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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL!!!

I utilized some 11 year old free labor yesterday to grape-koolaid my berries and spray the grapes against Japanese beetles.

One of Jax’ classmates gets off the bus here with her in the afternoon. What a wonderful boy he is, he was all excited to help spray the bushes!!! Maybe I’ll put them to weeding this afternoon!!!


40 posted on 07/10/2009 6:15:57 AM PDT by Gabz
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To: Gabz

Can’t beat that child labor!

Sonny is an awesome hole digger; he and the dogs used to dig HUGE foxholes when he was small, so his talent is not wasted!

The Japanese Beetles are just starting to show up around here; customers have been bringing them in to show me. Blech!

I haven’t had ANY out here; most likely because we have all sorts of spraying going on around us in the fields and not much grass turf area out here for them to lay eggs.

I have very few problems with bugs. It helps to have taken the time to build a good eco-system here where the GOOD bugs can thrive. I saw lace wings and REAL Lady Bugs yesterday. Lots of brown bats and birds of course, too.

It’s truly a life and death struggle every minute out there in the yard, LOL!

We’re getting glorious rain today; we SO needed it; it’s all been going south lately. The sweet corn crop is saved! :)


46 posted on 07/10/2009 6:33:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Gabz

Grape Koolaid????????????????

Why and on which sort of berries?


106 posted on 07/10/2009 10:54:59 AM PDT by reformedliberal (Are we at high crimes or misdemeanors, yet?)
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