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

[CanuckBock]

Note the size of the wanny egger...that's 3.7 times a Jumbo chicken egg and Pearl is a mere 15 pounds!​

Hmmm...with the warm weather abouts...incredibly lots on the go here...so wha'ts new, eh.

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Originally Posted by scottcaddy

You Go Girl!
Scott

Sure gonna try. Har har...GO...yeh...give a GO!

I did a mental tally and uh, yeh...for the next 3 to 5 years, I better justify the thousand I jest spent on seeds, eh.

Looking at it like it is a grocery bill makes me feel a tad better...no pressure, none whatsoever to PRODUCE the produce!

Now picture Rick this late summer, peering at his dinner plate wondering "DEAR doG...What has she grown and is serving me up now...??? It's purple...and it looks like cauliflower but it's PURPLE!"

The beans, oh my I so hope I get a season conducive to beans...them beans, the more you eat, the more you toot...hee hee...no seriously, I want to do a picture like this one I saw that Hope Seeds has done, a single row of all the beans (and some I had to order else where like Orca--yeh, coloured like a killer whale!) they grow lined up and clicked. When I ordered from them, the lady said they take that display and never fails, someone steals some of the beans so they are forever having to tally up what kinda went missing in action...ha ha ha...beans - MIA, eh! And replenish their display for the next time.

Gardening here is such a challenge - it seems like it doesn't matter what you plant, there are dozens of things that are just waiting to take them down.

For example, did you know that deer like to eat peppers?

Box turtles love tomatoes - who knew? Apparently, so do a lot of other things, from opossums to birds. Forget heritage varieties; every disease known to nightshades is here, so we need a veritable alphabet soup of letters after the name to get the plant to survive long enough to bear.

My mother noticed that we had put bird netting on our blueberry bushes. She asked me, "don't you want to share with the birds?" "I don't mind sharing with the birds," I replied. "The problem is, the birds don't share with me. If we didn't have the nets, we wouldn't get any blueberries at all!"

Squash begin bearing right about the time the squash vine borers become active. If I'm lucky, I can get a few summer squash harvested before the borers kill the vines. They also take out the cucumbers, but that may be a mercy killing, because the humidity feeds mildews and fungi that make the plants look pathetic anyway.

I could go on and on, but it would be as depressing as our gardening efforts. Every year, I seem to spend incredible amounts of time weeding (and getting bitten by fire ants and mosquitoes) and have little to put on the table for my efforts.

I'm considering container gardening simply because it will keep the plants closer to the human habitation, and may increase the amount of produce that gets consumed by humans as a result.

We get NO saskatoons at all and will have to net them some time if we even expect to get some berries in future--share...yeh totally laughed with you saying, "the birds don't share!"

I kinda address the weeding part to a bit of kindness to myself. Not like I am going to allow tours here, so if some places get weedy...who cares--this is my dirt and it grows stuff. I click pics and post those and if'n anyone wants to throw a fit because there might be a few weeds..."too bad for you, don't look" is my take. Choking out good plants, that is the objective of weeding to allow the good stuff to grow. Plus there are only weeds because the soil is so fertile and besides...a rose by any other name would smell as sweet...so a rose in the veg garden would be also labelled as a WEED. I have grazed the sheep some years in the veg garden...some of those weeds were not so weedish to their palates, eh!

Nobody listening to my widdle sign in the greenhouse eh!

Yeh, I knew deer loved to eat all sorts of veg and flowers. First thing we did was get the fences up and going. The veg garden one was not even soon enough because I gave Rick the stinky eye when I found my chives snipped close. I thought he had whipper snipped the chives but nope...the deer clipped them. We knew we had to get six foot and higher fences up before we even thought a veg garden or the orchards were viable.

We do sorta OK with the insects. I believe the nasty nasty cold weather we get is what KILLS most of the plagues that could happen. I also was a tad worried when the two bun buns showed up (snowshoe hares) but amazingly, while they bounced about and left lots of tracks IN the veg garden in the fall and winter...not a carrot, lettuce leaf or any veg of any kind got eaten. I am so glad I never panicked and RE-fenced the veg garden.

I have to express my green thumb...even if it is a few plants in the Man Porch...but have to have some green growing...always have. Even in a one bedroom apartment, the balcony was growing lettuce, carrots, herbs and flowers...sweet peas and nasturtiums... I simply can't breathe air without the green growth going on some place near me. Wither and die without plants!

