Beau was nice enough to share his cold with me, but things I had planned for outdoors have to wait anyway because it's going to rain on and off all weekend. Good timing to be sick, actually. Hitting the Fire Cider, reading, movie stack, magazine stack, Chicken Soup, napping. :)
Get well!!!Feel better...April flowers are coming!
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Don’t forget to dose up a bit on your vitamins C, D3, zinc, and quercetin. Usually a few days of upping will help a lot. (I bet your Fire Cider has a good combo of those!)
I had a “bug” that took almost 4 weeks to clear (cough, hoarseness) in January & another similar bug in February so I can empathize. I made that 15 minute fire cider a couple of weeks ago & I do believe it helped clear the 2nd bug out - cough got better for sure. Feel better soon!
Cloudy & breezy here today, temp forecast to get to 79. Yesterday, I started cleaning the grill I bought off my cousin last summer - I don’t think it had EVER been cleaned by anyone (he inherited it from his grandfather). I soaked the grates overnight so they scrubbed up easily this morning. The drip tray is lined with foil & ready to go back in plus I finagled a grease ‘cup’ out of a small aluminum food prep pan since the original is missing. The outside surface is next, but there’s only so much I can do with it. I have 2 Ahi tuna steaks to make & the grill should be good to go by dinner.
Next: get chain & bar oil in the chainsaw & grease the sprocket in the bar tip. I have a huge sycamore branch to cut up & a large pine branch in the front yard.
Next: cut the back ‘field’ with Clyde. The rest of the grass is a bit short to mow yet. The weed trimmer will definitely be out today for around the mailbox & the septic tank lid. I will spray around the lid to keep the grass down, too - it was wild & wooly last year before I got my weed trimmer & I can’t get the mower close enough so I let it go ... not happening this year.
If I have time & haven’t worn myself out, I will hook the trailer to Little Red & haul stuff mom has been trimming off the fence. Today is another fire danger day, so no burning. I have been following news of a wildfire on/near the AT I used to maintain - not near houses or the road so I wonder how it started.
Off to deal with the chainsaw- I hope I haven’t gotten too fat to get into my chainsaw chaps!!
And were able to enjoy your coffee looking out the window at the rain!
Happy Spring!
Sorry you have a cold. Changing seasons can do that.
We’re in the middle of a wet rainy weekend. Had some icing but it looks like its melting already.
I’ve been out in the garden some. Uncovered half the asparagus bed to get a somewhat earlier crop and will uncover the rest later.
God some lettuce started and waiting to put them out. I still need to set up for the bucket potatoes and carrots, and will likely sow some turnip seeds after this cold snap. They’re about indestructible.
Onions I started are doing OK. I’ve been losing some and don’t know why.
I’m also going to try shallots.
Get well soon! The Fire Cider will fix any and all ailments.
:-)
I hope you don’t get any nasty weather this weekend! NWS has upped us to a “Level 3” risk tomorrow & is hinting at an “upgrade”.* That level 4 we had several days ago was NOT a good thing...
* https://www.weather.gov//images/pah/wxstory/Tab2FileL.png
I hope you feel better soon. A lot of people I know have “something” - like a bad bad cold but lasts a long time.
My question is, out of courtesy, should she have brought me some cookies when they were done?
She didn't, and it kind of ticked me off.......
In between sessions of picking up deadfall I've been making steady progress on outdoor projects in spite of my sore back. I finished the first raised bed, filled it up with garden soil, and sowed the whole thing to kale for Mrs. Augie. Cost of materials was a little over $200 for the 3' wide x 10' long x 2' tall box. Not terrible compared to the plastic beds that you get at the store. I hope to have two more of them done by time for fall garden planting. The low beds behind this one need to come out to make space for the other two that I'm planning, and the bit of garlic that didn't freeze out over the winter needs to be harvested before I can tear out the beds.
Saturday I got the tiller tractor out and worked over the spot where we installed the new freeze-proof faucet. Knocked down the high spots with a rock rake and threw some fescue seed on the ground. From there I moved to the new garden patch and made one light pass over it with the tiller.
I stopped by the plant nursery while I was in town Saturday morning and picked up five rhubarb plants and a bundle of ProMix. I've been having a devil of a time getting rhubarb to survive after transplanting but I'm determined to make it happen. I re-potted the plants as soon as I got them home and put them all in the greenhouse. I'm going to give them a couple months to make some roots before I put them in the ground outside.
Yesterday I raked the winter mess off of my asparagus bed. No signs of new shoots yet, but with a foot of leaf mulch on top that's no surprise. That bed has been there for 15 years. I should dig the plants, renovate the bed, and then reset the crowns but it's not worth the trouble. I just ordered 50 new crowns from Jung's that I'll plant in the new garden after they arrive. The old bed can just keep on keeping on where it is now.
We're due for a refresh of our chicken flock this spring so I've cleaned out the brooder house and tuned up the fence around that space. Still need to put the feed/water containers in and replace the heat lamp, but those things take two minutes to accomplish and can be done when I bring chicks home.
ugh...
