Google and Blogger are both brats

Hubby has new hearing aids, courtesy of the VA. At least one of us will be able to hear good now.
The dentist also told him it was a sinus infection and not dental related, based on 2 x-rays they did today.
While going out to the truck, I tripped and fell (yes, I am so coordinated). I was worried that, at my age, I might have broken my wrist. I still can't grip with it, and it still hurts, but not as bad as fifteen minutes after I fell.
According to the VA, I just bruised it severely.
We are blessed. :-)
Hope you are all doing well!



P.S. Hope this isn't too jittery....

Blogger is really annoying me.

My blog roll is not working. >:-[

This has been happening for two days, with multiple browsers. I get one blog. Whoever posted last. Frustrating.
So, after looking at some options, I am slowly pulling the blogs over to bloglovin for reading. Hope to catch up with you all in a few days.....



Have a great Wednesday!

P.S. Yay! The blog roll is back. :-)
Updated 1846, 18 June...

A little update

When I first saw this yesterday, I thought it was a mushroom and went about my business. A while later, I realized two things.
1) There is probably a fire ant colony in the mulch of this watermelon hill.
2) It was not a mushroom, but a turtle egg; because now it was covered in ants helping themselves to the unexpected meal.

Turtles from the bayou come over to lay their eggs in the pasture or yard if we let the grass grow much. Crows and ravens are quick to dig the eggs out. I am guessing that there were probably two crows fighting over this egg and it got dropped on the watermelon hill.
Today, it looked like this. All cleaned out.

Found another eaten egg out under the Stewart pecan tree.

Don't think we've ever seen any of them hatch; but if they hatch at night, we wouldn't see them anyway.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

P.S. Blogger is being a brat and not showing me any blogs. Going to try clearing my cache and hope that works...

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!

Slow but sure?

I keep telling him he makes the garden too big. I know some of you have much bigger though. We are keeping up a little better with the weeds, but the fire ants are starting to move in and that is annoying...

Canteloupe vines are flowering.

This particular variety of watermelon seems to be doing good, but the name escapes me right now...

A shot from the other side of the garden. I know it looks like a lot of beans, but we planted them mostly for a green manure. It was more out of desperation to get that row planted. We still have some space that didn't get planted, but I was thinking I'll plant some seeds for fall harvesting.
And yes, we need to hoe the grass. Just been waiting for the garden to dry. A lot of the dirt is green from all the rain and humidity. Temperatures of less than 90 make it easier to hoe, too. ;-)

Hope you all have a wonderful, safe weekend! &heart;