Dawn419 & doc's LSTA: Confounded Computer!!!

[BarredBuff]

We got red blackberries around here, I want some Jam!

 

[dragonlaurel]

Enjoy those blackberries! I'm so jealous, but i can console myself with pumpkin pie.

The weather radar was showing more rain coming your way. Hope it helps. It will miss us, but we might get some tomorrow.

Go to the nearest pharmacy and ask the druggist if they have any powdered sulfur. I rub a Tiny bit on my ankles when I'm going into tick/chigger territory and don't get bit. You wont smell great afterwards, but they hate the stuff. It's cheap too, since a little goes a lonnnng way.

 

[Denim Deb]

I might have to get some of that! I pulled 2 ticks off of me last night, and found another one this morning!

 

[dragonlaurel]

FYI - a little dab around the ankles will take care of the whole body. It at is absorbed through the skin, then and will get circulated and come out in your sweat the way garlic or some curries can. It has that egg-y smell, but I never got bit by anything using it. Mosquito, gnats & fleas, stayed away too.

 

[Dawn419]

Had a 60% chance of rain for the day:

~Started a fire in the pit...............................check

~Left all of the windows open in the shed....check

~Doc fired up the grill for supper...................check

~Uncovered all of the dry firewood................check

~Left the camera and cell phone outside........check

Two and a half hours of thunderstorms and rain...PRICELESS


Friends of ours make their own sulfur capsules and take them but we just haven't gotten that far, yet. The feed store that they buy the sulfur from has odder hours than docs' schedule and he hasn't caught them open when he's in the neighborhood, go figure! We need to go visit D & K, and will try and do so this coming week when doc is off work and I'll get the info from them and post it here at the forum.

Be back here at the journal in a few...gotta load some pix!

 

[BarredBuff]

on the rain!!!! Can't wait for the pics!!

 

[dragonlaurel]

That's why we barely got any rain. I didn't start a fire or leave my phone outside. Maybe I can start a picnic or wash a car.

 

[Wannabefree]

We're getting more rain too

Waitin for pics

 

[Dawn419]

Checked the rain gauge while pix were loading and we got an inch in this stormy period! Sweeet!!!

I'll be able to pull up a huge clump of narrow-leaved Plantain, a lot of Queen-Anne's-Lace (the buns love it) and a teasel-ly looking wildflower from the gravel at the end of the driveway for transplanting.

I have been dealing with a piss-poor attitude the whole time we'd been droughting and I don't like myself when I'm in that mood. I think that's why I haven't been posting as much lately...on top of being busy. No need to drag y'all down, too!

A neat nature story from Moms:

A couple of civilized visits ago at Moms, we took the dogs for a walk to the pond, fed the catfish and she and I got froggy and decided to walk the woods in shorts ( ) since it was kind of cool, weather-wise. We paid for it in harvesting a ton of ticks BUT we found a female box turtle laying her eggs and a possible young Paw Paw tree. I didn't have the camera with me, of course. We need to do that walk again to get pix of the possible Paw Paw and atleast two possible Thong Trees aka Native America Trail Marker Trees.

Okay, back home to the Strangeness Acres.

The other day, when I warded off the potential rain by being prepared for it ( ), I was going to crush cans, when I noticed a young Walking Stick which has some dried grass attached to it's tail-end. Lo and behold, I managed to catch my first Walking Stick molting!

My full-time watering job is paying off in some areas:

Blackberries at the camp patch (so glad I didn't eradicate them, like I'd planned):

The adopted Asparagus is going crazy:

And we have many Figs on our little tree. Just a few of them, for your viewing pleasure:

Since doc has been bringing home copious amounts of free, hardwood sawdust from work for the sawdust toilet, we kinda got over run with it. So, we're starting to use it the walkways of the garden. This will make my life a bit easier. :

Doc's grillin' and chillin' in the rain ( ):

This coming Friday, we will be the proud owners of an Enterprise Lard/Fruit Wine Press. Made a down payment on it yesterday and after we did some research, we realized we're lacking the strainer plate and basket but we can eventually get replacements for them. We're super excited about this little unexpected purchase!!!

Did more research on the blackberry wine and we're going to need atleast 9 and a half gallons (or close to 30 pounds) to do a 5 gallon batch. I'm positive we don't have that much here so we'll go picking this coming weekend at my aunts.

Well, I'm runnin' off at the mouth, ain't I? Got a minor, crappy story to rant about but'll I'll save it for later! :/

 

[Denim Deb]

Neat pics of the walking stick! I've never seen one molt.

I don't know that I'll be able to do the sulfur. I'm allergic to sulfa drugs, so I'm assuming this would also be a problem for me.