Good Sunday morning
(for those of you in my neck of the woods). We've had a fun weekend
so far, my girls were both gone yesterday morning. One went turkey
hunting (didn't see anything of course), her first time hunting too.
The younger one was on a choir competition trip for school after
which they went to 6 Flags. We have moved my birthday present (3
tractor tires) out to the garden and have started filling them with
soil.
Friday I think it
was I planted some bush green beans, in another week I'll plant more.
I am planning on putting cantaloupe's into one of the large tires.
The tomato bucket Silver set up, the tomato is starting to curl up
and you can tell it's growing. Still have lots of hope for that
plant. WE were suppose to have a week of rain and it didn't happen
most of the rain had missed us so I had to water my fruit trees for
the first time since planting them.
We set up a
sprinkler we bought a month ago this morning. We had bought two of
them but we discovered one of them didn't work. So right now as I
write this I have a sprinkler watering my garden. I do know that
technically watering passively near the base of the plants is suppose
to be better, however Nature waters the Earth from the sky so I
personally feel as long as I make sure I water early in the morning
(like before 10 am) and the sun light isn't strong the plants should
be just fine with overhead watering.
We have almost used
up the truck load of top soil and all the composted sawdust we have
on hand. I am hoping we can go tomorrow and get more sawdust,
however we are suppose to help out a neighbor get his log splitter
back from the mechanic so I don't know if we'll have the gas to do
both before Friday. Helping the neighbor when we promised too is
more important in my mind anyway.
I should be starting
to pull lettuce out of my garden today as well as some spinach, The
spinach isn't doing as well as I thought it would but it might just
be the amount of water it has had so we'll see. I'm waiting on my
transplanted tomatoes to put on some new growth, I am glad they
haven't wilted as they were very leggy. My peppers seem to be happy
even though we had some cold nights. Thankfully none of the nights
was below or at freezing, however we did brush near those
temperatures.
Getting some greens
out of the garden now is going to be a good thing as Silver had his
yearly check up and the Doctor at the VA wants to put his on insulin
because he's not keeping his blood sugar down. Well since we had to
tighten our belts when it comes to buying food lately we've haven't
been eating good for a diabetic of late so food from the garden means
it'll lower the blood sugar amounts. I have discovered watching his
testing that is the heavy carbs are cut out (rice,pasta,potatoes) and
only have nice healthy veggies (mostly greens) and a nice piece of
protein his blood sugars run almost normal. I just have to be
diligent with it and make sure he doesn't cheat any.
Still waiting on our
goats to give birth, and since I'm not sure when Oreo got them
pregnant I am going to be surprised. I have ducklings coming soon
and in a couple weeks Strawberry will have a new pen. We still need
to find her a boy friend though. Why is it people always are selling
what you need when you can't afford it?
Well hope everyone
has a good Sunday.
Be Well, Be Safe,
and Blessed Be...
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