Good Morning! <=2017

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 4:55 pm

Well.... people must be bustling at the piknik by about now!! I just got back from town, after having gotten stung about 5 times in the legs and arms from ground wasps. Look like yellow jackets, only smaller. Little pricks. I bought $36 worth of stuff, and literally let them have it. Then had to go and take a toad for a bath. He was in that mess, and got sprayed. Poor bugger.

Unloaded another wagon full of straw this morning. Gary and I had a small battle in the mow. I wanted to do a few myself, stack... do something.... put a few more up... and he ended up coming up in the mow, and ORDERED me to go throw them off the wagon. Heated words followed.... and I ended up going back down...... not shutting up by any means.... and he called down to me more than once to shut up. The joys of farming together. I'm tired of all the work to be done..... and I am just puttering in the damn garden. Hes cutting hay right now, so back into that crap, once the 80 acres of straw (minus what small squares we've done) are round baled... then got to pick them all up and get them in the barn, blah blah blah. Think I'm nearly done farming....

Got my garlic dug tho. Thats where they were. IN the ground, I guess I cleaved their 'home' in half. Nice to see those larvae wiggling to their death. I absolutely ENJOYED THAT IMMENSELY. The odd one that returned home got a spray too... when they landed on the ground to see what the hell happened. HA HA HA HA.

Watered the squash this morning, had two houses worth of hoses and taps going. I noticed one plant fagging badly. Probably squash borer. Whole plant is wilted. Nice. AND the others are crawling with ants. NOT sure if they are going for the damp soil, and now the water where the roots/stems are..... but the Japanese beetles are flying in on them. WTF. Can't I get a break in this bull crap? Get them thru the drought... and now the freaking bugs come in? I'll go buy cans and cans of raid and spray the whole damn patch if I have to.

Well, I'd better go and move the hose. Been on the snap beans. Doing the cucumbers again, now that the shade is on them. Did the peppers last night, and filled the buckets in the row. NO rain forecasted for a week or more. IT WAS 60% this morning for tomorrow sometime, but 60% may as well be 10% these days. It just doesn't happen. AND go see if I can kill more #$&$@ wasps.. returning home still. I hope they are happy. I know I am.

Flat Rock Farm · Post by **Flat Rock Farm** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:24 pm

Well I don't know how you and Gary do it in this heat Shirley, it's hard on ones body and patience. Am surprised I didn't hear the words from here !! LOL

Same here been struggling through this drought just to keep things alive and bugs are taking over here as well. First year I have had the blasted Lily Beetle, only thing that kills them is squishing them with your fingers

I had beautiful lilies and they all look like swiss cheese and no flowers :sad:
Tubing down the Grand River tomorrow should be interesting. My 84 year old Mum and 76 year old Aunt are hell bent they wanted to go, just hope no one ends up in the drink!! :Shark:

Stay cool everyone

BTW, love the new smilies

ross · Post by **ross** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 7:04 pm

Here's to yu !!!!

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 8:00 pm

My Brussel sprouts are going to be the death of me. I sprayed them. Saw little green bugs munching on my leaves. They pretty much died as I soaked each plant. Yesterday 2 white moths here, assuming laying eggs. Sprayed them all last night. Today, so far I have seen 3 flying over drop laying their eggs. How many bottles of this stuff can one go through before you say

it? I'm heading into bottle #3 tonight so that is $50 in spray. Pretty darn expensive Brussel sprouts. Music more and I'm yanking them and they'll end up in the compost pile. So frustrating!!!

Miss Ava is happier with chaos. Lou and Josh were here for dinner and she is calm. When it's just me and her she is a bit fussy. What she left behind is 2 litters and a bunch of adult dogs, grand kids and lots of busyness. If I put music on she is more content. Big adjustments for the little girl.

I swear today is much hotter than yesterday. There isn't any breeze which makes it feel suffocating.
Omg Shirley I don't know how you're doing it.

I made banana chocolate swirl cake today. Does that compare? Haha! Just kidding.

(unbaked)

Hope they're having a grand time at the PikNik! Can't wait to see pictures

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 9:17 pm

Sandy....get on amazon and order some btk seriously. You will be spraying safers soap till the cows come home....btk will take care of them in one spraying.
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00ANT611 ... ref=plSrch
Hopefully that works. This is the stuff you need.

Barn and driveshed are down, cut up and in the bin!! Magnet has been around once for nails....will do again and again tomorrow. A few odds and sods to clean up like little pieces of shingles and stuff but most of that is already done. Yay!!! So 40 cubic yards of wreckage moved and binned in 4 days....really 3.5 because hubby had to work thursday afternoon and i am only one person with a messed up back. But still i think thats pretty respectable amount of work. A tad sunburnt around the edges....but nothing major. Yay! Bonfire tonight and glass (or two) of wine. Hoping for a visit from bvf tomorrow too!! I can give her her new blue wheaten boy. And easter egger but beautiful-mom is an olive egger cross of ameraucana x wheaten marans and dad was pure blue wheaten ameraucana. He is really pretty.

I have quite a few easter egger boys lol. Maybe a trip to the auction soon.

Sooo tired. Going to sleep exceedingly well tonight i think.
Cant wait to hear how the bbq was!!! We are with you in spirit!!!!

Maximus · Post by **Maximus** » Sat Jul 23, 2016 11:35 pm

Thanks Kathy Ordering

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 9:04 am

so, wake up about 2am and hear something sounding annoyed just briefly. nice to have the windows in the house open and actually cool last night! so figure, whatever, go back to sleep. wake up at 5...more ruckus. then decided its my last day of holidays, so i'm sleeping in. get up at 830 and hubby says "there's something cat like in one of the traps upstairs". oh, catlike....hm.....just how do i deal with a skunk in the loft without it spraying? hm....blanket. okay, i have one in the loft that was covering the brooder. but i'm sure it was coon footprints....hm.....hope it's not a skunk!
out we go and viola! the biggest fattest coon i have seen in AGES! so with hubby's help to carry it down (i couldn't lift the cage with it in it!) it is now dispatched. i had put the trail camera up last night to see if it was just one or two or what....looks like just one big old fat male.

Thanks martin for carrying it down!!!! and helping set traps last night!!!!!

so WLLady 1 raccoons 0
i like starting sunday mornings that way!
will be resetting the traps again tonight just in case. no wonder this one managed to roll the traps! big and fat because he's been eating chicken feed and eggs for at least a week up there.....and who knows, maybe longer since it was just seeing footprints on the top of a bin a couple of days ago that clued me in.....

well, today is walk around sweeping for nails, and hopefully bvf will come and visit, and returning dog to her owners place and generally hanging out. LOL. which is good, because i am done. looks like the bbq was a good time! yay! thank you www!!!!

TomK · Post by **TomK** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 10:05 am

BTK is the way to go...amazing stuff...hopefully i don't grow a third arm out of my forehead in the years to come..lol..

ross · Post by **ross** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 11:14 am

Third arm ( healthy) would be good for me right now . Good stuff Kathy . Luck all

hayladee · Post by **hayladee** » Sun Jul 24, 2016 1:09 pm

ross wrote:QR_BBPOST :baby ckick: Good stuff , the first day of the rest of our lives.
Thanks all . Have fun .

or a farm husband's "hey can you come here a minute?"