What did you do in the garden today?

[pennyJo1960]

I use less sugar as a given or replace with brown sugar BF is diabetic but loves his peanut butter cookies I use half the sugar only because peanut butter has so much in it things like that

 

[WthrLady]

warmed up to a toasty 54 degrees today, but with winds howling at 40, you'd never know it. DH weed whacked and scooped the stalls. I cut down all the dead flower heads and tossed them in the wild flower beds where they can self seed, or not.

Delivered pies to a local fall festival, where I picked up some honey hand cream and lip balm. She doesn't have enough hive to make all the stuff she sells, so I wonder.

Another local honey sales guy sells his labeled stuff all over town in grocery stores too, and doesn't have enough hives to support all that.

I found out you can buy honey for $1000 for a 55 gallon drum online. SO it all makes me wonder.

Laundry list of little things to work on tomorrow; new window for the coop needs painted and assembled, paint cans need sorted out, and the gravel in the corral needs moved back UPhill with the tractor.

I'm almost to the point where I can sit and WEAVE!

The etsy shop is finally open, but I'm not sure if I can post the link here, so I won't.

 

[pennyJo1960]

@WthrLady do not think they would prefer it but ask a moderator
maybe smart to ask I am making muffins I made apple pie apple sauce so it is in the muffins with bran in them baking now

 

[karenerwin]

The high here was 60. I took my granddaughter to a friend's pumpkin patch this afternoon. She loved sitting on the old tractor pretending that she was driving! She's 2.
Then I worked on burning out the stump. Made deviled eggs to take to a trivia event this evening ( we came in LAST out of 15 tables ).

 

[pennyJo1960]

Karen at least your placed right

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good morning gardeners. Worked on cleaning up the bed with the pole beans and cucumbers. I found 6 very large green beans and 3 cucumbers. I tossed the 2 smallest cukes into the compost pile. Got the laundry going. My poor rooster is molting and has now lost his tail feathers. Poor guy. I bagged up socks and a few other clothing items yesterday. We had a power outage for about 1 1/2 hours. Not sure what caused it. So I did the few things I could do without electricity. I got my scarecrow people out front, did some touch-up painting on an old buffet, then bagging up socks. Power came on in time for lunch. Not horrible. The weather is supposed to be in the low 60's today with actual sunshine. I haven't seen the sun very much over the past week. Have a great day everyone.

 

[WthrLady]

So I went to see if DH, who was working in the corral needed anything before I went inside yesterday. As I was passing through the barn I heard an odd noise, but I attributed it to something that was loose and blowing around in the howling winds.

DH needed nothing, so I passed through the barn again. I heard the weird noise again, and it was so different that I decided to walk around the barn for a quick look. I couldn't place my finger on it. I saw nothing amiss and the noise stopped.

I actually shrugged my shoulders and left the barn.

By the time I made it to the workshop, I remembered that I had left my work gloves in the barn so turned around and went back. Upon entering the barn, I heard the darn noise again, kind of a scratching and rustling noise, and yet not. And then it stopped.

Ignoring it, I went to the Tack shelf and picked up my gloves then .....I saw it. I swear.

Last time I checked, TSC pine shaving didn't come with the "stare of death option". Keep in mind the barn is shut off to the chickens as they dig into my stone floor and bathe and make ankle snapping holes of death. But she snuck in behind DH when we opened the door to the corral and ended up here.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Oh my heavens Wthr how fun she is pretty smart hen.. low fog this morning makes everything damp about 55 out

 

[igorsMistress]

Hello gardeners!

Not much happening in the garden today. I flooded the grass and pulled up a plastic barrier that went around the inside of the garden. I told hubs I didn't want it, but he put it in anyway and now it's coming out! I watered the lemon tree early and later I'll do the aloe when they're in the shade. I wet down the litter in the big coop and stirred it. It smells rich and sweet, it'll go out to the coop yard next Spring.

I'll have one more batch of chicks to put in the small coop by the end of this month and then I can move the bedding out of there into that yard by next Spring as well. That soil is either dusty and loose, or hard as rock, or dusty and loose on top of hard as a rock.

I've decided where to put the grass frame in that yard so I'll be working to level the area a bit and hopefully pick up the bricks for the frame in a couple of weeks.

Have a great day all, I started typing this 2 hours ago

 

[pennyJo1960]

Okay I took 4 eggs to the silkie they wasted no time clucking at them so probably can bring the 15 here tomorrow first go pay for the extra 5 pickup 4 blue cochin