A new journey into homesteading "pic heavy"

Chic Rustler said:

How much soap per quart of water?

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It doesn't take much... But add the Palmolive orginal after you put in the water and don't shake it to make suds just carrying it around is mixing it up enough. I have a pump sprayer that holds two gallons of water and I use less than an 1/8 of a 52 oz bottle of Palmolive orginal and it works well. I've even filled up a fertilizer cup with palm olive orginal and hooked it up to a hose and sprinkler and that worked fantastic also.

I also put some Palmolive orginal and water in some squirt guns and let's the grand kids go to town on bugs in the garden. Super soaker is a blast for the kids.

I find Palmolive original is usually at the local Dollar General really cheap.

Spray in the late evening so you don’t spray any bees. By morning it will be dry and won’t hurt them.

Chic Rustler said:

Heck I don't know. Seemed like a fun idea.

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works for me!

Chic Rustler said:

Every now and then I look around and see all the good things I have accomplished and it's great! Like all these trees. The chicken coop that feeds us 20 eggs a day, the garden that even if not producing what i hoped yet is large and beautiful! But most of the time i get stuck on the short comings. Focus so hard on the imperfections and unfinished work that I just stay angry. Like those fricken squash bugs....they already killed a zuchinni! I hate em bad.....i mean not bad enough to poison my garden with pesticide but pretty bad.

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Look at the pics you took when you first started out and look at what you've done in the short time you've been working on that place. In-between working, family and everything else… You're doing great! Tackle one task daily and get it done as best you can and be happy with what you got done. Homesteading is a never-ending project and there is always, always things that need doing and imperfections and it's o.k. Focus on the good stuff and there is plenty of that!

sumi said:

Homesteading is a never-ending project and there is always, always things that need doing and imperfections and it's o.k. Focus o

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Ain't THAT the truth! Been at this farm for 18 yrs....still working on it and I don't see that changing. Once you feel you have it, something changes and/or ALWAYS repair work (more so with animal assistance).

You are "building" now. As things seem settled, you will have a few years thinking you are done -- the kids grow and priorities change. You redesign. Then you change. Then they leave home and you cut back, change again. Then they marry and want more from "your" farm, you change. They get their own, you downsize -- and there's that change, again.

This is sorta, kinda, maybe -- where life takes us as farmers.

Well I got a third of the lawn mowed today and the belt broke on the mower. So I spent the rest of the day in the garden. I'd live out there if I could.

The bees came back. All over north Texas, same story. They came back all over on the same day.

Anyway things are going fairly well in the GARDEN. It's time for a photobomb

That's awesome!