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Where the "XXX" are...are where photos should go...no service from service provider...no surprise. Beautiful day here and everyone must be inside clogging the lines...happens every year here when it gets nicer weather going. No matter as I should be use to it by now <agh!>...Internet service provider bills have been $80Jan, $100Feb, and now $120Mar for the last three months...incredible! Technology is like that...progress I think they call it??? The candy bar gets smaller, new packaging the consumer pays for when they jack the price for less but more cost. Nothing surprises me no more's.
Dinner last night.
No, I cannot say that I did not choose to cook shrimp for Rick and I...I chose shrimp and steak for Fixins. Trying to balance what she eats...egg, cottage cheese, liver, fowl, beef...now some seafood...SEE food and EAT it!
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Mornin' AJ...
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You are most welcome...here is one thing Rick did yesterday.
Had this headliner IN the house, he says for a year now. LMBO
And lots of helper from dog dog...
5XXX
A few laps around to see what Rick is doing...and
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A greeting!
7XXX
Few more laps around and then back to house for another nap.
8XXX
After the rest up...then back to see what he's doing... he cannot be trusted to know what to do without Fixins...
11XXX
Old panels are off and truck is awaiting her new outfit
12XXX
Good thing the dog was there to make sure things are they are suppose to be. :-D
13XXX
Yeh, close your eyes and envision a house with plushies and plastics for genetics lessons...a house that contains various vehicle parts. Yes, a comfy home that is a functioning FARMY kinda house where one knows better than to go digging too deeply in any of the freezers...LMBO. There is colostrum in thar from various beasts...a placenta I finally threw out five years back of a cria...use to have various poultry carcasses awaiting burial in the Three Kings Pet Cemetery plot (Stephen Edwin King wrote on that one)...but lost NO birds this winter so that was good...even so, it did get warm a few weeks back, so coulda done buried what needed burying eh. How morbid huh? We have special pets like Quasse Motto and one of my first bantam ducks Buffy...
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Ah yes, the warm weather pleasures of no internet service and then the proper pleasures...of the CORNy kind!
I am looking at corn seeds of not the usual bi-colours, eh. Not sure if I will have the weather here for it, but would like to maybe get this combo for NEXT year. I am bad as I am thinking...hmmm...with all that composted bedding along the one stretch of pasture...that Rick just tilled...I could do up a t-post and combo panel growing area...then there are the squash (or was it melons, or beans...hmmm...) that use the corn stalks as supports to grow up. I am doing alot of hmming right now...not sure my energy and time levels...if it is a DRY year, do I want to be hauling water to make sure the plants grow...dunoo... Funny that, lots of hmming going on.
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/specialty.html:
I do have Fire Pink Calico on my getting littler all the time seed list. Hmmm...
Five pages in his paper catalogue on corn alone...oh it is so HARD to choose just a few...my my my...brown, or blue, or pink or purple, or white, strawberry, or rainbow...dent, flint, flour, sweet...
I may save this Strubbes' corn collection for buying up next year and do some pre-planning...get the area all set up so all I gotta do is walk along and drop seed and cover...Hmmm.... Then hope like mad that it is a long good season for growing corn here. I have done corn successfully here, but it entails babying it. Start it in peat pots (corn HATES its roots disturbed...) and put them under cloches (plastic milk jugs with cap off, bottoms cut out). When I lived on the WEsT Coast...I would also have the luxury of doing that the Indians did, put a fish below in each corn hole...(for the extra nitrogen was it?) and man alive could I grow corn there. Not suppose to on the Northern end of Vancouver Island...far too cold, damp and dreary...would not sprout outside, would rot and get all sorts of wet plant issues...but for whatever reason, I grew respectable cobs of BABIED corn to harvest in the garden only after the pot of water was on the boil on the stove...Now I put cobs in cold water and turn on the heat...when it boils, cover and shut off...done perfectly. I have a recipe that calls for a 1/2 cup of dry white wine to be added with some sugar, but I skip that part...perfect corn is the kind you can GROW yourself and harvest quickly to consume moments later!
My Gran sent us home...long train trip there to Winnipeg from Nor Island, but she sent us home that one summer, my Sis and I, with corn in the husk, with butter dripping, hot wrapped in tin foil. From her huge century lot garden...she's the one that hid chooks in her garden shed in the city. My renegade Gran. I miss her...so much...she would be SO proud of us and what we are doing here.
