Sally's GF3 thread

[ksbkeys]

My sweet little Pippy passed last night. She had been dealing with salpingitis for over 15 months. I'd read the average lifespan after laying a lash egg is 6 months.

Pip was way above average in so, so many ways. Her comb was "above" average at 5 weeks.
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She liked to perch on my shoulder and tell me secrets.
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This is a fluffy bum Valentine.
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Rest in peace, my sweet little Pippy. Fly high and free.
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So sorry! She was beautiful!

 

[NanaK]

Pippy was a beautiful girl who was lucky to have such a caring owner.

Be free pretty Pippy, free range to your heart's desire!

I am so sorry for your loss.

 

[Sequel]

I’m so sorry to read about Pippy! You have some terrific pictures of her!

 

[saysfaa]

I'm sorry for your loss of Pippy

 

[Sally PB]

Thank you. The other two Bielefelders have seemed to be looking for her at times. Toward the end, they often sat with her.

 

[Sally PB]

Squeak, one of my two remaining Bielefelders, sat on my lap this afternoon. She doesn't like to be touched, so she sat there and I told her how pretty she is and how much I liked having her visit me.

Most of the chickens will sit around me or peck at the garden dirt on my pants, but they don't get up on my lap.

 

[Sally PB]

I picked/cut up 16 cups of rhubarb today. I'll make jam with it tomorrow.

Rhubarb is a vegetable, but we treat it as a fruit. Maybe to make up for treating tomatoes as vegetables? Botanically, those are a fruit.

 

[Sally PB]

I cut garlic scapes today! I ate 4 raw. I got the hubby stamp of disapproval on my breath.

 

[cavemanrich]

I cut garlic scapes today! I ate 4 raw. I got the hubby stamp of disapproval on my breath.

At least you know he no Vampire.

Jumping to another subject,,,
You posted on garden thread that you purchased Pea moss,, but it was more like topsoil.
Since I don't post, and answer there any longer, let me give you my thoughts. Here on your thread.
I am currently using up my peat moss, making my container grown pots filled. I mix it with topsoil, I get a nice fluffy soil medium that my flowers do like. My mixture also holds water better than soil alone.
The thing that you ended up with,, I think is called Organic Peat. It is in bags, rather than in a pressed bale shaped plastic bag.
I have used the Organic Peat in the past. It is good stuff,,, BTW.
Here is what I am almost out of now.

 

[Sally PB]

Like you, I like how peat moss fluffs up the potting soil. It holds moisture well, once it's wet. I've found if it gets dried out, it takes some soaking to moisten it again. When it sits all summer, fall, and winter, it get dry. I've found I need a mask when I scoop it into pots, as it is dusty.

The stuff I bought was bagged, but not a compress bale, as you show. I think that's what I bought a year ago, so I'll be looking for it again.