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Canning Room #4: Pantry's Just About Done.
Well the pantry is just about finished.. I’ve got the shelves almost all cut and everything...
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Garden Maintenance #12: Garden Pictures + It's not a rat.. It's something.. Else...
Thought I’d post up pictures of the garden.. It’s well into the harvest season and we...
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Chickens #14: Battling Rats
Since my cat died, there’s been a boom in the population of rats around the yard. I’d...
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Canning Room #3: Shelf Framing Done
I’ve got the shelf framing all put together now.. Used an ample amount of Gorilla Glue on t...
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Canning Room #2: Cleanup Begins
Well, since there’s so much rain this week I thought I’d start on the canning room an...
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Garden Plannings #17: Garden's Out! Updated Row Layout
Here’s everything that we have out and which rows they’re in. Row 1: Potatoes, R...
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Around the Yard #29: Flowers, Mutations, Fruit & Fur
Decided to take a break and do a walkabout through the yard.. It’s a bit skippy this time a...
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Garden Plannings #16: The Rain Doth Come
Well, we’ve got one day to get the garden out before a week of rain blows through.. I spent...
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Around the Yard #28: Garden Plot, Strawberries, Chickens and Grass...
Figure it’s time for more random ramblings as I walk the yard with my camera. Know you just...
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Around the Yard #27: Spring Time Busy Work
Well, spring is here for sure… So much to do around the house and I’ve been so busy a...
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Garden Maintenance #11: More Garden Work.
Well over the weekend my daughter, son and I worked on the garden some more. This weekend was tim...
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Garden Maintenance #10: Getting Ready To Till
Over the weekend my 4 year old and I went outside to play for a while, then turned our attention ...
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Canning Room #1: Redoing the canning room.
Well, I’ve finally set my mind to redoing the canning room to give.. Well.. More room…...
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Chickens #13: First egg....
It’s ONLY been around 4 and a quarter months since we got the baby chicks. I figure they...
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Harvest Time #14: Canning Room Tally & Tour - Picture Heavy
Well, I thought I’d take a walk about photo shoot since I hadn’t had much time to pos...
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Around the Yard #26: Spewing Fish, Pole Beans & Throw Away Seedlings
We have a little chimenia fish that we have had sitting by the pond for forever and decided to ma...
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Garden Plannings #15: Wineberry Bramble
Managed to get my hands on five Wineberry plants for free, and a killer deal on more if I want th...
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Around the Yard #25: The Show Overview
And here’s the rest in a much wider view. The garden along the walk is popping left and ...
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Around the Yard #24: Big Show.. Or at Least Medium Show..
Took these yesterday after a rain and just got to the point to where I can post them up.. So̷...
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Around the Yard #23: Trying to Keep up..
Piles of stuff going on now, between working on the finishing touches on the coop and dealing wit...
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Garden Maintenance #9: Garden Plot Woes
Thought I’d post up some pictures of the garden plot. The grass had really taken a foothold...
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Chickens #12: Roof is on Plus A Few Flowers.. ;)
Ok.. Here’s the shots of the roof… I’ll be working on closing up the ends today...
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Planting & Landscaping #19: Blueberry Hedge
Along with getting half the roof on the chicken coop, fixing the mower, weeding and a pile of oth...
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Around the Yard #22: Pretty Pretty.. What's New and Blooming
Well, my alarm clock woke me up at 5:30 again today with it’s usual ~~Bucka Bucka Boooooooo...
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Planting & Landscaping #18: Woot! Garden's In!
Ha! So much for fighting with rain. Spent yesterday working on the yard again, picked up supplies...
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Chickens #11: More Coop Work
Who says I don’t have my priorities straight, eh? I know what to do with my time… So&...
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Garden Plannings #14: Yay.. More Windows!
Well, I put another shot in the dark ad out on Freecycle for windows, followed by one for spoiled...
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Planting & Landscaping #17: Garden Plot... Half Way Done?
Well, spent some time yesterday busting out the garden and getting it tilled up and planted. We m...
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Around the Yard #21: Fruit, Flower and Vegetables
Been so busy with trying to get yard work done, the coop and general life I hadn’t had much...
