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Aug 26, 2007 | 4:26 AM PST
Tags: Fall Veggies , Tomatoes , Cukes , Mums , Horse apples , Compost
Friday night brought us 4 good thunderstorms and lot's of steady rain in between! Yesterday was glorious. I did a lot of cleaning up in the flower beds, then headed out to the veggie patch to plant spinach, lettuce, beans & radish seed. Put in the broccoli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts starts too. Also discovered that something had eaten all the tops off my new little beet sprouts. :( I was not pleased. I reseeded them and will hope for the best.
The major heat we had looks to have shut down the tomotes. Still have alot of fruit but no new flowers. The cukes got a second wind and I have about a dozen more pickle size cukes growing. The third planting of beans are about 3 feet high now and starting to flower.
Wally World got in a shipment of mums and I loaded up a cart. Potted some up for the deck and will put the rest in the front bed this morning.
Daughter #2 arrives Thursday evening for the long weekend. Looking forward to being able to show her around. She was here two years ago at Christmas but there was not alot we could do at that time, that and she thought it was too cold! Should have perfect weather while she is here. Suppose to be in the low to mid 80's.
One of my co workers has two horses and I think she thought I was off my rocker when I asked her if I could have some of their horse apples. When I told her I wanted it for my compost pile the light went on. I also kept her in tomatoes, peppers and cukes all season, so I think the idea of more fresh veggies won her over. I told her I would come out to her place and even shovel, but she said she would have her hubby load me up some large garbage bags.
My compost pile is finally large enough and has begun to cook and I am so thrilled. Doesn't take much to make me happy!
The light through the trees at sunrise this morning
Aug 19, 2007 | 4:20 AM PST
Tags: No Rain , Tomatoes , Cukes , Fall Garden , Internet , Dogs
Well we are suppose to have an 80 percent chance for rain today. Keeping my fingers crossed becaused I have really not watered much the last two days. Will get out this morning and wet some of the containers down real good.
My little old neighbor gave me a beautiful plant. She said it is swedish ivy, but this thing is no ivy. I will take some pix when the sun comes up and see if you all can help me figure out what this thing is.
The internet police at the office has blocked ALL but necessary websites. So I am unable to check GG in the mornings or at lunch. I am going to start carting my personal laptop to the office. I only peek in on MY time so there!!! Not like I don't do my work and 5 other peoples everyday!! Okay enough bellyaching. I know I sound bitter.
My fall beans are up and my beets are up. Too hot still for anything else and the clock is ticking. Might be all we get out of the fall garden. My cukes have a few more small ones left, but I am not seeing any new flowers and I think they are about finished up. Maters ripening all over the place and I have been living on toasted mater sandwiches for days. No problem there I love eating them that way. Though the boys will be glad when they are done. Because at least three times a week I tell them it is "fend for yourself night"! They don't eat maters like I do.
Well the dogs are up and giving me the evil eye. They want their trip to the lake and then we will come home and water, pray for rain and does anyone have a spare snake? Want to try out Angels grandfather's method for getting rain.
P.S. I posted some pix of the mystery plant in the General Discussion Forum.
Aug 1, 2007 | 6:22 AM PST
Tags: Daylilies , Heat , Watering , Veggie , Fall Veggies , cucumbers , Tomatoes
Can you believe it is August already? Where has this year gone? Seems like just yesterday was early April and I was out trying to save everything from the freeze we had. Still mourning the loss of my Japanese maple, the dappled willow that has replaced it is doing grand though! Before we know it fall will be here, can you believe it? Kinda of looking forward to the change in seasons again. Seems like we went from freeze to 90+ degrees over night.
The folks are coming home for September; they have been vagabonding in their RV since February. Don’t think they will hang out long though; they have plans to be in Arizona in October. They are having a blast and enjoying the road while they still can.
Daughter number 2 is coming out from So Cal for Labor Day weekend. This will be her second trip out. Last time she came for Christmas and really didn’t like the cold. Looking forward to her visit and being able to show her around.
I order some more daylilies (stops to slap mouse hand to keep from ordering more on line). Also put in an order for some bulbs to put in this fall.
We went by the nursery last night to see if they had their fall veggie starts. They said they should be in next week. Wow, I hope that will give them enough time. The fall raised veggie patch is ready and waiting for the starts to put in.
I am eating cucumbers for breakfast lunch and dinner. Even got the boy to try them and he liked them. What a surprise that was. Ryan is autistic and getting him to try new things is really hard sometimes. I have to catch him in the right mood. Haven’t had any ripe tomatoes the last few days. But there are lots of large greenies. My plants are loaded and leaning.