We have a greenhouse, but growing stuff in there is challenging, too. During the summer it's a no-go - it's just too hot. During the winter, things like peppers and tomatoes will bloom, but getting them to set fruit requires keeping it relatively warm at night, and that means $$$ for fuel (and/or getting up a few times during the night to feed the fire in the wood stove). . . . which is why it was so frustrating for Critter when some beasty was eating the tomatoes as they ripened out there. Something is chewing off the spinach, too. Critter has tried cucumbers and squash in the greenhouse, but once again, humidity = fungus; apparently, if he wants to grow cukes, it's gonna have to be a variety specifically developed for greenhouse production.

I get the too hot part...that's why Rick installed the louvers and fans on a heat sensor in the greenhouse. I've seen it easily go 110F and that's usually I believe when they fire up and begin cooling. We had a truck tarp on the tenplast roof to minimize the sunlight heating it up, that is until the baseball sized hail punched holes in it. Then he re-roofed it in coloured metal. That be that...hail on!

I have not experimented enough in greenhouses to be too experienced as of yet. Rick and I poured a very deep greenhouse foundation (he asked, how deep and I said, carrot deep which to me was at least 18" deep so I seem to recall he did 24 inches deep) when we had the house on the WEsT Coast...but we never stayed long enough to put a greenhouse top on the foundation. We did however remove all soil in the veg garden and greenhouse spot. Put down loads and loads of hand balmed washed rock for drainage along with a system of holed up drainage pipes. The thing we battled on the WEsT Coast was putrid mud. It rained and rained, poured and poured there and what we found was the moisture just sat there stagnating. Sure, sure, the snowdrops and flowering bushes all bloomed but we seemed to be always held captive waiting for the dirt to drain...putrid stinky mud...I still can smell the stench of me trying to turn over muck piles with a shovel...hoping against hope for it to PLEASE DRY OUT ALREADY! Nope...so we did have a good handle but never stayed long enough to reap the benefits of the drainage and the greenhouse fully completed.

I remember that greenhouse foundation quite well...Rick had woken up from a power nap (yeh, that be what men call it, eh!) and was feeling peppy. Truth be known, we were both fully crazy way back then; crazy, young, stunned and stupid. He woke up and we had the foundation to the point where the concrete forms were all up just waiting on the concrete...rebar all done up. Rick quipped, "Since it's Mother's Day, why don't we pour the concrete?" Yeh, crazy stupid youthful zest. Yeh, we had bought a small concrete mixer (can still hear it churning around and around like some cog was slightly off or a rock was stuck in it some place), so what the heck. Why not...you only live once. Yeh, nap in the afternoon, wake up and feel like pouring cement...sure...I remember we had to rig up some sorta lights as we continued our daft plan right into midnight and onwards...hee hee...Morons, but at least there were two of us, egging each other on to be insane together! I have fond memories but with age comes wisdom...never again be that silly, eh!

Bunny, you are right. It is very hard to get good veggies to grow in a garden here in east NC. Last year, my tomato plants were pitiful. Going to try a different variety this year. I always have beautiful squash plants and like you, I get squash until the borers come along. I did get a lot of cukes last year. Frustrating at times, but I love to garden. Here is an article about how to control those borers. Gonna give it a try this year.

How very kind of you to share this...THANK YOU!

I went to a poultry show this weekend and, Tara, guess what I saw....

So sweet...

Thank you EVER so much for clicking and posting...I am thinking a BIG ol' purse could scoop that one up...until the pup realized they were being stolen...faithful dawgs those ones...!! That cuteness would turn instant demonic jaws..."put pup DOWN now!"

OK...gardening...better address that because that is sure sucking up my time, resources and funds right now...such fun, eh!

Set out day is first week in June here...safe than sorry. My MIL who has lived here her whole life and gardened when it meant food on the table or starving...she says not to set anything out until the first of June...I listen to her up good.

So that means, ordered my catalogues end of December, hoping for all to arrive in January, many not here till February and some still dribbling in even now! NO matter.

Made my seed order to four companies, spent a $1,000 but the seeds I have ordered, some last to five years. Most are like 3 to 4 years to keep. Good thing. I have yet to receive the pamphlet I bought from Ontario on how to save my own seed but that will come in time for me to learn and learn I shall. This will help justify the cost of seed if I can take open pollinated ones that grow here and survive to make seeds...onwards and upwards I hope!

