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Retired, housewife, mother of three. Picking up the pieces after God decided the 145 year old farmhouse was no longer the house for us. Praise God for His mercy and love!
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Because I can

Spent 2 hours waiting for hubby to see a doctor at the local VA hospital. Not too bad. (It was the emergency room after all.)
And another 5 hours to get a 2 hour antibiotic IV. We thought he had a sinus infection, but now it seems it may be a tooth problem, since they gave him a referral to see a dentist there.
Time will tell.

Our first potato. :-)Haven't dug it up yet. Need a potato fork, maybe?


Found it while doing some aggressive weeding. Covered it to hopefully keep it from turning green like many of the potatoes in the store...

Bell pepper...


Little pea and grape size tomatoes...


The joke is on me, haha. This plant is one of two that grew after I planted a couple of heirloom seeds I got a few years ago.
I thought they were going to be regular tomatoes. But when I took the time to actually research them, turns out they are 'cherry' or 'currant' tomatoes. (Whatever currants are...) The variety was labeled Tess's Landrace Tomato. Hence my confusion. I figured. Okay. Tomato. But when I Googled it, the name is Tess's Landrace 'Currant' Tomato. They are supposed to be small like cherry tomatoes though, and real good to eat raw and on salads. Time will tell!

We had a crazy thunderstorm last night. About three inches of rain. Nice for the garden. It was all needing water.

I have a question for those of you who use compost. How long can you keep compost before it goes... 'bad', if there is such a thing? Hubby likes to use it as soon as it turns dark. That's all fine and dandy if we have someplace to use it, but right now we don't. I told him we can leave it age, he said 'but then it just turns into dirt'.
Isn't that the whole point? He likes to use it while you can still see what some of the compostable items were. I expect this is okay, but can't you keep these piles for months before they get used?

Hope you're all having a great Tuesday!

Friday, April 29, 2011

Ugh. >:/

I don't like change. Not at all.

To help cheer me up. Any ideas for making a compost pile when I don't have any animals for manure?

I have cats, but I'm pretty sure clay cat litter, and cat poo, aren't wise to use, but I could be wrong.

Hope you all like this new look better than I do, though if you don't use the dashboard you won't have any idea what I'm talking about. ;-)