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Thursday, 16 July 2009

Sunday, 05 July 2009

  • Sorry!

    So last you knew, it was dug and we were taking the plants out, right?

    Pictures;
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    But since then we've planted everything, some in pots, some out in the dug spots...and we've dug a few other spots than that, and gotten a few more plants since then.

    Also; had a crapload of trouble with rabbits. Happy fourth, though, and I promise to get ya'll more pictures over this next week.

    Until then; enjoy pictures of kitties!

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    Norman is paying attention to you.

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    And...
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    Bear wonders why we didn't have the windows open for most of his young little life (October kitten).

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    But the warmness of the loverly sun is too much for him. He cannot stay awake for your answers.

     

    What? Not mollified by cute kitties? Well then, a small tidbit of how exciting things've been around here for you;
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    ^ Gail storm. Nearly had three tornados outta this one. Absolute downpour...and yes, I was out in it to take this picture and shut the stubborn kitchen windows. This was about two and a half weeks ago.

    You'll see how busy I've been, no worries. The pictures will show you 'nuff.

     

Friday, 22 May 2009

  • The garden's tilled, now for the rest.

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    It was a rainy day when Cory tilled the first half of the garden plot.

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    He got windblown.

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    See?


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    Finished!

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    This week we've been working on the rest. Namely, Cory's on small garden plot;
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    Hot peppers and mint! What a combo. He also planted some chamomile seeds.

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    Pretty! And, we put all our plants outside. Today I'll take a picture of the near-empty plant room, the plant covered back deck, as well as of some of the beds we've already planted. We're gonna be working on the potatoes next, and finishing up digging the front yard for the corn, melons, amaranth (thanks J.!), and pumpkins. Our shovel broke. Oh no =O
    ...I told Mom our hoe'd be our best friend. The tiller also broke...and the folks who let us borrow it told us we couldn't break it! Ha! >_<

    So there's gonna be some delay in getting it all finished, but yeah.

    I'll also see about taking pictures of all the wood we've gotten for the chicken house, and pictures of my dog's pen where I wanna put a small pond for ducks.

     

Thursday, 14 May 2009

  • A few details I haven't mentioned;

    We have several more plants than we did before...started more seeds, got a few more plants, and I promise to take pictures of them and explain what they are (if I know, because I recall a few mystery seeds we sowed).

    We'll be rescuing a few, tomorrow, from the side of the road, before the mowers nab the poor things.

    And Friday through Sunday's gonna be crazy-busy.

    Everything's pretty happy, we've pretty much all we needed...almost everything we wanted to get (so essentially everything we needed to be happy).

    So now I'm just fiddling around with that pond idea, thinking about the seeds I need germinate (guava and cherimoya), and just in general being restless.

     

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

  • Pictures;

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    Our cats love the fresh air and are no longer kittens!

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    My brother didn't want any pictures taken of him on his birthday.

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    I managed to snap a shot of his silloette in the car.

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    But a picture was tricked out him anyways, as my Dad lurked in the background.

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    My brother insisted on eating cake shirtless. Mom's the one with the knife, I'm holding the camera, Cory's sitting there on the end, and my Dad and brother are the most obvious ones.

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    Dandelions populated the front AND backyard for the first couple weeks of May.

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    I turned the compost pile by myself when my Dad talked himself out of it. "It's too hard" The next day, it had already cooked down to this and gained a wonderful compost-y smell.

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    Charlie's worn out by the heat but you get to see him bouncing around his pen for most of the day, which makes him seem deceptively young.

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    We give him several water bowls when it warms up, just in case.

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    Unfortunately, Charlie likes to tip over his bowls alot.

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    By the end of two weeks the grass was too tall, though. Dad had just enough gas to mow the front, but not the back. We managed to mow a small chunk, Cory and I, before our neighbor took pity on us and insisted on mowing the rest of the back yard for us even though we originally only gave into saying OK for the graden plot. We got a ton of compost materials from it. Ran out of space for this pile.

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    So we made another one!

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    And another one! The camera got blurry because of the rain when I took this picture today.

     

    Friday, we till! Saturday we get a few more plants and seeds. And either that afternoon or Sunday's, we plant!

    I'll take more pictures then! Tomorrow, we walk to rescue plants from the side of the road from the mowers.

     

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  • I'm just a girl reaching for a way to live with the world. I'm a politics junkie, a writer, and I've never gone to a school. I love nature, I'm pretty frugal...and unless the tech or way of doing things is more efficient than the old fashioned way of doing something: I'm not interested. This is my micro-farm blog.

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