Good Morning!--Chat thread

[Thewife]

thewife, if we had any stuff on this farm, it would also be rusty and needing welding! Wait, all that crazy stuff DH keeps picking up ("free" rototiller, woodstove (original to our house and ugly as sin), air compressor) ALL is broken down, rusted and needing _something...to be taken to the dump in my opinion!! That man is a magnet for other people's broken down "finds." Sheesh.

Just saw on King5.com they're expecting highs in the 70s today...I sure couldn't tell by looking outside! Wow.

Well you've seen this place!
Between dad and Hubby, I think the herd is going to run out of grazing pasture!

70s?
Yea, looks kinda dingy out there!
I guess I should go water all the plants that were relying on the rain we did not get yesterday!

 

[wynedot55]

i dont have the 20 grand they are wanting for the herd.an besides dont know how much hay we are going to have this year yet.

 

[amysflock]

Yeah, I probably should have watered the garden this a.m., but I really thought it would rain today! I'm still not convinced it won't. I'm being so lazy today...still in my pjs at lunch time! I need to get moving, though, to pick up some more meds for little old Maggie dog.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

It was grocery shopping day here today. That awful job is done for a while now!

 

[Thewife]

I had a heifer in the clear cut. She is one of them tamer ones, the boy practically had to push her back through the fence. The military has been buzzing my house all morning, 2 helicopters and some kind of transport plane. Something ate most of beets! The geese got a bunch of my corn. My plum tree has so many aphids, they are falling off the tree like rain.
I have a splitting headache!
Nap time! (if the helicopters and plane don't come back)

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

It was grocery shopping day here today. That awful job is done for a while now!

I've managed to get my groc. shopping trips to once about every 3 months!!!!!!!!!!

thewife I had a heifer in the clear cut. She is one of them tamer ones, the boy practically had to push her back through the fence. The military has been buzzing my house all morning, 2 helicopters and some kind of transport plane. Something ate most of beets! The geese got a bunch of my corn. My plum tree has so many aphids, they are falling off the tree like rain.
I have a splitting headache!
Nap time! (if the helicopters and plane don't come back)

when it rains it pours?!?

 

[Farmer Kitty]

I usually go once every 3-4 weeks, if my family is lucky!

thewife, you need to learn to sleep through the military planes and helicopters, we do! We are in one of the flight patterns for the bombing range. At least they haven't been swooping the fields like they used to.

 

[Thewife]

I usually go once every 3-4 weeks, if my family is lucky!

thewife, you need to learn to sleep through the military planes and helicopters, we do! We are in one of the flight patterns for the bombing range. At least they haven't been swooping the fields like they used to.

If they came around enough I could probably learn to sleep through them! Instead, I wake up because it sounds like a noisy rig pulled up to the house, over and over again!

Good thing I didn't try to nap, the boy came home!

 

[amysflock]

What is with those helicopters, anyway? Are you growing something they're looking for?! They've been going high over our place a lot, too, back and forth over the tree farm. Makes me wonder what's going on...Fort Lewis is the OTHER way! We had a C-130 fly really low over our place twice just before the Olympia Air Show, although I'm not clear whether it was part of that or not...but it was frighteningly low.

Believe it or not, it really is in the 70s now, but looking out the window you'd think it was maybe 60 degrees, it's so dark and cloudy out. I ran errands with a jacket and had to take it off! It's really muggy, though.

Anyone know a good site to see pictures of insects that attack veggies? There's been something on the zucchini leaves and also the cauliflower leaves (in the other garden) that I've never seen...a small black beetle with yellow-orange stripes. Not sure if it's beneficial or a bad one.

 

[homesteadingcowgirl]

Anyone know a good site to see pictures of insects that attack veggies? There's been something on the zucchini leaves and also the cauliflower leaves (in the other garden) that I've never seen...a small black beetle with yellow-orange stripes. Not sure if it's beneficial or a bad one.

try whatsthatbug.com- they have some pretty good pictures and you can send them a pic and they will reply about what they think it is