the little wild kingdom

[Mini Horses]

I find that very reasonable, actually -- given prices now.

 

[flowerbug]

Yay! That's fantastic! I mean, you are out a little money but nothing like what it coulda been!

yes, and i should have called him back in August when the hot water heater blew out and the whole system seemed out of whack. so we did spend more $ on electricity than we really needed... my fault.

I find that very reasonable, actually -- given prices now.

true, i'm pretty sure he gave us a break because i did refer some friends to his business plus we wandered around and looked at gardens and had a good chat about gardens plus i gave him some Beaver Dam peppers to take with him.

 

[flowerbug]

mowed today, got it done. Mom picked what was left of the tomatoes to give to to someone else who's been enjoying them.

tomorrow i will be picking some beans and if i'm lucky i can get some shelled out.

the weather forecast remains hot for tomorrow and the next day with chances of rain starting for Monday night (and cooler).

 

[flowerbug]

picked some dry beans (and some not so dry but they got picked anyways) yesterday and am sorely tempted to shell them because of hints of what i'm seeing and also because i need to get some flats combined to give me more room for more flats.

it was warm enough to chase me inside after a few hours and then sidetracked by other projects and then fell asleep early so up early...

 

[flowerbug]

got a few hours of gardening before the too hot came along - not much of a breeze. since i've picked most of the beans in some gardens i can get them put up for winter.

one of the larger gardens is being invaded by a quick growing grass that drops seeds fast, sometimes i can find it in the middle of winter or early spring with seeds on it. this round of growth is just starting to put seed heads on so i better get it out of there (for the bits that don't have seeds on them i bury them deeply enough they won't regrow - the weed bucket gets the seedy bits). i don't know how it got in the garden to begin with (i blame it on the rabbits). today i did about 1/3 of the garden and picked dry beans too while i was at it.

the mostly clay soil is pretty hard for scraping but i can at least get the grasses scraped down and removed and buried and weeding the rest of it is pretty easy since i've kept up with most of it otherwise.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

got a few hours of gardening before the too hot came along - not much of a breeze.

Progress is progress! At least you're getting things done!

 

[flowerbug]

Progress is progress! At least you're getting things done!

yes, and maybe i can get the rest of it done today if i get out there about an hour earlier... we'll see... the remaining part left doesn't have nearly as much grass in it for me to scrape but it will be 2/3rds more area and a longer trench to dig and then fill back in.

whatever i don't get done today will go on the first things list for tomorrow.

 

[flowerbug]

i did get out early and got the trench dug before it got too hot and then i came in for a short break and managed to fall asleep for a few minutes which i wasn't expecting... then got back out and finished that garden up so i can get on to the next one tomorrow.

no more grass or weeds showing in that garden. i hope it won't be able to come back up from any tiny roots that didn't get scraped but until we get some rain that soil is too hard to get a deeper scrape done on it. it won't take too long to do now that nothing else is growing in there and i don't have to work around any bean plants.

 

[flowerbug]

the past few days we've not even hit the dewpoint overnight. that is very very unusual here.

this current forecast has us down for slight chances of rain this early evening so i should be able to pick beans as much as my legs will let me before dark, but we'll see.

then we have chances of rain tonight and into the early morning. back to sunny but much cooler the rest of the week. i'll take it. i don't like being cold, but i really don't like getting overheated either.

i started today by weeding part of another garden that had that same sort of grass spreading into it and it's pretty annoying (well most grasses i consider annoying so there is that too ), but that is done now so i can get on with picking dry beans from the plants along the one edge. i meant to get the entire garden planted but ran out of time back then. so far the beans and pods look to be in excellent condition and that's nice considering how things have gone in many other gardens. these later plantings of beans have done well the 2nd year in a row. these were all Purple Dove beans and meant to be picked and eaten when fresh but we had way too many things coming up this year and my picking for eating didn't happen very often. dry beans are still good eating. so now that picking is on-going...