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Chickens #10: Roof, Roof!
Busted my butt (and smashed my finger, argh!) getting as much done in between the rain today. The...
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Garden Plannings #13: Pole Beans
So we’re trying pole beans this year (we’ve already got 100+ tomato plants in the gro...
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Planting & Landscaping #16: Garden Plots
The guy was here today to till up the main garden bed for us. Since it’s going to rain almo...
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Chickens #9: Coop Sheeting Up
More work on the coop this weekend, after recuperating from SEVERAL days of stomach flu. Spread t...
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Chickens #8: More Walls up in the Coop
Spent more time today on the coop. It’s been raining alot recently and has disrupted workin...
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Garden Plannings #12: Coop, Poop and Garden Fun
Father in-law and I picked up the lumber I needed to finish up the coop and have that standing by...
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Chickens #7: Time Travel
Through the wonders of modern science we’d been able to travel forward into time so that we...
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Chickens #6: Chick Pictures... ;)
Here’s some pics of muh chicks… They’re getting big, for sure… -=~=-=~...
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Around the Yard #20: New Beds, Plantings and Such
Well, I decided to take the top layer off the old strawberry bed. Not being a wasteful person I p...
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Chickens #5: More Coop Work.. +1 Wall
Not much done on the coop, and no more pictures of it yet. I had enough dimensional lumber on han...
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Garden Plannings #11: New Beds & Fence Material
Well we worked in the yard more today, though not on the coop. Today was a cleanup day and was sp...
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Chicken Coop, Day 1, Part 2
The floor is finished and the cut is done for the floor level cleanout door. There is a STUPID fr...
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Chickens #4: Chicken Coop, Day 1, Part 1
Taking a break from working on the coop. The daughter and I framed out the bottom section and the...
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Chickens #3: The Old & The New
Here’s a few pictures of the old bunch with the new ones we picked up. All together we now ...
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Chickens #1: My Peeps
Thought I’d snap a few pictures of the crew this morning. The rest of them are doing really...
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Chickens #2: Erm... I jumped right in.. Cockadoodle Doo!
EDIT: See Chickens #1 for the next post.. Darn me editing after the fact.. :D Well, I’ve...
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Planting & Landscaping #15: Coming in the Mail
Well, I’ve got some items coming in that I had on order since some time last year. Also got...
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Garden Plannings #10: Woot! Windows! (maybe)
I sent out a REQ on Freecycle for windows, not expecting much of anything in reply. I’ll be...
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Around the Yard #19: Things are Poppin'
Everything’s coming up rather nicely for the most part now and has either started huge grow...
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Around the Yard #18: Spring Time Walkabout
March 10th, 2009 I decided to take Donovan outside to play for a while with camera in toe. Als...
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Champagne Sink on a Beer and Bread Countertop
I qualify this as a GT post as it’s where we do all the prep work for what we do in the gar...
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Harvest Time #13: Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread
Ok, here’s the instructions for the sour dough bread. I’ll include the measurements f...
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Around the Yard #17: Some Cleanup & First Bloom of the Season
I spent some time today cleaning up in the yard and burning off a pile of stuff. Ended up burning...
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Garden Plannings #9: The Obligatory 2009 List
I’m not sure how this year will be as far as outdoor work since I really need to turn my at...
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Around the Yard #16: Ice Storm 09, Post Processing
I fired up my processing software, which I rarely do and cleaned up the photos. These are resized...
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Around the Yard #15: Storm Pictures: The Not So Pretty
These are some of the not so pretty. Lots more damage than I expected. One of the ...
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Around the Yard #14: Storm Pictures: The Pretty
Here are the pretty pictures from the storm that I’d taken.. Just a few, more are on my Fac...
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Around the Yard #13: Storm of the Decade
Well, that’s what they’re calling it… I don’t doubt that people north of ...
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Around the Yard #12: Hey Folks!
Thought I’d stop in and say howdy.. :) Not much going on around here and certainly not m...
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Harvest Time #12: Apple Butter
For this one, we had a few of the early season jars of apple sauce that didn’t quite work o...
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Harvest Time #11: Green Tomato Salsa
Here’s another one, this time using green tomatoes. Green Tomato Salsa 5 cups c...
