What did you do in the garden today?

[CNJ]

I love the fallout universe. I heard they were bringing a TV series out based on it. When I was working in and around Kalgoorlie it would give me fallout vibes. Just a wasteland.

Check this one out, you may find it interesting. However, you will have to search for more eps on You Tube if you get hook. I am on eps 26, this is a random 1-10 sponsor, you have to watch through eps one to understand the reincarnation plot.

 

[akroberts1085]

It doesn't matter what kind of acorns you have they will work. Hull the acorns, put them in a bucket of water and every time the water turns brown change the water but leave the acorns in the water. It takes a few days to get the water to remain clear. Drain the water and let them dry. You can put them in the oven to dry if you want. They have to be thoroughly dry you can grind them up into flour. Use a sifter for the large parts. This recipe is costing me a big hug to my mom and dad.

 

[Sally PB]

@akroberts1085, thank you! and THANK YOU to your mom and dad.
Hugs for all of you.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I lived in Australia (Adelaide) as a child in the early 70's, at 9--13-y-o. I miss it so much, I would move back in a minute if they would take me, at my old age and non-moneyed clas
As kids, we caught blue tail lizards, really beautiful and graceful. If we handled them too roughly, they would discard their tails, escaping and leaving their tails by themselves, wriggling. So disgusting - so we learned to handle them gently.
Also stumpy-tail lizards (some considered them skinks) they were so cute and puffy, with dark black/blue thick scales. Both of these were 1 foot long, but not dangerous as long as we handled them gently and then let them go.

We were afraid of the brown snakes, they were poisonous and 6-8 ft long, we avoided them in the garden but a couple times they got into the house and hid where it was cool - we got out, turned up the heat until they decided to leave.

One time we had a goanna - really big, aggressive-acting and quick-moving. It escaped and we tried to not ever think about it again! Lots of large spiders, some poisonous and some not (the most dangerous, Redback was small, and we never had any of those.) We would gently catch them and put them outside.
There were also scorpions, small ones that were fun to watch, slow enough to step on if they came in the house.

There were wild Koalas in the trees around our property - I remember our parents yelling when my sister and I climbed the tree to pet the wild mother koala and her baby - what big, sharp claws!
We were good at imitating Koala talk - gshnurt, gnursht, shnurt, grunt, grunt.

Maybe it's better that Australia's immigration laws won't let me back - because maybe my wonderful memories would be ruined by yje way things are now. Koalas are now endangered, not living in every nearby tree.

My best friend growing up was from Queensland. We were pen pals for years and eventually became her host family in high school. She was always amazed that I had a pet snake... Something no sane Aussie would ever do.

I took my DH over there right after we were married. We had so much fun and absolutely loved it. We stayed with my friend and her family. That was also back when Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) was famous in the US but not yet in Australia. We told my friend that we MUST visit Australia Zoo. They all responded saying "that guy is a weirdo..." Of course now he's a national treasure.

 

[WthrLady]

Had the electrician out today to install 5 new highbay lights in the garage. (High ceilings) They are replacing the 5 8 foot long double bulb fluorescent bulb units. The old units are VERY yellow, and feel dark to me, and the cost of replacement bulbs is NUTS. LOL (She looks at her new light and electrician bill, laughing.)
The new ones are LED 40 W each less per unit, and 18,000 lumens per unit and 5000K daylight bright.
The old were 16,800 lumens per unit.

OMG you can see my garage from the space station now! LOL. I told DH we could candle eggs by these things, HECK we could candle the CHICKEN with these things.

7 more are coming next week for the workshop. THAT will be amazing to have BRIGHT white lights out there.

No gardening. Just doing other stuff as the leaves change.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I’ve been reading similar posts here and there. We usually have various types of doves in our yard but none this year. There’s a single male quail that has been in my yard, but no other and they’re typically in coveys. I wonder what’s going on.

Today I did see a bunch of cardinals and a blue Jay down by the garden... I only have 1 feeder in the garden and haven't filled it yet. But none of those birds seem to venture up by the house. All the feeders are still untouched.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I’m sorry, for clarification was this on concrete or a dirt floor?

I use deep litter in my coop, straw and pine shavings. Definitely don’t have a problem with it being wet. I clean my coop in Spring and let the litter stay pretty dry through summer. When it’s chilly at night I start wetting it down and tossing treats in there to encourage the girls to stir it up for me. I still have to turn it with a fork from time, but it’s well on it’s way to compost when I clean it out. Then I move it elsewhere to finish to start again.

The stinky gross deep litter occurred in my first coop that had a plastic floor made from industrial pallets.

The deep litter I use in the duck coop (winter only) is on bare ground and doesn't stink at all.

 

[TJAnonymous]

I wish we had a basement here, I don’t have a way to store root vegetables for long as it’s too warm in the house.

Same. I'd love to put in a root cellar but the bedrock is 2 - 4ft down and we have a high water table. That's what you get living on the side of a ridge...

 

[igorsMistress]

The stinky gross deep litter occurred in my first coop that had a plastic floor made from industrial pallets.

The deep litter I use in the duck coop (winter only) is on bare ground and doesn't stink at all.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I made 2 loaves of pumpkin bread and 2 pans of pumpkin bars with cream cheese frosting from the sugar bear pie pumpkins from the garden.
1 pan of pumpkin bars went to my mom today for her 66th birthday.