Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Any ideas??
post # 69 I have several garden hoses that I can not get unscrewed from the sprinkler or each other...does anyone know of anything I can soak the connections in to loosen it up so I can get them apart?
Oh My Gosh! These Are Good!
Post # 68 Decades ago I was a Girl Scout leader and that started my love affair with Samoa Girl Scout Cookies. They now call them something else but they are so good whatever you call them. I just found something that is similar. Kellogg's Fiber Plus Antioxidant bars...I had never tried them before but my daughter told me about them tasting like my favorite Girl Scout cookie so I bought some. I got two of the 4 flavors...caramel coconut fudge (the ones like a Samoa cookie) and Dark Chocolate Almond. YUM! Like Pioneer Woman says..."ain't no paid commercial, I just wanted to share." and if you don't know Pioneer Woman you are missing out. Her blog is http://www.thepioneerwoman.com/
Monday, June 13, 2011
This and That
Post # 67
Where I live it was 106 degrees today. The morning glories tall enough to climb my fence were beautiful yesteday but today they look pretty sad.
So far this month we have had 8 days over 100 degrees; and rain, what is that???? none here.
I saw my first butterfly of the summer today.
It was time to renew with my cell phone provider and I got a free new phone. It came today. I have no idea how to text, get to my address book or anything else. If it rings I do know how to answer! i think. Will be spending some time with the little booklet tonight. Oh, and I lost all of the phone #s I had stored in my old phone so if you want me to have your phone number please email me or text me.
Where I live it was 106 degrees today. The morning glories tall enough to climb my fence were beautiful yesteday but today they look pretty sad.
So far this month we have had 8 days over 100 degrees; and rain, what is that???? none here.
I saw my first butterfly of the summer today.
It was time to renew with my cell phone provider and I got a free new phone. It came today. I have no idea how to text, get to my address book or anything else. If it rings I do know how to answer! i think. Will be spending some time with the little booklet tonight. Oh, and I lost all of the phone #s I had stored in my old phone so if you want me to have your phone number please email me or text me.
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| our first squash of the year |
Saturday, June 11, 2011
If you give a kid a camera....
Travis ...a self portrait and some photos he took in the garden.....
tub of watermelons....the ones just coming up are those small baby size melons....I've never bought one but I can hardly wait to try one.
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| Mason planting more watermelon seeds. Stay tuned...we will see if melons do better in a tub with Miracle Grow Potting Mix or in rocky clay ground |
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| Still no rain so Casey is watering at dusk |
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| my favorite petunias |
Andy's imagination!
Post # 65
I have had dogs all my life but Andy is such a character! I never realized dogs had an imagination until Andy. He has a stuffed dog that is his "baby"and he is a devoted papa. Every night he decides it is bedtime and takes his baby and tucks him in Casey's bed, her laundry pile in the bedroom or sometimes Andy's dog bed and then Andy goes back to playing with Casey or his other toys. Sometimes he takes his baby to the front door and looks at Casey like uh, my baby needs to go to the bathroom. Obviously sometimes his baby is hungry because he will take him and leave him by the food dish and the in a little bit go back for him. In Casey's living room the windows go all the way down to the floor. He will get his baby and take him over to the window and leave him there while Andy goes back to whatever he was doing. I am not sure if that means "ok, you guard the apartment for awhile" or if he thinks his baby needs to get some sun. One night he had tucked his baby in the corner of the couch under a blanket. Andy started playing with a squeeky toy, squeeked it and then immediately swung his head around to look at his baby like "oh no! that squeek is gonna wake the baby!" then he jumped on the couch, grabbed his baby and took him to Casey's bed and then Andy went back to playing with his squeeky toy in the living room. Andy just cracks me up and makes me laugh.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Aunt Casey, photographer Post # 64
My daughter, Casey, is my granddaughter Taylor's babysitter (my son Brent & his wife Kali are the parents) so she has plenty of opportunity to take photos. This is Taylor this week...and as grandma I can hardly wait to share them...we think she is a cute little sweetie!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
It Is Your Turn, Lord
Post # 63 I am still trying to get the rest of the garden planted before we revert back to dust bowl days or fall gets here. Yesterday I planted 40 hills of corn. Lord, I planted them in good faith that you would send rain, and sooner rather than later would sure work for me.
