Posts Tagged ‘tomatoes’

Cool site

Friday, July 31st, 2009

I found a cool site today – “Tiny Farm Blog”.
It’s now added to my links.

Anyway, weather here has been crazy, as has the Pacific NW – my brother is in the Tacoma/Seattle area, and it’s been over 100 degrees there! Very unusual.
I would be enjoying the coolest (temperature-wise) July since the 1930’s, but it keeps the tomatoes from turning red! Lots and lots of tomatoes and other stuff coming up and growing big, but the tomatoes just won’t turn red!!! Did I say that already?? We are usually canning and drying them by now.

And the bees.. they are not through capping over the honey, si Can’t pull it off and extract it – all I can do is look longingly at all that honey and wait (another 4 letter word, by the way).

We’ve had so much rain that we haven’t had to put water in the goat watering tanks for a few days now.

Hope it clears soon and I can harvest honey!

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A Bunch of Stick-in-the-Muds

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Had to get the rest of the crops planted this weekend  – Started out pretty good, until Monday morning – when Marilyn and I decided to get up early and plant the rest of the tomatoes and melons.

Well, it started out pretty good. We got into the garden area and started hoeing and shoveling – by 7:30, we were getting along pretty good and then… the rain started. We kept working -  thinking “it’s gonna let up pretty soon – seems to be getting lighter all the time”. Then, it started raining harder – and harder – we headed out the gate and down the hill toward the house. By now it was pouring hard and we were pretty much soaked.

I stopped and put the 3 pups into a large kennel on the porch and had Jessie get in her kennel.

We had breakfast and some much-needed hot coffee then we headed out to feed the animals and milk the goats.

After that, we came in for a break, then headed out to finish the planting. it had stopped raining, so the boys and I hoed and shoveled out new rows for tomatoes.

Nathan and I had to stop and scrape off the mud from the bottom of our shoes.

That Kentucky clay makes walking heavy work!

–Pat

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