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spiders and ants are pretty much all over the place and most of them won't really hurt you or bite. safe journeys!
stubbed toes and mud pies
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well at least i didn't wake up at 3:30am 
20 quarts i'll have to get out of the oven and get them marked and put into cases this morning when i do get moving. Friday already! week went by fast.
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washed windows outside and a few other maintenance kinds of things.
temperature going up instead of staying reasonable so i better get the mowing done tomorrow.
temperature going up instead of staying reasonable so i better get the mowing done tomorrow.
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since it is raining i don't know that i'll be mowing today after all. i may just go back to sleep this morning...
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still haven't mowed, hope to get that done today. trash day, woke up an hour and a half early... *grumpsmirk*
yesterday was the odds and ends day. we had a new friend come over to help me put the replacement piece of orange stained glass up on the lighthouse (it got blown out several months ago by a storm or the wind flexed it too much and popped the glass out). i wasn't feeling confident enough that i could do it myself without risking breaking it or doing something klutzy - i needed three hands. it only took us a few minutes and it went well. put some caulk on there to hold it better this time. i was surprised that there were no hornet or bird nests in there.
and then we moved a pallet to replace a rotting one that was under the decorative pot bellied stove and he helped me move the stove off the old pallet and then back on the new pallet.
less than an hour and we fed him and talked for a while. i asked him if he'd help out on replacing the garden fence sometime this fall or next spring (it's been the wrong kind of fence since it was put in 20something years ago and now it is falling down and has some large gaps along the bottom meaning bunnies and groundhogs are having a too easy time getting in) sounds possible so we'll see how that goes.
yesterday was the odds and ends day. we had a new friend come over to help me put the replacement piece of orange stained glass up on the lighthouse (it got blown out several months ago by a storm or the wind flexed it too much and popped the glass out). i wasn't feeling confident enough that i could do it myself without risking breaking it or doing something klutzy - i needed three hands. it only took us a few minutes and it went well. put some caulk on there to hold it better this time. i was surprised that there were no hornet or bird nests in there.
and then we moved a pallet to replace a rotting one that was under the decorative pot bellied stove and he helped me move the stove off the old pallet and then back on the new pallet.
less than an hour and we fed him and talked for a while. i asked him if he'd help out on replacing the garden fence sometime this fall or next spring (it's been the wrong kind of fence since it was put in 20something years ago and now it is falling down and has some large gaps along the bottom meaning bunnies and groundhogs are having a too easy time getting in) sounds possible so we'll see how that goes.
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a friend wanted some green peppers and the Beaver Dam pepper so he could dehydrate them. i picked two good boxes full plus the extra peppers i had from the other day went to him. glad to help him out as he said he was just going to place an order for a half bushel of peppers. he got about an extra bushel of peppers to work with.
i left some extra Beaver Dam peppers out there for my SIL who said she liked them, we'll see them later this week.
lawn got mowed.
i left some extra Beaver Dam peppers out there for my SIL who said she liked them, we'll see them later this week.
lawn got mowed.
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i wasn't planning on doing a larger batch of canning tomatoes yesterday but my sister wanted to move around so she helped Mom pick tomatoes and some of those got canned along with the tomatoes that had been sitting on the counter getting ripe enough. 15 more quarts. that kept me up late and now today i have a garden club meeting and other things going on so it's been one of those days where i hoped to pick more dry beans but won't get around to it. at least at the garden club meeting i can shell out some dry beans.
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finished last batch of tomatoes (unplanned by me but since they picked them last week they were there to be used and ready yesterday so i did 'em) of 7 quarts.
many had deep rotting splits so about 1/3 - 1/2 of what was there on the counter ended up in the reject bucket and got buried in the garden when i was done.
126 quarts total for the season from 9 plants (126 x 3 / 9) = 42 lbs per plant as my estimate has been about 3lbs per quart. this total does not count tomatoes that were given away or eaten or spoiled or what is still out there. it hasn't frosted yet so there may be more to eat but i'm done canning (i've said that before... )...
many had deep rotting splits so about 1/3 - 1/2 of what was there on the counter ended up in the reject bucket and got buried in the garden when i was done.
126 quarts total for the season from 9 plants (126 x 3 / 9) = 42 lbs per plant as my estimate has been about 3lbs per quart. this total does not count tomatoes that were given away or eaten or spoiled or what is still out there. it hasn't frosted yet so there may be more to eat but i'm done canning (i've said that before...
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making progress on my Purple Dove bean project. you can see many beans in these pictures that look like variations of Purple Dove but do not have the yellow ring around the eye. what i need to continue to do is to keep growing these out and noting the habit, flower color, pods and seed coats and also hope for more crosses to continue getting more PD genes back to these seed lines (i suspect there are several based upon seed coat pattern, shape, etc.).
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a beautiful day outside and i got some weeding done in the onion patch in the north garden along with helping Mom get some bags of mulch moved. i didn't get too much done but it was better than nothing.