Just been watering constantly with our 90+ degree heat (gosh, I am going to hate to see our water bill) and even with twice a day water my containers are beginning to look sad. I moved everything into the shade on the porch last night maybe that will help.
Mom and the baby coonies are coming every night. I have started feeding them cheap dry cat food. My animal cracker & peanut expense account was dwindling. They seem to like the cat food and so far have been no trouble. They have their snack and move on. The squirrel trough now doubles at night as a raccoon trough. Sunflower seeds during the day and cat food at night. Cheri’s menagerie is growing…
Jul 13, 2007 | 2:38 PM PST
Tags: zucchini , cukes , tomatoes
As much as I loved seeing the kids, I really must admit that it is nice to have my house and routine back to normal. We had a blast, but I am enjoying the peace and quiet again. Having my best bud here was wonderful too and we had a great time. I miss her very much!
The veggie patch is keeping me busy. So many tomatoes that I have started giving some away. I made some spaghetti sauce Sunday and it was delish! I will make some more and freeze it this weekend. Made a couple of jars of refrigerated pickled banana peppers while the sauce was cooking. In a week or two I will have cukes like crazy. I think I will pick some of the young ones and pickle those. Zukes and cukes are still flowering and I have had a few more zucchinis. We got the wood for the additional raised beds and I hope to get it started this weekend so that we can get some fall crops in.
This being my first veggie garden (done container tomatoes before) but never anything like this; I have to say I have learned a lot from everyone here and my own mistakes. Size does matter and for my little patch I have learned what to plant where next season.
The pond is completely covered in plants and I need to get out and take some photos of it. Had a neighbor down the road ask if we had taken the whole thing a part and started over, because she said it looked so different from when the previous owners of our house had it. Told her all I had done was added some rock to the top and the plants. She said she had a small pond in her back yard but only had a lily in it. I gave her a bag full of water lettuce, hyacinths and some cuttings with roots of the four leaf clover. Went by her place when I was walking the dogs and she showed me her pond with the new plants in it. It looked so nice and she has some really pretty fish too.
My daylilies are blooming like mad and I am really enjoying them, though my daughter was upset with me for planting them. They are poisonous to dogs! Okay my dogs don’t eat my flowers so what’s the beef? Right? She spent most of her vacation here keeping her 9 month old border collie from eating them. Sorry dear, I trained mine already. (teehee)
Been keeping the feeders and trough full and the squirrels are behaving. I have a Mama Coon and three raccoon babies visiting every night. I leave them a pile of peanuts and sliced apples. My neighbor brought me a homemade suet feeder and a recipe for the suet he makes. Bless his heart he is the sweetest ol’ guy. He says he sees me filling the feeders and sitting there watching the birds and knew I would enjoy it. I made his recipe and the next day had a mom and baby Pileated Woodpecker feeding at it. Got some great pix and framed one for Gene so he could see what his feeder and recipe brought to my deck. I will try to get them posted here later today.
Hubby is now off to Calif on business so for the next five days it’s just me and the boy and the dogs.
Jun 19, 2007 | 6:45 AM PST
Tags: pond , Fish , Squirrels , murder , tomatoes , MONDAYS
Mine was yesterday…I am kind of like Garfield, I hate Mondays. Work was just plain Monday hectic, chased my tail all day at the office. On the way home, hubby murdered a squirrel in the road. Okay, okay, I know there are tons of them and this one won’t make a dent, but he could have slowed down and not hit it at all. Let’s just say that I let him know how I felt and he won’t be doing that again with me in the car. Really, he did feel bad about it and kept apologizing. I told him to tell it to the squirrel.
We got home to find that the murder victim’s friends had pulled over and chewed up my sunflowers. No real tragedy there, but the fallen stock knocked a bloom off my clematis. Went out to the veggie patch to find a major broken limb on one of my tomatoes. We had a pretty good storm yesterday and I am sure the wind took it down.
Next, I was walking around the pond to see my latest lily bloom and I think the murderer rigged one of the flagstones at the edge of the pond to try to get rid of his only witness to the crime. You know how everything moves in slow motion in a fall? Well that is what it was like, seemed to take forever! The flagstone landed on my foot and it took quite a bit of slipping and sliding to get myself up outta there. Luckily, there were no floating fish bodies, just my big old behind taking a dip. Of course I really got razed by hubby…grrrrr.
Took a shower to wash off the pond scum, made dinner, took two Excedrin migraine and went to bed. Note: when you need to take an aspirin for the pain caused by a flagstone that hit your foot as you fell in your pond, DON’T use migraine formula at bed time…it contains caffeine. So on top of the rest of my lovely Monday, I did not sleep at all. Hope y’all had a better day.
