This past one was another goofy weather week here in Central Missouri. Cool and dry, hot and swampy, some high winds, scattered showers and thunderstorms, etc. It’s been raining enough to keep the grass growing to the point of weekly mowing, but not enough to skip watering things that we’d like to eat.
Mrs. Augie took mowed the house yard and I mowed most of the hinterlands over the weekend. I got the loppers out and pruned Mrs. Augie’s red flowering crabapple trees. They were getting scraggly and hanging too low to get under with the Kubota. I spent a bit of quality time with the weed whacker in the garden patch yesterday. Used up the string that was on the spool and called it good for the day.
Mrs. Augie has been getting a few cucumbers every day now. I’ve been wondering why I haven’t started to get tomatoes and Saturday morning I figured it out. I was headed to the garden with the weed whacker and saw something moving around out there. It was a big fat whistle pig sitting on his haunches chowing down on one of my tomatoes. I trotted back to the house, grabbed my Ruger 10-22, went back outside and gave the varmint a bad case of lead poisoning. I’m sure there’s at least one more in the raiding party so I’ll start setting a live trap out there and see what I can catch.
I watered the chestnut trees yesterday. Three more of them have grown tall enough that the grow tubes need to be removed and replaced with wire cages. I’m out of 6’ tall welded wire so I’ll need to make a trip to the hardware store to pick up another roll.
There are no signs of potato vines around the edge of the compost heap where I put my seed spuds back in the spring. If it’s not raining after work today I’ll try to get out there with the broadfork and see if they made a crop.
“...a big fat whistle pig...”
That’s a Groundhog, Right? If so, I have no problem with your dispatching them to Groundhog Heaven! Same goes for Rabbits, Raccoon and Squirrels!
After me WHINING all JUNE about too much rain, July has been a little drier and we got a nice 1/4” soaker this morning so I didn’t have to water, today. But MAN is it HOT. And HUMID. Ugh!
But it’s not slowing the puppies down any. D@mn Youngsters! ;)
Meant to tell ya, I’m making ‘Himalayan Possum’ for supper. ‘Cuz I found him-a-layin’ in the road!
*Rimshot* :)