Yesterday we noted that Fixins is getting progressively weaker. Expected.
She does alot of sleeping and when out for a walk-about, she staggers sooner.
She would not take any pieces from me. Uh oh...but no worries, it was NOT the making shwimps and steak that was the problem...turns out it sure worked...
While this morn she turned her nose up to ME feeding her for the first time. It was Rick to the rescue! He saved her some steak slices and he went to the kitchen to retrieve it from the fridge where I had stowed it away from last night's din. Yeh...she eats...praise the powers that be. SHE EATS...she drinks, she still takes a leak...she EATS...she lives another day! YAH!!!!
Dad came to the rescue...
Well good on Fixinsr...she knows how to speak her mind and her mind said it was, "Dad that was going to feed her this morning"...pretty sweet eh! Them Cattle Dogs always include everyone in the Fam in some way. Today, Fixins said, "Dad feeds me breakfast!"... too cute! <hugs>
So hoping service comes back ON so I can post all the XXX's on here as actual photos. A minor irritation at first but over the past three years now...this is one of those ones that is progressively getting worse & worse (dial up was never this bad--we had service even if we could not do much data exchange...at least it reflected that and was cheap cheep! I still have service, not nothing like now) and may have irreversible repercussions if they keep this up; jacking our bills because of their inabilities to provide a service they say they can. Not in my control and seems to be costing us some serious $ more and more...I feel that $300 for 3 months (phone is not in there) is ridiculous and that would have easily covered my current seed bill that I have been shaving items off to make more affordable. Not sure...not sure where this is going...
Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
Where the "XXX" are...are where photos should go...no service from service provider...no surprise. Beautiful day here and everyone must be inside clogging the lines...happens every year here when it gets nicer weather going. No matter as I should be use to it by now <agh!>...Internet service provider bills have been $80Jan, $100Feb, and now $120Mar for the last three months...incredible! Technology is like that...progress I think they call it??? The candy bar gets smaller, new packaging the consumer pays for when they jack the price for less but more cost. Nothing surprises me no more's.
Dinner last night.
aXXX
No, I cannot say that I did not choose to cook shrimp for Rick and I...I chose shrimp and steak for Fixins. Trying to balance what she eats...egg, cottage cheese, liver, fowl, beef...now some seafood...SEE food and EAT it!
bXXX
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Mornin' AJ...
Quote:
You are most welcome...here is one thing Rick did yesterday.
1XXX
Had this headliner IN the house, he says for a year now. LMBO
2XXX
Lookin' spiffy, eh!
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Lookin' spiffy, eh!
3XXX
And lots of helper from dog dog...
4XXX
She was out and about making her inspections yesterday
And out and about making inspections on the proceedings again today! (I can't even get service now to add smilies...yeh...wonderbar! :-/)She was out and about making her inspections yesterday
5XXX
A few laps around to see what Rick is doing...and
6XXX
A greeting!
7XXX
Few more laps around and then back to house for another nap.
8XXX
9XXX
Back out to inspect.
10XXX
Lookit, he's installing the new door panels...affixing the pocketsBack out to inspect.
10XXX
11XXX
Old panels are off and truck is awaiting her new outfit
12XXX
Good thing the dog was there to make sure things are they are suppose to be. :-D
13XXX
Yeh, close your eyes and envision a house with plushies and plastics for genetics lessons...a house that contains various vehicle parts. Yes, a comfy home that is a functioning FARMY kinda house where one knows better than to go digging too deeply in any of the freezers...LMBO. There is colostrum in thar from various beasts...a placenta I finally threw out five years back of a cria...use to have various poultry carcasses awaiting burial in the Three Kings Pet Cemetery plot (Stephen Edwin King wrote on that one)...but lost NO birds this winter so that was good...even so, it did get warm a few weeks back, so coulda done buried what needed burying eh. How morbid huh? We have special pets like Quasse Motto and one of my first bantam ducks Buffy...

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Ah yes, the warm weather pleasures of no internet service and then the proper pleasures...of the CORNy kind!
