My Ear of Corn

Eat your hearts out, people.  I have ONE EAR of corn growing.  (laugh)

This is the volunteer by the deck at the old place. 

I stopped by after church today... I had not been there since we left so 

fast to get Keith to the hospital last Saturday. 

I have a mess to clean up inside... paint cans, drywall scraps, insulation, etc. etc. 

We still need to get staples out of the floor and then paint it with Kilz. 

I have one room left to paint over again.  

Odds and ends. 

We have found someone to do the carpentry because Keith is not 

going to be able to do it. 

As soon as this baby is ripe, it's going into the boiling pot. 

This is the south flower bed.  You can no longer see the flowers in it, the weeds went nuts this last week.  Neighbor Troy is going to cut the weeds down in the bed behind it... and I am going to get busy this week once I know what the schedule is for the reconstruction repairs at our new house (from the water leak). 

There were still a few daylillies blooming in the weed cover. 

The pear tree is not only ripening, but the leaves are beginning to change color.  It's a little too early. 

The apple tree is groaning under it's burden, too... I did not get a picture of it. 

This little guy watched me go into the hospital to help my brother Pete at lunch today. 

And when I came out an hour and fifteen minutes later... he was almost in the same spot! 

Hopefully, Pete will be released from the hospital tomorrow. 

I have destroyed my phone this weekend... don't ask... and am awaiting the delivery of a new one.  All those pictures lost.  

Our area is predicted to have cooler temperatures this week... I'm hoping the construction guys get in here and get the work done at this house so I can concentrate on the old one for a while! 

Oh... one more picture... 

These were volunteer plants, remember... and I suspect they are Gypsy, from Baker Creek, which I planted last year.  The tomatoes are sweet and good, and I brought a bunch home for dinner tonight. 

The plant in the flower bed has lots of tomatoes on it... but none is ripe yet.  Our plant 

in the pot at home, has MANY nice sized tomatoes on it, but the four I have picked have had blossom end rot on them.  

A Hodge Podge Post

Kind of a hodge-podge post today while I work on some things in the house, and get ready for grandson Chris to help me for a day. 

Tomorrow I'll run down to Garnett (if one "runs" 75 miles) to get him for just an overnight stay.  He'll get us caught up on weed-eating, and he and I will take another run to the transfer station, before I take him back down on Friday morning.  

Transfer station = dump. 

Always something accumulating here, as there is on every place. 

We had warm temps yesterday, but not as warm as Monday's were. 

I'm not so sure there aren't two here.  That's the water bowl I keep on top of the closet in the old henhouse. 

Sheesh. 

The muskmelons are looking GOOD, but the pumpkins did not germinate. 

I'm going to replant today, in hopes of getting some by the end of October for the little ones. 

Our ONE green pepper plant... finally bearing.  We just don't eat that many green peppers, and I hate to take up space for them.  Likewise... we won't be planting as many peas in the future.  

Abu Rawan on the vine.  I am picking lots of these.  Yes, I've got a few problems going on, and one of them is blossom end rot on the SuperSauces.  Disheartening.  I'm looking for a fast natural way to get calcium to them... we don't eat that many eggs (go figure) but I should have thought to keep the egg shells from the brownies I made yesterday.  If I can't figure out something today, I'll order some foliar spray from Gardener's Supply. 

I'm making spaghetti sauce (Mrs. Wages) today. 

We are still getting plenty of tomatoes. 

The colors of fall are beginning to show their heads around here.  This was a frame Keith started at one time for a seperate turkey shelter.  I doubt that we will have turkeys again, but we left it standing. 

No, these aren't pictures of two little goat booties... I wanted to show you the cracks beginning to show in the ground here due to the lack of regular rain.  

Click on this picture to biggify it, really. 

You will laugh. 

I was on my way to get something from the henhouse porch when the periscope came up.  Both of them were sleeping in the empty trough.  They Know When Their MaaMaa Is Near. 

(there is water in the smaller fortex) 

This blurry picture was on the game cam last night.  

In it is something I don't like to see, even less than the coyotes. 

Raccoon. 

The last two nights I have left the popholes open, because, as Keith said, the heat is the biggest enemy right now. 

This guy could easily have gotten in, and we have seen what coons and possums do to chickens. Yes, the pasture gate was shut... but still. 

One of the things I'll have Chris do tomorrow is go around with the stapler, stapling down chicken wire. 

I let the boys into the yard while I am doing chores, they love to browse around.  I ran inside to get something, and when I came back, Kaycee jumped out of the back of the HHR... and his collar was up around his horns and face.  It's off at the moment, I need two additional hands to hold him while I put it back on. 

We are down another hen in the old henyard with the passing of the poor old red hen... but yesterday, four of the girls actually laid.  One was in the inside nestboxes... one in the old rabbit hutch in the little henyard, and two in the hayfeeder in the goatyard! 

Snakes got the first two eggs mentioned, and I won't let that happen today.. I had seen the eggs and left them for "later" when I did chores.  The snakes beat me to them. 

The chickens love to get a cold drink of well water when I fill the duck pond. 

Not sure what's going on with this picture, but I can't get it to rotate... our pears are coming along nicely. 

Today we welcome Karen at This Old House 2 to our sidebar... I hope you will all take a look at her blog, it's a really good one! 

Welcome! 

A Sunny Monday

The weathermen keep tantalizing us with "chances of rain" but we have had none in days, beyond a sprinkle.  We need it, now, we are 3.5 inches under where we need to be. 

The sun shone on the ripening pears. 

And on the bright zinnias. 

But it was shady in Swamplandia, and the ducks and chickens were so happy. 

We ate some mulberries... only one tree is bearing now, the others have gone by.  These berries are so sweet... I have the purple fingers to prove it. 

We visited the henspa chickens.  

"More of those things!" said Kody. 

And we played. 

We watched Boots and Two show off for Chatterbox. 

Tonight there is a Monday night ballgame, then we have a break while the team goes out of town.  

We'll be locking everyone up in their pens before we go: 

The odd thing is... for all the years we have lived here, we have heard the two coyote packs calling to each other.  We aren't hearing them lately.  We wonder what' up????

Fruit Trees

I can smell the pear crisp now!

The four fruit trees we put in almost were lost in the heat of the end of the summer, but they have settled in now, and the pear trees have actually blossomed on the branches we thought were lost.