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[pennyJo1960]

Why pray tell is there a reason to drive into a creek?

 

[sourland]

@Alaskan that made me laugh = thanks.

 

[Alaskan]

The reason he drove into the Creek...

It was a bit icy, and I had gone over with the kids how when going up a slope that is icy, you have to gun it a bit at the start, so that there is enough momentum to make it up the hill...

He, instead of giving a bit of gas, punched that pedal down.... and so the car spun out and flew off the driveway and into the creek...

Took the tow truck driver a heck of a time to pull it out... but it still ran just fine... just messed up the mudflaps and other non-essential mud guards etc.

 

[microchick]

micro--
All my beds are doing well with healthy little sprouts begging to be thinned... EXCEPT for the carrots. If I look REALLY hard, I can see just a few little green threads above the ground...few and far between and nothing equivalent to the labor put into square-foot gardening for their bed. Fresh seeds, too. I'm really tempted to plow them under and start the bean towers therein.

Had a couple of carrots overwinter in a shady bed. Gorgeous tops. Pulled them after a few months and they were all tops and no real root (I mean 4" long and 1/4" diameter.) Okay. I can readily give up considering 5-lbs is $2.99 at the grocery store. "Uncle!"

I just came in from looking at the garden. I think I saw one little spindly carrot sprout in a 25 foot row. Very disappointed. My stir fry peas are coming up slowly but surely. I'm finding places where it looks like seeds are missing so I dunno what happened there. Maybe birds digging around? My turnips are up thick and my onions are doing great. Beets are kind of spotty also.

I'm like you. The carrots can just not do anything and I'll plant bush beans there next week and leave the 'bean' area for corn and pole beans.

The neighbors get carrots to grow. Don't know how. Same soil type. I guess I'm going to have to ask them what their secret is.

 

[microchick]

That may be the problem, @CapricornFarm as our soil is very heavy with clay. Just came in from mowing. Lawn mower decided to choke out on some thick grass. I thanked it and came into the house for a glass of iced tea and a graham cracker.

 

[CapricornFarm]

That may be the problem, @CapricornFarm as our soil is very heavy with clay. Just came in from mowing. Lawn mower decided to choke out on some thick grass. I thanked it and came into the house for a glass of iced tea and a graham cracker.

Sounds like a sign to take a break. I am setting on my lumber pile listening to stereo rooster crowing. I just finished watering the barnyard bunch. Moved three young polish outside, going to move another group into the cage they vacated.
I was pleased to sell those young chickens today. Seems like these birds are bottomless pits.
Have a great day everyone!

 

[ShrekDawg]

The reason he drove into the Creek...

It was a bit icy, and I had gone over with the kids how when going up a slope that is icy, you have to gun it a bit at the start, so that there is enough momentum to make it up the hill...

He, instead of giving a bit of gas, punched that pedal down.... and so the car spun out and flew off the driveway and into the creek...

Took the tow truck driver a heck of a time to pull it out... but it still ran just fine... just messed up the mudflaps and other non-essential mud guards etc.

OMG!!! Was he in the car!?

 

[drumstick diva]

Microchick - worried about prowlers ? - send Varn out, he'll get 'em!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Keep snow in the screen room she is our doorbell never fails ....
Hope the speckled sussex do go today as we captured them last night
sitting in wire dog crate they dumped themselves on the floor loosing the shavings
put in there for them

 

[sourland]

@microchick when planting carrots I only covered them with a minimum of soil. This is how my Mom instructed me to plant carrots and beets.