And I thought ya dinna eat meat! ^-^
I call our dog SEMI-DOG PUPPY cos he still thinks he's a puppy :-) Acts like one too! He's already 14 months old! He still wants you to carry him in your arms and lull him to sleep! He's a lhasa apso mix, mostly white with brown spots. He's just a cutiepie!
That's him (the one that looks a lot like a butt) with his friend...
Don't worry tho. his friend isn't DEAD. He just thinks she's a chewtoy ^-^!
jim maybe you just like your naps.....
any wild meat seems gamey to me, because I'm used to supermarket stuff....if you're used to it Rachel, you'd probably like it.
Chezka have you been out catching peaches? That's a cute dog! Thought those legs sticking up were his ears at first....pretty funny!
Thanks Lynnie :)
Here's the day's harvest...
The tree...
Rachel I grew up in a family who loved to hunt shoes *grin*
Chezka I believe you have enough peaches there to make cobbler for us all......
Last one :-) I promise
The perfect peach...
shoot now I want to eat one!
Tell me bout it! Arrrghhhh! And my DH don't eat em so it's just me and my sil... There's only SO MANY peaches one can eat in a day! This is about the time when I start "peach withdrawals" :-)
Hey Chezca, I don't eat them either. Don't let them waste. Go get some fruit fresh from the grocer and freeze them.
Going snap bean pickin. See you later.
You don't eat peaches?!? What is wrong with you?!? ^-^ Is it a "guy thing"?
What are snap beans? Are those like edamame from japanese restaurants?
Don't like fruit except for bananas. The monkey in me I guess. If cantalopes are considered a fruit, I like them. Snap beans, you probably call them green beans. Got to finish mowing before it rains again. Check you guys out tonight. Catch the peachs. No splats. Dog doesn't need to eat them. Makeum po po a heap.
Snap bean's are grown in one's garden;-0 They snap when you break each individual bean into several piece's to cook/pressure cook. I use to sit on the front porch with my Grand-Ma and snap away;-) Much better than canned green bean's anyday of the week:-)
Jim hope you got your lawn mowed before the rain's. It's been raining here on and off for several day's and my little stream that run's through the property is now a small creek ....once again! The weather has gotten "off balance" here since Fall of 2008 and I am not looking forward to the Winter month's at all here in our part of Virginia!
Got it mowed Rachael, except for one ditch that doesn't drain. Has to evaporate. Good Louisiana engineering. Think I'm going to buy one of those electric pumps before next spring. We got over an inch last night. None today. The grass had gotten a little tall because we've got six inchs total this week. I lime and fertilize my yard and have to mow twice a week, normally. Only thing that saved my bacon was it was drough stressed from the nearly two months of 100 degree dry weather we had. Finally was able to get started about noon. Temp was mild but the humity was a beast.
I was amazed earlier when the string beans began to put on new foliage and bloom. I had left them to shade the squash. This is the second mess I have gotten and had a lot that had gotten to big. Was just to tied up last week to check them. Learned one thing don't pull them up when they quit bearing, water them jokers.
I've got some of your same memories or sitting on the porch and snapping beans with my mother. Back then the old variaties had to be stringed. Remember those. The ones we have now have not strings. Just snap away or snip. Most of the time we use sissors and cut them.
June and July the temps hit around the 100 mark with not rain at all. I think one time I got an inch but a half mile up the road nothing. Rains like that don't really do any good. Then this week we got in the weather pattern and the temp dropped to a day time high of 78 for two or three days then up to about 85 for the rest of the week. Temps like this are really rare at this time of the year. Our whole area has gotten rain this week but the amounts have differered dramaticly. It has rained every day at my house and sometimes several times. I got two big rains at night. Like I said, I've had 6 inchs but some of the farmers five or six miles from me have only gotten an inch, unless they got that last night. Strange. The forecast shows the rain dissipating and out temps will be back to a 100 in a couple of days. I guess this is good because the corn harvest was just getting under way.
Jim six inches is a lot of rain in a week.....yikes. We've had rain every couple days, cloudy in between, and maybe one day of sun here & there. Normally it's just hot & sunny.
Yep a lot of rain. We were so dry that the ground soaked it up fast. The lettuce and radishs I planted a couple of days ago are already up. Carrots have a few up. Guess the rain did them good.
I think we're getting more rain today....I'm lucky to get one area weeded every couple days.
Plus on the nice days I want to take the kids swimming or to the beach or whatever, so it's hard to get the yard work in.
