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Beer can said:
I keep thinking I should downsize my garden. Then I think about all the awesome varieties of rare corns I could grow... Then I think of where I could expand my garden...lol. They are a couple I'd like to try .
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Do it! Corn does great along a fence or in a raised bed. The only tricky thing with growing different types is timing the pollination. Don't have your flour corn tasseling at the same time as your sweet corn or you'll end up with odd hard kernels in the latter. (We had occasional stray blue kernels in our second wave of sweet corn, but just dug them out.)

Some people think I give away stuff because I plant too much. No. I plant too much so I can give it away. Extra produce is never wasted.
 
Peep_Show said:
Do it! Corn does great along a fence or in a raised bed. The only tricky thing with growing different types is timing the pollination. Don't have your flour corn tasseling at the same time as your sweet corn or you'll end up with odd hard kernels in the latter. (We had occasional stray blue kernels in our second wave of sweet corn, but just dug them out.)

Some people think I give away stuff because I plant too much. No. I plant too much so I can give it away. Extra produce is never wasted.
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We have been getting quite a bit of butternut squash from the neighbor. Her Son grows a garden at their ranch
 
Well, DH and I spent the last 5 days building the Cattle Dog Bunk Beds. I framed out the beds platforms and after using wire to act as springs, padded it out and then upholstered it with an older but serviceable throw blanket that we had on hand.

DH moved it in and fastened it to the wall in the utility room and it looked like it was an immediate hit....until our problem Child Diesel decided that he didn't like the color of the blanket and ripped it off the bottom bunk.

Now keep in mind, in a futile attempt to prevent something like that happening, I had used half inch staples plus inch and a half wood screws with washers to attach the wire and blanket/padding to the wood frame. THEN, I cut 1X2 strips to screw to the outside edge of the wood frame over the upholstered area of the frame.

No way those silly dogs could pull that apart.

Famous last words. So this morning, we tore off all the wire and padding that made them a really nice platform to lay on and replaced them with 1X6 boards then put one of their doggy blankets on that level for them to lay on so they were at least off the floor.

A few minutes ago DH and I were watching them. There was Diesel stretched out on the still upholstered upper bunk and Ben was laying on the blanket on the wood planking.

I had to chuckle and tell DH that little devil planned it that way. He would have the good bunk and phooey on his brothers and sisters. They could sleep on the boards.

Never underestimate a Cattle Dog.
 
microchick said:
Well, DH and I spent the last 5 days building the Cattle Dog Bunk Beds. I framed out the beds platforms and after using wire to act as springs, padded it out and then upholstered it with an older but serviceable throw blanket that we had on hand.

DH moved it in and fastened it to the wall in the utility room and it looked like it was an immediate hit....until our problem Child Diesel decided that he didn't like the color of the blanket and ripped it off the bottom bunk.

Now keep in mind, in a futile attempt to prevent something like that happening, I had used half inch staples plus inch and a half wood screws with washers to attach the wire and blanket/padding to the wood frame. THEN, I cut 1X2 strips to screw to the outside edge of the wood frame over the upholstered area of the frame.

No way those silly dogs could pull that apart.

Famous last words. So this morning, we tore off all the wire and padding that made them a really nice platform to lay on and replaced them with 1X6 boards then put one of their doggy blankets on that level for them to lay on so they were at least off the floor.

A few minutes ago DH and I were watching them. There was Diesel stretched out on the still upholstered upper bunk and Ben was laying on the blanket on the wood planking.

I had to chuckle and tell DH that little devil planned it that way. He would have the good bunk and phooey on his brothers and sisters. They could sleep on the boards.

Never underestimate a Cattle Dog.
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It sounds like you could write a children's book about them!
 
Yeah, it's seriously like having 5 kids all locked in perpetual toddler-dom.

Diesel decided today when DH took him out for a walk that he wasn't going to listen to him after weeks of good behavior. So I took him out. Years ago I had taken a beautiful GSD I had to a professional trainer who trained dogs for the Peoria Po Po. He was one of the best in the state and Topper was a big, 110 pound bag of bad attitude. By the end of the Obedience class he was a pussycat. I still remember how to do the training so after 4 pops of the prong collar and some stern words from me, Diesel was back doing what he was supposed to do. Until he got to the barn and then he wanted to pull me to the house. 4 more pops and he just glared at me like "I do NOT have to listen to you!" I told him "Oh YES you do!" and we had a Russian stand off that I won.

He's definitely intelligent, definitely stubborn and as I told my husband, you can't give him an inch or he will try to take a mile.
 
My oldest DD bought me a second hand clock a couple of years ago that had a bad quarts mechanism in it. I finally got around to replacing the quarts mechanism and the hands today.

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