I made some homemade lemonade this evening... I drink a lot of lemonade, but I really want to do something more with some of the lemons. I'm thinking of some lemon-blueberry muffins maybe.
You got lucky... It snowed at my in-laws (northern Indiana).
We are expecting low 20s tonight. It's already FREEZING outside. I need to go hook up water trough heaters and I don't want to go outside... 🙄
I'm pooped. Trying to get ready for the hard freeze tomorrow night. Supposed to be in the low 20s. Just for one night, of course... I've already moved most plants indoors. Went ahead and picked all the tomatoes, peppers, and green beans that were left. I'll try to cover the lettuce tomorrow...
I had a GIANT New Hampshire Red roo about 20 years ago. He was a gentle giant... As large as a toddler but never had a mean bone in his body. Neighbor's dogs killed him... And our pet boer goat. 🤬 Afterwards I tried to buy/raise another NHR roo but he tried to flog anything that moved. After he...
I should have some goat kids due around Thanksgiving... 🤞🙏🤞🙏
And MAYBE some rabbits too in the next week or so. I turned my back for ONE minute... 😂 Buddy was humping the wrong direction but may have gotten it right before I noticed.
I ended up with 5 chicks out of a dozen put in the incubator. One got shrink-wrapped in her shell. I had to assist to get her out... She's the cutest little runt. 😂 Way smaller than the others...
Four chicks hatched. A fifth was stuck in zip mode for 2 days. Shrink wrapped. I had to assist. It's currently still alive. We'll see if he/she makes it... 🤞🙏🤞🙏
Going to get a freeze this weekend. Tomatoes have 4 days to get their act together and decide if they are going to ripen in time...
Three chickens hatched this morning... None from the 2 eggs that were pipped but I thought were dead. 😂 Shows what I know... I had to leave really early today for work so didn't get to snap any pictures. Hope to have 7 fuzzy chicks when I get home tonight. 🤞
Yeah, I'm like 30 pages behind again... 🙄 This thread moves so fast...
We got our first light frost this morning. It was only in the low areas. I didn't cover my tomatoes so I hope they are OK. I have about a dozen really nice ones that are huge but still green. I left them on the vine hoping...
I had an old ceramic soup bowl I was using for water but she was emptying it really fast. I figured maybe she was tipping it so I put it inside a bigger, heavier ceramic planter. Still it was empty halfway through the day... So I bought one of those self-waterers that holds at least 6-8 cups of...
This stray bunny is driving me crazy. She refuses to use a litter box and keeps flipping her water bowl. Grrrrrr... She definitely needs an outdoor pen. Since we also have a buck too... I'm thinking about breeding them for meat. I've been toying with the idea of building an 8 ft x 8 ft hoop...
Yeah, it was like the pokeweed went on a rampage afterwards. It started popping up EVERYWHERE after my slash-and-burn assault. Thankfully it's super easy to pull up as a baby plant but there were literally hundreds of them for weeks on end that came up.
I'm really behind getting my stuff indoors that can't be left out for the winter. My lemon tree, pineapple plants, hibiscus, and mandevilla are all shivering... Supposed to rain all weekend so it looks like I'll be moving plants in the cold rain. 🙄
My hatch efforts are not going well... I set a dozen eggs in the incubator. Three were not fertilized. Four were quitters. Only 5 still going...
To be fair, my incubator did act wonky one night. Temp dropped to 96 degrees at one point. 😕 Not sure how long it stayed that low though...
I did this with glyphosate in the spring (applied Roundup to cut stalks). The pokeweed still returned/regrew later in the summer. It didn't get as tall and big though so you can tell that the Roundup definitely damaged the rhizomes but didn't eradicate it completely.