ThreeBoysChicks
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I am so jealous. You get a lot done in your day.
Roll Farms - Herdstock is over, and I'm feeling hung over, lol
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Finally remembered to take pics of some spring flowers....now that the big daffodils and hyacinth are done it's not as impressive, but still pretty.
(I call that flower bed, "The Jungle" and trying to get it back in shape will be next year's project....)
Mini daffodils
I love, love, LOVE parrot tulips.
I have sprouts in the greenhouse!
Ok, here are pics of the project(s) I'm workin' on....
This is the big bed I worked on above the pond a couple days ago...that had the 458,015 rocks in it..... I'll be setting cantaloupe, pumpkins, and watermelon out up there, it can go crazy vining all over and nobody will care.
I forgot to take a 'before' shot, until after I'd removed the mulch, but this is the bed I call "the Big Bed"....it's 50' long, 6' wide - ish.
I came home from work one day to it. DH got a hair up his bum to build a wooden fence there and I'd been asking for a bigger flower bed for a while, so he built the fence and put the rr ties in while I was gone, and filled it w/ creek-bottom dirt....it's nice and loose and sandy and stuff grows great in it.
He dug some double sheperd's hooks out of the dumpster at work and mounted them to some of the posts, it looks really nice when it's all done up. (Or - I like to think so...lol)
There's always been perennials in one end and I'd put maters, peppers, and cucs in the other end.
This year we're putting the veggies in raised beds around back soooo....that left me 25' to 'play' with.
This is what I did w/ all the mulch I raked out of the other one - used it to mulch this row of Rose of Sharon.
Starts I dug up from various places to fill in the 'empty' part of the Big Bed.
The 'empty' part w/ landscape fabric down
35 or so feet completed:
What I have left to get landscape fabric on and mulched, I hope to get it done tomorrow:
And....next week's project:
I mentioned earlier in the journal about some 'vile vining weed' taking over the back flower bed.....well, I used weedkiller on it (that's the crunchy brown stuff in the pic) so now I gotta pull it all out and plant something to fill that space up.
Oh, and 3bc - my dh comes home tonight and says, "That's all you got done?"
Apparently he's not as easily impressed as you are....lol.
I reminded him that 2 hrs of chores in the am, then 2pm bottle feeding, then 4 pm feeding and milking do put a dent in what I can accomplish in a day,
eta....that big concrete birdbath....I broke the top today (it had a crack in it) trying to move it. Going to try and come up with a genormous serving dish of some sort to use in it's place.....
(I call that flower bed, "The Jungle" and trying to get it back in shape will be next year's project....)
Mini daffodils
I love, love, LOVE parrot tulips.
I have sprouts in the greenhouse!
Ok, here are pics of the project(s) I'm workin' on....
This is the big bed I worked on above the pond a couple days ago...that had the 458,015 rocks in it..... I'll be setting cantaloupe, pumpkins, and watermelon out up there, it can go crazy vining all over and nobody will care.
I forgot to take a 'before' shot, until after I'd removed the mulch, but this is the bed I call "the Big Bed"....it's 50' long, 6' wide - ish.
I came home from work one day to it. DH got a hair up his bum to build a wooden fence there and I'd been asking for a bigger flower bed for a while, so he built the fence and put the rr ties in while I was gone, and filled it w/ creek-bottom dirt....it's nice and loose and sandy and stuff grows great in it.
He dug some double sheperd's hooks out of the dumpster at work and mounted them to some of the posts, it looks really nice when it's all done up. (Or - I like to think so...lol)
There's always been perennials in one end and I'd put maters, peppers, and cucs in the other end.
This year we're putting the veggies in raised beds around back soooo....that left me 25' to 'play' with.
This is what I did w/ all the mulch I raked out of the other one - used it to mulch this row of Rose of Sharon.
Starts I dug up from various places to fill in the 'empty' part of the Big Bed.
