Good Morning! <=2017

[ross]

A little cloudy & noisy here for awhile today but cleared out nicely . I went hunting & Donna finished front garden . She happy me sad only saw one hen & no gobbling . One more day . Luck

[Killerbunny]

All the eggs that were ed on by the broody turkey hatched!

[Happy]

Nice pics @ross and fingers crossed for you tomorrow. Congrats KB!

[WLLady]

morning everyone!
well, came home yesterday to a final notice from canada post that unless we fix our mailbox we will no longer get mail delivery in 5 days. we need to put our civic address on the box and our post is "twisted". hm. so i go down and look...civic address is on BOTH sides of the box, as is our name, AND the box is 90 degrees to the road...and the right height...and there's actually no wasps or spiders in it even. so i phoned them. i've been there 10 years and NEVER had any complaints about my mailbox. every year the local farmer takes it out with his combine, and every year we put it right back up in the same place, new post.....on the phone they actually told me well, wait until you stop getting mail and then worry about it!!! ha! man, i got mad, like what part of paycheques and business mail do you not understand?? there's nothing wrong with my mailbox, it's all done....this is my phone number they need to call me and tell me what to do because i am at a loss. then i wake up in the middle of the night thinking "what if the carrier is colour blind?". LOL. it's a light grey box and the civic address etc is in red paint. maybe they can't see red? (i hate my brain sometimes, but that is the ONLY explanation i can think of that they cannot see the 2.5 inch lettering on the box) can't wait for that phone call to explain what they want. if they want the box lined up with the driveway, fine, it will be on a 70 degree to the road, because our drive isn't square to the road....i'll do whatever they deem "twisted" means to make it "untwisted".....but seriously!??! if *I* can get mail out of the box from my vehicle with a 10 level spinal fusion i'm 100% sure that a 40 year old normal person can get mail INTO the box without even trying!

sigh. and that's after losing 2 big pieces of equipment at work yesterday, with no funding to replace them, and generally being overwhelmed with work (back to work plans are great, but they expect full time work when it's part time hours!) and then brutalized by physiotherapy and driving through a huge thunderstorm on the way home. but then i went and played with the fuzzybutts in the basement and felt a little better. turkeys are so dumb! i open the pen and there's one little red slate in there that wants to be my best friend so it comes running over and fails to stop in time and ends up falling out of the pen every time! i managed to catch it so it didn't fall the 3 feet to the floor....but come on. you CAN sit in my hand without launching into space!!!!! BVF came down monday evening for a flying visit, with her hubby. Good to see them both! picked up her i dont know how many guinea fuzzybutts. brought me a few pepper plants for the garden (thank you!) and a rhubarb cherry crumble for dessert after dinner OOOOOOO YUMMY! was really great to see them both. BVF you'll get your bucket back the next time i see you! LOL

hope everyone has a great day!
looks like more tstorms today.....we may be able to plant in a few days if things dry out some....but good for the garden, i love getting things planted and having a good rain so i don't have to water.

[Bayvistafarm]

Good evening!! It was a nice day... a bit cool for me tho. Wet again. We had a bit of rain go thru.

Yesterday was thunderstorms all day long once the afternoon got here. Another 7mm.

The night before, or two days before, we had a torrential downpour thunderstorm in the night. We got almost an inch and a half in short time. Heres what happened with that storm. Haven't been back to the BACK bush part, to the waterfalls, or creek, but I imagine theres some damage.

Here is the laneway going back to the pond. There is a ravine all along this laneway, heavy stone laid down, packed well. All thru the years, all along this ravine, we have dumped huge rocks, cement old bird baths... cement from the pig barn... wood.. branches.... you name it. There was even a round bale of hay that careened down the hill and landed in that 'water way'. All put there to prevent erosion.

Well.. nice mess we have now. Un freaking believable.

Not only that, but now where the wheels go with whatever your driving, there is erosion there too... and water was still running down it. There is so so so much dirt in the pond from the fields.

Got my guinea's from Kathy and Martin's the other night. Spur of the moment trip... and had a yummy supper practically ready the moment we walked thru the door!! Wished we could have stayed longer!! Thanks again you guys!

Anyhow, from that little rainfall.. and the ones after... the fields are more than saturated. My beautiful onion planted patch is wrecked. AND my lovely potato trench, dug a foot down, with seed potatoes spaced 13 inches apart.. 4 inches down, is likely doomed too. Half way down the trench... is dirt, almost filled to the top. No telling if the seed potatoes washed down to the end or not. The whole garden is on a gentle slope. Anyhow, most of the trench at that end is filled up with dirt. Ugh.

There is nothing else planted at all on this farm garden/flower wise. Just so wet!! I have all my peppers/tomatoes and flowers waiting. The tulips aren't hardly died back for me to plant my flowers where I want them go go there. I also still have my old barrels to dig out, and replace. The dirt is heavy muck in those.

Oh well.. some day I guess. It will all come together. I also want to plant all my seeds for cucumbers, beans.. dill... summer squash... all kinds of stuff, and the time is coming to get winter squash seed in the ground if I want it ripe before fall.

Well, its bedtime. Morning comes early!

[ross]

Nice pics . The eroding power of water . Luck

[Killerbunny]

So yesterday I was checking on the baby turkeys to make sure Mums had them eating and drinking when I got a bit of a surprise. One of the 2 day olds found a rather large hairy caterpillar. To me it looked darn near as big as the poult. Anyway he grabbed it and started to choke it down! I thought I would be pulling it out if it got stuck or something but no, it disappeared inside said chick! I thought he would likely die but no he happily trotted off. Where the heck do they put a meal that big?

[kenya]

Ah too bad you didn't get pictures, would have loved to see that.

[WLLady]

Hey everyone!

Congrats to Kenya for her winning photo! We definitely NEED more people voting in the coming months, we might have had about 10 votes this month! i'll try to be a little more forthcoming with the announcements.....BTW you can submit a photo to july's contest here: https://www.pto.ca/forum/viewforum.php?f=94

beautiful morning! and it's a friday. i hope it's nice for the weekend too. lots to do. mulching the garden. i checked last night and it seems i knocked the cucumber beetles back hard, so hopefully i can keep on top of them and get them GONE soon! there are already grasshoppers. holy moly our winter didn't control much in the way of bugs this year. can't wait for the guineas to grow up! have to get that coop set up and ready for them....it's a trailer coop, and right now it's on a 45 angle because there's no bricks propping it up flat. bad for birds and waterers...LOL. and of course the weeding begins. and need to plant out the redbuds, and get some trellis up for my clematis that is growing out of the greenhouse and get the rest of the peppers planted. and find a home for about 40 livingstone daisies (more patio pots?) and then maybe sit back, with a small bonfire in my old washing machine tub of a firepit, and kick back (gently) and put my feet up and drink some wine.

and this weekend i declare war on ants. they're getting into my house somewhere! and i just discovered yesterday (gah) that the new generation of ant bait traps have PEANUTS in them! OMG. that explains the rampant case of hives and itches i had 4 days ago when i put them out, i blamed the laundry detergent, but now i'm thinking hm....that's the day i put the baits down. if i got it in my hands....somehow (from the packaging probably) then yep....lucky i didn't manage to eat anything....! i did have to take a double dose of benadryl for 2 days.....it did go away. but you'd think they would have been labelled on the package in something i didn't need reading glasses to read!!???!??! so if you are allergic to peanuts, beware of ant baits!!!!

go get your cameras out everyone, with those storms there have to be rainbow pictures! and with all the hatching there has to be fuzzybutt pictures! submissions for july are open!

[Home Grown Poultry]

I got a rainbow pic Kathy!