Good Morning! <=2017

Post by **WLLady** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:10 am

I soooo can't wait for "real" internet out here! and we're better than many right now and it still is awful!

Sandy! I'm glad you went to the hospital!!!!! and glad they could help. i sure hope you feel much better soon.

BVF that's just way too much work. i do love when turkeys and poults aim right for the head. NOT. i was shocked how much harder it is to catch the poults than the adults! trying to wrestle the royal palms out when i sold the breeders the kids were awful! the big old tom was much easier, just incredibly heavy. the hen, ya, not so much LOL.
glad you are finally getting rain. it keeps looking like it here, and nothing quite yet. but it's much cooler today! yay! i hope it stays this way for a little bit!

today is weeding and beans....and whatever else needs to come in from the garden.

i picked 2 embarrassing summer squashes yesterday for the dogs. i think they were too big for even them to eat! so i need to slice some up and throw to the chickens sometime. and all my yellow and green beans are ready for picking! yay! looking forward to fresh vegetables for the freezer. and the grass is going crazy in the garden and that pigweed crap...so weeding too for a bit....have to free up the lettuce...and plant some new lettuce. and spray the btk, some of the tomatoes are being munched by those tobacco horn worms. hate those things. i don't think there's anything that actually eats them. but first! onwards to sitting on the couch hugging my coffee mug....

...rough morning this morning. not feeling to great, my back is really being a PITA this morning with the weather up and down, and i have been trying to reduce the painkillers because i have to be totally off them before surgery because the inhibit bone growth, same with the antiinflammatories (but those have a much shorter half life so those are staying for a little bit yet so i can survive!)....plus one of my friends is biting off more than they can chew with a house purchase that is going south...

a good emotional support person i am not! :sAng_argue: i am also a worse financial support person.

i can feel the friendship going south, which is a shame, because they are good people, they just don't plan very well. sigh. so i haven't been getting much sleep lately, between that and work and pain i'm pretty much exhausted. so i wouldn't be surprised if my hubby finds me laying down in the garden in the old hay mulch having a nap under the plants....lol. just because. :sleep-027:

:sleep-027:
at least it's a long weekend!!!! yay!
hope everyone has a great one!

Colleen Kinzie · Post by **Colleen Kinzie** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:41 am

Glad to hear you went to hospital Sandy and that you are in the mend!!!
Relax with your pup this weekend

ross · Post by **ross** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 9:46 am

I eat bananas , oranges or juice for my potassium & my carbs for diabitis . Luck glad your on the mend .

Post by **Killerbunny** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 10:23 am

Glad to hear you're on the mend Sandy!
BVF I don't think you have to charge HST if you make less than ?20K? but then you can't claim any back either. I think it was done so very small businesses didn't have to deal with the hassle.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 11:01 am

Good morning,
Nice start to the long wknd, harvested last of the garlic, only planted 120 instead of usual 240 cut the work in half

for sure, now hanging in the garden shed curing and waiting for DH to do the cleaning.
Quick game of badminton and then dragged one last wagon of water in to the chick- run before they go out for the first time, not sure why I bother the little greenery there is looked pretty shocked, never saw water before I guess?
Back to the barn to let the Ameraucana chicks out on to the pitiful excuse for grass....they only get about an hour a day, making a short work of the little there is, mainly pepper plant which they seem to like, not that they have any choice.

shaded · Post by **shaded** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:27 pm

shaded wrote:QR_BBPOST speaking of 6 packs.....
shepherds!

Just an update-girl 1 went to her new home yesterday,
Other little girl is on a trial run now with a family as of Thursday eve. I gave them a week to see if their current rescue dog could be trained to accept her. And they could be trained to take care of my sweetie :D

Sorry for WWW !
Makes me thankful we are far off the road & have all the dogs on in-ground fencing that is also far off the road.
If it is not drunk driving it is drunk 4-wheelers or snowmobiles around here.

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:21 pm

Killerbunny wrote:QR_BBPOST Glad to hear you're on the mend Sandy!
BVF I don't think you have to charge HST if you make less than ?20K? but then you can't claim any back either. I think it was done so very small businesses didn't have to deal with the hassle.

Ya, we both farm full time. Soooo sometimes we make well over 250K. But... wait for it.... we spend sometimes OVER that. Hard to believe. Its always nearly about even. Quite honestly, I don't know WHY we farm.

kenya · Post by **kenya** » Sat Jul 30, 2016 3:24 pm

Beautiful girl! Persephone

Post by **WLLady** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 4:40 pm

good afternoon everyone!
did some weeding. and then had a large fit when i went to get an onion for the butter chicken crockpot dinner from the garden and they're all doing what they do every year. all tops, tops laying on the ground, all root, no bulb and the tops look like they're chewed off and not a cut worm in sight. usually i can find the darned cutworms hanging out in the mulch just within inches of the plant. sigh. so i have out of 300 onions planted, 6 remaining plants. and i'm sure they'll be gone tomorrow. i give up. no more planting onions (at least not in that garden) again. if i plant from set this doesn't seem to happen for some reason. but every year i plant seed, it's a disaster.

and no milkweed being eaten by monarchs, so i'm going to pull it all because i'ts getting out of hand! and smothering my grapes! put a pile of beans to the freezer yesterday, have more to go. another set tonight probably and then that's it for the year. have a friend coming to pick some tomorrow, they're a low income family, so i let them come and pick and take what they want to help on the groceries. gave them a bunch of tomatoes today too. because i eat too many of them while i'm hanging out in the garden LOL. We have huge swallowtail butterflies though! lots of them, and cats in the parsley growing up.

finding it really hot and muggy...maybe i'm just tired, because the wind is nice and cool outside. sigh. also battling my back today. it does NOT like this weather. cleaned out 2 pens up in the loft and will move all the munchkins from the outside growout coop that i want to keep into the pens. and hopefully tomorrow i'll be feeling up to putting in the final extensions on the fencing now that the driveshed and old barn are gone! been over it with the magnet twice now where they were and didn't pick up anything, so time to fluff up the surface a bit and then see what pops up. gotta check if i have the fencing pieces....gates and stuff. i have the posts. and at least one good thing about sand is they're easy easy to put in!

guess i should get back out and do more weeding. we just finished weeding the driveway up near the coops/barn, i have no clue what it is, but its a ground cover weed that is MAYBE 1/2 inch tall at the most, one central stem and it grows in a huge circle.....very dense. not creeping charley, or crown vetch....no flowers. just green mat....anyways, easy to pull. just too bad it's all at ground level. LOL.
and calibrating the weather station rain gauge. it said we got only 2 mm of rain last night and it POURED and filled the bottom of the wheelbarrow, so pretty sure it's not accurate.....still hoping that we'll get more rain though!

Bayvistafarm · Post by **Bayvistafarm** » Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:58 pm

Just having a barbeque with Jess' family at their place. Nice to just walk across the driveway, lol.

We didn't get a drop of rain, AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It all went south. Just like it usually does. Or north. Very grey/cloudy tho. Nice cool breeze. I'm wearing a hoodie over yonder.

Well, I'd better get back there. Lots of dogs. We have 2 here... grand-dog and ours.... and Melissa brought hers.... and Jess's fam brought 2 dogs. Jeremy (Gary's son), had his dog here when everyone got here. Tripping over dogs all afternoon, lol.