There is one tough red bird hanging on, and I have my suspicions that ‘she’ is a ‘he’ The comb is getting bigger and the tail feathers getting longer and longer all the time.
Category: Our Homestead
Dog Eats Chick
Okay, dogs gotta eat. But I feed them well, I feed them ‘good’ dogfood. I spend entirely too much money on it. Fresh chicken was not what I had in mind.
Green Run aMUCK.
Okay, so last year I was begging for rain. They said Oklahoma was the driest it had been since the dust bowl. But THIS year, oh my… like they say, be careful what you wish for… The two raised beds…
Update…
Well, the tomatoes are getting ready to be RED! Eugen has pulled it off again this year and has supplied the compost pile with over forty five bags of grass clippings. It is making a fine mulch as well! I…
Vermicomposting? What’s THAT? Composting with vermin?
Aaaaaa hahaha.. honest to God, that’s the first thing that went through my mind when I first saw the word. I’m SO not kidding. But it’s meaning is this… the use of specially bred earthworms, esp. to aerate soil and…
Delivery!
We now have at least fifty bags of green grass clippings on the side of the garage just waiting to compost.
Can anyone say ‘Grass Clippings’?
I was bringing my daughter home from a birthday part for one of the children she babysits for… We passed a man on a riding mower going over what looked to be a good two acres of smooth green grass… it was beautiful. As we got closer, I realized he was BAGGING it. And of course, my composting mind went to, “I wonder what he DOES with all that grass?” And I started slowing down…
First post of the season….
I am STILL IN OREGON! Don’t feel like I’m EVER going to get home! Today, we gathered up as many native Douglas Furs as we thought we could carry home. We tried to gather a fiver footer (as it was…