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NikkiBeaumont
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 Posted - May 13 2009 : 03:41:20 AM
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Alee, you know what is funny. When I think if Montana, I think of wild creatures and rugged wilderness. I automatically think of it as dangerous place, maybe because I have watched The Wilderness Family too many times. Ha! But it sounds like we have more deadly creatures down here; although, they are WAY smaller. As long as y'alls big animals retain their fear of man y'all ought to be doing good!
Kris, I don't have a fence. I didn't know that they could jump! Awesome about making mozzarella and hard cheeses. The only kind of goat cheese that I have ever had has been soft. I doubt that I would have enough time to convince Lovin' Man of our need for goats this year, since we would have to get a good fence. Glad that the electric deters them from escaping!
Yeah, that's right. I haven't mentioned to him that I have been contemplating goat ownership lately. (CHERRY) HA! I just wanted to know if it would be feasible. Lord knows that we have enough for them to forage down the hill!
Oh, yeah. Once while we were admiring the fish at Bass Pro Shop, I pointed at the alligator gar and told Oakley in my best school teacher voice, "You know, THOSE are in Logan Martin where we ski." I thought that I was being very educational and passing on interesting information, but instead, it freaked her out. So as soon as I got home I looked up alligator gar attacks and found that they have never been known to hurt anyone, but she didn't seem to care. Hopefully, she will have forgotten all about it by this summer. I will be very sad if I have ruined it for her because she is the kind of girl who likes to jump out and swim whenever we bring the boat to a halt.
Funny about your MIL talking to herself. My mom talks to herself while she is sewing. I forgot about that until she came over to show me how to put a zipper into a skirt that I was making. Here I am thinking that she knows how to do this because she has been sewing forever and there she is saying things like, "Wait, THAT'S not right. Now how do they want this to go...hmmm....maybe if I.....no, okay, I'll pin it like that....that won't work.....hmmm." And on and on. I was really beginning to wonder if she might need some Aricept. HA! Then later, after she had gone, I remembered that she had asked for a pillow to sit on and I got busy making lunch and forgot all about it. I was so convinced that I didn't give her a pillow that I actually called to apologize about it. But she insisted that I DID, I went and looked and yes, there was a pillow there but I have no memory of getting one. Then I thought, "Who needs the Aricept NOW!" Ha!
There are A LOT of trees down from the storms, aren't there. Everyone will have plenty of firewood for the winter! I am going to go to Pepper Place and the surrounding farms for bunches of produce and whatever else I can scavenge this summer, so hopefully, we can meet another time. I got a canning book and am hoping to use it. My grandmother has a pressurized canner and all that. When I called about borrowing it, I heard them all laughing in the background when they realized who wanted it. Let's just say I'm not known for excellence in any of the domestic arts. Except for cleaning, I can clean pretty good when I want to.
About talking to the plants, how are they growing Cherry and Kris? Is this rain too much for them? I can't believe that it is raining again today. What is up?
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 06:44:35 AM
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Hey Ya'll. I just went out and planted 24 more cabbage plants. Then went to the strawberry jungle and picked 2 gallon of them. I can see why people pay big bucks for strawberries already picked. Geeze, my aching back! And legs and neck, too. I think it affects my neck worse thatn the rest because of the angle I have to hold it. So I am taking a break now. Plus I went out to til and the old Troy is having a bad day. The tines don't want to turn and the throttle won't stay down. So the first few rows I had to hold it down and that was not going to work at all! So I got some old hay bale twine and tied it down then the tines didn't want to turn. So there went that idea. I'll have to wait til the SIL gets home and get him to look at it. I don't want to use the small tiller yet. It wears me out.
So now it looks like it's going to rain any second now. I am making my neice a baby quilt for her baby boy due in July. I have it all together and on the quilting thing and now I need to go get quilting thread and get it finished. I had found some blue jean material at the thrift store and bought some white jean material. I cut 4" squares then cut then in half to make triangles then sewed them all together. Then cut 2" strips of white to go in the middle of each row. Bordered it in white then blue. Now I just have to quilt it together. The only thing I did not do and I thought of it halfway through, I did not wash the blue material. So when she washes it the first time the white will be light blue. It will still be pretty, but I sure wish I had washed it..Maybe if she uses cold water it might not bleed through too much.
And I talk to myself all the time.
