Coffee anyone ?

[Jesusfreak101]

We gotten enough roma tomatoes to have on hand but yeah by now i would (beforei had a canner) have frozen lots. I have only had enough for us to eat on... weird wet cool year for us. We normally in 100+ rang only need in 90s and 80s i think yall switch weather with us...

 

[farmerjan]

Can we have some of that rain back at least?????

 

[Alaskan]

Can’t you rob bodies, engines, etc from all of those and come up with one that runs?

That is why we have so many! (With the hope of cobbling together a good truck)

But the slightly running and not running trucks are all smaller body trucks... so not beefy enough to hold our huge V plow.

We do have a small straight plow that could be mounted on one of those smaller trucks.... but the thought of having to use that plow....

It can be done..... but then I would have to plow WAY more often.... maybe middle of the night too.... no way could a straight plow push through deep snow, especially around our hairpin turns.

 

[Mini Horses]

For sure....you NEED a plow! That much snow, that long. I just can't imagine living with it. Here a jinormous snow event is a foot or so....heck, you get that like an overnight "sprinkle". I'm not a snow person. One day is enough. thankfully, we only get a storm like that every 10-15 years.

Strange how so many areas have had garden issues this year. What I have seen in my area is that most fruit trees are amazingly productive. Heavy rain in spring slowed many gardeners but, if you planted the plants seem to be fine. Almost no one in my immediate neighborhood has a garden...maybe 15% of families. Somewhat strange considering lot sizes, type neighborhood, etc. Those who do, plants are zooming along. This year, I'm a non gardener. Not happy with that...just how it is.

Another hot one here. Humidity is creating a haze out there. Triple digit day.

 

[Bruce]

Two cherries!

Actually... now up to FOUR cherry tomatoes.

Well then I have you beat!! We've probably gotten a dozen or more so far.

Which means YES, we currently own THIRTEEN VEHICLES (or is it 14?) And we NEED to buy one more

Does that count the sleds and ATVs?

But the slightly running and not running trucks are all smaller body trucks... so not beefy enough to hold our huge V plow.

Clearly you need to get rid of all the spare junk yard vehicles and get a decent size tractor with a snowblower

 

[promiseacres]

Thunderstorms rumbling through this morning.
Talking about veggies, ours are doing ok, plenty of cherry tomatoes for me to eat and have picked a few small beefsteaks. The plants are crazy big but veggies are slow to ripen. After chores I saw the corn was down... may need to just pick and can... sounds exhausting. Making progress on the school room.

 

[Alaskan]

Does that count the sleds and ATVs?

Nope.

Clearly you need to get rid of all the spare junk yard vehicles and get a decent size tractor with a snowblower

Eh.. 5 or so of the small junk trucks are project trucks of kid 3.... he IS supposedly going to start getting rid of some.

I think the Ford Explorer is about ready to sell... so that will be nice.

We used to have a tractor with a snowblower... ...but driving "open air" while twisted into a pretzel so you can drive backwards... is not fun.

That tractor is currently busted.... but is on our list of "repair this"

A truck with a hot cab sure is swank.

 

[Alaskan]

Making progress on the school room

Yeah....



I have so far failed at getting kid 3 set up... last year of high-school for him...so we were thinking of him taking a college class....

But I can't pin him down long enough.

Tried to talk to him this morning.... but he didn't have the time... he was out the door to drive up past Anchorage.

Youngest 2 are still easy..... not that I have planned anything... but I don't really have to until the last minute since I already have just about everything I might want .... leftover from the older kids.

 

[Simpleterrier]

Nope it has been hot here the last little bit but a few weeks ago it dropped into the 40s.at night. Today we hit 94 and.high humidity.

Tomato's plenty.of.them.just all.green the apple trees are loaded and the raspberries blackberries elderberries are full also all the pine trees are covered in cones I have trees that haven't made cones in the last 12 yrs and they are covered. I think its gonna be a long bad winter.

 

[Baymule]

I don’t want another winter like last winter. Once in my lifetime is enough!