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Harvest Time #10: Red Tomato Relish
Well, I’d been sharing the “winners” with you all on recipes that have been dro...
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Planting & Landscaping #14: Oh my.. I made a mistake..
I asked the guy at Lowes in the garden center what else was on sale (after grabbing 24 yellow mum...
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Garden Maintenance #8: Overwintering Pots
Well, it’s no where near as pretty, or well laid out as what I wanted to do.. But then agai...
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Harvest Time #9: Green Cherry Tomato Pickles "FROST! Harvest" Recipe
So what do you do when there are still tomatoes on the vines but frost is coming in fast? Well, y...
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Brrr... Getting cold outside.. and in...
It seems I’ve ran out of time in trying to beat the cold. This room is getting to be a bit ...
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Harvest Time #8: End of Season Apple Sauce
Well, end of season is around the corner for us, so we’re pushing to get a few more things ...
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Around the Yard #11: Season's Winding Down
Took a walk around the yard today with my old Kodak DC290 in hand, figured I’d take a few s...
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Harvest Time #7: Chestnuts
Thought I’d show off my nuts since there’s been so much interest. All I did for th...
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Around the Yard #10: Ike passed by, said to tell you hi! :p~
Well Ike paid us a visit here in KY. Was high winds with a little rain tossed in. Ended up snappi...
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Garden Plannings #8: Contemplating Sheds - Found a Cool Site
Well, I was busy browsing the web, contemplating things to do for a shed and I stumbled onto stra...
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Harvest Time #6: Argh.. Paw Paws!
Well, we had a huge pot full of Paw Paws collected over the last couple of days, so we figured we...
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Harvest Time #5: Apples, Persimmons and Paw Paws
The wife and I spent some time this morning harvesting more of the apples from the tree. Since I ...
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Garden Maintenance #7: Lawn Sweeper
Well, I picked up the Craftsman high speed lawn sweeper I had on order from Sears. (not my pic...
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Garden Plannings #7: New Flower Bed
Well, I went to Lowes again. This time for hardware, but I made the mistake of going through the ...
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Around the Yard #9: Still Here. Busy With Life..
Hey folks, I’m still around and come by to read when I can. Just been busy with life in ...
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Harvest Time #4: New Grill
Thought I’d show off my new grill. Actually got it for fathers day so have been breaking it...
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Harvest Time #3: Hot Pepper Jelly
Well, no step by step with this one, but I thought I’d post it up. I’d actually ch...
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Harvest Time #2: Mint Jelly, Step by Step.
Seems like the mint jelly is by far the winner among all the jellies we’d done and has gain...
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Things are okish
Thought I’d drop a line and say howdy. I’d been away for some time due to several ...
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Garden Maintenance #6: Pecan Limb
Had a limb start to fracture in the pecan tree today that I noticed before supper, so after we at...
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My God, It's All Gone...
Took the kids to the pool today and my daughter had mentioned that she wanted to see the old plac...
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Just Blooming #17: Daylilies, 062508
Missed yesterday, which sucks. There were two new that I’d lost track of. So long as I g...
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Around the Yard #8: Full Beds & More
I know some of you have said that you’d like to see wider pictures instead of just the sing...
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Harvest Time #1: Mmmm.. Mint Jelly, Strawberry Preserves and Salsa.
Well, we’d been busy taking some time canning here and there. I’d actually forgot to ...
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Garden Plannings #6: Propagating St. Johns Wart
Well, I’d been doing research into propagating St. John’s Wart so I can provide a goo...
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Planting & Landscaping #13: Ugh, so Burned out.
Well, I’ve got most of the 35 or so daylily clumps into the ground. Ended up placing some i...
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Just Blooming #16: Daylilies and New Plantings, 062208
Here are the two new blooms today. Now, THESE are pictures of the blooms on some of th...
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Just Blooming #15: Daylilies, 062108
Was late posting yesterday. Today, got a pile more fresh blooming. I’m hoping that I did no...
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Just Blooming #14: Daylilies, 062008
Just a couple, plus a pic of our daily harvest basket-o-fun.
