I LOVE onions, even looked up once what it meant if you ‘crave’ onions - I think it was liver issues and I don’t have any :-)
Headed for the new house today, packing up now & I hope to stay at least a week. I need to scrounge some lumber from the back pole shed to take with me. I have been away for almost 2 weeks - hope everything is ok up there. I saw a pretty nasty storm on radar earlier this week ... purple spot just north & it looked like we were in a deep maroon blotch, so that all meant heavy rain.
Projects to work on (most on the ‘to do’ list for a good while, but with 105 - 110 heat indexes, working outside has not been something I wanted to do):
Clean up/season a 10” cast iron frying pan I bought at least 2 years ago at a yard sale for $1.00. I have one here at ‘home’ that I use all the time - really need one at the new house. Inside project if it’s too hot outside.
Work on my rock project at the back of the shop - I still have more to haul up there, but what I do have needs to be put into place.
Make 2 raised beds (3 x 6, out of cedar fence planks) & see if I can figure out how I want to site my raised beds. At some point, I need to do the ‘heavy’ work here and dig up my galvanized beds. I noticed my compost pile from leaves last year is about 12 - 18” high, so the maple leaves have seriously decomposed since they were about 4’, top of the fence, when I put them in there. I am using our trash cans to haul it to the new beds, but I need the trailer to do that & I left it at the new house when I had to dash home because mom had to go to the ER. Parking at the hospital is hard enough with a small car - PU truck is terrible & I doubt I could have found a place if I had the trailer in tow, so I put a lock on the hitch & left it in the barn.
See how it goes to make at least 2 of the DIY posts for a clothes rack. I am hoping to find some 2 x 4’s here that I can use.
If it’s not too hot & the ground isn’t rock hard, work on getting two post holes dug so I can install a 4 x 4 on each side of the driveway. We plan to put a chain across to keep unwanted folks out ... the driveway runs along the side of the property & forks left to go behind the house & if you stay straight, it goes to the barn/pole shed. More than once, I’ve had people show up at the back door & I had no idea they’d come up the driveway. I have since installed motion detectors on the driveway & back door - helps a lot. No WiFi yet and I need that for cameras.
The usual mowing .... some rain up there so I know there are weeds that will need knocking down, even if the grass doesn’t.
Try to trap some groundhogs ...
If I get really ambitious, I might hop across the mountain to my niece’s - she has saved some blackberries from her bushes for me and I am out of Blackberry Merlot Wine Jelly. This is my ‘go to’ for gifting ... people love the stuff. Jalapeno Pepper Jelly is a close second. Another inside project.
Last but not least - last night I was checking the back door around 11 to make sure it was locked. The back floodlight was on ... figured it was Mr. Fox or a raccoon. When I looked out, it was ‘Angel Deer’, the white deer that was born in the spring. She’s all grown up & really beautiful, almost like a ‘ghost’ in the dark. If she had a fawn, it didn’t survive, because I haven’t seen one with her. Another normal colored doe has a fawn following her around - a real cutie pie, even if it’s a future hosta-sedum-rose bush-day lily muncher!
Last weekend in July - where has this month gone???
Re: Angel Deer ... she was born spring a year ago (not this past spring), somehow survived hunting season in the fall. She’s old enough for a fawn so we were hoping she’d have one this year.
“Last weekend in July - where has this month gone?”
We’ve all been busy, LOL! Thanks for the update! Keep them coming! :)