Fen is quietly hunting and torturing sky raisins. (Anything, as long as it isn’t me)
I’m praying I can make it out to garden today. Past several days the pain has kept me bedridden. I’m losing my mind! :hu
The sun is out, so it’s possible. It’s the barometric pressure that triggers it so hoping...
Major pain day so not getting anything done. Fen isn’t happy with me. Summer squash finally up. Took forever. Temps here are cool. My coffee is cold and I can’t make it into the kitchen to reheat it. Praying tomorrow is a better day.
I did feed Fen this morning. He guilts me by acting crazy...
Soooo excited! Summer squash FINALLY peeking through the soil after what seemed an eternity. I had actually given up and purchased a single zuke plant in town yesterday for $6 😳. I figured it was gonna be our only hope. First batch of radishes are in fridge and second has leaves. Fen actually...
I broke the gang valve on the hose, so I had to walk the length of the garden, out the gate, up to Mister’s corral fence only to find Randy had blocked access to the hose, so I had to walk thru the mud under the apricot tree, past the chicken pen to the hose bib, changed the gang valve but...
Fen was a wildman this morning! He dragged in 2 big branches while I was asleep and debarked them in the living room 😵💫
But he had his breakfast and we went and put a copper coil in one of the raised beds to see if there’s anything to this electroculture
The Austrian Copper rose is going mad!
Hands and wrists pretty sore from pulling weeds out of raised beds and stuffing feed bag’s yesterday. No good with RA.
Fen has been gardening this morning…
I think living with this puppy calls for something stronger than cream in my coffee…😵💫
I choked down some coffee, the Fen helped me clean out 2 of the 9? raised beds and celebrating pig’s eviction. Then he stupidvised while I began stuffing feed bags into other feed bags…there are literally hundreds of empty feed bags stacked higher than me and the entire 16’ depth of my narrow...
You should be able to waterbath the jam Pressure canning won’t be necessary
Bunch of good recipes online
https://www.myfoodandfamily.com/recipe/052011/surejell-rhubarb-jam
If the wind lets up I will mow out back. TheMan got the riding mower going. Then I need to figure out how to yank out the raspberry and currant bushes with the tractor. Damn pig is STILL living in my garden :somad