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MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
Got up and went out to pick green beans at 6 AM!! Way too hot to mess with anything after about 8 in the morning!! Hoping it will cool off a bit soon......there was no Spring this year....just a week of nice weather and then it got BLAZING HOT!! Have been watering green beans everyday, that is the only way to get any. They stopped blooming for a while because it was so hot, but now are blooming again since I started the intensive watering.
Came inside and popped beans and put up 12 quarts this afternoon..HAD SOME BEANS!!
Also picked grapes. This is the first year I have picked them. Last year I just let them rot because I couldn't figure out when to pick them. They were green and then all turned brown and shriveled. Tried them and they were AWFUL!! When they were green they were awful. Then they were brown and icky and hard like rocks. Soooooo>>>>> I was going to pull them up. Well, just happened to go over there this morning after picking beans and they were still green, but really BIG! I tried a couple and they are DELICIOUS!! They are not like grocery store grapes....instead of being just sweet, they also taste SPICY!! REALLY GOOD!! So, I picked a big 5 gallon bucket of them and then came in and picked them off the stems and boiled them down and juiced them. Tomorrow I guess I will make jelly>>>>>white grape jelly. Never had that before!
Anyway>>>>>BUSY< BUSY< BUSY!!!!
So, now I have Odie, the bottle baby goat, who thinks he is supposed to be petted and kissed all day. He is about 5 months old now???? I think that's about right although it may only be 4 months...... If he doesn't get enough attention, he stands on top of his dog igloo and screams bloody murder!! He refuses to stay on a chain and thinks the other goat is a Mama to him also. He is SUPPOSED to breed her! I don't know if he understands that. He is certainly old enough to do it, but has not shown much interest. Maybe I will have to separate them>>>>he will really cry then!!
Next I am getting a baby pig and plan to bottle feed it also. They are so much easier to handle when they are raised this way. Much more willing to do what you want and more obedient>>>>at least that has been my experience. Of course I have not done this with a PIG>>>>only goats, dogs and kittens>>>>so we will see!!
Oh, also have rabbits too now. 7 rabbits that I got a couple of weeks ago. They are about 5 weeks old. There's one buck and all the rest are does. Now I will be able to have rabbit a couple of times a month. And now, they won't bust my teeth anymore on buckshot!!
I also have 30 hens now and 2 roosters. Sent off in the spring and got some Rode Island Reds and 23 hens out of the 25 lived. There were only 2 roosters. One of them is mean!! He attacks when ever you try to gather the eggs. I think he wants to have baby roosters! He doesn't want anyone taking the eggs! The other one, I put in with the 7 older hens that are just mixed breed chickens. He is very docile and sweet. Neither one of them are very good a crowing yet!! They sound so funny!! Those are hens I got from a friend as chicks and they lay all different kinds of eggs.....robin's egg blue ones, green ones, brown and tan, and then some are like an olive green. But they are NOT little bitty ones like Americana's lay, but are BIG multi colored eggs.
Well, life on the farm is never boring anyway!!
Have gotten two watermelons, but they both popped before I got them harvested .......bummer! I have another one that's pretty big, hopefully it will make it. i also have lots of pumpkins that "volunteered" I had gotten a bunch of pumpkins from a neighbor last Halloween and the goat ate them. I canned some and roasted some seeds.....any way, I dumped the frozen, (they froze solid on the back porch before I got all 25 of them processed!!) ratty looking, left overs in the garden bed and then up came all these pumpkins!!! Even after the fool things had frozen solid!! And some of them had been baked slightly too! Hard to kill I think!! I have a couple of big pumpkins and I guess the goats will eat them this fall too!!
Anyway, that's what's happening here at the ranch!
What's up at your house??
Came inside and popped beans and put up 12 quarts this afternoon..HAD SOME BEANS!!
Also picked grapes. This is the first year I have picked them. Last year I just let them rot because I couldn't figure out when to pick them. They were green and then all turned brown and shriveled. Tried them and they were AWFUL!! When they were green they were awful. Then they were brown and icky and hard like rocks. Soooooo>>>>> I was going to pull them up. Well, just happened to go over there this morning after picking beans and they were still green, but really BIG! I tried a couple and they are DELICIOUS!! They are not like grocery store grapes....instead of being just sweet, they also taste SPICY!! REALLY GOOD!! So, I picked a big 5 gallon bucket of them and then came in and picked them off the stems and boiled them down and juiced them. Tomorrow I guess I will make jelly>>>>>white grape jelly. Never had that before!
Anyway>>>>>BUSY< BUSY< BUSY!!!!
So, now I have Odie, the bottle baby goat, who thinks he is supposed to be petted and kissed all day. He is about 5 months old now???? I think that's about right although it may only be 4 months...... If he doesn't get enough attention, he stands on top of his dog igloo and screams bloody murder!! He refuses to stay on a chain and thinks the other goat is a Mama to him also. He is SUPPOSED to breed her! I don't know if he understands that. He is certainly old enough to do it, but has not shown much interest. Maybe I will have to separate them>>>>he will really cry then!!
Next I am getting a baby pig and plan to bottle feed it also. They are so much easier to handle when they are raised this way. Much more willing to do what you want and more obedient>>>>at least that has been my experience. Of course I have not done this with a PIG>>>>only goats, dogs and kittens>>>>so we will see!!
Oh, also have rabbits too now. 7 rabbits that I got a couple of weeks ago. They are about 5 weeks old. There's one buck and all the rest are does. Now I will be able to have rabbit a couple of times a month. And now, they won't bust my teeth anymore on buckshot!!
I also have 30 hens now and 2 roosters. Sent off in the spring and got some Rode Island Reds and 23 hens out of the 25 lived. There were only 2 roosters. One of them is mean!! He attacks when ever you try to gather the eggs. I think he wants to have baby roosters! He doesn't want anyone taking the eggs! The other one, I put in with the 7 older hens that are just mixed breed chickens. He is very docile and sweet. Neither one of them are very good a crowing yet!! They sound so funny!! Those are hens I got from a friend as chicks and they lay all different kinds of eggs.....robin's egg blue ones, green ones, brown and tan, and then some are like an olive green. But they are NOT little bitty ones like Americana's lay, but are BIG multi colored eggs.
Well, life on the farm is never boring anyway!!
Have gotten two watermelons, but they both popped before I got them harvested .......bummer! I have another one that's pretty big, hopefully it will make it. i also have lots of pumpkins that "volunteered" I had gotten a bunch of pumpkins from a neighbor last Halloween and the goat ate them. I canned some and roasted some seeds.....any way, I dumped the frozen, (they froze solid on the back porch before I got all 25 of them processed!!) ratty looking, left overs in the garden bed and then up came all these pumpkins!!! Even after the fool things had frozen solid!! And some of them had been baked slightly too! Hard to kill I think!! I have a couple of big pumpkins and I guess the goats will eat them this fall too!!
Anyway, that's what's happening here at the ranch!
What's up at your house??