I can't help but smile when....
Post # 62 I get to play with my granddaughter!
Get to spend time with the best 9 and 10 yr old boys I know!
watch this 3 ring circus in my living room!
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| Taylor 6 & 1/2 months |
Get to spend time with the best 9 and 10 yr old boys I know!
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| Grandma's grand boys! |
watch this 3 ring circus in my living room!
or I see this little guy with the crooked smile!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Cattle panel trellis
post # 61 
My grandsons and I built a trellis for the tomatoes to grow on. A cattle panel is 4' x 16'...I imagine we looked like the 3 stooges out there trying to bend this panel and get it attached to the poles in the ground but we finally got it up! 3 more to go but I think we can only manage one a day!
My grandsons and I built a trellis for the tomatoes to grow on. A cattle panel is 4' x 16'...I imagine we looked like the 3 stooges out there trying to bend this panel and get it attached to the poles in the ground but we finally got it up! 3 more to go but I think we can only manage one a day!Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Where did the time go?
Post # 60
I have not posted anything since last July! During that time I read a lot of books, slept alot, finally realized how much stress I had been under for decades and just ...stopped ...and let the healing begin. I gained a new daughter-in-law, a new granddaughter & a new grandpuppy. DD Casey moved out, DD Becky moved in. My dog ate my hearing aides and i said hallelujah, I hated those things anyway. My depression and anxiety problems have just recently been greatly reduced with the help of a very wonderful therapist, meds from my psychiatrist and by me doing the things required to get better and help keep me healthier. It took a year, a very hard year, and I am not really well but not as bad as when I went to the hospital for sure. I still fall in the depression hell hole too easily and too often. I still have anxiety just thinking about being among people and like to just stay at my home but that is ok. Now, If i could just lose those pesky 60 extra pounds! I sure do miss work, my library patrons, the safe haven the library has always been to me, but guess what?! Retirement is just pretty darn good except for the absence of money! I highly recommend it! But not if you have to live through a mental breakdown to do it. I stay up most of the night reading or on the computer...I'm just a night person and I have insomnia, and then sleep during the heat of the day. In between I play with my dogs and putter in my yard...two things that really help with my depression. See my grandchildren when I can, that really helps. Appreciate it when my kids treat me kindly. Love to have emails from friends. But pretty much I spend my days with my dogs or in the yard planting stuff. The morning glory photos here are from last year. I have lost count at how many paper bathroom cups I have planted this year with morning glories but enough to line 309 feet of fence with a plant every few inches! Last year I just had morning glories that covered 1/2 the width of my property in the front, this year they surround the entire lot. Re: my garden... I am such a procrastinator! I almost have all of the garden planted but I am at least a month behind. Tomorrow I will finish up. Last year I tried square foot gardening and it would have been great if the insects had not eaten my plants up. And I want to know why they don't eat the weeds!? This year, since we are in a serious drought, I made self watering containers (see how at http://www.globalbuckets.org/ ). I was able to get food grade buckets for free...formerly contained cake icing. I have a fenced off section of my yard 20' x 30' for a garden area. This week I totally lined the perimeter with 4 o'clock plants, as well as morning glories on 2 sides. I have pots of catnip, nasturtium, allyssum, and marigolds scattered among the buckets to hopefully deter some insects. In the self watering buckets I have tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, bell peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, black eyed peas, green beans and turnips. Another thing I would like to know is where in the heck do those squash bugs come from??? I live sorta in the middle of nowhere so how do they find me? Anyway, I am going to find an organic way of getting rid of the bad bugs (other than picking them off). Tomorrow I am going to get my grandsons to help me make arched garden trellis's out of 4 cattle panels. Right now my garden is not very attractive, dead bermuda, with rows of white Walmart icing buckets and a Rubbermaid tub or two but once the 4'oclocks and other flowers are in bloom, the vegetable plants start overflowing from the buckets, and the bermuda seeds I planted come up it ought to be a pretty garden. For the first time I invested in Miracle Grow Potting Mix and my tomato plants are beautiful. I have never had such dark green leaves, and I have a lot of tomatoes and more blossoms on them already. I took my 4 square ft gardening boxes I made last year, moved them to an area around my swing and planted them in flowers. The crepe myrtles I thought had frozen last winter when we had two weeks of below zero temps have all started to come out. My knock out roses are full of buds and I have sunflowers coming up. By the end of July I think my yard will be looking very nice. If we could get some rain it would just be wonderful. This year we have only received 0.16 inches of moisture since mid-February. My favorite weatherman said this is the worst drought for us since 1956. Lord, please send us several days of drizzle please!
