Great day here today. Got lots done. Cut a clothesline pole. Hung 2 loads of laundry out. Got all the regular work done. I also sat on the hill for about 45 minutes and let the goats run in their lot. The fence is not charged so I couldn't just leave them out. They had a great time. I WS a tray of eggplants. I put the trays of tomato and broccoli seedlings out to enjoy the sun. Put them back when the afternoon sun was gone. Threw the chickens a few bucketfuls of leaf litter to scratch around in. Watered my raspberry canes I planted a few days ago. I also planted 2 new raspberry canes a friend sent to me by DH. Somebody gave them to my friend ( they had been dug up from the person's yard ) and my friend gave them to me. DH said they were plain domestic raspberries. LOL I'll have to see if I can get some more info on them tomorrow. I cleaned the brooder box for the five chicks. They are growing like weeds. And my best news, I picked up 12 eggs from my 14 hens!!!! Best egg day yet. I love my girls! Right now I have a chicken baking in my microwave chicken baker my Mom gave me. So, after supper and a shower I'm off to bed. Unless I decide to hang another load of clothes tonight. We'll see. Good night!
Busy day
Sounds like a good day
Hanging clothes is hard work, No reason for a lady to have to do that nowadays. So do raspberries grow well there? I have three thirty ft rows of them and give them to my egg customers free. I usually get about two hundred quarts and I also grow logan berries and boysen berries. Needless to say we have freezer jam year round. I think we still have forty quarts from last season. Sounds like you enjoy your goats. Hay.
I`m hanging out clothes today,have been waiting for this,love the smell of clothes hung on the line.Can`t hang out my towels dh says there to stiff for him.I cannot believe its the middle of march and I have some of my flower gardens cleaned up,we have beat temp records for days in a row.I`M LOVIN IT!!
Haystack, I too hang my laundry outdoors whenever I can, I don't consider anything work if I can do it outside.
Green, I agree with you....I love the smell of laundry after it's been hung outside. I will get to do that Saturday, it will be near 70 here. I hang the towels out too, I tumble them in the dryer on 'air fluff' for a few minutes to make them softer.
Sounds like a heavenly day for you! Hope to get that much done today too. This weather is just the thing to get rid of the winter blues. Do you think you'll make it to the ORVG RU?
I love hanging out clothes, but with our wind, I sometimes end up chasing them... which reminds me I need to restring my clothesline...
I love to make homemade Jam, have not done it lately and it shows, have to buy the yucky store bought...
One of my neighbors has Concord grapes that lately have gone to waste. This year I am going to make a point of making time to make jelly and syrup.
Oh, yes! Sheets dried outside smell just like sunshine to me. I used to tell my mom that I could hardly wait for spring to come so that I could sleep on sunshine again!
What type of goats do you have, CajuninKy?
I wasn't aware that anyone hung clothes anymore. Me and my big mouth. I have to agree with Green's husband, they are to hard on my soft skin...LOL. I also agree I love the smell of them but they are to stiff. Sorry I think I have gotten soft...Hay.
I do want you ladies to know that I, not my wife, make all the freezer jam around here. I keep the berry patch and pick every single one of them. I don't allow anyone else in my berry patch, one of my customers wanted to pick her own and I told he no. She asked why not, I told her no one was allowed in my berry patch and no one is allowed to mess with my chickens. No not even my wife who likes it that way...I'm fussy because to many people break my vines and don't care. Am I spoiled? Yes...LOL. Have a great day.
My mom doesn't even have a dryer. I put a line because the 220 plug to my dryer needs to be rewired. It gets hot and trips the breaker. Until it's taken care of I don't mind hanging the clothes. Put out another load this morning early.
Going to be another pretty day here. I already have my seedlings set out to enjoy it. I also reseeded a tray of peppers and cukes. They weren't coming up well. I think the tray was too wet.
I have 3 African Pygmy nannies. I really think the world of them. They are very entertaining. LOL I plan to breed them soon. Would like to have had it done already but the weather has not cooperated. I will be glad to have fresh milk and to try my hand at making cheese. I have not been a goats milk drinker before but I think it will be fine. Do any of you drink goats milk? I understand it is great for stomach problems and I have ulcers.
