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i read all that and want to take a nap. :) good for you both. :) :hugs

citrus peels and worms are fine, but you need the right kind of worms. :) if you have time you can experiment and try to adapt your local native worms to citrus peels. i also bury all bones in the gardens. they don't usually attract any thing else because they are buried deeply enough in our...

regular rains mean gobs of weeds. i'm ok. just trying to get as much done as i can before the weeds start dropping seeds. i'm still planting too because i'm hoping i can get a bean crop of some sort (fresh or dry or both) and i'd rather have some ground cover to keep weeds down instead of...

at last we made some black walnut cookies and i've been enjoying those. the past few days i've had a few for breakfast with blueberries and a glass of milk. for dinner last night i doctored up a can of Spaghettios and meatballs (absolutely horrible but it gets the job done - i won't be buying...

today was foggy this morning so you can imagine how humid it was out there. i kept having these sharp pains in my legs and was thinking it was just my lower back/nerves/etc. stuff but it was actually a biting fly. lil booger. came in to take a break and cool off, not sure i'm up for more of...

roofing guy made it out yesterday to fix leak, it was a new one experienced after a very long and narrow storm lined up right on this area enough to give us several inches of rain in a short period of time. it was dripping in the living room area right on Mom's chair and down that beam. i hope...

weeded the small onion patch and then it was rain coming plus had to come in to check on if the roofing guy was going to come over and see if he could find the leak (we had a real heavy rain last week and they were all on vacation and busy early this week so today was the day if we could get him...

same here! plus i like the light color center instead of black. never seen any other poppies like that one.

yes, the several dam collapses in mid-Michigan in recent years was a good example of that happening. it turned out my brother's place near there is just a few feet sideways and perhaps a few feet higher from the 100yr flood elevation (but the flood waters did not get that high). where we are...

interesting flower, i've not seen any poppies like that before. :)

beautiful day outside, not too hot and a good breeze, was able to get some weeding done and enjoy most of the day outside. :) forgot to get to the peas... tomorrow... i need to send myself an e-mail as a reminder.

aside from my griping about extra work from trimming (in another thread :) ) it did get done yesterday for an hour. that's plenty of that BS for me (i hate lawns - i just do - chalk that up to mowing lawns for $ as a kid) and then got to weeding and trying to finish up that big garden so i can...

after the aforementioned trimming i got out and finished weeding the garden i'd like to plant with beans (late, but we'll do it anyways as they'll help keep some weeds down and provide some N and perhaps a crop of fresh beans for eating even if none get to dry bean stage before the frost takes...

weed wacked for an hour (that's plenty enough of that for me and i'm glad the battery pack doesn't last longer). Mom decided to complain that she didn't like to do it even if it was possible for her to do it after all. so there ya go. not surprised by this "turn" of events, but now i get to...

there is nothing more refreshing than running across a cow pasture and face planting into a fresh pie. yes, i've done it.

it took me a few to figure this one out. at first i was thinking someone was needing to make green Fruit Loops holes bigger. and then the lightbulb went on and we are all banding together...

peas and pea pods are out there to harvest but i've hardly gotten that far back in the gardens lately as i'm trying to get the gardens outside the fence weeded and in better shape. i did get some more creeping thyme transplanted so that is progress of the kind i really wanted to get done...

except these days the fridge might be the first place thieves look...

there's some iron in ours too but i'm used to it enough that it doesn't bother me. price per gallon drinking water is available for less from many places. we get refills for $0.49/gallon at the grocery store (if we supply our own containers). the drinking water they sell by the gallon is...

i'm curious, is your water that bad that you need to get bottled water at all? our well water is not perfect but it is good enough for drinking. we'd never see bottled water here for us to use but we do have a few on-hand from time to time for guests who don't want to drink our well water...