May 28, 2015 part 2

It was a cool foggy morning so after eating some more strawberries, I found one that was being eaten by a green caterpillar so that strawberry and the caterpillar became chicken food. I decided to clean out the chicken loft while it was still cool and after I took a couple of the old garden strawbales apart and added them to the compost pile. Now I'm hot and sweaty and had to take a shower, ain't even Saturday night.! Going to lose my "I are a HillyBilly card". 

Mail carrier just delivered my mail, got the Morel Mushroom growing kits with instructions, one step closer…oh yea.

May 28, 2015 - New Project

Next Project will be creating a mushroom bed - Ordered two of these from a Missouri dealer on eBay (Missouri Morel Mushroom kit Morchella Esculenta spores in grow mix media)

Grow your own fresh Morel Mushrooms!
Growing kit includes a 5oz bag of morel spores in a hand selected mixed growing media, and simple detailed instructions on the recommended time of year to spread/sow the morel media and also tips on how to prepare your Morel garden. $16.50 free shipping.
Morels are perennials and will come up year after year!

May 27, 2015 part 2

10am update; We are outside, it is such a beautiful day, here comes Roofus yet again and this time he brought a friend a beautiful female boxer without a name tag, she is friendly with the dogs but not so easy around me…

The other day I went into the grocery store and noticed the front page of one of the news papers; Black Bear Spot In Willow Springs. There was a picture of a black bear in a tree right in town, I wonder what's in the woods around my place…  didn't buy the paper and couldn't find the picture online so I can't share but it makes me love it here even more…

May 27, 2015

It was around 4am that thunder woke me up, it was LOUD.! 
Not one to miss out on a thunderstorm I got up and headed out side with dogs in tow, the rain was pouring down and the lightening and thunder amazing. Herc stayed close by pressing into my leg and Abby didn't seem to care she went a few steps away and took a leak on the porch ( better than the carpet ). After a few minutes we all went inside and was heading to bed when I noticed that Abby was heading back into the living room so I followed her and Herc followed me. She went back to the front door so I let her out. She went out to the kennel in the heavy rain and took a dump, for her it was a large dump and I felt pride in the fact that at 9 weeks old she went out in the pouring rain and did her thing instead of doing it on the porch or the bedroom floor… I must be getting old when such a small thing makes me happy.

We all came back in I dried Abby off and we got back in bed, she laid down next to Herc and fell asleep. 

It was 6 something thunder woke me up again and I took the dogs out again and enjoyed the storm for a few more minutes… 

9am the sun is shinning, both dogs are asleep, the chickens are out doing there thing and I'm typing this update, thankful to be alive, able to get out of bed, walk on my own two feet, and counting my blessing…

And Roofus is wondering around the front yard again.

Another day here in the Ozarks…

May 26, 2015 part 2

Roofus came back over this morning, still using my yard for a toilet, still running down the highway, still alive... Happy to see him again... Abby's happy to see him too, Herc not so much.

May 26 2015

I got an alert on my phone that there was a tornado watch for my area but it was too dark to watch tornadoes so I went to bed around 11:00pm I had left the widow open a few inches as there was a nice breeze blowing in and a thunderstorm off in the distance. 
I was a little surprised that around midnight I was awake, the wind was howling though the widow and rain was also blowing in getting the night stand and everything on it wet. I got up, closed the window, cleaned up the water and dried off the radio, a camera lens, my phone, etc… After that I crawled back into bed I slept like a baby.
This morning I took the dogs out, all is calm. The dog bowls which are about six feet under cover of the porch had rain water in them and some of the porch had puddles of water. When I let the chickens out there was a couple of small branches that had blown off the pine tree but that's the only damage I noticed. (Thankfully)
The garden sure got a good watering…

May 25, 2015

Walked though the garden this morning and ate some more fresh ripe strawberries... I could get use to this... lol

Put the American Flag up today for Memorial Day, I like it and am considering putting up a real flag pole, since I can't think of any reason not to.

Stuck the pole in the fence, and it worked but I didn't like it so I found a 10ft section of EMT conduit and attached it to the fence, stuck the pole into it with a couple of hose clamps to hold in up, liking it alot better...