Kris
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 06:53:00 AM
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Cherry, it's so not true that goats will eat anything. They are very picky creatures. When my goats are dry, they just get hay and browse. A few weeks before kidding I start giving them a little 16% all grain. Then when they kid they get a little more til I start milking. Then they get alot. But they also eat out. I slack off on the hay in summer, too. When I'm milking, I also mix some alfalfa pellets and sunflower seeds in with the all grain. It just works for us and they like it. Also if something is bad for them they won't eat it. Or if it's something that makes them sick, they'll stay away from it. They are pretty smart animals. I hope you get some.
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Alee
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 09:50:52 AM
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Kris, you have worn me out just reading about what you've accomplished so far! Your baby quilt sounds so pretty. And I love that you're using denim! It should last forever! We use Color Catchers sometimes in the wash, well, baby girl does because she's too lazy to properly sort clothes, but maybe those will help keep the colors from fading on each other.
Don't you hate it when equipment won't co-operate? I couldn't get the riding lawn mower started the other day, something I've done a gazillion times. The hubs got home and it started right up for him. Never fails!
And I really do want some goats. I'd be at your place tomorrow to buy some of yours if the hubs would let me. You know, I think back to that brief time when we were divorced and he was living elsewhere and I should have got my chickens, goats and bees then when he had no say-so whatsoever! Oh, well.
Nikki, you're crackin' me up! Poor Oakley! Maybe she won't remember your nature lesson and will continue to be fearless at the lake! Those nasty critters are in Guntersville lake, too, and when I was 12, Daddy was determined that I was gonna learn how to ski. I had a healthy fear of what I couldn't see under the water and he told me that everything in that lake was more afraid of me than I was of it and it'd get away from me faster than I could get away from it. Well, he lied! (Kinda.) My very first attempt to get up, I fell, of course, and as I was impatiently waiting for him to bring the boat back around, a DEAD gar came floating right by me! If I could have walked on water, I'd have been running! The thing was huge! It was a very bad week-end at the lake. I refused to get back in the water and Daddy was disgusted with me for it. After all, the thing was dead!
And we all have our talents and you won't know if you're talented with canning until you try it, Nikki! This year will be my first year to can, too, so we'll learn together. The hubs kinda smirked over my announcement that I'll be canning until I told him that my grandmother will be coming up to help me. Then he kinda relaxed. He was probably imagining me poisoning us all! I'm gonna try some jam making, too.
Nikki, I asked about Lovin' Man because the hubs sometimes wonders if I'm off my rocker when I start telling him about GM and GE seeds and chemicals in our food and government control and how we need to be more self-reliant and make our land work for us, etc. etc. He kinda makes fun of me. He's not trying to be mean, I think he just believes that there's not much we can do about it so why try? I was just wondering if your man is more receptive to your concerns than mine is.
In the garden, I don't guess the lack of sunshine is hurting too much. Everything is coming up nicely. And I have little baby squash now in addition to the little baby tomatoes! I finally got my watermelon and cantaloupe planted, too. Still need to get more okra seed in the ground. The rain washed most of it away, so I'll probably have stand-alone's coming up in the yard somewhere! But this rain! Argh! It's been raining here all morning, so I'm doing laundry and some cleaning. Kris' baby quilt has my crafty-itch riled up, so I may pull out some crocheting I started last fall and work on it. Or maybe I'll just pick-up a new book I started last night!
And I've heard that talking to one's self is completely normal. It's when you start answering yourself that the problems begin! Hee! Hee! Aricept, anyone?
~~Cherry~~
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 09:53:55 AM
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Nikki, do you know of someone close by selling eggs?
~~Cherry~~
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 13 2009 : 5:12:25 PM
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I KNOW! Kris is a dynamo! My gosh, Kris, sounds like you got more done in one day than I do ALL week. What are you going to do with all of those strawberries?
Funny, Cherry, that you should bring up local eggs. Hopefully, I will be going to get some eggs from a local farm tomorrow. I will fill you in on whether it is a good place to go when I get back!
You already have baby tomatoes! NOW you can hook your thumbs in your overall straps, rock back on your heels and tell your grandmother how going by the almanac is workin' out for ya!
Oh, no! I couldn't stand to be stuck close to a huge dead fish. That makes me quiver right now. I am a HUGE chicken. I was a scaredy-cat as a child and I still am, I've just learned to mask it in my adulthood...for the most part. But my children have been remarkably brave. It is odd. My mom feels ripped off that I haven't had to suffer as a parent of a wimpy child does, at least how she did. HA! I once spent an entire church picnic on the table because there were large dogs running around. But Nick and Oakley don't seem to be afraid of anything. That's why I was surprised at how Oakley reacted about the alligator gar.