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Planting & Landscaping #12: New Clumps.. They're heeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrreeeeeeee
Well, as I promised I’m posting pics of the new clumps, fresh out of the ground.. I haul...
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Just Blooming #13: Daylilies, 061908 - Tons Today
Bubbly Bald Eagle Big Yellow Bird Lyttleton Again…. Hyperion ...
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Just Blooming #12: Daylilies, 061808
I’m actually early on posting these ones, yay!
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Around the Yard #7: Some Pretty.. Some Evil
I’ll start off with the evil. I’d been holding off on finishing the fern bed and post...
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Just Blooming #11: Daylilies, 061708
Another round of first timers, plus an around the yard post coming up in a new thread. Nig...
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Just Blooming #10: Daylilies, 061608
Siloam Junebug Frozen Jade Brocaded Gown Bees
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Just Blooming #9: Daylilies, 061508
Late again.. Whoops.. ;) Asian Artistry Spiderman Little Grapette ...
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Just Blooming #8: Daylilies, 061408
Well.. You know what they say, better late then never.. Told you it’s a busy time of year.....
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Just Blooming #7: Daylilies, 061308
Another round of first blooms. Silk and Honey Spiderman And a zucchini b...
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Just Blooming #6: Daylilies & Daisies, 061208
Quite a few pictures today of first blooms. Going to be busy busy for a while so not going to hav...
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Just Blooming #5: More Daylilies + Others 061108
Missed posting some yesterday.. I’ve got one from yesterday in this batch but the other has...
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My pride hurts
Well.. Parents are in town to visit for a bit so been busy spending time with them.. While we ...
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Just Blooming #4: Un-named Seedling + Verify Unknown Shrub Plz
Fresh blooming today is a seedling that was deemed not worth sale and was never named / patented....
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Just Blooming #3: Just One More.
Only one new one blooming today. Black Watch
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Planting & Landscaping #11: Front Flower Bed Begins
Well, I finally got started on the flower bed under the bedroom window. I dug out in front of the...
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Just Blooming #2: Daylilies, 060708 + New Additions
Today in bloom, is nothing less, than a plain old ditch lily. These will be finding their way OUT...
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Just Blooming #1: Daylilies, 060608
I decided that I’m going to post pictures of the daylilies first blooms throughout the year...
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Planting & Landscaping #10: Peach and Plum Trees Planted.
I don’t have any pictures of the process but it was pretty straight forward. Dig a hol...
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Planting & Landscaping #9: Work This Week: Digging & Mulching
Well the mulch was delivered today. 8 scoops, which breaks down to 4 pickup truck loads. It’...
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Around the Yard #6: Garden's Close to Harvest..
LOL.. No, not the whole thing.. That would be an absolute mirricle. No, the radishes are close...
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Itchy Itchy
Ugh.. Well, I’m having some kind of reaction to something I’d been mucking around wit...
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Around the Yard #5: Happy Landscape.. Kinda..
I’m hardly finished with anything. Though things are underway, which is great; they are far...
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Around the Yard #4: Garden's Doing Well!
Well the garden is doing very well. The tomatoes are growing really nicely. Though some things ha...
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Garden Plannings #5: Harvesting Seeds
Next year we’re planning on keeping track of what we plant alot better and harvesting seeds...
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Edible Landscaping, it’s not just for you.
You hear a lot of people these days wanting to grow more of an edible landscape so that they can ...
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Keep a Calendar?
Just wondering, who keeps a physical or digital calendar of events for the yard and garden so the...
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Aquaponics.. Been there.. Done that.. Check it out.
I’d actually done this in my 75 gallon aquarium before we moved. Had a live filter set up w...
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Ewwww....
Ok, so for the past 2 or 3 days I’d been having dog trouble.. Seems the WHOLE pack is not f...
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Around the Yard #3: So Much to do.. More on the List.
Well, here’s some more things I need to get done.. Father In-Law dropped off this big ho...
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Planting & Landscaping #8: Fern Bed.. More Cardboard
I’m trying to get this thing finished up.. I know that the only thing holding me back is th...
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Around the Yard #2: Some minor updates
Just wanted to put up a few shots of things around the yard right now. The “invasiveR...