So in March, looks like my seeds should all arrive by then, have asparagus seed to plant because THAT takes three months, lavender and celery are at the 8 to 10 week marks. Then for April, the list grows of what I can start seeding up inside in the two four tiered mini-greenhouses...on that note, found a second greenhouse, not as nice as my first old one, but new version.

Old shelf on left, new "improved" model on right...HA! Way thinner wire!
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Picked up my second mini four tier greenhouse at a hardware store on Friday...on a shopping mission for the best buy and found prices ranged from $70, $50 to $45 and bought the $45 one. No castors but Rick told me just to grab one of the molded plastic struts and we can fit some casters to it that way. Add maybe ten bucks to the cost if'n I buy the same kinda cheapy ones my original $40 greenhouse came with. The metal has been really stretched thin on the new version...nothing like how sturdy the old one is. Oh well--them good ol' dazes, eh.

Feb 18 2016
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Got my one set of seedling trays all filled up and ready. Got the second one to do but need more mix.

Even thought to figure out how much seedling starter soil it takes to do up one flat of seedlings...5 liters will do one tray and the mix I bought is 25 liters...at five bucks, good to go as I need to buy one more and have both greenhouse minis done up. I am planning ahead and doing it bit by bit. I am sure I am going to feel way behind even at this rate, but slow and steady wins the race in the end, eh!

I posted some of this on the Dixie Chick thread but thought I had better post it here too or my thread will seem disjointed and missing holes of info...so here is some blah that has already been posted but needs to be here too to keep the thread relevant...

So mixed up what I already posted and added comments and more photos...get it all caught up to where I am at with the veggie gardening things, etc.

Stash of trays...fits up real nice and tidy like

I been hording greenhouse pots and trays for over 40 years (yeh, I know...yell DINOsaurus and be done with it already would yah...40+ years of hoarding leaves you quite a stash...an organized one tho! Even moved from the WEsT Coast with my stash well seeded, eh). Me so ever proud that firing up the greenhouse this season is gonna be way economical. I see my seedling starter trays were regular priced at $4.99 and I bought those ones off season for $2.99 and there's eight of those per mini greenhouse...$25 bucks with taxes to fill one...I looked in town and now those exact same packaged up trays, lid, bottoms, inserts are $6.99...Holy Hannah, eh. That be $58.71...so double yer expenses to buy one mini and eight seedling starter trays on inserts and ten bucks fer the seedling sterilized but organic mix...that's $130 to begin one seedling setup. Yeh, me happy to have a greenhouse/planting stash...

So far, so good...only bought two seedling starter mediums (need ONE more) and 3 x 32 peat pots -
under twenty bucks if you ignore the oodles of seeds I got ordered

So both minis will be stored in the greenhouse till I need to start the seeds.

Second mini green
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Love the helper dogs...

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Inspectors, helpers and all round good company

Feb 19 2016​

I am learning about saving seed, so thought a new bin would be good thing to start with. I guess freezing some seeds will kill them, so best is to have cool, dry and dark for storage on a general aspect of keeping seeds well.

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Picked up these two seeders, half price at $1.50 each. Should be good for lettuce and carrot seeding.

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Now not all the spring sprung stuff is on full price...I had two of these fish watering cans from, oh maybe three years back, paid like six bucks for them...on for two bucks so I bought three orange (use to match the orange truck tarp on the greenhouse but now I have all sorts of new orchard decorations in orange...these will blend in well. And two blue...ten bucks. Love these widdle silly colourful cans. I'm a big kid, don't kick sand in my fun times eh!

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Another find that I could have lived without...a small ornamental triangle dinner bell...$14! I can't even imagine making that, let alone buying the metal too..

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Sans dinner triangle...

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Dinner triangle... I suppose in an emergency...I can ring the ding and Rick will wonder why I am saying DINNER's DONE! and come check me out. Ha ha ha...

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Feb 18 2016​

Greenhouse is looking quietly ready and waiting patiently on me.

Feb 21 2016​

Veg garden is still growing ice worms...

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While I play in the greenhouse, I pop out and check on the girls...

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Make sure no one is winning too many of the squirmishes...they sure enjoy the time we are spending outside...brat babes!

So much wickedness...​

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And yet so much fun!

The King of the Hill play has progressed from snow pile to limestone pile!​

Lots of progress on the Dog Bus...

