July 6th, 2008 by Diane
Weather:
Three days of beautiful weather. Warm but not too hot. Rained on Friday evening, clear and sunny on Saturday and Sunday.
Plantings:
Nothing planted this weekend. Should have planted radishes. Will do during the upcoming week.
Activities:
- Painted the tact room in the barn, preparing for chicks next spring.
- Mowed the front lawn/watered the vegetable garden
- Removed the pine shaving from the chicken coop, put up so more chicken wire for security
- Washed the car
- Harvested snap peas and strawberries, about 2 lbs of snap peas, 2 small yellow squash and a medium size bowl of strawberries
- Laundry/cleaned the house
Miscellaneous Notes & Observations:
It was a quite, relaxing weekend. I was busy all weekend and but was able to sneak a couple naps in. Richard is feeling much better and worked outside mowing and spraying weeds. He cleaned up his workshop. We have been watering some of the dry spots in the lawn and trying to get the weeds down around the fences.
June 29th, 2008 by Diane
Weather:
Has been in the 90°s all weekend and is supposed to be that way til the middle of July.
Plantings:
I planted basil this weekend. It should be ready to pick the end of August or early September. My snap peas are blooming and just like that I will have snap peas. By the end of the week I will have a ton of them.
Activities:
Since Richard still is not up to mowing, I spent most of Saturday morning mowing. This has been an experience that I would not like to repeat. Shortly, it will be too dry to have to worry about mowing.
I moved the strawberry pot from the barn to the garden since I don’t go to the barn much anymore. Planted it with lobelia. I mowed the weeds in the garden. There are still areas that I haven’t had the money to build up so I just mow the weeds, it works.
I used the weed whacker to clean the culvert at the front of the driveway.
Miscellaneous Notes & Observations:
I found a hummingbird in my greenhouse this morning. I was able to capture it and let it go. Poor little guy, he flew away with hesitation. My tomato plants are loving this warm weather and I have been watering them faithfully. I have radishes and have been picking them. This evening I am going to wash the car.
June 20th, 2008 by Diane
Richard is well on his way to recovery. He says that his stitches itch and he still is not as mobile as he probably would like but he is much better. One more trip to the doctor’s office on Monday to have some more equipment removed and he will be a free man.
Richard mother is also recovering nicely. She has a great caretaker, Frank so I know she is in good hands.
I have been very busy at work this week catching up from the time off with Richard. They were excellent about letting me have the time off.
The weather also has been excellent it is supposed to get up to 85° today. With a forecast for a sunny warm weekend. The garden is in need of a really good weeding so I think that I will do that first thing tomorrow morning. I have some mowing to do also.
To keep me company while I do all my this weekend I am planning on listening to The Other Boleyn Girl which is about about 24 hours long. That should keep my mind busy while I am pulling weeds and doing the endless chores that us women folk get stuck with.
I have been working on my blog, as you see I have a new theme. I have also merged Terminal Reality with In the Pines Farm so that I only have the one blog. No more split personality, too much work, too little time.
