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 Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:23 pm
I....divided the seeds I bought a few days ago, I don't need that many seeds!! I'm going to hand half of them to a professor who wants to start a garden in front of the Life science building.
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Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 4:35 am
@ Ta Lu: We grow Cherokee Wax every year for pickles. They keep a little *snap*, and when you bite them they squeak on your teeth! Fun! And good. Bush beans don't need staking or any other special treatment, just keep them picked. They're very productive.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 11:42 am
Woke up at noon, made breakfast, turned on the pc to waste some time till i have to get ready for work. I've been doing a whole lot of nothing but working lately. I need to start working out again but when i have free time it is not conducive due to other people being asleep and i dont want to wake them with the sound of the stationary bike or weights.
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 1:12 pm
I took my friend to my campus and we went hiking in the gorge. We had a lot of fun! ^_^
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Posted: Fri May 06, 2011 7:02 pm
we signed up for a netflix trial, and i cannot get enough of documentaries about food, gardening, farming, and the like. they make good watching for while i am doing chores.
also, my tomatoes have gotten big and have blossoms. the honey bees and some solitary bees seem to be hanging around the plants, so im hoping they do their jobs and i get fruit soon. my peppers are growing along fine, as is my spinach.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 10:40 am
Yesterday I marked off the four parts of the stream I will be studying this summer. I will start collecting samples next week.
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Posted: Tue May 10, 2011 3:28 pm
Wouldn't it be wonderful if something like this was around in every state in the US? Image the amount of waste we could cut down, and put back into our gardens - particularly the people who don't want a compost pile in their pristine yard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZOTwYxRaCQ&feature=related
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:09 am
i went to walmart to discover that alot of their food plant type things were on clearance for a dollar, so i got a strawberry plant, some asparagus crowns, and some red seed potatoes. got them planted. one of my tomato plants has a fruit forming on it, im so excited.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 11:49 am
took down the last of my shop in the basement and moved it into the garage. Didn't get it set up yet because there isn't enough room right now. Setting up 2 new big shelving units in the basement for expanded emergency supply storage. Our old shelf that we were using is kinda overloaded and is only meant to hold like 75lbs per shelf so we bought new ones that hold 500lbs per shelf. So one of them will be for canned goods, one will be for pasta's and rices and one will be for stuff we can this fall and tomato products and such.
I still need to start shooting my bow again...but my yard is small and children refuse to stay away when i'm doing dangerous things. (its hard to throw knives/work on cars/shoot a bow when half a dozen kids are running around your yard or trying to get a closer look at what your doing) i need to move to the country...or at least someplace with a fence.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:26 pm
Cut a branch hanging over my garden today... Hopefully, it allows more sunlight into certain areas of my garden... It destroyed about half of my garden and my rose of sharon, too, but oh well xD
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:17 pm
I think I found some Mint on campus today. Its aromatic, smells minty, but its not all that pleasant to me. :I
Its got purple flowers, hopefully it will bloom faster so I can maybe ID it and figure out which mint it is. Brought some back to the dorm anyway, I figure it will make the room smell a little better. The garbage room next door to the dorm is starting to get strong.
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:49 pm
The girls and I actually had the time to go see my Dad this morning----spent several hours out on the porch in the breeze, just talking about everything going on in the world, looking at pics on the girls' phones (including an x-ray of a person whose internal organs are totally reversed, right-to-left!), checking out the animals, etc.. Then home just in time for another round of thunderstorms and tornado warnings, lots of wind and rain. It is wonderfully cool right now! We set a high temp record a few days ago that had stood since 1958, and now we're shooting for some record lows the next couple of days. It will be a nice change from what are normal July temperatures for us, although the gardens are having a heck of a time. There's no consistency to the weather yet. I finally had to admit that the sweet cherries that we planted last year just didn't make it through that record cold this winter, and I won't be able to get them again until fall----but the figs in pots have fruit! so all is not lost! All the other fruit trees look good, and the new almonds are doing well in spite of the crazy weather.