I am looking at corn seeds of not the usual bi-colours, eh. Not sure if I will have the weather here for it, but would like to maybe get this combo for NEXT year. I am bad as I am thinking...hmmm...with all that composted bedding along the one stretch of pasture...that Rick just tilled...I could do up a t-post and combo panel growing area...then there are the squash (or was it melons, or beans...hmmm...) that use the corn stalks as supports to grow up. I am doing alot of hmming right now...not sure my energy and time levels...if it is a DRY year, do I want to be hauling water to make sure the plants grow...dunoo... Funny that, lots of hmming going on.
http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/catalog/specialty.html:
I do have Fire Pink Calico on my getting littler all the time seed list. Hmmm...

Five pages in his paper catalogue on corn alone...oh it is so HARD to choose just a few...my my my...brown, or blue, or pink or purple, or white, strawberry, or rainbow...dent, flint, flour, sweet...

I may save this Strubbes' corn collection for buying up next year and do some pre-planning...get the area all set up so all I gotta do is walk along and drop seed and cover...Hmmm.... Then hope like mad that it is a long good season for growing corn here. I have done corn successfully here, but it entails babying it. Start it in peat pots (corn HATES its roots disturbed...) and put them under cloches (plastic milk jugs with cap off, bottoms cut out). When I lived on the WEsT Coast...I would also have the luxury of doing that the Indians did, put a fish below in each corn hole...(for the extra nitrogen was it?) and man alive could I grow corn there. Not suppose to on the Northern end of Vancouver Island...far too cold, damp and dreary...would not sprout outside, would rot and get all sorts of wet plant issues...but for whatever reason, I grew respectable cobs of BABIED corn to harvest in the garden only after the pot of water was on the boil on the stove...Now I put cobs in cold water and turn on the heat...when it boils, cover and shut off...done perfectly. I have a recipe that calls for a 1/2 cup of dry white wine to be added with some sugar, but I skip that part...perfect corn is the kind you can GROW yourself and harvest quickly to consume moments later!
My Gran sent us home...long train trip there to Winnipeg from Nor Island, but she sent us home that one summer, my Sis and I, with corn in the husk, with butter dripping, hot wrapped in tin foil. From her huge century lot garden...she's the one that hid chooks in her garden shed in the city. My renegade Gran. I miss her...so much...she would be SO proud of us and what we are doing here.
Yesterday we noted that Fixins is getting progressively weaker. Expected.
XXX1
Sleeping Beauty
XXX2
Sleeping Beauty
XXX2
She does alot of sleeping and when out for a walk-about, she staggers sooner.
XXX3
Making a pit stop for a cool drink outside
XXX4
She enjoys her outside time
XXX5
Made up a plate this morn for her breakfast...Making a pit stop for a cool drink outside
XXX4
She enjoys her outside time
XXX5
XXXa1
She would not take any pieces from me. Uh oh...but no worries, it was NOT the making shwimps and steak that was the problem...turns out it sure worked...
While this morn she turned her nose up to ME feeding her for the first time. It was Rick to the rescue! He saved her some steak slices and he went to the kitchen to retrieve it from the fridge where I had stowed it away from last night's din. Yeh...she eats...praise the powers that be. SHE EATS...she drinks, she still takes a leak...she EATS...she lives another day! YAH!!!!
Dad came to the rescue...
XXXa2
It wasn't the FOOD, it was the FEEDER she wanted and she makes her wants well known...
Well good on Fixinsr...she knows how to speak her mind and her mind said it was, "Dad that was going to feed her this morning"...pretty sweet eh! Them Cattle Dogs always include everyone in the Fam in some way. Today, Fixins said, "Dad feeds me breakfast!"... too cute! <hugs>
So hoping service comes back ON so I can post all the XXX's on here as actual photos. A minor irritation at first but over the past three years now...this is one of those ones that is progressively getting worse & worse (dial up was never this bad--we had service even if we could not do much data exchange...at least it reflected that and was cheap cheep! I still have service, not nothing like now) and may have irreversible repercussions if they keep this up; jacking our bills because of their inabilities to provide a service they say they can. Not in my control and seems to be costing us some serious $ more and more...I feel that $300 for 3 months (phone is not in there) is ridiculous and that would have easily covered my current seed bill that I have been shaving items off to make more affordable. Not sure...not sure where this is going...

Doggone & Chicken UP!
Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
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