Posted on 01/06/2024 6:43:23 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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(succession) From 2022; I sowed 144 seeds, mostly lettuce/greens, all at once, for a 14x14 garden. Too much all at once.
Get a Mason bee house. They are way better pollinators than honey bees. We put up a second house this year.
Great pics!
Thank you!
:)
Looked at tire chains/cables but they're not great for a front wheel drive car. It would just be something to get me to the maintained pavement, then I'd have to take them off and then put them back on when I come home.
That and I just really need a full size 4x4 truck.
The first week of 2024 was cool and damp here in Central Missouri. Drizzly rain, some snow, not really cold but cold enough to be very unpleasant. It’s snowing again now and from the looks of the weather radar we may get enough of the nasty stuff over the next 24 hours to be a serious nuisance.
Nothing going on in the garden except for thinking about it. And mud. Lots of mud.
So I spent some time over the weekend puttering in my workshop. Did some cleaning and rearranging, built a small-ish portable work table, removed the bodywork from my generator and used the shop crane to hoist the generator onto the new work table. It conked out when we were camping at the racetrack back in September. The engine will start and run, but it won’t throttle up and it won’t make electricity. Odds are the invertor board has failed. If it proves true I’ll likely have to replace the whole machine because I’m not having any luck finding a company that has one in stock.
Roger that on the watermelon, but without eggplant you can't make ratatouille, and a pantry without home-made ratatouille is a sad place. lol
Fingers crossed here for the truck sale!
We are in the middle of a big snow dump. Forecast is for 21 inches by Monday. 4-5 inches today.
Zoykes, Shaggy! We got 10” so far today, maybe a tad more overnight.
I shoveled once, but will hit it again in the morning. Two trips to the bird feeders today, too. Beau plowed the drive so he can get out (2 miles) in the morning to go help dig out parts of Madison. (For pay!)
I DID thank him tonight for giving me a lovely, safe, WARM place to live and that I no longer have to go ANYWHERE during days like these. :)
And then I beat him SEVERELY at Cribbage, LOL!
See my post 74. :)
Ah retired winter life. Its still dark out but I can see a big pile. Hubby will be happy he loves to plow our driveway with the atv. There is never enough snow. Me, I always line up home projects for the winter.
The only part that sucks is having animals to care for during the winter. We got 10” of snow overnight. I’ve shoveled the walkways twice and shoveled my winter paths to the bird feeders and the compost pile. I’ve got a loaf of crusty bread in the oven right now, and I’m in the mood for some Broccoli Cheese soup. :)
Later, I’ll shovel a path to the barn to tend to the puppies. Beau is in Madison plowing (Cha-Ching!) and he’s already plowed our driveway once but will put some finishing touches on it when he gets back today - Madison got a spotty 6” of snow, most areas by the lake where he plows only got 2”, so it will be a short day for him, thank goodness. I wish he’d just quit that side job - mowing pasture is so much more lucrative and safer!
Anyhow, the steer needs his grain, and the puppies need their Puppy Chow but the kennel dogs are all staying in for the day. No snowman building for them! Beagle, Dolly, is out hunting Wascally Wabbits. ;)
Despite the snow, Life Is Good! :)
I look down at the empty barn and wonder how did I ever do it for 25+ years. Always two trips a day, milking and feeding. It’s down hill a bit to the barn about 30 yards. And in the winter I had to haul water. Water down, milk up. I don’t know how I did it.
“I don’t know how I did it.”
Perspective! :)
I don’t know how I rappelled down buildings, hung out the open doors of a helicopter, crawled under barbed wire in the rain and MUD under live fire, could run a MILE in like 6 minutes, survived day-long Field Marches in full gear, lived in a tent and peed in the woods for weeks on end, dug foxholes, drove an Army Jeep, survived a month in the field in Germany - in winter - ate MREs (and survived) and graduated from a Land Nav course in the SWAMPS of Louisiana...but I did, LOL!
OK you got me beat by a mile. Major props to you! The most dangerous thing I ever did was in my early 20’s, climbed a tree and jumped down onto the back of a bare backed horse with a wild disposition. I hung on all the way back to the barn - he reared up and I slid off. Another lifetime.
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