Oh, Lovin' Man thinks I am a little over the top, but he goes along with most things if it is not going to cost him. HA! We planted 5 acres of watermelons one year and I told him that I wanted to do it organically. He was like OKAY. But when we got down there in the 98 degree 90% humidity, I was like. "I don't care if the whole planet dies, I will NOT be hoeing those weeds." I think he knew that I would turn like that 'cause he had herbicide waiting in the truck to be sprayed. Hopefully, I am a little more committed now. Especially, since I will not be planting 5 acres of watermelons again!
Why does Hubs not want you to have bees and goats and chickens? Is he afraid that he will have to deal with them himself? Does he not want to help?
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Alee
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 03:58:24 AM
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Oh, Alee, the 5 acres of watermelon was totally Lovin' Man's idea. He had visions of selling them or really, foisting that enterprise onto Oakley and me when the time came. Ha! He was even counting his chickens before they hatched by forecasting how many we would harvest and how much we would sell them for. But it didn't rain much that year and the quality of the watermelons was not consistent so I refused the sell them and we just gave them away. Below is a scrapbook layout that I did of the debacle.
I did grow up in Alabama and I grew up as a barefooted wild child totally unaware of all the deadly things (except for the snakes) that surrounded me. My brother and I would leave the house early in the morning, head straight for the creek and not come home until we got hungry. My mom never worried about us, but now I can't even let Oakley play in the yard without checking on her every five minutes. I hate having to keep kids on such a short reign!
Have you ever seen The Wilderness Family movies? I think they were filmed in the '70s. We just enjoy them so much. I can't help but keep up a sarcastic running commentary while we watch them. At first, it is all wildflower and berry picking. Hippie music playing so happily and then after that, they are being stalked and nearly eaten by every wild animal known to man. The mom freaks out. The dad tries to calm her. The kids are totally unfazed. They have a pet bear and pet raccoons and lots of adventures and the scenery is so gorgeous! Even though they are in danger so much of the time, you can't help envying them and wanting to live there. Ha!
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kristin sherrill
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 06:09:54 AM
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Nikki, they look good to me. Ya'll did a good job. I can't imagine 5 acres of anything. And ya'll planted it all by hand?
I don't remember seeing that movie, but PBS had a series a few years back about 4 or 5 families that had to live in the wilderness and build their own homes and the whole 9 yards for a year. I loved watching that. It made me want to do it, too. They had to do it all like they were really living in the 1800's, too. No TP or Tampax. No electric. Nothing. Even had to wear period clothes, too. Then there was another show filmed in Canada, too, I think. On the same lines as that one, but in a different place. Anyway, it was very interesting and it really changed the people's lives. No, the other one was in the Alaskan wilderness. That was good. Very remote areas, too.
I know what you mean about keeping a very watchful eye on the kids these days. I was the same growing up. All over the place. Walking around town at midnight and all over the place by ourselves. And even when my kids were little. I was protective of them and would not let them spend the night with anyone til they were in middle school, but other then that they were ok. But the grandkids now, that's a whole other story. I am way too worried about them.
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 08:01:00 AM
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We were like that, too, growing-up. We had 16 acres of woods, creek and pasture that was all ours. My sister and I would play Little House on the Prairie and make tree-branch houses and find crawfish for our "meals". And wherever Granddaddy happened to be farming we'd play at being "explorers". As long as we could still hear the tractor we were fine. Having that kind of childhood is one reason why I jumped all over our 40 acres when the hubs found it. I wanted that same thing for Lauren. We bought the land when she was in 1st grade and she's always had boys as friends, so they always wanted to come up here to climb the rocks. I worried about them coming across a rattlesnake or falling off a rock. Some of these rocks have a 30-50 foot drop on one side. But they were kept safe. Lauren would play "Guess what's in my pocket" with me. That was always an experience! I'd have to double-check her pockets to make sure a lizard didn't go in the washing machine! I don't know how my mama did it with us, just letting us go and not coming to look for us or anything. She's 17 now and her friends come up here to go hunting. She's not too into that, so she just stays here at the house, waiting for them to come back so she can mother hen them.
