Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Grandmas Porch]

OH good morning it has been a fast but hard work week.
today, COFFEE
dishes; get laundry going; coop; goat; weed and mow garden;
I want to have it all done by 12:30pm,
a young couple from church with 3 kids, 6,4,1 are coming by about 1:30ish
I have some lite chores I can do while we visit,
Than greenhouse is coming along.
I actually got all the windows in by ourselves, we didnt need our sone to come help.
DH is using cedar planks on the edging and around the bottom and we still have a bit of leftover sheet metal he will put in-between he windows.






I spent yesterday morning washing all the windows. They sat behind the coop for a year. I moved the tomatoes and chilies in and will get a small work bench built, a bed box for salad greens and some shelves to hold starts. We have a small tent wood stove it put in.
I am just thrilled with it and so blessed DH could map it all out.


Well its now 6:04 and I better get moving
Thankful Grateful and Blessed
I know its Friday but::: Yesterday was truly a Thankful day

 

[farmerjan]

We are finally getting some much needed moisture here in the western part of VA... Nice slow, intermittent rains, then stop, then a good shower, then misty drizzle. Forecast is for this type of stuff for a week or more. Hopefully it will make a dent in the severe and extreme drought we have had.
We got 4 /10ths Wed night into Thursday. Mostly dry but cloudy on Thursday. Temps dropped from 92 for 3 days mid 60's at night... to a low of 51 this morning and probably not make it to barely 60 today. Had some rain last night. Quite foggy this morning, and some drizzly stuff. Not alot today but more coming tonight.
This couldn't be more PERFECT to start to get the ground prepped and for the moisture to permeate down into the way too dry soil. We were seeing terrible dust raised while I was moving round bales of wheat on Tuesday to wrap in the long tubes to preserve it and make it into a type of haylage. More feed value this winter.

I got all my planters emptied of old dirt and refilled with new soil, and the dahlia bulbs I had, planted...so they got a good settling in watering and will get more with this rain.... going through and dumping some things that did not survive the brutal "snow crete" we had this past winter... some grape vines that I got for very cheap at Walmart closeouts last year... surprising, some are looking pretty good... a few raspberry's, and 2 blueberry plants that are coming back real nice. They will hopefully go in the ground this year. Sadly there were about as many casualties as successful saves... but I got them for next to nothing, so not a loss overall.

Today will be a mostly inside day.... which is fine.

Need a new cardboard box for the chicks hatched... and more are due to come out of the incubator, after the weekend . Then candle the ones in the other inc and make one more setting of eggs. Fertility has been okay, not great, and hatchability decent. This next batch ought to be better I hope. I don't candle but once or twice at most...

I find it easiest to just get some good cardboard boxes from the truck stop cardboard dumpster, and not have to deal with disinfecting and all... use and burn in the garden or bury in the compost bin to break down... or use inbetween rows in the garden to break down.