Category: Farm Work

Self-Sufficient and Self-Efficient

Today, I’m hiding. It’s like 400 degrees in the shade up here! I’m inside, which will probably not improve my container garden, but there’s no way I’m leaving the air conditioning. We seldom, if ever, have a heat index over 100 degrees. We’re almost as far north as you can get. Not much farm work…

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Mercury Backwards ………….

It’s cold. I know it will warm up again, but not much and not for long. My tomatoes will either get ripe, or not.  In case you think you’re losing your mind, you’re not. Mercury went retrograde (this makes no sense but it only LOOKS like it’s going backward and it does this several times…

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Stinkie Got Sick

The little guy in the back is Stinkie. The pink one in the front is Pinkie (I am SO IMAGINATIVE) and the red lady is Bess.  Bess had a little friend, also red, called Porgie, but he shuffled off to Buffalo in August, not being able to take the heat wave. Losing a pig to…

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Harvest Moon ……………

My garden has been beautiful this year. Last year I couldn’t do any gardening  at all – NOTHING. This year my knee is AWESOME and I can walk and bend and run, if I wanted to. I don’t want to. We had our first frost warnings Monday night. I’m okay with frost at this point….

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