Sunday, April 6, 2008
WOW.. what a busy weekend!
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We got so much done this weekend. I am very tired and sore, but this mornings milking was a FULL jar!!! it took us all week last week to fill that jar, I used it all yesterday in some pudding I made, and this morning I filled it to the top again! HAPPY HAPPY DAY!!!! Today was a busy day, I got up early, everyone else still sleeping, and milked the cow... came back in, fed kids breakfast, cleaned up, the guys were going to go fishing, so they got poles ready. We went to the lake nearby, a small, hidden lake that not everyone knows about..... I dropped the kids off with my dad and dh and my mom and I went to Orshlens for a salt lick for the cow, some fish hooks, seeds and some sevin powder for the flies on Springs back. Went by the lake to take hooks, but they werent fishing anymore, so we all came home. Planted Cabbage, cauliflower, carrots, dill, beets, lettuce, more onions, more potatoes and 9 tomato plants (4 celebrity, 2 better boy, 3 big boy) still need to plant shallots, garlic, blue potatoes, corn, beans, okra, spinach, cucumbers, watermelon and cantaloupe... my big garden.. 30x50 ft is full now, and sugar peas are sprouting, so we tilled up another bed next to it, 15x50 for corn, beans, potatoes, okra, spinach and then dh is going to make me one more that is about 8x 45, for watermelon and cantaloupe and pumpkins. They found wild sand plum growing at the lake and pulled some up. No shovel needed... LONG tap roots, the root is half as long as the tree is tall! and they are blooming already. Dh planted those. yesterday he planted one peach, three pear, three apple and two blueberry bushes.. all from Lowes and all already flowering.... Yesterday I planted a rose bush in the circle drive as a memorial to the baby that would have been due today. I hope that it grows big and beautiful and gives us many sweet flowers! The smaller trees we got from the forestry service are just seedlings, though the lilac, choke cherry and currant are all budded out already and growing. We have much to water and thankfully we have well water for the plants and animals  Our household water bill went down by 5000 gallons for our first full month of the new front load washer!!! and one bottle of laundry soap lasted us more than a month! |
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