like lavender honey, huh? That just blows my teeny-tiny mind how bees can flavor their honey depending on the surrounding flowers. Reckon God knew what He was doing with these little creatures! And I'm happy you're enjoying our posts. I am, too! I tend to be a bit ADD though and can get off-topic in a nano-second! You just watch and see if it don't happen again.
And, Kris, it's official; you, ma'am, are now dubbed a Bama Belle! I saw your post about the peas and I've been thinking about it. Were you planning on planting them any time soon or save them for next time? If you were planning on planting them, I'd go ahead and do that. But if they hadn't sprouted and weren't moldy, you should probably be able to let them dry and they'll be fine. I don't think you're really gonna know until you stick them in the ground. And I don't think I'd try to eat them though. I'm sorry. I wish I could give you a definitive answer.
Thank you 'bout my stories! I love story-telling! I get it from my TT. He was always good at it. And mama is something else! She's loud and opinionated and loves us to pieces and can do any craft project there is and has the strongest sense of family and can be a bit too negative and waits on my daddy hand and foot and works hard every day and thinks her grandbabies are her very special gift from God for not killing us kids and catches us off-guard with her humor and I wouldn't trade her for any thing in this world! My mimmie drank her little shot of "medicinal" brandy each night before bed to "help her digestion"! I agree with not arguing with your friend! Can you imagine when she turns 100 and gets asked what her secret for a long-life is?
The hubs and I originally married in '88, just two months out of high school. Our divorce was final in October '04 and we remarried in August '05 on our original anniversary date. Since we remarried, I've had the marriage I always knew was possible and even though we went to hell and back, I wouldn't change a thing. I learned an unbelievable amount about myself and marriage in general. One of the best things was learning how strong I am.
We had rain last night and I slept sooooo good. Then there was a break and it started back up around 9 this morning and kept up 'til a little after 11:00. A good soaking rain. Now, at 9:00 pm, we're dealing with tornado warnings and watches. Mississippi's throwing even more our way, too! It'll be a long night for me. Everyone sleeps soundly while Mama Hen keeps an eye on the roof of the coop! I get too unnerved to sleep when there are storms moving through, even though I absolutely love thunderstorms! And I actually didn't put any pinestraw down in the garden because it was too wet. I didn't want to compact it too much.
I'd think that spoiled goats would give sweet milk, so you spoil away! I can't help but picturing goats wearing pink rainboots!  Or leopard print ones like mine!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 06:12:05 AM
|
Wow! A Bama Belle. How fun. I love that. Thanks.
Right now my poor garden in the chicken pasture is almost under water. I hope everything will be ok. There are alot of low places and they are covered. It rained again all night. I think that's enuf for now, please. And the goat yard is startin' to really stink. I guess I could go get buckets and fill them with the wet poopy manure back there and use it later on the gardens. I just hate to waste anything. Are ya'll that way, too?
Kris
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 07:32:18 AM
|
Hee! Hee! Hey, if you're gonna have a title, make it worth saying, huh?
Well, ma'am, you got more rain coming! There's a line coming out of MS, crossing over the border as we "speak"! (It's 9:30 am) Thunderstorm watches have now crossed central AL and are expected for the eastern counties within the hour, so hang on to your hoo-ha, they're barreling through! Do you have some sawdust you can sprinkle in the low spots or are they just too big? I hate to waste, but don't know how eager I'd be to scoop up wet poopy manure. Even from a spoiled goat! I'm wishing I had a HUGE cistern to collect all this rainwater 'cause I know come July it's gonna be scarce!
I'm headed out to help the hubs. He's trying to get low limbs cut from some of the trees and cut down some trees that are questionable. I have to be there to sort out the limbs small enough to make supports for the beans, cukes, and squash. If I'm not, he'll push all of it into yet ANOTHER brush pile! Ugh!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
22944 Posts |
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 1:19:11 PM
|
Darn ducks! Right now as I speak they are in the garden pond swimming when there is a perfectly good pond right next to it. Darn ducks. I have got to get that fence put back up. If it was up they would not be in the middle of the garden swimming right now. And I can't go out there or I will sink up to my knees. So I'll have to replant whatever is in the middle now. Darn ducks. Anyone need 2 worthless ducks? I have never eaten duck but I may be soon.
Cherry. I don't know if we can hold another inch of rain here. There is no where for it to go. Ya'll keep it, thanks. I get real nervous when they start talking about weather coming from Alabama. It's usually pretty bad when it comes from there. Tornadoes and bad thunderstorms. Really black clouds and eerie feelings. Nothing to do with Alabama, but the weather is awful. I hope you get everything done before it hits. And that's a good idea to use the branches. I just have a 50 gallon barrel under the gutter thing to catch water. I use it as much as I can. Ya'll be safe.
Alee, if you smelled the air here after rain, you'd know you were on a farm for sure! But I love it, too. I like the smell of manure, weird, I know, but I do. And cow breath and horse smell. I just like farm smells.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
Miss2Missus
True Blue Farmgirl
407 Posts
Karen
Asheville
NC
USA
407 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 1:26:15 PM
|
Kris you can send the rain this way. We need it desperately. Esp since these stupid fires up here. under control or not we are still getting wicked smoke in the morning and need a good storm to put it out completely.
my first apartment was part of a farm house next to a horse pasture and i loved waking up in the morning and looking out at the horses and ducks walking around. pretty much the only time i've been anything close to a morning person.
