Dreaming of Spring Gardening in the Middle of a Wisconsin winter part 2

[jvls1942]

I am back. did you notice I was gone? no computer for several days.
still have problems. I have to do a google search to get onto this thread. along with other threads.
regular emails are back to normal.
I should have put off taking a picture of the squashes for a couple of days. we had a long gentle rain. the squashes decided that they wanted to vine. they have more than doubled in length.
I worked in the lawn mower shed. have all the shelves finished and over half of the peg board up.
today I started putting things on the shelves. I made a hangar for the hammers. I think there are about a dozen.
I have to find places for two wood lathes, one miter saw, four electric motors, an arbor with a grinding wheel on one end and a wire brush on the other, plus dozens of odds and ends. surprising how much one can stack on a table.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I did miss you Jim. Good to hear it's just computer problems again. I'm sure you are tired of them.

We got about 2 inches of rain in the last few days. I cut out most of my tomato plants today, and cut the corn down. We feasted on tiny ears of corn. Wish I had planted more. It was a short, but delicious harvest.

I see acorns are falling from the oaks and deer are coming into to the yard to eat them. Fall isn't far off now.

 

[Callender Girl]

Computer issues are so frustrating, but I'm glad that's the reason you were MIA, Jim.

I wish my garage projects were going as well as yours. Mostly, I walk out to the garage, look around, sigh and run back to the house. I will have visitors in less than three weeks, and my focus right now is on the house. Weeks of seven chicks brooding upstairs will take many clean-up attempts. Of course, the dust, dander and feathers have spread throughout the entire house.

On their third night outside, the seven sisters were not a lot easier to get into the coop, but at least they stayed inside once I put them in; the first nights they popped out as fast as I could catch them.

Clearly, one of the Ameraucanas is at the top of the pecking order. Theodora chases everyone all the time. She may be a candidate for relocation to another coop.

One of my ducks -- and I can't tell which one -- is having egg issues. There's been a soft-shelled egg with weird calcium deposits on one end, and I broke an egg that seemed to have a soft shell inside, along with the normal innards. That one did not make the cut for my breakfast omelet.

Today I plan to see if my potato plants died a natural death and have potatoes underneath them or if the tops were just devastated by grasshoppers.

One of my Honeycrisp trees has -- far too early in my opinion -- produced three ripe apples. How many had holes pecked in them by birds? Exactly three.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Barb maybe your duck is starting to shut down the laying system for the season? Sometimes they can have weird glitches during that time. Hopefully it's nothing to worry about.

Deer here don't even let the apples ripen. They just eat them off the trees. If any survive the hornets chew them up.

Nothing better than fresh potatoes.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hello

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Hello

Hello

 

[ShrekDawg]

Hello

How are you!? What’s up!?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

How are you!? What’s up!?

Cats food was still there this morning, so everything is good. Cats are happier too. Glad that raccoon is gone. They scare me. So nasty.

Warm and sunny today so I will probably hide in the house and find stuff to do. You?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Cats food was still there this morning, so everything is good. Cats are happier too. Glad that raccoon is gone. They scare me. So nasty.

Warm and sunny today so I will probably hide in the house and find stuff to do. You?

That’s good!!!! Glad the raccoon is gone!!!

Cool and cloudy here so I’ll probably also hide in the house LOL

I did walk Brew around an hour ago now LOL

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

That’s good!!!! Glad the raccoon is gone!!!

Cool and cloudy here so I’ll probably also hide in the house LOL

I did walk Brew around an hour ago now LOL

I ended up picking in the garden. Lots of large beans I had to remove. They got away from me in the heat. Got enough smaller green beans for snacking, and a bunch of cucumbers. Strawberries keep being mush. I think they are too wet now and the fungus gnats are in the soil again. Not much I can do about that.