Someday Farm, yup someday it will all be just the way i want it..........

[Britesea]

Probably his most famous song (from the same movie-- Gigi) was "Thank Heaven For Little Girls"... but I liked the other one better meself

 

[sumi]

@sumi, you know that apple that you bite into and one eyebrow just automatically goes up 'cause they are a little on the tart side. that is what a jonathan is like. they are good for cooking, make great pies and some folks like eating them out of hand but i prefer a sweetly, spicy tartly apple but these are an old favorite around here and they were free. i have a big beautiful Maremma LGD named Katie who pretty much convinces all the predators to stay from up at the house. i must admit i worry a bit when the goats and sheep are out in the wild part of the property but so far so good. i lost her helper, Jasper about 3 months ago and am thinking about getting another LGD because it is so hard for them to do it all alone. first pix is of Katie and second of her as a pup with "uncle" jasper.
it was 102.2 in the shade in my backyard this afternoon. needless to say i didn't get much done outside today. got a couple of my saddles out of the storage building and got them cleaned up before it got horrible out. I've decided to sell or trade them because i am no longer able to ride for more than 20-30 mins before my back and hip are more than i can handle. I've spent 50 years of my life riding and to have to admit to myself that it isn't part of my future kinda bums me out. i try to remind myself that from the cradle to the grave our life evolves and changes but i still miss that feeling of freedom when its just you, your horse and the wind on the mountain, oh well.

So they're a bit like Granny Smith apples? I like eating those, but they are better for cooking.

Your dogs are beautiful! Sorry to hear about Jasper...

It sounds like it's as hot by you as by us. I don't like those days. It's just so horrible you can't do anything and when evening rolls round you're too drained to do anything!

I'm not allowed to ride horses due to a back injury, but I still do when I can. There is nothing quite like it, is there?

 

[Denim Deb]

No there isn't. If I don't ride, I have problems w/my right leg. I was told by a neurologist to ride after I was in a car accident. I have L4, L5 nerve damage, and it affects my right leg. And while I'll never be 100%, I'm better now than I was B4 I started to ride.

 

[sumi]

I got told by an orthopaedic surgeon to STOP riding, period after I got hit by a car. I just said no way, no can do. Horses were a huge part of my life then. So he compromised and said no more jumping I used to jump, not competitively, but I loved it. I found if I'm careful when I ride I can get away with it. Falling off of course could get interesting, but I'll risk it.

 

[goatgurl]

i didn't have a problem staying in the middle of the horse, i just couldn't take the pain it caused. before i could and would ride all day. we used to camp with the horses for a week or two at a time, had hundreds of miles of mountain trails. those little arabs could keep going after others quit. loved to give a hard time to cowboy types.

 

[goatgurl]

youall won't believe what i did all afternoon. went thru my baker creek seed catalog looking for things to plant next year. is that nuts or what? i usually am so desperate for spring about jan. 1st that i save that guilty pleasure till then. i'm still harvesting this years garden but it was so hot outside again today that i just came in about 11 am and stayed in till it was time to go out to feed this evening. God planted a butternut squash outside my goat pen and it has several nice squash on it and since i have never grown winter squash before I'm not sure how to tell if they are ready to pick. crazy huh, I've always just grown summer types and have to fight the squash bugs for them but i really like different winter squash too so i thought why not check out the different kinds they have. and they have lots so now I'm sooo confused, i may have to try several just to see what i like best and thin down my selection to a few the year after that.

 

[Britesea]

Oh man, now you'll have to wait even longer before planting your pretty new seeds! Probably start them indoors on Christmas Eve.....

 

[Denim Deb]

I'm already planning next year's garden as well. And, I'll be ordering seeds from Baker's Creek. For corn, I just planted what I could find from Wally's World, and I'm not overly happy w/it. So I found my self wondering what I could get from BC.

 

[sumi]

Are you members on TheEasyGarden.com as well? I've noticed the members there exchanging and sharing seeds of especially the harder to find stuff.

I'm not planning a garden at the moment, because we are trying to offload our property before emigrating... again. I miss messing around in the soil though! I probably enjoy the time spend on the garden more than eating the produce.

 

[goatgurl]

i have a small greenhouse that is still sitting down by my sisters house that i plan to move over to my house this fall. I'm planning on putting spinach, chard etc in there this winter as well as move my herbs from the outside to in there. can't wait till i can start next years seed. my problem is with so many varieties to choose from i'll never be able to decide which to plant. with the winter squash BC has between 95 and 100 varieties to choose from. does anyone have a favorite? and why? decisions, decisions...
got up this morning and found that the buck had somehow gotten out and visited my garden. he stripped what beans i had left, ripped and tore up some of the tomatoes and ate my two jalapeño pepper plants to the ground. they were covered with peppers and i was waiting for some of them to turn red before i picked them. on one level i hope he suffers and on the other level do you think i should feed him some ice cream? can't believe he did that. also ate two clematis that were waiting to be planted, here's hoping they come back from the roots. repotted the pepper sticks in a two gallon pot and am going to put them in the green house too. worst that can happen is that they don't grow or they will and i'll get a pepper or two after all.
DenimDeb, i also threw away more than i kept when i cleaned yesterday but still have pictures, recipes and books to find something to do with. now I'm sort of looking sideways at the basket of clothes in the corner. i think they're next. I built this little house last year and really, really downsized which is hard for me. i'm discovering that my "stuff" is kind of my security blanket and it is very hard for me to let go of. I'm tryin', i really am but it's slow going and now that i am just living on my social security and am always broke its really hard.
all in all its been a good day, got more done than i thought. visited with one of my sisters and took care of some business from mom's will then went and visited my friend jan who is remodeling her bathroom and i am her unpaid decorator. I'm likin' what the contractor has done so far and the mirror and and lights are working well with the glass tile trim . goats are good, sheep are good, chickens and ducks are good, piggy is growing like a weed and all is well with the world. nite youall, emma and i are headed for bed. I'm just hopin' she doesn't bring her lamblamb toy so i have to listen to squeeks off and on all night.