Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Blogger is being a brat. It won't let me comment on anyone's post. :o( Anyway, I did enjoy them all. :o)

Don't know when I'll catch up, but I'll try to comment when I can.

If I understand this blogger thingy, I'll be on the road when you read this. :-D

God bless! ♥

Plant type post

So, remember the post I made here about plants in my compost?
Well, that very night and the next one, we had temps in the low 30s (0C) and needless to say, they looked quite dead after that.

But guess what?

They have all sprouted again.

As well as this one.

This one.

And this one.

So now the compost pile looks like this.

I haven't moved them yet because we still don't know when we are finally moving. And I'm debating leaving them for whoever moves in next if we are not here until they produce whatever they are going to produce.

Oh, my other experiment looks like this.

:o)
The yellow flowers of the Jessamine ( I think that's how it's spelled) I showed you on my last post are all bloomed out now.
And I think we are going to miss the Wisteria blooming at the farm (if there is any - but I believe there is); because it is all in full bloom here and they only last a week or so at most. Will have to see when we get there.
We have a lot to do and only a couple days to do it in. Should be interesting!
It's cooler today. Wish it would stay that way. ;o)

Have a great day! ♥

Five Days

Hope you all have a blessed week! ♥

Not so Silent Sunday

Hubby got the mowing bug so I'm listening to the mower as I post a couple pictures. :)

Have a wonderful day!

Thursday things - Big post, lots of pictures.

Thought I would talk about the outbuilding. It sits on a concrete slab. I've packed my book by Eva-Lou Joffrion, but I think the building is roughly 80 years old. The wood it's made out of is over 100 years old. If you remember, it was made from part of the main farm house when Eva-Lou's family lived there. It has certainly been neglected (between bad renters and weather) since my Mother-in-law came to live with us in 1980.

This is how it looked in July of 2008 when we were first offered to buy the family homestead.

With working here and the cost of travel, it has been hard to keep the area cleared.
Here is a picture from October of 2009. And we had just been there in August!

Here's a shot from October in 2010. That was a little more understandable as we were only able to make 2 trips in 2010. That was 5 months growth.

As I said in my last post, hubby has decided it has to come down. The main reasons being this:

But also this.

Yup. That is sky in that picture. That's why the rest of the picture is so dark. It's the roof in the 'shop' section of the building.
There's a few more pictures, but I've made this post long enough as it is, and my train of thought has completely derailed.
Hopefully we can re-use most of the lumber to make a new building on the slab.

If you want to see the pictures more clearly, though I don't know why you would, just click on the link for my Farm Nov-Dec 2008 photo album on the right side of my blog. I just linked to my webshots album for the pictures.

The weekend is almost here. Have a great day!

Time of change

I want to do a post, but my thoughts are all over the place. I'm sitting here going through old papers and trying to get my thoughts to settle, but it's not happening very well.

We're going to the farm the end of this month, finally.
But only for maybe a week--which means we'll spend just a couple days there. The rest will be on the road.

We've decided (hubby has, and it's not something worth arguing about) that the out building needs to come down. More about that at a later post or two, when I can get it together.

I love reading about all your animals. I love the funny stories, common sense and sage advice that I read on so many blogs too.

My husband's retirement has been approved. The only thing left to decide now is when. Knowing the government, it will be the last possible moment. Right now there is an 85% chance (my estimate based on all the factors I know) that it will be 30 June. If it is June, I expect we'll find out about the 28th.

Otherwise it will be the end of December, and I will be spending some time alone at the farm this summer to try to keep up with the mowing.

Here's hoping (and a little prayer) for June.
This is going to be such a big change for us. I'm happy, nervous and uncertain all at once.

Happy, Blessed Wednesday to you all. ♥

Was it 6 more weeks of winter?

If so, that should end this Thursday then.

We had frost in NC this morning, My mother in Michigan was warmer than we were.

Crazy weather.

Happy Sunday, all!

If you live in one of most places in the U.S. Be sure you changed your clock for Daylight Savings (doubtful) time. ;-)

Thursday things

But not really a row.

Just what I saw out the kitchen window while doing dishes this morning. :)

I'm guessing spring is here. :-)

Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Standing by to Stand by.

Such a military thing to say.

I really wish blogger would go back to the old style post form. Worked so much better!

Happy Wednesday to you all!

Had to share this

from Laura at Good Enough Farm because yes, I am a little geeky, too. ;-)

Have a wonderful day!
P.S. If this leaves you clueless, since the image didn't save right, go read Laura's cute post. :-)

Had quite the surprise yesterday.

So I packed my buckets to take down to the farm on our next trip.
I put my compost pile in my raised bed to break down, and to protect the 2 garlic cloves I had planted in one of the black plastic garden containers I was recycling. Covered them with some grass clippings and left them in the middle of the raised bed with the compost banked all around it.

Noticed a week ago that the garlic had sprouts up through the mulch. But that wasn't my surprise yesterday.
It was this.

We think they are cucumber plants. There was broccoli and Brussels sprouts in the compost pile too. but hubby thinks they are cucumbers.
And since he grew up on the farm, I imagine he is right. I know I'm clueless.

Happy Sunday to you all!
We have rain. Till noon, at least they say. :-)

I don't see how people do it.

Got up early. Couldn't sleep. Paid bills and taxes.
We have not had a refund in years. Don't know what we're doing wrong. Or what I'm doing wrong, but we pay in every year. Always frustrates me.
Oh well.

Hoping to go to the farm the end of the month. Can't come soon enough.
We've not had a trip this time of year. Should be interesting. When we went in December, we cleared the area under the trailer. Then we put a tarp down and put the trailer back.
Hoping to keep the area under the trailer clear.
But when it rained, we realized that might not have been the best solution, as water tended to pool on the tarp even though he thought he had it somewhat level. ;-)
At any rate, here's a Friday 5 of pictures from one of our May trips. I figure the weather has been mostly warm and wet, so this is probably what we will see when we go...

I just hope the fact that March came in like a lamb won't stop us weather wise.
Does it count if the weather hasn't been so great at the farm????
Happy Friday to you all! Hope you have a safe, blessed weekend. ♥

I don't see how people do it.

Got up early. Couldn't sleep. Paid bills and taxes.
We have not had a refund in years. Don't know what we're doing wrong. Or what I'm doing wrong, but we pay in every year. Always frustrates me.
Oh well.

Hoping to go to the farm the end of the month. Can't come soon enough.
We've not had a trip this time of year. Should be interesting. When we went in December, we cleared the area under the trailer. Then we put a tarp down and put the trailer back.
Hoping to keep the area under the trailer clear.
But when it rained, we realized that might not have been the best solution, as water tended to pool on the tarp even though he thought he had it somewhat level. ;-)
At any rate, here's a Friday 5 of pictures from one of our May trips. I figure the weather has been mostly warm and wet, so this is probably what we will see when we go...

I just hope the fact that March came in like a lamb won't stop us weather wise.
Does it count if the weather hasn't been so great at the farm????
Happy Friday to you all! Hope you have a safe, blessed weekend. ♥

Thursday Things in a kind of row.

A few more pictures from our last trip. Because that is my life. ;-)

Some sort of silos, I think.

Field rows and trees.

Cars and street lights.

Sorry for the blurry pictures. Hubby only stops when he has to. ;-)

Is it March or April that you wonder about the Lamb or the Lion?
Have a blessed day and a wonderful weekend!