The 'empty' part w/ landscape fabric down
35 or so feet completed:
What I have left to get landscape fabric on and mulched, I hope to get it done tomorrow:
And....next week's project:
I mentioned earlier in the journal about some 'vile vining weed' taking over the back flower bed.....well, I used weedkiller on it (that's the crunchy brown stuff in the pic) so now I gotta pull it all out and plant something to fill that space up.
Oh, and 3bc - my dh comes home tonight and says, "That's all you got done?"
Apparently he's not as easily impressed as you are....lol.
I reminded him that 2 hrs of chores in the am, then 2pm bottle feeding, then 4 pm feeding and milking do put a dent in what I can accomplish in a day,
eta....that big concrete birdbath....I broke the top today (it had a crack in it) trying to move it. Going to try and come up with a genormous serving dish of some sort to use in it's place.....
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wow!!! i love all the work you've done, it all looks great! i would love to do things like that in my yard.. right now we are still finishing up the fences and trying to keep all the animals out of the front yard, THEN maybe ill start on doing some flower beds and whatnot.. ill keep coming back to look at your pics as motivation to get some stuff done! 
great job!!
great job!!redtailgal
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It looks great, all of it!
You've inspired me. I'll try to share some pics of my beds this week.
You've inspired me. I'll try to share some pics of my beds this week.
autumnprairie
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love the pics
love the pics
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FINALLY. Finally. finallllyyyyyy....got the big flower bed completed today.
I had it 60% done in one day....then took 3 more to finish.
Every time I'd get started on it again....someone would call, or show up, or it was time to bottle feed, or something. Thurs. I remembered that my sister's b-day was Saturday and I needed to get a card / get it in the mail....Friday I had to clean house. Just one thing or another to keep me occupied elsewhere....
I decided it was getting done today, by hook or by crook...and I also got some 'little' flower beds and the front border of the porch mulched, too.
AHHHHHHHHHHH.
I did get a little disgruntled when I discovered some of the mulch we bought is 'dirty' and of a darker color than the other mulch, like it has stump grindings in it.... So I'm dumping / spreading away at near dark last night, notice the color, and assume that the darker stuff is just 'wet' and will dry out to be the same color. NOPE. So I had to take out some and replace it w/ the lighter stuff. They loaded us from 2 different pallets, I'm betting that's the problem.
This morning we loaded up 3 adult rabbits and 3 babies and took off to Limberlost, where our rabbits were 'on display' for kids to pet / see before an Easter Egg Hunt.
Folks, I was surrounded by children and nobody got hurt, LOL. A few had to be told to keep their fingers out of cages and NO, you can't HOLD it, but you can PET it...GENTLY....but no real issues. The rabbits all behaved beautifully and the Flemish Giant was a HIT. Everyone kept exclaiming over how BIG he is.
Friday we sold 2 rabbits and Freckles, and I got to see Roger - who brought me *awesome* chicken salad - thanks again!
We sold 2 rabbits this afternoon (4-H'ers, not as 'easter bunnies, I'm against 'impulse pets' on holidays...)
I told y'all I broke the concrete top to my birdbath...? Well, tonight at Meijer DH bought me this big, sort of gaudy thing that LOOKS like your great-aunt Edna's serving plate but really is made to be a birdbath top, lol. It's so ugly but it's got shades of blue in it and it looks perfect on the blue base I have.
Tomorrow....DH and I (after dinner at his mama's) will be building my 4 - 8'x8' raised beds. We're going to fill them w/ pasture dirt (manure that's had time to turn back into dirt) and silt from our currently dried-out creekbed. Should be some awesomely fertile / easily worked soil.
HAPPY EASTER to all my BYH friends, have a wonderful day w/ your families!!
I had it 60% done in one day....then took 3 more to finish.
Every time I'd get started on it again....someone would call, or show up, or it was time to bottle feed, or something. Thurs. I remembered that my sister's b-day was Saturday and I needed to get a card / get it in the mail....Friday I had to clean house. Just one thing or another to keep me occupied elsewhere....