Let's review because she is done, other than the front, she's done like dinner now...

1988 4x4 Suburban - Dec 8 2015



Feb 21, 2016​

Rick put the mud flaps on...finally showed up and he's been doing the final touches to her.

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But of course, not without PUPPER HELP!

"Waz next Boss?"​

"He'd be SO lost without our help, eh!" ​

Front mud flap WIP - Feb 18 2016



Back mudflap - Feb 21 2016​

We have one set of these kind of mudflaps on the one ton...

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Luv how the logo is on the mudflap and ties in with the badges on the sub!

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So at the end of yesterday, even with Rick coming home from a day of work...he still worked on the truck here at home.

DOG BUS BEFORE...​

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DOG BUS NOW...

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Things left to be completed...Rick wants to order up chrome rings for headlights and a chromey grill...there are license plate lights too that need ordering, but for the most part...she is pretty much completed. Nice ride for them two muttleys...

Not caught up here on postings but done for now I guess...got me girls to go play with...later, eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[scottcaddy]

Tara, things are looking good!
Scott

 

[CanuckBock]

Just was not sure what it would end up being...but we do now! Over the top COLD FRAME of luxurious proportions!

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This is the back side and Rick figures he will cover the back in wood...the sides will be tenplast and the front...

Track on the front, probably had thick glass doors​

Well he is talking about putting in some vents that I can open up in the morning and when the real beast of the sunshiny heat comes on, these tracks will allow me to slide two pieces of tenplast right open--hot dang it is going to be one incredibly over the top cold frame. I believe this unit had glass in it. Tenplast will work jest fine and be way lighter. I suppose if need be, we could always glass it up but for now, think Rick and I will give the tenplast a go.

So while I was kicking tires looking around at cold frames...well we had all we needed right here...just had to think outside the box and repurpose this unit. Me happy, gonna be way over the top...

Need some sorta shelving for the plants...the dimensions on her useable areas are like 90 inches long, 41 inches high, 23 inches wide. I know we found commercial fridge oven racks for the greenhouse tables...might need to make a trip to the Habitat for Humanity store in Red Deer...see what booty plunder we can roust up. Nice to spend your money on a good cause and save and recycle items that often end up with being dump filler. Good gold, but as said, another man's trash is another's treasure! Treasure us up...hee hee...

Red Golden Pheasant cocks.

Bad hair day or did he jest gel the brush cut?

Caught some of the boys up in the rafters...I adore how they all sleep up thar...
tails hanging down to show where each one is roosting!​

My my my...the snows are a melting off quick

The ugly on the stick is...is this truly spring or will it dive down in temps again? ​

Wildness Dingoes; perching and a hunting each other!​

Rick and I bin laughing...when the girls are inside and on dog beds, chewing upon their plushy toys...it is EVER so hard not to say, "the Dingo...the Dingoes are EATING the babies...!" I know it's silly but we cannot help ourselves as them Dingo-dogs ravage the plushies, making them into PELTS (for those not in the know, a stuffed dog toy is a plushy...a stuffed dog toy SANS the stuffing...that is a pelt! Still playable because you empty all the stuffing out...but not as fun as de-stuffing the plushy).

Some clicks from Feb 21, 2016



Them toes...them twinkle toes waving in the AIR!

And "Holy...Leaping Lizards!" What am I feeding these two?
Better cut back on them rations, eh!

Ring in the BULL snout (bull...cow...cattle dog...is it too much of a stretch?)​

Call it whatever I may...Emmy is making this strip of Birch Bark disappear!​

"There, I'm finished with this piece...Now watch Lacy come have a look see!" says the Emmest



Yup, right on que...Lacy has to see if there's anything left...​

Lacy



Emmy​

Lace-a-Lot found a better chunk of birch BARK (woof woof?) worth her attentions



"Has that Lacy found BARK--better bark??"​

"Me wantum BARK! Yer bark...," towers the Emmy​

"She's a stealer...," says the Lace​

"Ummm...uh, THE best bark in the West...and all mine!," gloats the Lacy ​

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There is a time, a season to express all our internal loves. Time well spent now is with the family and there should never be any issue with shelving a few wannas for a time...then revisiting them with a vengeance.

Always keep in mind, you are doing quite fine by tucking a tomatt, a cukey, in a bed some where my Dear...do it and never with regrets...if we put off all things, we never EVER get to live our lives and whatever you beliefs might be...the main aim in life is to be living it!


