May 22, 2015

Dustin and I did a little sightseeing this afternoon...

  

May 21, 2015

Picked up some plants from town and got them planted this morning...
Even had a loud cheerleader cheering me on...
I pulled the strawberries, peas, and yacon plants from the straw bales and transplanted them. 

Planted several varieties of tomatoes, some straight neck squash, stevia, peppers, watermelon, and even some marigolds.

How can something so small make so much noise???

Christi Scott "My stevia is going crazy. I plan to dry it and put it in when I boil my tea, other than that I'm not sure what my plan is. Do you have any ideas uncle A?"

Thinking of drying it too, may try juicing some fresh leafs but I don't think it will store so it may be more trouble than it's worth. Dehydrating is probably the best way to go. Wonder if you can dehydrate the juice? Let me know how your plan works.

May 20, 2015

Awoke out of a sound sleep, reason unknown, better take Abby out, Herc comes with us and to my surprise it is not raining as the weather guessers said it would be... Everybody's done so it's back to bed, then I noticed a small piece of wood chip on the comforter, oh crap, it's crap! Herc stepped in it and his front paw is full of crap and wood chips. Got Herc into the tub and washed his paw, Abby's barking because we left her, that job done it's back to bed... Wonder what time it is, oh 4:20...let's get back to sleep, Abby it's not play time! 4:45 after playing for a while and licking the back of my head for way too long Abby is sleeping against the back of my neck the rooster is crowing and I'm wide awake... Thankfully there's Facebook... lol

May 19, 2015

Major change here in the garden, two of the straw bale beds
are gone and replaced with raised beds. It took a lot of work
and I had a lot of help from Gaby Ruiz and Dustin Slim
Ketner. Thank you both SO MUCH, Love you guys...

The strawbales didn't work the way I have seen in videos or have read about. I think that the bales may have come from someone that grew it for the straw and didn't harvest the grain at all, just cut and baled it plus they were full of all kind of fungus. I'm going to compost the bales so they won't go to waste, just lost some time and learned a few things along the way. And the chickens enjoyed the wheat grass...

May 17, 2015

Strawberries are getting there...  - feeling hungry. 

MO stuff growing...

May 8, 2015

Standing on the front porch with the dogs during the rain this morning a hawk flew by and landed in a tree across the highway, had to get the camera and tripod.

What's A Canon?

May 7, 2015

Had a tender moment this morning, I had just awoke and felt something soft and warm on my arm so I slowly opened my eyes to see Abby inches in front of my face, front paws on my arm just watching me. She eased her head forward and held her muzzle against my face. (What a little Angel) I got up and took her out to pee, afterward went back to bed and she was playing at the foot of the bed with one of her toys. I got a tickle in my throat and coughed, Abby comes bouncing across the bed climbs upon my face opens her mouth and covers my nose and bites me with her razor sharp teeth. (El Diablo) THAT HURT YOU LITTLE BITCH!

 That's Glue On The Cement

That's Glue On The Cement

Herc and Abby are getting along pretty good, sometimes she gets too wound up and Herc has to put her in her place but he is a lot better with her than I thought he would be, I’m thankful for that, didn’t want him stressed out with her here…