I decided it was getting done today, by hook or by crook...and I also got some 'little' flower beds and the front border of the porch mulched, too.
AHHHHHHHHHHH.
I did get a little disgruntled when I discovered some of the mulch we bought is 'dirty' and of a darker color than the other mulch, like it has stump grindings in it.... So I'm dumping / spreading away at near dark last night, notice the color, and assume that the darker stuff is just 'wet' and will dry out to be the same color. NOPE. So I had to take out some and replace it w/ the lighter stuff. They loaded us from 2 different pallets, I'm betting that's the problem.
This morning we loaded up 3 adult rabbits and 3 babies and took off to Limberlost, where our rabbits were 'on display' for kids to pet / see before an Easter Egg Hunt.
Folks, I was surrounded by children and nobody got hurt, LOL. A few had to be told to keep their fingers out of cages and NO, you can't HOLD it, but you can PET it...GENTLY....but no real issues. The rabbits all behaved beautifully and the Flemish Giant was a HIT. Everyone kept exclaiming over how BIG he is.
Friday we sold 2 rabbits and Freckles, and I got to see Roger - who brought me *awesome* chicken salad - thanks again!
We sold 2 rabbits this afternoon (4-H'ers, not as 'easter bunnies, I'm against 'impulse pets' on holidays...)
I told y'all I broke the concrete top to my birdbath...? Well, tonight at Meijer DH bought me this big, sort of gaudy thing that LOOKS like your great-aunt Edna's serving plate but really is made to be a birdbath top, lol. It's so ugly but it's got shades of blue in it and it looks perfect on the blue base I have.
Tomorrow....DH and I (after dinner at his mama's) will be building my 4 - 8'x8' raised beds. We're going to fill them w/ pasture dirt (manure that's had time to turn back into dirt) and silt from our currently dried-out creekbed. Should be some awesomely fertile / easily worked soil.
HAPPY EASTER to all my BYH friends, have a wonderful day w/ your families!!
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Sounds like you had a productive day.
Wanna come work on my monster bed for me?
LOL at you and the kids..............Ya shoulda been here today. Your rabbits could have given my goats a break!
Wanna come work on my monster bed for me?
LOL at you and the kids..............Ya shoulda been here today. Your rabbits could have given my goats a break!
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
love hearing about progress and all your hard work
Happy Easter
Happy Easter
RPC
Overrun with beasties
Happy Easter and I am really glad you enjoyed the chicken salad. Freckles is fitting in pretty well and there has not been much fighting. I think it is because she is the biggest. It is funny to see Sky go after her and then when Freckles turn to confront her Sky runs away LOL.
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Are y'all tired of pics yet?
We got the 4 raised beds built Sunday, and today DH made 'plant supports' for them after he got home from work. They're cattle panels. I think that should hold some 'maters!
This bed will be for cucumbers on one side, and 'miscellaneous' on the other...so only one support.
Still gotta get some dirt in them and then mulch around them....but it's progress!
Some of the flowerbeds / borders now that I got the mulch put down / old growth out, etc.
And while I work my butt off....the goats are off eating and having a grand old time....
That stupid dog crapped in the flowerbed again. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Gotta get up at 3am for work....better get off here n' get to bed. Have a good evening!
We got the 4 raised beds built Sunday, and today DH made 'plant supports' for them after he got home from work. They're cattle panels. I think that should hold some 'maters!
This bed will be for cucumbers on one side, and 'miscellaneous' on the other...so only one support.
Still gotta get some dirt in them and then mulch around them....but it's progress!
Some of the flowerbeds / borders now that I got the mulch put down / old growth out, etc.
And while I work my butt off....the goats are off eating and having a grand old time....
That stupid dog crapped in the flowerbed again. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Gotta get up at 3am for work....better get off here n' get to bed. Have a good evening!
