Canesisters 2024 journal

[canesisters]

We're on shutdown again. Maybe for the whole week. I got busy at home & didn't get any sleep before coming in. So.... been up since 7am Mon AM. I'm in trouble.

11pm coffee
1am coffee
3am coffee

 

[Baymule]

Hang in there! You will make it!

 

[Mini Horses]

Yeah...hang in there. I tried to stay up for 11 news...awoke at 3:30 sitting on couch. Couldn't go back to sleep. Now I'll be in trouble mid afternoon. Screwy for bedtime later, too.

And there's @Baymule up too early too !!!!

 

[canesisters]

LOL!!!!!
I've been thinking that I needed to turn on the furnace to see if it's going to work this season.
Wanna guess what was running when I got home this AM???
Apparently I never actually clicked it to OFF in the early Spring.

Oh well.
Works...... so, yeah

 

[Mini Horses]

It was a chilly 51 here this morn -- only 64 inside glad your heater is working!!

 

[canesisters]

Drove to 2 different agricultural/farm stores with that leaky wheel barrow wheel this AM trying to find anything that could serve as a replacement. I kept telling them that I didn't care if it matched, all I want is the same diameter tire & axle hole. Nope.
1 guy looked on the interwebs & wrote down a link where I could order 1 that "might work, I don't know" for $45 plus shipping.
I'm trying a can of Fix-a-Flat & 1 more coat of FlexSeal first.
Then I dug the last of the waste hay out of Eva's feeder & dropped a 2nd bale in. Once I have a way to move all that wet hay across the yard, I'll probably dump it in the chicken yard.
Then started on the 1st garden bed. It took a ridiculously long time to get the spacing right. But I know that it'll irritate the begeezus out of me if every time I look at it next summer it's crooked.
7' off the paddock fence, 11' off the chicken yard fence. 16'long & 48" wide. Stobs to hold the boards up. Cardboard to smother the grass.
There is an overgrown weed filled compost pile between the bed & the paddock fence. I'll be yanking the weeds out & putting that down as a layer in the bed. It's got to go anyway so may as well go in. I need to scrape the chicken roosts & clean out the poo from under them - that'll go in the garden too.
It's almost time to start mowing/mulching leaves. Most of that will go on existing beds but some will be layered with the manure in this garden (compost) bed.
I wanted to get more done but my sore joints are really working overtime today for some reason. So I tossed the rest of the cardboard on the layers already down & called it done for the day.
Big mug of dead nettle tea & some aspercream will be the highlight of my evening.

The cardboard stash so far

My sharpened myrtle stakes

There's a compost pile under all those weeds on the right

Ready to start adding poo & leaves & poo & litter box pine dust & poo & cardboard & poo.....

The cardboard is almost ready to harvest.