Posted on 09/14/2019 5:22:59 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I signed up for the pay-as-you-go service on photobucket. They have pulled some rotten tricks on the free accounts over the years. Latest one is they’re blurring images embedded in a post.
Tinypic was super easy because I could resize the pics when I uploaded them. Photobucket doesn’t have that feature, so they go up full size, and with the Flintstone-era software this place runs on full size is way too big to use. All of the other boards I post on resize the pic automagically. But, I will figure it out eventually.
In the meantime I’ll take a look at the postimages.org site. If it’s easy to use it might work for the stuff I want to post here.
So, while I still have some viable foodstuffs in the garden, this is the time of year I start pulling my spent determinate tomatoes, cukes, zukes, pole beans and a few other things and cleaning up the beds for Fall.
Since this is my first Fall with a greenhouse, I’m digging up a rosemary plant and some pepper plants to see how long I can keep them going into the Fall.
Beau brought me a HUGE bag of straw from the barn and put it in the greenhouse. He’s bear hunting right now, so I’ll take advantage of extra time that I’m OUT of the kitchen these days and use those hours in the garden pulling, weeding, cleaning and mulching for Winter.
Nice day - breezy, going to be in the low 80’s, but it’s not humid, so pretty darn perfect!
I have the smallest of our chest freezers defrosting today and will work on the other two (HUGE JOB) as the week progresses. Looking forward to it about as much as I would a root canal, LOL!
And, now that I’m pretty much done with my canning (still have Tomato Jelly & Pepper Jelly to process) I also need to rotate and organize my improvised ‘root cellar’ under the stairs. That can wait for a rainy day. ;)
Sounds like you had another action packed day.
I bet you’re whooped!
:)
I hope that works out with photobucket. I never bothered with the pay as you go, using the free account was such a hassle it really ticket me off on them.
Yikes, sounds like me 20 years ago as far as labor, except for the bear hunting. Keep us posted on how the greenhouse works out. If I had one I would be starting all kinds of greens. My lettuce seed are taking forever. They are done flowering for the most part, they look like they have seed pods but they are still green. Can I cut them and just hang them upside down to dry or wait some more. We are into the rainy season here.
This was middle of last month. Leveling the first section of gangway for the dock.
Wow that looks fantastic! We saw many pictures of a hole in the ground. Quite a nice well built dock too. Looks very solid. Thanks for posting.
Beautiful! There’s a home that I drive by quite often and they have a big pond and dock in their yard, too. I’m just green with envy!
Did the Perch fingerlings make it into the pond, yet? Man, we caught the Yellow Perch on Big Silver Lake (Waushara County, WI) when I was growing up. Nothing better! :)
I’m too old and decrepit to tear it out and do it again, so I built this one to last.
It’s rimmed with 2x12 boards and joisted with 2x6. The floats nestle inside the rim boards. Built the corner brackets and pole guides from scratch. I need to drive a couple more mud poles, lay the carpet, and install the bump rail to be finished.
Mrs. Augie thought I was crazy when I started this project.
She still thinks I’m crazy but she loves having a nice swimming hole that doesn’t need chemicals and filter flushes every week.
Smallest freezer is ready to receive! We’ve decided to put all of the ground meats in there. So, it will be ground elk, bear and beef.
Mom is coming out on Saturday, so I told her she’ll get to ‘help’ me organize the big freezers. She said, “Can’t we wash windows? I REALLY like washing windows!” LOL! She knows what a PITA freezer organization can be!
Got three beds cleaned up and the cukes pulled off the trellising. It got much more windy as the day went on - rain is here now for the next couple of days - so the straw didn’t get down. However, I certainly won’t MELT, so when there’s a break in the action, I’ll get the straw down where I can. I also have more raspberries to pick.
I harvested another basket of Roma tomatoes, so I’ll put those in the dehydrator today, and I have two elk roasts that are going into the crock pot, low and slow, to become pulled elk to freeze for future sandwiches. I also harvested more green and red peppers and a few jalapenos, so I’ll be chopping those up to freeze, too.
Beau is taking a Wounded Warrior bear hunting with him, today! So proud of my guy; he really walks the walk! The soldier has two prosthetic legs, but luckily bear hunting these days involves mainly sitting in the truck, watching the dogs do all the work on the GPS, LOL!
I hope they’re successful for the guy. He deserves all the perks Life (and others!) can hand him from here on out.
A few years back through Make A Wish, he took two disabled brothers, both in wheelchairs, both kids with the same genetic issue, deer hunting.
OK, done bragging on my man, now - back to the freezers and chopping veggies. (Pray for me!) LOL!
Those brackets are beautiful. What did you use for floats? Up around here they like to use 55 gallon sealed drums.
He sounds like a sweetheart. A whole freezer for ground meat? Do you feed an army or what??? Although I guess 1 elk plus 1 bear plus a deer or 2 does take up some room. It’s great working weather over here, just came in.
I’ve got gobs of cucumbers to put into a salad(after peeling qnd deseeding)
I think the zucchini might be done.
I have a raised bed with some really pitiful Charlie Brown tomato plants and watermelon plants. I think I’ll just grab the maters and yank them all out so I can fill it up with garlic.
I have a bunch of green tomatoes on some other plants that I might just pick and bring in before the tree rats get them.
The little creeps take a bite or two and chuck ‘em.
I’m actually kind of hoping the cucumbers are done. They went like gangbusters once they got going.
I’ve been busy helping my mom at her house so not much time and energy left when I get home. I still have all that canning to do. Bunch of meat, blueberries and grapes in the freezer. I wonder if I might have gotten the grapes a bit too soon. Lots of green ones but you can juice the green ones, put the juice in ice cube trays and use it in for middle eastern food for acid, limey type stuff.
I went through the closet this morning and weeded out three good sized bags of stuff to donate. I really need to pare down my sewing stuff but can’t let go.
The floats are encapsulated polystyrene foam. Made specifically for floating docks. They are almost indestructible, and if they ever do get a hole poked in the shell it doesn’t hurt the bouyancy.
I thought about buying some plastic drums and foaming them, but I found exactly the floats I needed, at exactly the time I needed them, on the facebook marketplace. Guy tore out an old dock and wanted to get rid of the floats. I bought enough to float my entire dock for less than one brand new one would have cost.
I’m picking up the baby perch in Salina KS on Saturday.
I’ll finish my transport tank setup after work today.
It’s kind of a slick deal that I’ve rigged up for not much money, and will be something that I can use for a long time.
Maybe I’ll go into the fish hauling business when I retire. lol
Love to hear about deals like that.
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