Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

It is me again...tired of it yet...soon done, done like dinner.

'kay...black skies (never did rain or have lightening here but rather safe than sorry)...we checked on sheeps, all was fine, so girls and I go to the orchard on the way to the mailbox. Apple checking, eh. Check on the progress of the FRUITS!

Dogs are always game to go meandering abouts here (could be fud?)...dog walk with their distracted photo clicking human "Mistress of Doom"... Bwa ha ha...

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Still two apples (not been robbed by the wild tweets yet!)
on the tree on the lower right​

They are not huge but pretty cute!​

Ah but this tree...​

This was the first fruit tree we planted that one year gave us a bounty of 19 apples...and promptly tried to die that following winter--did it over extend itself and weaken for its bounty? I left it, the root stock (another colour than the apple producing part and supposedly more hardy to our nasty extreme weather) grew up but glad I never pulled it out. I have seen what appeared to be DEAD wood come back to live...zombie trees perhaps...should I be afraid??

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Seventeen...17 apples plumping out!​

I water this tree religiously because I figure the water is making the apples bigger and bigger. I am thinking PIE...an apple pie in the works (note to self...remember to BUY pie plates...remember)...hee hee...now be ready for the wild birds to harvest them on us and there goes the plans...but good thoughts and hopes prevail! Sometimes good thoughts are good...

One of three Goji berry plants left side in blue pot!​

Rick has been working like the dickens and sometimes all he SEES when he comes home is what needs doing that both he and I are not getting too. He saw the plant in my water barrel with white roots poking out of the container it was in (grew my word!) and mentioned I might want to repot it. Oh well, repotted it yesterday and hey, one down & off the TO DO list that never stops building...

Check...one off list ...now stop looking for things to do!

Very berry Saskatoons!​

Yup, been a good year for friut!!

Still making more berries and ripening on the branches​

Must prepare a shopping list...going to town later today and milk is on the list, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[Akrnaf2]

Milk?! With all the sheeps you have???

 

[CanuckBock]

Milk?! With all the sheeps you have???

Oh can you imagine the stinky eyes I'd get from the lambs! LOL

Milky Mom Snickers in center
Her first child D'Arcy on left
Èden on right​

Èden is as big as she is because she don't share! Born a single and nope, she'd be plumb outraged if I took some of HER milk. Shall I admit the lamb intimidates me...she'd hurt me Benny...hurt me if I made her share!!

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March 2016 born D'Arcy
Snickers' first lamb last year
Sept 14, 2016...yup, still drinking MILK!
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Milk and pie plates...still on the list.

MILK and pie plates...

 

[getaclue]

Don't do like I do. I go to the store for something, see other things I might as well get while I'm there, then get home without the thing(s) I went for.

 

[CanuckBock]

Don't do like I do. I go to the store for something, see other things I might as well get while I'm there, then get home without the thing(s) I went for.

That's the entire market share for Twinkie (nfi) sales! Spontaneous HUNGER at stores!

Hey, I had NO idea there was this much silly stuff on Twinkies...

Even a....wait for...Twinkies COOKBOOK!

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Before the company quit making them and folded...

I did not know they quit it in 2012...outta touch, know to eat before going grocery shopping, eh!

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[drumstick diva]

You can't get Twinkies- really? They are selling them in USA and ding dongs, snowballs and cupcakes with the squiggle icing on top. They seem alot smaller than they used to be - maybe because I am so much "bigger boned," than I used to be. Don't taste as good either. They also have chocolate twinkies with chocolate filling, Twinkies ice cream, and some snack places have deep fried Twinkies.

 

[drumstick diva]

PS Thank you Tara for photos of BOTH girls. Are the next dog shows in Oct.?

 

[Akrnaf2]

Tara after the lambs are weaned keep milking the sheeps! Sheeps milk cheese, especially sheeps that are mainly on grass diet, are FABULOUS!!

 

[Akrnaf2]

This a young man, lives 5 minutes of me, that have a herd of goats and sheeps Thayer make WONDERFUL WONDERFUL cheeses and Yougurt!
It's in Hebrew

http://www.mydear.co.il/viewStaticPage.aspx?pageID=25

 

[getaclue]

They resumed making Twinkies, and are now available here.