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Time Flies... Eesh.
I don’t know how you all find the time to post so much this time of year.. I feel like I...
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Around the Yard #1: Blooming Around The Yard - Back From Flu
Well, been gone for a while due to the flu. Really knocked me out and ended up getting stuck in m...
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Frost
Well, seems they did indeed end up issuing a frost advisory, which means either patchy frost or w...
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It's Like Gambling.. An Addiction of it's Own.
Well… I’ve got more stuff ordered.. This WILL be the last thing this year.. I think.....
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Planting & Landscaping #7: Garden Updates: Garden Plot, Ferns & New Flower Bed
I haven’t been posting the goings-on much lately. I guess it’s just because we’...
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Plant Labels
There have been a few mentions of plant labels made out of this or that on the site so I thought ...
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Garden Maintenance #5: Pressure Washer's Fixed
The 2yo son and I fixed the pressure washer today. One of the Lowes specials, Karcher 1500 PSI E...
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Garden Maintenance #4: The Beast, She Runs!
Well the part came in today for the tiller so I decided to sneak outside instead of working so th...
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Garden Maintenance #2: Mower's Running. -1 Problem.
Well, one problem down. I’ve got the lawn mower running again. I replaced the solenoid and ...
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Wanted #1: Any Sedums
If anyone has Sedum Album ‘Murale’ or any other kind, I’d LOVE to get a few sprigs off of y...
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Planting & Landscaping #1: Fern Bed, Soooooooooo Clooooooooose
I’ve got at least 75% of the bed done. It took another 15 bags of soil and I edged it with ...
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Garden Maintenance #1: Patched the Pond
Well, after spending the winter with a hole in it, only filled 1/3rd of the way up I decided to p...
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Planting & Landscaping #2: Outdoor Room: Darn Near Done
Well, here’s the finished fence section. Well.. Almost finished.. I need to trim the posts ...
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Planting & Landscaping #3: Fern Bed Close to Fruition - Need More Diiiiiiiiirt..
Well after a long bit of work with the not so good help of a grumpy 2yo, the bed is closer to bei...
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Back from Wal*Mart
Well.. That was a disappointing trip. Apparently last night was a busy night with two trucks in. ...
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Planting & Landscaping #4: More work on the fern bed
Well, I put more work into the fern bed this afternoon. Ended up mowing a half an acre of neglect...
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Planting & Landscaping #5: Outdoor Room
I think it’s fun to create little nooks with the form of rooms outside. This is a spot in t...
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Planting & Landscaping #6: Shady Fern Bed
I’d been working to get a spot in the yard built up to use as a fern bed. It’s prone ...
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Irrigation #3: Up and Running
I’d actually had this finished off for a bit but been tied down with work and unable to do ...
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Garden Plannings #4: Itchen' for Chickens
I’ve been wanting to keep a few chickens for ages, even before I moved down here and got ma...
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Garden Maintenance #3: When they run, they run.. When they don't, they don't..
It’s a wonderful world. One with great innovations and intriguing machines. When they do th...
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Garden Plannings #3: Garden Shed, This one's still tops.
I’ve looked all over the net for shed plans and really keep going back to a certain one. ...
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Spring Hill is Evil...
Thought that the subject would catch your attention… ;) Reason I say that they are evil ...
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Irrigation #2: Burried pipe finished.
Well, after two days of digging.. Ok.. More like a few hours one day and more the next.. The unde...
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Irrigation #1: Back Yard Watering Spigot
Well, the yard at one point in time had a spigot in the back yard, which is great because the veg...
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Garden Plannings #2: Planning the back run hedge.
Well, I’ve been spending alot of free time lately digging through the catalogs and online s...
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Garden Plannings #1: My "Getting In" List 03/08
The following is a list of some of what I have on order that is coming in for the garden. 3 ...
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Blog Series
- Around the Yard - 29 parts
- Canning Room - 4 parts
- Chickens - 14 parts
- Garden Maintenance - 12 parts
- Garden Plannings - 17 parts
- Harvest Time - 14 parts
- Irrigation - 3 parts
- Just Blooming - 17 parts
- Planting & Landscaping - 19 parts
- Wanted - 1 part
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