SSDreamin Blessings and curses

[Wannabefree]

It's not ladylike to spit anyway Llamas/camels/etc. creep me out. DD got spit on at a carnival in mid sentence of saying "Oh, look, their so cu...EWWWWWWWW! IT SPIT on me!" and she utterly despises them now. I think she was 7 and still hates them

 

[SSDreamin]

My Dad had a 'pet' camel when he was stationed in Turkey - he said it spit at people who got to close to it's person - HIM

 

[Denim Deb]

Speaking of llamas....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbPDKHXWlLQ

RU used to have a male llama. She got the mother and a few months later, the male was born. But, she couldn't find anyone to snip him, and he got mean. He was attacking people and other animals. He made the mistake of attacking her zebu bull. He got tossed around a bit, but there wasn't anything that any of us could do to stop them. A couple of days later, she found him in the field-dead. We figure he must have gotten internal injuries. But, it was probably for the good. Someone could have gotten hurt by him.

Personally, I don't like llamas. But, I think alpacas are cute.

 

[SSDreamin]

We have an alpaca farm about a half mile from here. Once a year they have an open house, so one year DS#2 and I went. They were giving a demonstration on how to trim their teeth, and DS & I almost threw up from the smell It was just one of those nasty, can't get past it smells. The lady was saying they had to do the trimming once or twice a year. That dropped the cuteness level way down for me!

 

[SSDreamin]

Just got a call from FIL - there is a small greenhouse about 4 miles from me that has Amish paste AND mortgage lifter tomatoes!! $9.00 a flat, which is pretty reasonable around here. I had looked at 6 different 'commercial' greenhouses, no Amish and just a few lifters Right now, I have 32 tomato plants. I WANT at least 48 - 36 paste and 12 lifters (plus a couple grape tomatoes for snacking/salads), so tomorrow, while I am out looking for $1.00 wind chimes for my garden, I'll have to stop by and pick up some more tomatoes

I also have to look for 1 1/4" metal elbows while I'm out. We bought 2 more grape plants the other day, giving me 1 green seedless, 1 red seedless, and 1 concord now. I asked DH if we could use the old pipe they pulled out when they redid our well, as a grape arbor. I believe our well is 110', and right now the pipe is sitting in my front flower bed I know we could scrap it, but I thought it would be interesting to re use it. He said yes, so now I just need to find some reasonably priced elbows!

We have a real bad yellow jacket problem at this house. I am severely allergic, so DH was spraying outside the front door this past weekend. I had either ran out the front door, or went out the back and walked around the house/garages to get to my truck before he sprayed Welllll... some overspray carried to my best looking blueberry bush, and it looks almost dead We over wintered/heeled in those, and all our plantings actually, right outside the front door. It was a logical place, although we waited to long (OK, I waited too long!) to decide where to put them and now need to wait until fall to move them all. I did put pine needles around all the blueberries, but that is the only bush that looks affected, so it must've been the spray. Maybe I'll post a question and ask how to revive it, if it even can be revived.

 

[SSDreamin]

Memorial Day weekend!!!

The hubster gets 3 WHOLE DAYS off! Today/tomorrow AM he'll be working on getting the barn posts in, putting in my clothes line posts ( ), putting in our flag pole, getting holes dug for the grape arbor, putting in the rest of the post holes for the garden fence and re-sinking the mailbox. Can you tell I talked him into renting a post hole digger?! The rest of his weekend will consist of filling all those holes , and building the barn!

I will be - finally - getting my main garden planted. The onions and potatoes DH & DS planted are doing great. The potatoes are up high enough that I have started covering them with straw! I tried to convince the guys that THEY have the magic touch, and should be the ones to plant EVERYTHING, but they didn't buy it So, as soon as I drag myself out of the house, I will take advantage of the cooler weather (68 right now, with the high expected to be 72, with a low of 62 tonight ) and cloudy skies to get it all in! I am also putting together a composter. I got a bit of a headstart on things yesterday: I cleaned out Ice Creams pen/hutch, spread the straw from there on the potatoes (plain straw, no poo added so I didn't burn things up), but it didn't even cover 1/2 a row! Yes, little cow means not a lot of waste, which is a good thing

Bought the mortgagelifters and Amish paste the other day as planned, plus DH came home with some Early Girls and some Thai peppers that a guy he works with started. The guy always starts twice as many as he needs, to allow for die off, but almost none died this year - at least somebody is having luck with seedlings around here and I get a bunch more stuff to plant for free!

Well, here's to hoping both DH and I stay busy enough that we don't get on each others nerves - the last time we were in the same house for 3 days in a row was Christmas time!

 

[Denim Deb]

If he gets on your nerves, just do the same thing I do when hubby gets on my nerves, I tell him to shut up.

 

[BarredBuff]

Have a good weekend with hubby and the garden! The garden would be my prefered

 

[snapshot]

Whenever I spend excess time with dh I remind myself not to take him for granted. It helps my attitude. It sounds to me like you are staying quite busy! I hope your son is still healing well!!!!!

 

[SSDreamin]

Whenever I spend excess time with dh I remind myself not to take him for granted. It helps my attitude. It sounds to me like you are staying quite busy! I hope your son is still healing well!!!!!

I do enjoy time with DH, I just have to watch every word that comes out of my mouth! He takes every 'idea' I throw out as another job to add to his long list of things he can't get done :/ I just like to bounce ideas off him, like we used to, but I can't because he's so defensive now.
Ds is doing very well. Everything is healing up fine, although he said I should pretend I don't have a son and quit posting stories about him. Ahh, preteens.