Brushed the Great Pyrenees last night while it was storming, and now I have a grocery bag (paper) full of hair....not even finished with him yet! There's going to be lots of fiber here to spin I finally get the time to do it.
@ Teh_Plague: sounds like the food storage is going well! Is there not a public archery range, or something like that, there? All the archery shops here have indoor and outdoor ranges, and even the outdoor range for the police is open to the public at certain times, for handguns. There was a news story here about a week ago about a man who was shot by his neighbors....he should have been well out of range, and they were shooting into bales w/plywood, but he was shot in the leg-----hunting rifle. Freak accident, but they happen. Range practice is good.
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 8:39 pm
Got home at 7am fell asleep for about 4 hours then woke up because i wanted to see a friend while he was in town since he lives in arizona now. He hasn't been back up here in probably a good two years so a whole bunch of us hung out today. Despite the fact that it's really hot up here right now for this time of year mid may and we hit 90 degree's already apparently.
@sunset: I'm jealous of your orchard lol. I would love to have a whole bunch of fruit tree's in the back yard. It's not all food storage theres emergency supplies in there as well like extra batteries, a bunch of maps, cases of water (piled up in the corner) first aid stuff. Just a general emergency storage thing in case anything ever happens.
As far as the range for shooting at goes theres one about 15 minutes from my house but i haven't been there in years because i can't justify paying someone 15 bucks to let me shoot at a target for an hour when i can go buy a bale of hay for 2-3 bucks and do it in my yard. Which is what i'd be doing if parents in this neighborhood knew how to control their children so they didn't think they can do whatever they want in whoever's yard they want. Last summer they thought it was a good idea to throw rocks at a spider that was on the side of the garage until someone cracked the window...complained about it to the landlord multiple times but they don't care, complained to the kids parents telling them they need to start watching their kids because if they damage my property we will have a very serious problem and they just walk away and refuse to acknowledge that i've even tried speaking to them. The few shops around here that are set up for shooting bow's only allow you to shoot bows from the sales floor or to shoot a bow that they've done work on for you to ensure quality of workmanship. You can't just bring your bow in and shoot for half an hour to practice. But i may have to just suck it up and pay the 15 bucks at the range just so i can start practicing.
Wow that's a wall of text...all this heat and humidity has me feeling quite cranky and on edge. Not directed towards anybody here just to be clear. I feel like an mean old man who is just cranky and sore all the time...but i'm not old.
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 7:26 am
@ Teh_Plague: I do know what you mean about kids in the yard, people who don't watch their kids, etc.-----things are just ridiculous. Children come with a great deal of responsibility.......sadly, too many people look at them as pets, and treat them the same way. Years ago, my husband and I were nearly shot in the head by some neighbor kids practicing with their 22 while we were working in the garden, and had to talk to the neighbors. That never happened again. I don't know how you get "grown-ups" to be responsible if they don't want to do it, though.
Don't be jealous of the orchard just yet. All this planting is being done to replace trees, berries, grapes that were lost to our wonderful weather here. The previous plantings had just reached bearing size and it was quite a loss to me. You can't just give up, though, right? So we continue to replant, look forward to a wonderful, independent homestead. Life isn't fair. It's an adventure!
Hot, humid weather makes everyone cranky, even the animals. Your cool weather will be back soon. It's cool here today! Hallelujah!
The orioles are here today!!!! I just love to see the orioles and hummingbirds together at the feeders!!!
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Posted: Fri May 13, 2011 10:38 pm
(will read back and reply to all the things I missed.)
Yesterday I was scared by a humming bird. It was all quiet and then all of a sudden this whirring behind me. It was really close and very deep sounding so I had no idea it was a humming bird. There are tons of them here.
I also "stole" a plant from Home Depot. There was a single lipstick vine leaf on the ground which I picked up and put in some of my plant goop. We'll see how that goes.
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