Dr. SunWolf:
Right now is more MY time than ever. I can be as selfish as I like...my family is grown, my full time job is part time...I'm not quite dead yet tho some things should start dropping off me...expiry dated out parts like knees and arms...joints getting worn out...but like Rick's Stovebolt handle...TOO OLD TO PART OUT...I don't plan on having ANYTHING left of any value...no organs to donate, nothing left when I finally fall down for the last time...not getting back up, done like dinner, eh.

My one and only favourite son is over thirty--his need for his parents is limited and how it should be for an adult son raised up right. My spouse is just as busy playing with his hobbies as I am with mine...we have joint hobbies we enjoy together but neither of us gives the other much flack if he's pulling wrenches and I'm stuffing dirt under my finger nails. The occasional, "You OK? Me OK..." is good and the Loser Laps we do together (taking the white beast out this evening after our work day is done...yee haw!), well that is just THE most enjoyable existence one can ever hope to be having...time well spent sucking up each other's joy and passion.



I retired from my full time bean counting job (accountant) when I turned forty but when I found myself having very animated conversations with the birds and the birds were answering back after a few years of being unshackled from a cubicle...well I kinda figured complete retirement was not going to be totally healthy for the likes of moi. So part time driving school bus was VERY good--ease back into reality...kids, love them...was a good choice and it also gave me liberties to kinda support my noxious hobbies...I now work for bird seeds but then there are the lack of expenses for monkey suits (no panty hose, no dry cleaning the three piece woollens), no bagged lunch, no transportation costs...my job IS driving their vehicle. Bully, eh!

So all in due time. I know you will get to roll in the dirt to yer heart's content like I do when you wanna Wisher...just the call of duty is too thundering at you for now. For now...but soon.

Do know I am not doing this overnight by any means...the greenhouse here was built by Rick in 2007...in 1998, the push was on and we bought a huge amount of peat baled cubes and at first hand dug and then tilled the garden with my tiller I made payments on for three long years. The garden fence was put up to keep the deer at bay, the ground was done...but there was no time when every year we saw at least two to three outbuildings being constructed. Rick made me the Taj Mahal for the Mandarins and that be that...with 30+ buildings, past maybe he wants something special for HIS Ruddy Shels...the animal buildings are all finished. It was shear madness to think I could devote any more resources to a garden--not a serous garden and heaven forbid...the greenhouse requires power consumption to run the fans and to pump the water from our well...I had better be REAL serious about knowing I can carry this project thru to the end and harvest the potential bounty.

I can now justify the outlay of expenses to warrant my gardening hobby because I've eased into it and you can hear the joy in Rick when he talks about the veg garden. I know we both thought, WOW...will I ever get back to the dirt and was it all a big waste of doing a veg garden plot AND a greenhouse... but I have been slowly focussing on that the past few years and now...well now it my gardening time. Big time. Still gonna sneak dog showing and the livestock and bird production hobby as I have always done...but there is also a great rejoicing that because of these economic times seeing the Canadian dollar sucking and the price of produce sky rocketing...it is now quite feasible for me to play in the dirt. A small justification to say, "Hey a box of our own potatoes would be worth doing up." Never mind the goodness it will be for both Rick, myself AND those pea lettuce carrot and whatever else hound doogals will consume too.

Growing our own grub, that is never going to financially pay like the commercial growers do...I am not after that scale of outputs but I already know from the past few years...the tender lettuce, the taste of the veg and fruits being so fresh and picked ripe & not maturing in transit to us like grocery grub does...the fact that all the components are here waiting to be utilized...this is the year I get to experiment on tons of varieties of food...see what grows, see what seed I can save, see how this lovely hobby works out.

Gonna be fun and I am gonna give it a good go. Gonna be tired, gonna fail at some things but we gotta try for the wins...that's what makes us open the seed catalogues in the dead of winter and dream...dream BIG! If we did not have the personality to take our licks (hailed out, or frosted dead! NEVER MIND deluges of rain that can wreck the gardens or burning suns), our green thumbs would never have been expressed.

I think gardeners envelop the gist of optimism...no matter how poor the harvest and tough the challenges, there is always NEXT year, eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[scottcaddy]

Yes! There is always next year, and it is getting real close to the time for this year to start!
Scott

 

[CanuckBock]

Yes! There is always next year, and it is getting real close to the time for this year to start!
Scott

Yeh, totally relate, warmer weather than norm and suddenly, barely any time for chatting about it. hee hee...so behind I figure I am first.

