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To: Diana in Wisconsin; All

Shop day! Sunny & around 60, but high wind warnings. There could be a hard freeze in low areas tonight.

I ended up being a little ‘pink’ last night with too much sun while mowing. That’s why I felt so ‘dry’, tired & warm last evening.

Quick trip to Walmart this morning for screw eyes & screw-in hooks so I can hang my carpenter bee trap. If I can find good pieces of scrap wood, I will make more.

Today, I will have to ‘bite the bullet’ & spend time organizing the shop because I have no room to work until I do!

I saw the bunny this morning for the first time - it was hanging around all last year. I also spotted a ground hog well away from the debris pile where they have burrows - it was close to where I am putting my herb garden. I guess I need to put the trap out.

I ran across this link to “Easy small garden ideas” ... some really good stuff to consider for my situation. The buckets are sort of like square foot gardening in the round.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/844493675219124/


342 posted on 04/15/2025 8:15:19 AM PDT by Qiviut (Come! Live in the light! Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!)
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To: Qiviut

Great link! That will help you get the ball rolling, I’ll bet!

I got the majority of my tomatoes potted into Cottage Cheese containers and out to the greenhouse, but I have eight that I’m going to ‘babysit’ inside until they have two sets of adult leaves - these were varieties that didn’t germinate for whatever reason, so I restarted them. They’ll catch up.

Dog chores, Mule, Chickens, Steer - the usual. Beau is off mowing for cash and wants to get it all done this week so he can go up to the cabin Fri-Sat and then back home for Easter Sunday. He has to tear off a deck (small) on the cabin and temporarily nail the door shut, send a pix to American Family Insurance to PROVE he’s done that, and then they’ll insure the cabin again. *Rolleyes*

I really dislike AmFam. Yeah, my Dad was Chief Engineer of all of their buildings in Madison when I was a kid, but they dropped my insurance as a free standing farm’ on my other farm and it took way too long to get other insurance! I want to go with the local people here and get EVERYTHING under one policy. Farm, vehicles, land, life insurance, etc. It’s such a mish-mash right now!

*Steps Off Soapbox* Not sure where that RANT came from! I’d better go get some more dirt under my nails; that’ll calm me down, LOL!


344 posted on 04/15/2025 1:00:57 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Qiviut
my carpenter bee trap. If I can find good pieces of scrap wood, I will make more.

Tell me more or as we say here in MO, Show me. They seem to like my shop rafters.

396 posted on 04/17/2025 3:54:03 PM PDT by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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