Posted on 06/01/2024 6:22:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
That’s devastating!
Beau’s Rod & Gun Club isn’t far from there - no damage to it that we’ve heard, so far. I’m sure there are trees down, so he’ll be heading out with his chain saw, if he gets a call.
We’ll help them rebuild; I’m sure there will be a number of fundraisers. Argyle is a great community. The Congregation is meeting there at 10am to talk things over, plan, pray and move forward.
Beautiful!! Absolutely beautiful!
I’m glad your weather held up!
We had a family reunion of sorts a couple of weeks ago at the old homestead, where my brother lives now. My niece got married, and the next day my brother invited the whole family over for smoked brisket and salmon. It was a feast, and that old house still seemed much like it did when I lived there. My grandfather and uncles built that house in the mid 1930’s, and after my grandparents both passed, my family moved in.
There was a new generation of children running around playing this time. They are great great grandchildren to my grandparents who were immigrants. The house seemed alive again. It was our first family gathering there since my oldest brother passed. What a blast!
Neat barn! I’m glad they haven’t torn it down.
Nice, I love milkhouses too.
Check this out:
Happy ending for hunting dogs!
I’m originally from MA where not a whole lot is pronounced correctly. “Peppas’
All you need is a 100,000 gallon cistern and you could fill it from roof rain.
Thanks for sharing that! I’m sure few still appreciate what it is to have a ‘Family Home’ in their lives!
There was a LOT of texting back and forth today and we ‘Elders’ are SO HAPPY that our Younger Generation gives a rip and wants to keep the family gatherings going. *HEART*
Since we lost both our Patriarch and Matriarch right before covid, we have been slacking about getting together, to say the least.
We had 90 year old Grandmas/Aunties there and then all the way down to three year olds...waiting on the NEXT batch of Babies but we have two Weddings to get through this year - FIRST.
This family does stuff In Order - Thank You God, AMEN! :)
OMG! My heart was in my throat as I read that! What a blessing that those men took action! Heroes, all!
Sending this to Beau - who teaches ALL of his dogs how to swim!
Amen!
Absolutely!
My 50 gallon rain barrel has been filled an emptied 10x already this Spring! I save milk jugs, then put the water in there (a gallon at a time) and use it for both water and HEAT in the greenhouse as we go into Fall. I really only have 30 gallons in there, right now.
I’m at maximum capacity as it is! I’ll talk to Beau about a Cistern - I had one at my other farm.
Currently close to flood stage in Black Earth, WI. Our favorite shoe store, ‘The Shoe Box’ is located there and they WERE flooded out the last time we had this rainy of a Spring - which wasn’t all that long ago! (2019)
Hot, humid, and bone dry here in Central Missouri this past week. Ten days ago things were in decent shape here but without a good rain soon it’s going to get ugly. I noticed yesterday the leaves starting to curl in the neighbor’s cornfield. Mrs. Augie ran the sprinkler yesterday on a couple spots in the yard that were starting to get crispy. Not good.
The sweet corn that I planted last week has started to spike. I’ve had water it almost every day since it went in. The tomato plants are starting to look like they want to take off and grow. Cucumber plants look great. Zucchini and spaghetti squash not up yet. The cayenne pepper plants are recovering nicely since the dang deer ate the tops out of them.
That will be all I plant out there until cooler weather arrives in the fall. In the meantime I need to do some fence work, finish the hoop house, and build some raised beds. I spent a little time over the weekend making 2’ diameter 2’ tall cages from hardware cloth. I finished five of them and I’ve got enough material left to make two more. That won’t be enough once I’ve got the new garden patch fully operational, but it’s a good start.
We’ve got a bumper crop of cottontail rabbits here that are already planning their attack on the cabbages that I’m going to plant this fall but I’m determined to get the upper hand on the rascals.
Those boats were loaded with some tired looking dogs!
Mowed today - in the 80’s & supposed to be humid, but very pleasant. Quite windy - the grass bits & dust blowing back on me was awful, even trying to turn the mower so that didn’t happen. 90’s return tomorrow so today was THE day to mow.
When I came in for a break & to refill the mower, a wasp flew under my hat brim, then under the edge of my glasses & stung me on my cheekbone. Boy did that hurt for about 15 minutes & I actually have a visible bruise where it got me!
Neighbor back at flatland house texted me a picture - the roving bear in the neighborhood got his trash last night. My brother texted me a picture of the bear around 6:30 last night, headed across the field between his house & ours, headed in the direction of the neighbor’s. Someone needs to call Department of Wildlife Resources - that bear is not going anywhere without some ‘persuasion’ or assistance.
That’s something. I’m only wanting to send something half that length. That would be a decent sized plant! I will check it out, though. Thank you!
KS/MO Border...it's cooled down from 101 F to 95 F. (Would still not want to be in the park watching the Royals playing!) Given the temperature I have watered twice today and it needed it! Three days ago I planted bush beans (Contender--45 days) and I hope the germinating seeds do not cook in the ground! Supposed to be heat tolerant and mildew resistant. so far so good.
Have either of you ever tried growing beans in an 18" grid pattern rather than spaced every three inches in a straight line? If you have, what were the results? Trying it this year. (More room between plants is supposed to result in a larger yield.)
I Set out squash--Italian Striata and Cocozell zucchini, and Early butternut--and Beit Alpha cucumber plants. I have a small Trellis frame and hope that the Butternut can be trained climb onto that trellis. I will cover the cucumber with insect barrier since it is parthanocarpic and does not need insects to pollinate it.
I lost 1 of 3 okra, but since I was told not to grow them by herself I can live with it. Sweet potatoes (Carolina Gold) are growing in "bottomless" pots along the fence. I expect the vines to grow all over the fence and looking for some larger tubers this year since I am not allowing the runners to set down roots anywhere but the pot. For fun I put some Dwarf grey peas into the pots with them to see if they benefit from nitrogen fixing by the peas. So far so good!
I found a volunteer squash growing in one of the Sweet potato pots. I replanted it outside where it can have some running room. I can't say what variety it will be. (Based on last year's squash purchases the seeds in my compost would be butternut or possibly Red Kuri.)
Never tried it that way, but I don't plant bush beans - too much bending over. The pole beans I space ~10" apart on a line close to some sort of trellis - I use cattle panels.
Great yields that way but they still turn into an impenetrable mess by the end of the growing season.
Nice! Mine are about a week out, too. One of the FEW things surviving in my garden this year. Ugh! So. Many. Bugs. So. Much. Rain. So. Little. Sun!
OK, I’m done whining. For Now. Maybe, LOL! :)
FF: See Post #354 re: Mailing plants.
Thanks Pete!
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