Hi everyone. It's been as gorgeous weekend here. Decent temps and rain overnight. I haven't had to water anything for a week! Sounds like we are going to get back into the 90's this week. It was nice while it lasted! :-)
Jim, are there Elk in MO? Or did I misunderstand? I know we have an over abundance of deer but I don't know anyone who hunts elk here.
You had one. Cause I've been eating part of it. Where they were hunting, I don't know.
Been sick all week end. Started having sever chill yesterday about 5 p.m. We were 60 miles from home. Jo finally got me home. She hates to drive. Been running a 101.1 temp ever since. Finally got it to 99. Going to the doctor tomorrow. Probably won't hear from me tonight. Maybe I'll check you tomorrow.
Jim, I sure hope you start feeling better soon! Let us all know what the doc. tell's you tomorrow. Hopefully it's just a 48 hr. bug eating at you!
Cat, wishing you a wonderful new work week tomorrow! It finally stopped raining here late this afternoon......suppose to be dry until Wednesday atleast.
Jim take care of yourself! Get some rest. Hope it isn't elk fever haha just kidding.
yikes new work week already? that was quick.
Thanks Rachel. I keep thinking I need to be independently wealthy and not have to work, but it hasn't panned out that way. not yet anyway! :-)
Hope you feel better Jim. Hoping it was just one of those 24 hr bugs and it's all gone this morning.
Good morning everyone else! It's a beautiful morning here
Hey guys ^-^! Went on a mini-staycation over the weekend (explains my radio silence) :-)
Gramps, you make sure to do what (first) your wife tells you to do THEN what the DOCTOR tells you to do :-)! Hope you start feeling better :(
Hi ya cat, Lynnie, Rachel! A good (blech) MONDAY mornin to ya all!
Hey Chez. Do anything fun?
^-^ we "stayed" in our couch and watched like six movies back to back :-)! threw a surprise (potluck) party the next day then picked, you guessed it, peaches all day sunday :-)... Yep, that was purdy much it but it was refreshingly relaxing and enjoyable... Didn't hafta spend a nickel :-)!
I love those "down" times. Theres nothing like just taking a break from the rest of the world and relaxing. Regroup, so to speak! :-)
So glad you had a good weekend.
Hi all my buddies. Doc filled my rear with shots and my pockets with pills. Feel better, just washed out from the chills and fever. Got to 102 last night. Just a dose of the "old mans problems" was the diagnosis.
Cat, talked to the elk man and he bagged that bugger in northeast Mo. about 50 miles from the Iowa line.
You get the man up on the ladder Chezca? Wishing for some peach fried pies like my grandma used to make.
The "man" was standing there and pointing us to the ripe peaches... :-) Yes we couldn't have done it without him ^-^!
You should take it easy there, gramps! Ya ain't 21 nomore, mind ya...
FRIED pies?!? Watdahek! That sounds sooo not good for ya but yet sounds soooo good!
Glad you are feeling better Jim. No telling what's up in the northern section of the state! I know they get alot colder weather up there. More snow etc.
Fried peach pies ARE delicious Chez. Fried apple pie too! Makes me hungry thinking about it!
Where is everyone else today?
My grandparents lived in the hills of Tennessee. They had apple and apricot trees. They had a dug cellar under the old house and it was always full of dried fruit, strung peppers, jars of canned veggies, and of course potatoes and onions. Grandma would take that dried fruit and make those delicious fried pies. She had a warming oven over that big ole wood stove and it always had a bunch of those pies in it. Man kind alive, those were the days. Course, it had its downside, too. Remember my uncle running me and my cousin out of the apple trees. "Them green apples ah tear you up." Didn't believe him, so waited to dark to eat our fill. Guess what, before daylight we were real tore up. If you know what I mean.
P.S. Apricot was my favorite. The dried fruit you buy in the store is not the same.
Did your grandma have "shukky beans" too?
Hey guys, what do i do to get rid of squirrels and a possum? The possum's driving our dogs mad and the squirrels are driving me insane!
Hello all! One more day of work then I'm off for almost 2 weeks.......I'm hoping to post some pictures soon.....just got a load of rocks dropped off from a friend (I wonder if he thinks I'm strange for wanting his rocks) and I need help in designing my garden.
(and boy that didn't come out right but I stopped myself from the writing the next sentence) I'm slap wore out from work & our weekend get-away!
How's that for Southern?