Wow, Nikki, 5 acres of watermelon! Granddaddy decided to farm watermelon one year. Only one year of it though! I think it ended up being too much work, so he went back to soybeans and cotton. I was probably 5 or 6 when he planted the watermelon and it was my job to carry the gallon jug of water to Mama, Daddy, Grandmother, and TT as they picked the watermelons. That was not near as much fun as playing in a cotton wagon full of just picked cotton! TT would hire two local teenagers to help with the cotton. My sister and I would get in the cotton wagon with them and they'd throw us back and forth to stamp down the cotton. While we were waiting for Daddy or TT to come back in with another load, we'd pretend to be zoo animals because cotton wagons look like giant cages and they'd have to guess what we were. "Swimming" through a truckload of soybeans was always fun, too! I don't know how many acres of watermelon he farmed that year, but I can't wrap my brain around 5 acres of them! Guess ya'll learned the same lesson TT did! And you have very good scrapbooking skills! It looks like a magazine article!
The hubs looks at the cost factor, too. For example, with the chickens, his argument is that after I buy the chickens, build a hen house, keep them fed, put in the time to take care of them, and counting inevitable losses, it's just not worth it when I can buy a dozen eggs for less than two dollars. He's willing to help to an extent, because, to be fair, he does stay really busy on his own without me adding to it. He's lead shop foreman at a fabricating company and he does fab work on the side. For the past month, he's spent the week-ends helping his boss build a garage. This coming week-end he's working trees at my sister's house. This week he's been rebuilding a rail for a friend of ours when he gets home from work. And Tuesday he went and quoted a job to build a 50' handrail for a woman in Birmingham that he'll start on when he finishes the rail. He's constantly doing something. And it is so easy for this boy to make money. I have no talents that can compete with him in that area. Well, maybe one, but nothing will make me resort to that! Hee! Hee! Anyway, he doesn't have the time to help me if I were to need it. I've been asking him to build me a potting table and a compost bin for years now and still don't have them simply because he doesn't have the extra time. Guess I need to learn me some carpentry skills! And there is the fact that he wants to sell our place in the next year or two. UGH! We have too much to have to move now, let alone a bunch of chickens, goats, and bees! He complimented me on my garden again last night though, so maybe I can instill enough confidence in him that I can handle these things I'd like to have through it.
About that movie and the PBS shows, I've always felt like I was born in the wrong century! I like to fantasize about it, but the ever realistic hubs always points out the cons of life a hundred years ago! Like how scarce books were back then. I can't begin to imagine not having a library, Books-a-Million or Paperback Swap! :)
~~Cherry~~
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 08:02:37 AM
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Oh! Lauren's 17 now, not my mama! Ha!
~~Cherry~~
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Alee
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 08:49:44 AM
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Cherry OH MY GOD DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING TO BUILD SOMETHING! Especially if it involves saws! I just had a horrible image in my mind! If you do decide to build something- do me a favor and have the lumber yard pre cut your boards for you. Please? Nora is giving me enough gray hairs without me imagining you and saws in the same place at the same time! *hugs* Oh and I am really glad I wasn't drinking anything when you mentioned "That one thing" *snort*
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 6:32:21 PM
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See! Even Alee understands why the hubs should make time to build me my table and she hasn't known me nearly as long as he has! Geez, I'm such a klutz! 
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Alee
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NikkiBeaumont
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Posted - May 14 2009 : 7:26:50 PM
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Alee, you are hysterical! I love how you put that! No, Cherry, you should not operate that sort of machinery! Lovin' Man had a neighbor who regularly cut off his own fingers and he used saws everyday! Too scary!
Hey, Kris, I loved those shows! I think most of them were on PBS, but you can probably get them from Netflix or the library. My very favorites were Colonial House, 1940's House, Manor House, and Frontier House, in that order. I wish they would do follow-up shows about what happened to everyone: I grew quite fond of them and would like to know how they are doing now. 1900's house was my least favorite. The mom was a cheater and way too whiny. I haven't heard of the one in Alaska! Cool! I will have to find it. I think there was one about a Texas Ranch house, but I wasn't interested in it. I might be now.
Cherry, I went to get eggs at a local farm. It was SO NOT what I expected. I kind of thought I knew where it was, but it turned out to be very far back into a place that I had never been and when we drove by there I did not see any evidence that they even HAD chickens. I was not about to stop. Maybe they did have chickens tucked somewhere back in the woods, but I was NOT about to go there. LOL! I won't name them here, but be advised, THAT WAS SCARY. Even Oakley noticed that we were getting into a rough sort of place and when a police car drove by and I said brightly, "Hey, look a policeman is all the way out here!" she said in a sarcastic tone, "Great. NOW I feel safe."
