Roll Farms - Herdstock is over, and I'm feeling hung over, lol

[daisychick]

I just love Fiddles, I could just hug him! He reminds me so much of my little black poodle named Ebbie. She was such a fun little farm dog. She made it to the age of 14. I used to put her ears in pony tails too so I could trim her "bangs". So jealous that you have cukes already! Mine are just tiny little plants with 2 leaves. :/

 

[autumnprairie]

Love the pics

 

[Roll farms]

Well, folks, we had a high of 78 degrees today and I was a task accomplishing FOOL.

I got chores done, then ran to a hardware store and got some T's for my irrigation system, and came back and finished running the lines for it so that now I can water the tomatoes AND the peppers w/ the drip system. I paid $7.50 for the starter kit, right? The extra T's today cost me $22.00

Finished that and cut back some plants that are done blooming already. I hate dead brown foilage!

Repotted a bunch of petunias, touch-me-not, and tropical milkweed that I started from seed.

I had one mum make it through winter, so I've been pinching it back and taking the 'pinchings' and rooting them. I potted 10 new baby mums from that today....hopefully won't have to buy a single mum this fall.

Weeded, pruned, and fertilized the tomatoes.

Loaded the gator up w/ all my pruning mess and some icky clay dirt I dug out of a bed last week, so that DH could use it to fill one of the holes in the back 40.

Did afternoon chores and defrosted some previously made pulled pork bbq for dinner.

Got the last 3 watermelons and 10 more pumpkin and gourd plants up in the bed above the pond and watered all those plants.

Fertilized and watered all the pots, hanging baskets, etc. and watered the garden.

I LOVE it when my 'to do' list gets cut in half.

Gotta work tomorrow. Heading to the mill for chick starter before I go....It's supposed to rain tomorrow night so no watering for me for at least a few days.

Have a great Thursday!

 

[Roll farms]

Mornin'.

Overslept because I stayed up to late because I drank coffee when I got home from work at 8:30 last night.....oh well. We got a good bit of rain overnight and it looks like we could get a bit more before it's over.

ALL of the veggie beds are weeded. All of them. No weeds. I know it won't last more'n a few days but it feels good right now!

Hay guy is coming w/ 120 bales on Saturday. At 11am. In case any of you want to come help me put it away.....

A friend of my DH is giving us a bunch of treated lumber and some porch steps. They got new decks built on and know we can always use free wood. Gotta pick that up after the hay's put up.

I took a boatload of pics yesterday after I got back from the feed store....I was already cleaned up for work and didn't want to get dirty, so figured pic taking was safe. Here's a link to the garden pics:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150975830940100.474325.746550099&type=1

And the goats:
http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19872

Guess I'm gonna clean house today. It's cold / rainy out and it's been a few weeks since I did a really GOOD job of it.

The latest on DD is that they're looking for a new car for her gf, she has college orientation June 8th, and if all goes well, she'll be here that weekend to spend 6 wks.

I hate waiting to see how things pan out...It's the control freak in me....

 

[Roll farms]

I intended to dig up SOME of the daylilly bed today. Years ago a friend gave me 18 different varieties / colors, and it was late in the season so I just sorta threw them in the ground w/out any real thought or weed prevention. It's been a train wreck ever since.

Ended up digging up all of them. All 482,750 daylillies. OK, so maybe I exaggerate a tad...but there's a crap ton, I assure you.

I gave away 2- 5 g. buckets FULL of them today, am giving away another 3- 5 g buckets full tomorrow. That 'only' leaves me w/ 25 - 1g containers and 2 -5 gallong buckets full for myself.

Man those suckers can multiply! Then DH tilled the bed up for me. I'm going to spray weedkiller around it and then put down plastic soon....then replant the suckers, minus the boatload of weeds.

We moved some young chickens to the 'big bird' pen today. Kinda fun to watch them explore their new digs. Dh had to move nest boxes around and hang some bigger feeders. Someone gave us a fancy nest box w/ the 'roll out' egg flap thingy. It juuuust fit in the chicken house...good thing it wasn't 1/2" longer.

Tomorrow I'm going back to the greenhouse in Amish country.....but it's NOT my fault. A friend wants to go, I'm merely along for the ride / tour guide. *halo*

 

[DonnaBelle]

SORRY, CAN'T QUITE SEE THE HALO.

Donna Belle

 

[Roll farms]

Maybe I'd better go polish it, DonnaB.

 

[jodief100]

I can see her halo, it is hanging on her horns.......

 

[elevan]

 

[redtailgal]

ROLLS! You give me back my halo! I've been looking for that thing!