Let's see...Rick and I took the Winter Sub to town few days back for her kinda maiden voyage with all her pimping stuff on her. Laugh my butt off...whilst I was getting some grocery...THREE times, not once or twice but 3x's Rick was asked if he wanted to sell the Winter Dog bus...nope and nada. Then the fella that owns the body shop where we had the rock guard put on her, he swung by and told Rick he needed to do the same...show the workers at the body shop how he had rigged her out. Well Rick was pretty pleased with all the positive attentions. I am not so sure I like all this attention but oh well. Just kinda want the winter sub for the transport of us and the dogs and never mind that it looks nice. Hee hee...

Rick did make me laugh though. Says he has to finish up his "chicken lights" and I went the usual "HUH?" (such an easy mark) "What CHICKEN LIGHTS?" (he said chicken so I'm all ears??) and of course, he enlightened moi. Chicken lights meaning more lights on the Winter Bus so we can be seen. Yah know, chicken of being NOT seen. Cripers, I walked right into that one...What a rotter he can be, eh!

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Three swan eggs now, six, or is it seven Mandarin eggs... count seven...

Wolves...yes, WOLVES were at my door this morn...Big BAD wolves...

"Hey now...we're gonna huff and puff if'n you don't open up!" ​

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Big and Bad...so what's new, eh!

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Like lookit the tails...and try not to bust a gut...

Rip and roaring, leaping and running...leaping right over a blue...a blue moon? The cow(dogs) jumped over the moon??

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Born to be joined...at the JAWS​

Just whipping the rope toy abouts...​

Beauty of a morn...to be out and about hunting each other
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These 'tainers...what Rick gets the sandvick board tips for the grader in...clean them up good and they should make for some nice seed containers, eh. Put the different seed for veg crops in; Brassicas, Roots and Others...might work well.

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I'm feeling weak...the spring is upon us, we are eating spring like dishes...potatoes salad, beans, mac salad, fried chook...yeh, feeling SPRING FEVER...

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Saw at the Co-Op that got another concrete dragon statue and well, I am feeling weak...there are these three (note helper dog in the greenhouse with me...always keeping an eye on me--might fall and not get up, eh...need rescuing by a LASSIE)...which I adore but well, uh, on sale right now is one called "Treats" with a dragon biting its own tail...yeh...feeling weak...yeh... See if I stay strong or go weak in the knees...

So better slip in a few pics I still have not posted...

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On V-Day, Feb 14, Rick and I went to Calgary but on the way, we been meaning to swing by and turn in our worn out forever socks and get new ones. I also bin wanting another large cast iron fry pan so I can cook bacon, hash and eggs or pancakes all at once...so turned in our socks for replacements and bought six more pairs, the cast iron fry pan AND...been waiting for them to get one of these in for like THREE years...

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This fishing fly is a mouse-rat and meant to catch Pike and some big trout...mimics, well a mouse, swimming on water.

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Always love neato cars...this Ferrari was in the parking lot... not sure I would want one in grey...more like want one in like RED er even YELLOW but whatever...not my weakness to buy one...I struggle justifying spending money on a concrete dragon statue...way smaller peanuts eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[scottcaddy]

Heel low:

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This fishing fly is a mouse-rat and meant to catch Pike and some big trout...mimics, well a mouse, swimming on water.

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Always love neato cars...this Ferrari was in the parking lot... not sure I would want one in grey...more like want one in like RED er even YELLOW but whatever...not my weakness to buy one...I struggle justifying spending money on a concrete dragon statue...way smaller peanuts eh!

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

The last one of these type of cars that I seen was in the U.P. of MI and it was wadded up in a snowbank and a tree.
Why do some people think that the North is fast/race car country?
Scott

 

[drumstick diva]

I was worried about you Scott. You mentioned something about the storm approaching yesterday and until now I hadn't seen a post from you. But things seem okay now.

 

[scottcaddy]

I was worried about you Scott. You mentioned something about the storm approaching yesterday and until now I hadn't seen a post from you. But things seem okay now.

My Dear Diva, Thanks for thinking of me

all is OK, just small limbs and one tarp shredded.
Scott

 

[getaclue]

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[Wisher1000]

Welcome, Getaclue, you will like this one.