I did buy some eggs from a woman who lives on a well-traveled road. I should have gone there first, but I thought that the other place would be closer. I will give a thumb up or down to you of these said eggs after I cook them in some sort of main dish that I will be serving to my test-subjects (family) on Sunday. So far they are the only locally produced item that I have collected. I do hope that Pepper Place comes through for me because, if not, we will be having a sad lunch of scrambled eggs and bug eaten basil leaves from my meager garden.
Oh, Cherry, you had an idyllic childhood like me! But I never got to swim in beans or jump in cotton. That sounds like tons of fun! Mostly, we just built rafts that wouldn't float, tried to hire a butler who we were going to house in our shed, and started a detective agency that had no cases and I read A LOT. I love books and couldn't survive without them. No, I wouldn't want to.
Lovin' Man has informed me that he will not be building me a chicken coup, he does not want goats and he thinks I am freakin' out of my mind to even mention bees. What I love about him is that he is so malleable. He just doesn't know it. He is always telling me about how he is putty in my hands and that my wish is his command and I laugh because he doesn't always really mean that, but give it time and it happens. I get it my way because I am the tortoise and he is the hare. I can wait. Oh, yes, I can wait. Ha!
It is true. He is very busy. I think that he has adult ADD. Really. He has got to being doing something. Two things. Even three if he can possibly manage it. He wears me out with his doing and I wear him out with my easy pace. We were made for each other. I am serious. No, really, I AM SERIOUS. I am not being sarcastic. I do really mean that.
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Posted - May 15 2009 : 05:42:25 AM
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Nikki, I hope you do get some chickens one day. I love my new ones. I have a set of triplets, a set of twins and 2 more that kind of look alike and the crooked footed rooster. Those are the big ones. Then 28 baby chicks. Of the 8 chicks hatched here they are all probably roosters, so they will either be sold or go in the freezer. They are all so funny. The Buff chicks are about ready to go outside. I'm trying to figure out where to put them. But they need to be out of my laundry room. And I think it's getting warm enuf for them to go out.
My grandpa had cotton fields, too. I remember riding in the cotton wagons when I was a kid with all my cousins. And we'd play "house" in the privet hedge. Now that was fun. Grandpa also had an okra field. He sold to grocery stores. I did not help with that part. I hate picking okra.
Yes, Cherry, do be careful, girl. You must realize there are certain things you just should NOT be doing!
Nikki, are you doing the local dinner? I just saw that thread last night. I guess I need to branch out more on here. This is a big place. I do local grown dinners all the time because that's all I eat here. All my stuff. My freezers and pantry are full still from all last years produce and meat. I'm thinking I may not need to can this year. But probably will some things anyway.
If you need anything, like goat meat or milk or really good eggs, I have it! I don't think it would reallt qualify as too local, though. I hope you have good luck finding local things there.
And my SIL is ADD, too. That man cannot sit still and always has got to be doing something. My hubby used to be that way, too, but the older he gets, the more he sits and sleeps. If he sits down in his recliner, that's all she wrote for him. He's out! But he's only home a few weekends a month, so I guess the poor guy needs his beauty sleep.
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CherryMeDarlin
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Posted - May 15 2009 : 06:38:23 AM
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Ya'll are so sweet with your concern for my poor little fingers and all! No worries, though, cause truth is I can't read a tape measure to save my life. And if there's one thing I know about carpentry it is to measure twice and cut once. I'd have a fortune in scrap lumber, trying to get the measurements right! Eventually the hubs will come around and build me one. The compost bin I can handle, no measuring or cutting needed. We have fencing and 2x4's that I can use, just hammer the boards in the ground and nail the fencing to it. I'm pretty good with a hammer. And I have to hammer stakes in the ground all the time with real estate, so I have practice with that!
Nikki, we do have to be careful around here with these meandering roads. You really never know what you're gonna find. I've traveled a few with my work and have made many a U'ie cause of the looks of things and the faint sound of banjo music! I had to run to Trussville yesterday and coming back to the office saw a little sign advertising eggs for sale at the end of a drive-way off of Argo-Margaret Rd. I don't know why I've never noticed it before. But I didn't have time to stop. Know where it is now though! Oh, and too funny, Oakley's comment!
The hubs and I are like that, too. I like to say I'm more leisurely than he is. He likes to make fun of me because, as he says, I'm constantly taking breaks! (Not true!) I just believe in stopping to smell the roses and he believes in "if we don't stop for anything, we can get all these rose bushes in the ground before dark"! It actually makes him more tired to not be doing anything! The only time he can actually sit still long enough to read a book is when we're at the beach. And that's only been since we remarried!
