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I'm happy not to have one!

Me and roosters don't get along. Had a pair of them once and their crowing woke me up too early in the morning. ====== Pulled a bucket of weeds from around the house and gave them to the girls to pick on. Picked more red leaf lettuce today, got started running lines for my drip irrigation...

I watered the lettuce/marigold/zinnia/crocosmia starts on the back porch railing. Mowed the yard yesterday. I ripped out the last four daikon radishes from the bucket and gave them to the chickens since the plants were bolting and the roots were woody. I think I'll move a volunteer tomato plant...

Since it's nice and sunny today I thought the chickens would enjoy a little corn cob volleyball. Should keep them occupied for a while. I hardly ever buy "treats" for the girls, but corn was a quarter an ear at Walmart today so I got a couple for them. Me, I'm not a big fan of fresh corn.

I've given my chickens grapes larger than that before and they just gulped them down whole. No problems other than some got the runs if they ate too many.

Got another shot in the knee today, this time hyaluronic acid, aka rooster comb gel. Two more to go. I tried switching to a different chicken feed last month. Xcel was a few bucks cheaper than the CHS payback feed I bought before. Xcel pellets are larger and the feed is lower in protein (16%...

I got the cornstarch gel carrot seeds planted, took a break, then went out and picked the red Russian kale. The leaves filled one side of the kitchen sink to overflowing. I filled two 1 gallon bags with the trimmed leaves for the freezer and have the chopped up stems cooking on the stove. I...

I just made the cornstarch gel for planting my carrot seeds today. It's on the back porch cooling down now. I'll try to get the okra plants into the garden too. Something nipped the top off of one of the marigold plants in the garden again last night. Hmmm, don't know what it could be.

Sorry about Clair.

I'm going to try bok choi again as a fall crop. Maybe those pests aren't around as much late in the season.

I up-potted 15 basil seedlings and the six crocosmia seedlings that sprouted from seeds I saved last fall. I don't need 15 basil plants but I'll put them somewhere. I don't like to waste the little sprouts if I can help it and they should make good companion plants for something. I decided to...

I sprayed my brassica plants with BT yesterday evening. Cabbage worms or something similar have been eating bok choi plants like they were in an all you can eat buffet. They didn't touch the collard plants at all.

Not me. Something about eating eggs that were soaked in lime water just seems wrong. :sick

Pinched pennies today at Fred Meyer. Got $136 worth of groceries for $70 after all the sale and coupon savings, and got gas for 70 cents off per gallon. Finished mowing my yard and my neighbor's yard when I got back. Might fire up the weedeater later on. Need to get the 8 or so okra plants I...

Dang! Broken ribs hurt. Hey, you want to hear a good joke? They say laughter is the best medicine... but probably not for a broken rib. LOL

I'll still have a few things that will need to be hand watered; black currants, okra, dill and horseradish.

This is what I have set up so far for my drip irrigation system. Along with a box of connectors, tubing, valves and drip/spray heads. It's going to be nice when I can just set the timer and let the garden water itself.

I drove up to Centralia to get a cortisone shot in my knee. I got rained on both going and coming back. No rain here at home right now. Cooked up a mess of Russian kale in the skillet. Probably have it with a couple fried eggs. Going to sell 2 more dozen to my neighbor tomorrow, and will be...

No thanks. I have more than enough chickies for now.

Thanks. I just saw them in my new berry patch. The fawn was suckling and the momma was probably sampling the black currant plants.