The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Cyn and Klucky - congrats!

 

[1kluckychik]

Cyn and Klucky - congrats! 

Tyvm.
How are ur tomatoes doing?

 

[CanuckBock]

So far this year my broodies have been duds.

Broody...hey now, that reminds me...

Blue Belle doing DOUBLE duty,.,.,

Doesn't she cast one a great stinky eye?​

She's broody on six eggs...mighten be my first hatchings for this year...

Haven't even bothered to fired up Buster the Bator yet...wonder if Blue Belle will beat out the Sportsman...we'll see.

Hmmm...turkeys....hmmm...

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And yet, still got time to train some young up and coming stock dawgs.

These two old gal turks have the virtue of patience from living for years...stopping waggy tailed dogs DEAD in their tracks ​

Makes me grin...the turkey girls are focussed on nipping grass...we're MUCH too busy to listen to dogs... "coop, coop, coop!"

Emmy's dog tail is jest a waggin' - Blue Belle shootin off that stinky eye again​

The dog girls are focussed on herding turks...

Lacy's the red, is standing like a statue..."Holding, holding, holding STILL!" ​

So who won this test of wills...turkey girls or dog girls?

I'd say they all threw in the towel and went for a DRAW...

Dogs AND turkeys...grazing on the green green grass of home!

My dog girls graze with all their stock...the sheep, goat, llamas...chickens...yeh, COW DOGS grazing on forage crops...jest imagine that concept! Sweet...


Since I introduced everyone else but her...this is my first Lilac turkey hen...LoREDa...

She's from June 2008...well golly, don't that just make her an OLDer FOLK in turkey time, eh.

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And why YES...LoREDa sports a feminine turkey BEARD...got a problem with that do yah?

PHOTO BOMB..."So who needs a good peckin' to learn up some proper manners?"

How aboutin' a little chicken TV after turkey herding...???

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Yeh, did yah ever wonder...jest whom is watching whom?

Yard Roos...given back the EYE!!! We see you, seeing us...

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Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

 

[superchemicalgirl]

They're looking pretty good this year. The best looking one is a new breed for me - bloody butcher. The stalks and foliage are nice and thick and very green. It looks strikingly different from the other tomato plants I have. I have 2 tomato plants that sprouted from the seeds I got from you and they're looking pretty good, too. Last summer was just crap for me so I can't tell you how they tasted. I'm mostly out of my funk now and can't wait to try them. I planted some of your greens, too. Thank you, again, for your generosity.

 

[Beer can]

They're looking pretty good this year. The best looking one is a new breed for me - bloody butcher. The stalks and foliage are nice and thick and very green. It looks strikingly different from the other tomato plants I have. I have 2 tomato plants that sprouted from the seeds I got from you and they're looking pretty good, too. Last summer was just crap for me so I can't tell you how they tasted. I'm mostly out of my funk now and can't wait to try them. I planted some of your greens, too. Thank you, again, for your generosity. 

Wow!! I'm trying Bloody Butcher for the first time also, and Alaskan Fancy, both open pollinated heritage seeds, yeah baby!! I've always grown Early Girl hybrid...here, does awesome, really praying these do also.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I've never grown early girl. I plant a ton of tomatoes - I think I have 20 plants this year, and would have had more but had a few spontaneously die after the first transplant. My early varieties are Burpee's 4th of July (which I usually get around the 4th of August - my first tomato), a Ukrainian variety cosmonaut volkov, and Burpee's northern exposure. They do pretty well to tide me over until the real tomatoes start coming in.

 

[1kluckychik]

I learned today (my first ebay egg auction) that flat rate shipping usps is more expensive than USPS regional or regular priority shipping.

I can ship cucumbers,Florida grown (Sand Mountain) tomatoes, Mississippi sweet potatoes, red potatoes, vidallia onions, vidallia garlic, zuchinni, yellow crookneck squash, Crimson sweet Watermelons, cantaloupes,
Okra, now.

I am not trying to make a penny.

 

[1kluckychik]

Peas and beans will be ready soon.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wow tomatoes already down there? I just got my garden in last weekend, well, most of it, anyway. The kitchen garden still needs to be planted. I meant to do that last week but working overnights really kicked my butt and I didn't get to it. Supposed to be 90 up here tomorrow. Unfortunately over about 75 I think I'm going to die so I'll be waiting another day at least to get the kitchen garden in the ground. I am trying to plant watermelon again this year. I know better, I do, but I keep trying. It's just too cool and too short a season up here, even for the hybrids.

I tried to acclimate back to days today. Went to bed with BF at 9, woke up before midnight thinking it had to be time to get up. Nope. I've got to work nights again next week and I'm thinking at this point I shouldn't try to acclimate back to being alive during the day only to re-acclimate back to nights for Tuesday. The big issue though is that he's working days (his weekend to work, too) so I have to be quiet if I'm here. My sewing machine is probably less than 10 feet from the bed, so there goes that idea.

 

[Beer can]

Maters are hard in our climate, nothing worse than awesome huge green maters, and it's fall, frost and freezing. Early Girl has always been my favorite,super early, nice size and super sweet, but a hybrid. Trying to transition to plants I can save seeds from. These bloody butcher's I hope foot the bill.