We are getting a light shower this morning. The heavier rains seem to be missing us. We are grateful for all we get.
Catch up time on the farm
We finally got the entire farm brush hogged. They put up some hay but it was so late, the quality wasn't good so we decided to just clip (brush hog) pastures and buy hay if we need it. We did have some carryover from last year. We hired the work because we don't have an air-conditioned tractor and the heat has been really bad with extremely high humidity.
Yard and Garden
Not much exciting to talk about. We are getting lots of cucumbers and a few tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. Also some greenbeans. The Japanese Beetles have been a constant challenge. They seem to like everything. So far, they haven't bothered tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers or herbs. They are voracious on almost all ornamentals and fruit trees.
Speaking of fruit, the varmint got all the pears yet again. I did manage a few peaches that I used to make jam. I bought a 1/2 bushel from a nearby orchard and froze them. I will also buy apples next month.
Household
During the first year of owning my Frigidaire range, white streaks appeared between the glass on the oven door. I couldn't clean them since they were inside. I just hated seeing those streaks.
One serviceman told me I would just have to live with it since a new door would cost a $l000 or more and that was the only solution. Well recently the oven went out and when the serviceman came I mentioned that I almost bought a new range just the get rid of that awful door. He told me just to clean it! I was stunned. He said to just take the door apart that it was not insulated with a seal. Well, I did it; it was a simple thing and voila! a new clean door,
I haven't taken any photos for a few days but here are some taken recently:
I have mentioned how I can't bear to pull up a good plant......this is from my Halloween pumpkin of (I think last year or maybe the year before). I placed a few on a bale of straw by the screened porch.....a seed germinated (I just left them to decompose).
and it is bearing fruit,
Another FYI, my BIL told me the sunflower seeds used in bird feed would be sterile; wrong!
and the little yellow canaries are already perching upside down to eat the immature seeds,
This is my zinnia bed run amok,
These were from packages of cheap seeds on sale from the hardware. I see some colors are missing. Next year I will buy them by the color.
Notice the tomato plant at the front edge.....It is doing gangbusters, but no fruit yet.
Catch up time on the farm
We finally got the entire farm brush hogged. They put up some hay but it was so late, the quality wasn't good so we decided to just clip (brush hog) pastures and buy hay if we need it. We did have some carryover from last year. We hired the work because we don't have an air-conditioned tractor and the heat has been really bad with extremely high humidity.
Yard and Garden
Not much exciting to talk about. We are getting lots of cucumbers and a few tomatoes, eggplant and peppers. Also some greenbeans. The Japanese Beetles have been a constant challenge. They seem to like everything. So far, they haven't bothered tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers or herbs. They are voracious on almost all ornamentals and fruit trees.
Speaking of fruit, the varmint got all the pears yet again. I did manage a few peaches that I used to make jam. I bought a 1/2 bushel from a nearby orchard and froze them. I will also buy apples next month.
Household
During the first year of owning my Frigidaire range, white streaks appeared between the glass on the oven door. I couldn't clean them since they were inside. I just hated seeing those streaks.
One serviceman told me I would just have to live with it since a new door would cost a $l000 or more and that was the only solution. Well recently the oven went out and when the serviceman came I mentioned that I almost bought a new range just the get rid of that awful door. He told me just to clean it! I was stunned. He said to just take the door apart that it was not insulated with a seal. Well, I did it; it was a simple thing and voila! a new clean door,
I haven't taken any photos for a few days but here are some taken recently:
I have mentioned how I can't bear to pull up a good plant......this is from my Halloween pumpkin of (I think last year or maybe the year before). I placed a few on a bale of straw by the screened porch.....a seed germinated (I just left them to decompose).
Another FYI, my BIL told me the sunflower seeds used in bird feed would be sterile; wrong!
and the little yellow canaries are already perching upside down to eat the immature seeds,
These were from packages of cheap seeds on sale from the hardware. I see some colors are missing. Next year I will buy them by the color.
Notice the tomato plant at the front edge.....It is doing gangbusters, but no fruit yet.
