Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Sunday, August 2, 2009

OOPS!! I broke it! x's 3!!

Yes sir!! You are seeing correctly, I broke all three of my hand diggers yesterday!! and I didn't even get the job done!
It was our Saturday morning to do Men's Prayer Breakfast, and that is a day that always throws my timing off. I come home and it is around 10a.m., but I really feel like taking a nap and if I don't get going on something I just dum fum around... so I did that a bit in the morning and then I decided to knock off a weeding project I have been putting off WAY TOO LONG!! Out front there is a post with our name on it and around that was a lovely puff of creeping phlox. Well, over time grass has started growing up through it and now, it is much easier to see the grass than to see the phlox. One of our tax clients is a landscaper, so we mentioned to him that we needed to do some work around the house - replacing some shrubs that have overgrown and have dead spot, adding some around the new construction, putting bark around the other tree... well, we had a crew show up and they had it done in no time... only thing left was a spot where we had a white birch that had died and needed replacing. A small maple was in our future. Well, I thought I could get my spot weeded and have him mulch both, but he was here and gone and I hadn't done my part, so ...there's no time like the present... I got started and got 3/4 of the way around and had broken all of my diggers. The one, I had broken the center fork out of before, but tried it in desperation when all else was broken...They are not that new and I guess it was time, but how sad that I had to go shopping before I could finish my chore... and guess what the weather is today.?? RAIN!! SURPRISE!! I'll sneak out between rains and get it finished, then I'll line up a garbage can or two of mulch from him that I can pick up on my way by and we're grinning!!
After all of this Linksys messing around, now I have a laptop that died. Not good. My uncle is coming home from Alaska today, so I'm hoping to drop it off there and see if he has any luck reviving it... that's the kind of stuff he putters with sometimes...

Friday, July 31, 2009

and here in my garden grows...

First are the things that appear to be Roma tomatoes... growing, slowly and greenly, but we're not complaining...

Then I wanted you to check out these green beans that I ate last night...very yummy. OK, I see the weeds, too, but I'll get over it. Perhaps today after work they'll get some attention...or tomorrow sometime... if is stops raining for awhile...

And celebrate with me and my little squash!! Hold on little guy, 'cuz I want you to grow big and strong...

Here are those first turning color cherry tomatoes... these are the same ones that I posted were the first on the plants... they've been waiting a long time... please, a little more sunshine this week.... just to get it moving along... I'm afraid to ask for it, as the rain may all go away...

Beans are picked and ready for snapping...had a rolled roast in the crock pot, peeled up some potatoes... and then no one was really home to eat it...sometimes you win, sometimes you lose... I ate it and it was good...
You know, I stewed about not having a rainbarrel, because I had that in my head that I needed to do that this spring and it has been promised, but just not delivered... and I guess I really haven't missed it so far!... Do you like my apron here with the chickens on it? I had a sort of chicken theme the last time for S&S and I made a couple of chicken aprons with yellow print on the back and I was going to give them away, but I couldn't part with mine, so I used them for decoration and then gave one to a friend and I kept mine and wear it quite alot. Aren't my chicks lovely?? Probably the only chicks you'll see in my yard, unless they are the hubby's idea...