I don't know if the raspberries do well here. I know there are lots of wild berries in the mountains so I think they should do well. There is a berry in the mountains the locals call a pie berry and I think it must be a wild raspberry. I am looking forward to them. I would love to have lots of fruit bushes and trees. We love fruit. My DH is a diabetic so the fruit is a big treat. We want to put in some blue berries next. They grow wild here too. This is a great place for harvesting from nature. I will have to look up Logan and Boysen berries. They sound interesting. Maybe you could send me some seeds. *hint* LOL
I had a busy day yesterday too.. I worked my garden area till I couldn't stand upright. LOL I was thriled to collect Eggplant seeds and Okra seeds.. One less thing to buy. :) That sure made it okay that last year's plants were still out there.. what a mess!!
I have my first wall of thornless blackberries and am totally thrilled at how they are starting to come on. I trimmed them back, put a bunch of trimmings in for cuttings, and did general clean up in their area. I have yet to get enough to can, but hope to this year.. this is their 3 year, so hopefully I will get enough.. I absolutely LOVE boysenberries & blackberries!!
Here is a "before" pic of the garden area..
Wow.. we crossed Cajun.. I'd be glad to send you some cuttings of the thornless blackberries I stuck in water yesterday. Maby Hay would know if they would do good in your area.. I know nothing about berries except that I love them.
Cajun I love goat's milk!!!! Wish I was near you. It is the only kind of milk I can drink
We have wild blackberries galore here...Cajun's spot o' heaven is a bit colder, but I'd think they would do...
I'd sure appreciate that. My DB has those big cultivated BBs down home but they have thorns. They are huge berries and they bear like crazy. He makes preserves and wine. I had some at my house down the bayou but couldn't bring them with me. I hated having to leave them. What do boysenberries (sp?) look like?
Annie, I don't know if I will get to make the RU. It all depends on the animal situation. It's hard to get somebody to feed a whole farm. LOL
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Boysenberries look like HUGE blackberries. They are a cross between raspberries, blackberries and/or loganberries. I wish I had room to grow them, they have lots more flavor than blackberries.
What is your growing zone Grownut?
I didn't see those at TSC today but DH did buy me 2 Blueberry bushes. I will plant them tomorrow. I will be on the lookout for the boysenberries.
6A on the maps. Acts more like 6Bwarmish to me...think if Im 6A then Cajun oughtta be 5B...eastern mountainy-er part of KY, lol...
Cajun goats milk is very good! The secret is to cool it quickly in a tub of ice water.Its great milk just a little sweeter than cows milk and much better for ya.Some thing about the milk globules makes it easer for the human body and most animal bodies to digest.Just about any critter can be raised on goats milk.
Cajun I will research so info this weekend and and see if I can send you some vines to get you going. I will contact you on Monday by dmail and let you know whats up. Hay. P.S. I love goats milk, I hate cows milk. I don't know what the difference is but to me it's huge.
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OH ZZ's someone has a white birch. I love them, they are so beautiful when they green up.
I am thinking no berries would grow here in the desert... So send pictures, and I remember the berries that grew wild in Kentucky, and although I miss them, I dont miss the chiggers or ticks...
CajuninKY, I hear you on the aminal care. Hope it works out, it would be great to meet you at the RU.
Annie
I actually joined DG so I could participate in the KyRU thread that year but ended up not getting to go. Still haven't been able to make one. :(
If I find the ticks to be a bad problem this year, I'm going get a flock of guinea hens.
:) we hung out clothes all winter long. Freeze dried them on the clothes line. Its actually quite relaxing to hang them out. Grandma taught me well, all one color, style & size stays together, she said they were suppose to look pretty in case the neighbors looked.
Hay - where did you get your boysenberry plants? I'd love to try & grow them. I'm going to start making some jam this year again & syrup.
The concord grapes make great homemade juice! Grandma made it by the gallons. Just don't leave it in the back of the cabinet too long or you will find it ferments well also!
Grey, do you hang underclothes on the line where they can't be seen? My mother always drilled that into our heads. I have an umbrella-type line and always hang my underclothes in the middle nearest the pole...lol!. I wish we could hang clothes outside in the winter too, but it's just a little too wet.
o my yes.. we have a straight line with 4 rows 25 ft long... underthings always go in the middle! I can't wait till Tuesday! 65 & i will wash sheets again. I love the smell of spring floating in my sheets. I can't wash tomorrow with snow on the ground.. they'd never dry. I rarely use the dryer. We have metal hangers that Grandma wrapped with cheap yarn. We hand clothes in all the door ways from the top of the door frame. Laundry day u have to duck to walk anywhere if its too damp to put them outside. Sometimes I have to put 10 clothes pins in the sheets just too keep them on the line or I find them clear to the neighbors.
Hay, I would really appreciate those. You have made my day!
The white birch is in my neighbor's yard.. He is the one that owns the property where my garden/chickens are. Bless his heart for being so generous to me!