I have not posted anything since last July! During that time I read a lot of books, slept alot, finally realized how much stress I had been under for decades and just ...stopped ...and let the healing begin. I gained a new daughter-in-law, a new granddaughter & a new grandpuppy. DD Casey moved out, DD Becky moved in. My dog ate my hearing aides and i said hallelujah, I hated those things anyway. My depression and anxiety problems have just recently been greatly reduced with the help of a very wonderful therapist, meds from my psychiatrist and by me doing the things required to get better and help keep me healthier. It took a year, a very hard year, and I am not really well but not as bad as when I went to the hospital for sure. I still fall in the depression hell hole too easily and too often. I still have anxiety just thinking about being among people and like to just stay at my home but that is ok. Now, If i could just lose those pesky 60 extra pounds! I sure do miss work, my library patrons, the safe haven the library has always been to me, but guess what?! Retirement is just pretty darn good except for the absence of money! I highly recommend it! But not if you have to live through a mental breakdown to do it. I stay up most of the night reading or on the computer...I'm just a night person and I have insomnia, and then sleep during the heat of the day. In between I play with my dogs and putter in my yard...two things that really help with my depression. See my grandchildren when I can, that really helps. Appreciate it when my kids treat me kindly. Love to have emails from friends. But pretty much I spend my days with my dogs or in the yard planting stuff. The morning glory photos here are from last year. I have lost count at how many paper bathroom cups I have planted this year with morning glories but enough to line 309 feet of fence with a plant every few inches! Last year I just had morning glories that covered 1/2 the width of my property in the front, this year they surround the entire lot. Re: my garden... I am such a procrastinator! I almost have all of the garden planted but I am at least a month behind. Tomorrow I will finish up. Last year I tried square foot gardening and it would have been great if the insects had not eaten my plants up. And I want to know why they don't eat the weeds!? This year, since we are in a serious drought, I made self watering containers (see how at http://www.globalbuckets.org/ ). I was able to get food grade buckets for free...formerly contained cake icing. I have a fenced off section of my yard 20' x 30' for a garden area. This week I totally lined the perimeter with 4 o'clock plants, as well as morning glories on 2 sides. I have pots of catnip, nasturtium, allyssum, and marigolds scattered among the buckets to hopefully deter some insects. In the self watering buckets I have tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, bell peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, black eyed peas, green beans and turnips. Another thing I would like to know is where in the heck do those squash bugs come from??? I live sorta in the middle of nowhere so how do they find me? Anyway, I am going to find an organic way of getting rid of the bad bugs (other than picking them off). Tomorrow I am going to get my grandsons to help me make arched garden trellis's out of 4 cattle panels. Right now my garden is not very attractive, dead bermuda, with rows of white Walmart icing buckets and a Rubbermaid tub or two but once the 4'oclocks and other flowers are in bloom, the vegetable plants start overflowing from the buckets, and the bermuda seeds I planted come up it ought to be a pretty garden. For the first time I invested in Miracle Grow Potting Mix and my tomato plants are beautiful. I have never had such dark green leaves, and I have a lot of tomatoes and more blossoms on them already. I took my 4 square ft gardening boxes I made last year, moved them to an area around my swing and planted them in flowers. The crepe myrtles I thought had frozen last winter when we had two weeks of below zero temps have all started to come out. My knock out roses are full of buds and I have sunflowers coming up. By the end of July I think my yard will be looking very nice. If we could get some rain it would just be wonderful. This year we have only received 0.16 inches of moisture since mid-February. My favorite weatherman said this is the worst drought for us since 1956. Lord, please send us several days of drizzle please!
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