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I had done no canning for months! My supply was dwindling, and I needed to get back on that horse. The horse is named Yummy – It’s so easy to do. It’s handy for quick dinners. It’s shelf stable. What more could we want?
Sometimes, the endless watering of the garden causes one to wonder if you’ll ever see a payoff. Well, yesterday I found this: See those itty bitty, eensy weensy bell peppers?!
Today I pulled the pea plants – a sure sign that spring in North Carolina is over and done. It was a rainy spring, which made watering the garden nicer, but now… The humidity starts. I started semi-retirement in March and have been working… Continue Reading “SPRING IS DONE”
After the chicks were locked inside the coop for a couple of weeks, it was time to finish the maintenance and repairs on the Run so they could use it. Oscar reinforced the door into the run. Naturally with 3 years of wet and… Continue Reading “RUN, BABY, RUN”
A couple of months ago, I mentioned I was contemplating starting a second worm bin. The worm population had increased So Much from feeding them Uncle Jim’s Worm Food that the worm bin seemed over-crowded. (In actuality, I don’t know how many worms in… Continue Reading “BYE, BYE, WORMIES!”
The fun thing about gardening in the South is that you can have something to harvest almost year-round. I have been cutting my lettuce bed every other day to give to the chickens. Today’s harvest, though, has highly anticipated: I harvested the garlic bed… Continue Reading “HARVEST TIME”
Saturday, I went to the Farmers Market and brought home a nice supply of bug-repelling herbs and four green pepper plants for the garden. Basil: is supposed to repel mosquitos and flies but I bought it more for its culinary use. I bought Columnar… Continue Reading “IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BUGS”
We didn’t get everything done to the coop that I want to do but I deemed it good enough that today is the day to move the chicks OUT OF MY HOUSE! It was fun to watch them freeze in place. It was new… Continue Reading “EVICTED!”
I disappeared a bit while having adventures. First adventure: I bought a new bed. My other bed was over 20 years old, had become terribly uncomfortable, and rotating the mattress no longer helped. I bought a Dreamcloud hybrid mattress with adjustable frame. I must… Continue Reading “MIA”
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