Kris, your comments about your hubs made me think of my daddy-in-law! The hubs gets his constant motion from him, except for here lately. DIL owns his own fab shop and runs his own business. Once upon a time, he was up around 4 and worked 'til 8 or 9 or even 10 that night, seven days a week. Nowadays, he's still up around 4, but at one of the local convenience stores because "they have the best coffee", then he comes back home and does a bit of work, then he's off to another local convenience store because "they have coke-colas in the glass bottles", back home for a bit more work and maybe lunch, then off to yet another convenience store because "they always know what's going on" and it's back home again for a quick sit-down in the recliner before getting back to work (and ends up being an afternoon nap)! Yet, if you ask him what he's been doing, he'll say, "Man, I am so covered up in work I can't move for it!" We drive through town and Lauren'll say, "There's Granddaddy; the town gossip!" I guess what I've learned from this is that yes, one day the hubs will slow down, but still be gone all the time. Hanging out at the local convenience stores!
And Kris, I bet you get some kind of satisfaction, having such a well-stocked pantry and freezer and knowing where all of it came from and exactly what all's in it! THIS is my goal!
Oh, and Nikki, if you happen upon the "tax-man" with his organic chicken eggs for sale on 411 in Odenville, do not stop! I've heard some strange tales of that one!
~~Cherry~~
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Posted - May 15 2009 : 11:27:31 AM
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Ok, first attempt at loading pics! These are my workboots...
~~Cherry~~
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 15 2009 : 11:38:05 AM
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Yay! Now I'll be a picture posting fool! Here are some more!
Baby Squash
Baby Broccoli
Baby Tomatoes
Baby Cabbage
The Nursery
Ahhhh...the post gardening spot where I like to enjoy some ice-cold orange, pineapple sage flavored water in my largest wine goblet!
LOOK! I did it!
~~Cherry~~
"A thing is as simple or as complicated as you make it." --TT Murphy |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22944 Posts
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CherryMeDarlin
True Blue Farmgirl
602 Posts
Cherry
Odenville
AL
USA
602 Posts |
Posted - May 15 2009 : 1:32:18 PM
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Why, thank you, Honey Chile! If one must be in the dirt, one should add as much glamour as humanly possible!
~~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
473 Posts
473 Posts |
Posted - May 15 2009 : 4:19:32 PM
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Oh, Cherry! I love your boots and your garden. Wow! Everything is coming up so beautifully! Your photos are beautiful!
Oh, yes, the banjo music from Deliverance. If I ever buy a banjo, that is the only song that I am going to want to learn how to play! And I am going to sit out in the woods near a hiking trail or something and play it and just laugh and laugh when people get scared and start looking around for a passel of inbred freaks. HA!
THAT is the place where I bought the eggs! I never even considered the tax man. I actually forgot all about him! Thanks for the warning!
Kris, you are living the Animal, Vegetable, Miracle LIFE. That is so awesome! How long have you been doing it? And what got you started in the first place? I do wish that I could have some chickens. Oakley and I got to love on some chicks and ducklings at Tractor Supple a few weeks ago. They were so adorable. And, I agree with you, animals are just the best entertainment. Our dogs are constantly making us laugh. Barbara Kingsolver tells in AVM about a stupid young rooster that tries to ineptly do an older hen and she bites his head and sends him packin'. It cracks me up just thinking about it.
Thanks, Kris, for offering the food, but you are right. I don't think it would qualify as local for me. HA!
Cherry, your FIL really gets around, doesn't he? I wonder if he bumps into my FIL. He is retired and halves his time between going to his farm and staying home sending spam type emails to Lovin' Man. Last time I checked LM had like 165 emails. Lord! Thank God they spare me and LM only sends me a few choice selections.
Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able to post some luscious photos of all the bounty that I gather at Pepper Place! Fingers crossed!
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NikkiBeaumont
True Blue Farmgirl
473 Posts
473 Posts |
Posted - May 15 2009 : 4:26:00 PM
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Oh, Kris, my mother-in-law says "that's worse than a chapped butt in a pepper patch" but I think that it should say "okra patch". NOT fun.
And, yes, I am going to attempt an all locally grown dinner per that one that you saw but I can't remember what it is called.
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
11303 Posts
kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - May 15 2009 : 6:31:39 PM
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Now that's a nice garden. And very healthy plants, too. Good job. And I did not see a single weed. Wow. Wanna come to my garden and make it look like yours? I am so behind it's pitiful.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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Garden Gate: OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2 |
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OMG, What Have I Just Gone & Done: Part 2