Karen ^_^
http://apple-and-eve.blogspot.com/ |
|
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 2:17:47 PM
|
Karen, when my hubby isn't home I don't know what's going on in the world. He has the tv on all the time and I can't stand it. So I am clueless as to any fires. I hope they get put out soon and that they aren't near you. I'd love for ya'll ta have some of my rain. If I could I'd pack it in a big ole box and send it your way! You need some ants, too? They are all over my living and dining rooms. All over. They started yesterday coming in. I am spraying with vinegar and vacuuming them up. I hate ants.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
473 Posts
473 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 6:34:17 PM
|
I have been wanting to get back to this post to comment on all of y'alls wild liquer and gardening adventures, but I have been thwarted at every turn. First, I had to give up my time on the computer. Then later a squirrel got zapped in our transformer and the power was out all afternoon. We had to hide in the basement off and on because of tornado warnings. Then everybody hogged the computers with a fervor as if they had been literally deprived of oxygen and now that I can finally get online, it is time for bed. Oh, well. I know that I will get a chance to post while all of the computer hogs are sound asleep!
Night all!
Farmgirl Sister #554 |
|
|
|
Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
22944 Posts |
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2009 : 06:31:56 AM
|
Nikki and Cherry, I hope ya'll made it through the night. I have not seen the news so don't know what's going on. I just hope my new farmgirl friends are ok. Poor little squirrel. How many computer hogs do you have, Nikki? That's the way it is here when the grandkids are here. I let play a little bit but I like them to be outside playing when they're here.
I hope everyone made it throught all the bad Alabama weather. It started out sunny here this morning and now it's getting cloudy again. I put the last doe that had triplets last Sunday out back with the rest of the herd. The kids just fit right in with the rest. They are too darn cute, ya'll. They are all over the place jumping on the logs and playing king of the hill. It's just too funny to watch. If anyone needs a laugh, come on over. They are hillarious. I can stand out there and watch them for hours. And my little Woodrow is turning out to be the sweetest boy. He always comes up to me for his hugs. He's the one I will keep for breeding.
Waiting to hear from you guys.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
11303 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2009 : 06:33:45 AM
|
Oh, and for now the ponds are out of the gardens! Everything looks ok so far. I wish the sun would stay out awhile to dry it up.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
|
|
|
CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2009 : 09:08:05 AM
|
Kris, you're the sweetest! No serious problems from the storms on our little mountain ridge. We've had several inches of rain and the power flickered a few times yesterday, but no outages and no trees down. When the hubs laid in the garden earlier this year he was a little concerned because it slopes the slightest bit, but that turned out to be the best thing after all the rain. But, I have to admit, after your post about the darn ducks I was wishing baby girl's ducks were still here so I could watch them in it (the rain, that is, NOT my garden)! I hope yours didn't do too much damage! Darn ducks! And I know how you feel about weather coming from Alabama; I feel the same about Mississippi! At one point yesterday, nearly all of MS was covered with a yellow and red blob on the radar! All I could do was groan over it. I didn't catch any news last night or this morning to hear the damage reports, but the ones that came in during the continuous coverage yesterday sounded pretty rough. One report was of thousands of trees down and another was of cattle and deer being lifted off the ground. My imagination went wild on the cattle and deer report! Made me think of Twister in the scene of the cow flying across the road. Poor animals!
Karen, I wish I could be like Bewitched, wiggle my nose and center these rain clouds right over the fires ya'll are dealing with! Just like Kris, I'd gladly share if I could, but since I can't, I'll send up some prayers for you!
Good news on the garden-front, though! The corn, butter peas, and pinto beans have come through! Tomato plants have doubled in size and starting to flower-up! One mound of squash I'd given up on has a single little plant on it! The cabbage is starting to make heads! Yay! And now that all of you are in awe of my amazing gardening skills  , I'll share a little uh-oh that'll prove that I'm not nearly the garden-goddess I make myself out to be! (hee!hee!) I planted my Kentucky Wonders with enough room between them to plant some corn. Well, the little jokers were probably an inch or two high when I planted the corn and I thought it would be okay, the corn still had time to catch-up. Nooooo! Those beans tripled in size before the corn broke the ground! (Hence, the cutting of branches to make tipis for the beans!) My grandmother called yesterday to check on us and asked about my garden. I told her about my bean/corn dilemma, and in this disgusted tone of voice she said, "Cherry, you know you can't do that! That corn needs a head-start on those beans! You're gonna have to work harder and needlessly, girl, staking up those beans!" (Oh, how I love her!) Anywho, now if my okra will just come up and hopefully the rain will hold off long enough to get my watermelons planted. Am I the only one who sticks to that "old-farmers-tale" of planting watermelon on May 1st? I didn't get it done on the 1st and then the rain hit. But Grandmother says I should be okay as long as I get it in the ground by the 7th!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
|
|
|
Garden Gate: OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2 |
|
|
|
OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2
