A heartfelt Thank-You to all of our Veterans!
Wow - it's a new week already - snuck right up on me, it did!!
Moldy, what breed of cattle are you raising?
Well let's see... I did pick up a 6 hour (ha - 7.5 hour!) shift early Friday morning. Came home, slept for a bit, did some laundry, then daughter brought the grandsons out so that was the end of getting anything accomplished!! Hubby didn't get home until 9pm; he went to his niece's birthday dinner. I begged off as it didn't start until 7pm and I would have had cranky little boys to deal with. Hubby didn't even bring us home a piece of cake, so SIL may not have been happy with me for missing...
Took the boys home Saturday morning, stopped and picked up another dozen bottles of Gatorade; and while trolling the Evil Empire for boy sized boonie hats for them to wear on the boat (sunburned ears - ouch!), found Spiderman and Batman shirts on clearance for $2 each - stocked up for both boys in sizes up to 10-12. I'm dithering on whether to use their outgrown super hero shirts to make pillows or to pass them down; guess I shouldn't 'waste' them by making pillows if someone could wear them, should I? We're planning to redo their room at our house in a super hero theme this summer - littlest one is big enough to be out of the crib (I hope lol!!). It's the former guest room and has pink rosebud wallpaper; really not all that suitable for rowdy little boys I bought a bunk bed frame for $20 at a garage sale so will sand it down and paint it bright red. Walls will be gloss white (washable!!) with a green, yellow, and blue stripe; and we will put their Super Hero mylar balloons that we've saved after parties, etc... on the walls as a border. Should be a pretty inexpensive re-do.
Got home from town and tried to nap before work but just couldn't get to sleep so got up and did some laundry instead. Just as well that I skipped the nap as I ended up on call; didn't get called in so slept until about 3:30 this morning.
I was nice and let Hubby sleep until 8am before I started making noise lol! First off was the mower - mowed around the gardens. Then it was the tiller - got both gardens tilled in between the already planted rows and the rest re-tilled. Measured and got the t-posts for the pole bean trellises in and got them put up - 52' worth (I'll be wondering what in the heck I was thinking come canning time ) - then planted 5 types of pole beans: Blue Lake, Kentucky Blue, Missouri Wonder, Kentucky Wonder, and Kentucky Wonder Wax. Pole beans are soooo much easier to pick than bush beans, they bear longer, and the trellises provide the perfect place to let the mature beans dry before picking for cooking or to save seed.
Hubby came out and had his job - weed whacking - done in time to help with the trellises and stayed to help me get the cattle panels up for the canning tomatoes. 16' cattle panel~8 tomato plants on 2' centers~then another 16' cattle panel 8" from the first one - keeps the tomatoes upright and easy to pick. I'd picked up another 4 pk of peppers (that had 7 plants in it) when I was taking the boys home, so those got planted next; then we put up 2 - 4' trellises in one of the raised beds for cucumbers.
Had a late lunch and now I'm trying to decide if I want to take a nap before work or not. Probably should as it's supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon, so if I want to be able to stay awake for anything other than the Veteran's ceremony at the cemetary, I guess I'd better try. I'll be heading home from work at just about the right time to attend the ceremony.
Neighbor has offered me the use of his small tractor and loader tomorrow to use to get some loads of composted manure transferred into raised beds and spread the rest out a bit so I can till that area to plant late corn; best to get that done before I'm too tired... We may be trading him the use of our tractor and log splitter
Take care all; stay safe this holiday weekend!
Wow - it's a new week already - snuck right up on me, it did!!
Moldy, what breed of cattle are you raising?
Well let's see... I did pick up a 6 hour (ha - 7.5 hour!) shift early Friday morning. Came home, slept for a bit, did some laundry, then daughter brought the grandsons out so that was the end of getting anything accomplished!! Hubby didn't get home until 9pm; he went to his niece's birthday dinner. I begged off as it didn't start until 7pm and I would have had cranky little boys to deal with. Hubby didn't even bring us home a piece of cake, so SIL may not have been happy with me for missing...
Took the boys home Saturday morning, stopped and picked up another dozen bottles of Gatorade; and while trolling the Evil Empire for boy sized boonie hats for them to wear on the boat (sunburned ears - ouch!), found Spiderman and Batman shirts on clearance for $2 each - stocked up for both boys in sizes up to 10-12. I'm dithering on whether to use their outgrown super hero shirts to make pillows or to pass them down; guess I shouldn't 'waste' them by making pillows if someone could wear them, should I? We're planning to redo their room at our house in a super hero theme this summer - littlest one is big enough to be out of the crib (I hope lol!!). It's the former guest room and has pink rosebud wallpaper; really not all that suitable for rowdy little boys I bought a bunk bed frame for $20 at a garage sale so will sand it down and paint it bright red. Walls will be gloss white (washable!!) with a green, yellow, and blue stripe; and we will put their Super Hero mylar balloons that we've saved after parties, etc... on the walls as a border. Should be a pretty inexpensive re-do.
Got home from town and tried to nap before work but just couldn't get to sleep so got up and did some laundry instead. Just as well that I skipped the nap as I ended up on call; didn't get called in so slept until about 3:30 this morning.
I was nice and let Hubby sleep until 8am before I started making noise lol! First off was the mower - mowed around the gardens. Then it was the tiller - got both gardens tilled in between the already planted rows and the rest re-tilled. Measured and got the t-posts for the pole bean trellises in and got them put up - 52' worth (I'll be wondering what in the heck I was thinking come canning time ) - then planted 5 types of pole beans: Blue Lake, Kentucky Blue, Missouri Wonder, Kentucky Wonder, and Kentucky Wonder Wax. Pole beans are soooo much easier to pick than bush beans, they bear longer, and the trellises provide the perfect place to let the mature beans dry before picking for cooking or to save seed.
Hubby came out and had his job - weed whacking - done in time to help with the trellises and stayed to help me get the cattle panels up for the canning tomatoes. 16' cattle panel~8 tomato plants on 2' centers~then another 16' cattle panel 8" from the first one - keeps the tomatoes upright and easy to pick. I'd picked up another 4 pk of peppers (that had 7 plants in it) when I was taking the boys home, so those got planted next; then we put up 2 - 4' trellises in one of the raised beds for cucumbers.
Had a late lunch and now I'm trying to decide if I want to take a nap before work or not. Probably should as it's supposed to rain tomorrow afternoon, so if I want to be able to stay awake for anything other than the Veteran's ceremony at the cemetary, I guess I'd better try. I'll be heading home from work at just about the right time to attend the ceremony.
Neighbor has offered me the use of his small tractor and loader tomorrow to use to get some loads of composted manure transferred into raised beds and spread the rest out a bit so I can till that area to plant late corn; best to get that done before I'm too tired... We may be trading him the use of our tractor and log splitter
Take care all; stay safe this holiday weekend!