Hope you are OK!

What's comin on in that garden of yours?
Just,checking in with you and hope you are OK.

Got any onions?My Daddy use to like a good spring onion sandwich,straight from the garden.I'd shake my head and he would be grinning from ear to ear eating those things.

Caught a couple of snakes up in the barn rafters having a little hanky panky yesterday AM.Kids were laughing,screaming,running,shouting for an audience.Well,the snake fun quickly came to an end,I tell ya.

just a busy time in the garden and otherwise this time of year. we have had a lot of social obligations too with more graduations and weddings than we've had in 10 yrs combined.

the other day i picked 16 qts of strawberries off one patch. they are all in the freezer now and there is probably 25 quarts ripe now. they are little because we haven't had enough rain. i have to go out and pick in a little bit. oh my achin back! i imagine the other patch is about ready too....

peas are ready, we have been eating potatoes, onions, peas, kolrabi, broccoli as well as rhubarb, asparagus and strawberries. i have to get the broccoli cut and in the freezer this evening or maybe tomorrow.

i will get some pictures up later. the garden is going just great! and it is really pretty now too, dh has been taking good care of the weeds.

haha, i have never seen snakes, um... you know....."having a little hanky panky"! that is too funny! if i saw snakes in the barn rafters i would be doing the wooooooo-hooooooooo dance all the way down the lane! i am terrified of snakes!

there is a big ol black snake that lives in the garden. we "tolerate" each other (barely), because they are beneficial in the garden. i warn him where i am before i get too involved... i usually stomp around and make a lot of noise before "going in"! i run the broom over the tops of the strawberry patch in the direction i want to "herd" him before i pick. i have been surprised before.....

that handsome dh i brag about all the time has been SUCH a jerk lately my little sister calls it "showing his a$$" - haha!

i slept in the guest room last night he was so bad (he had been having a 'few' with the guys all evening). tough decision today whether to go pick the berries and cut the broccoli or just pack for a good long visit to ANYWHERE!

he MUST have looked out the kitchen window at the garden this morning and remembered all the picking and 'putting up' to be done because there was an "I'M SORRY" and "I LOVE YOU" note on the counter... guess we all have to 'pay our dues', it's that FOR WORSE clause then there's that "as we forgive those who trespass against us" thing..... (sigh)

yowzers, i see it is after noon, getting hotter and hotter out, better get picking. i'll post some pictures later on.

hey 3greatkids, how did the costume thing go? take any pics?

that's MY last picking, anyone want the rest? haha! come pick! the birds will be happy enough to eat the rest i am sure. there's a pair of brown thrashers living in the timber edge near that side of the garden, bet they'll help out. and the robbins have already helped themselves to the other patch.

have you ever eaten homegrown broccoli? mmm, really good, way better than store variety. and it gets as big around as a dinner plate. cut the main head and then it grows smaller side shoots for a second cutting. i cut 6 tonight.

dh picked the peas and shelled them. he blanched and bagged and put them in the freezer too. i won't pick and shell peas, i had a bad deal of carpal tunnel and tendonitis several years ago and am not going to flare it up for peas.

i guess the biggest thing is the time of harvest. peak of freshness, not a day early and not a day late... no matter what is going on. that goes for all the produce for freezing or canning. especially sweet corn. harvest, get it in the freezer. no letting it sit around. SO, broccoli, peas and strawberries went in the freezer tonight.

i didn't see the snake actually i haven't even seen him yet this year. come to think of it we are having a lot more trouble with moles this year, maybe he isn't around. we find his skin after he molts, last year it was more than 4' long. that usually merits a good blood-curdling scream and a woo-hoo dance by itself

dh had a heapin' helping of "hot tounge and cold shoulder" for supper tonight it has not been a pleasant evening. actually few days... i hate that crap. i think we are at the "blow-over" stage now, neither of us are up to this. i am exhausted. i just imagine he is too.

3greatkids, your daddy knows a good sandwich when he sees one! not too good for social life, but yummy if you're planning an evening alone i love green onion sandwiches! radish sandwiches too, mmm! just use lots of butter on the bread and it digests fine. otherwise, not so fine, haha! yummy, just butter and salt.

i took some pictures today, but am not up to posting them tonight, maybe tomorrow.

hope you all have a good night's sleep.

Ya read the book; "women are from Venus and men from Mars? Funny and True.

Just wanted to say thanks for the free entertainment you give us on here and for how much I'd like to have yours and DH's magic hands for gardening. My mouth waters thinking about broccoli fresh from the ground, and sweet corn, peas, on & on.

Boy will Chad be over the top rejoicing to come home to your home grown goodies,

Take care and be sure to watch out especially for those one eyed snakes. !!

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Having a Bad Day?

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask. A post-mortem revealed that the person died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification.

Investigators set about to determine how a fully clad diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire. It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the person went for a diving trip off the coast some 20 miles from the forest. The fire-fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and then flown to the forest fire and emptied. You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air.

Apparently he extinguished exactly 5'10" of the fire. Some days it just doesn't pay to get out of bed - This article was taken from the California Examiner, March 20, 1998

STILL THINK YOU ARE HAVING A BAD DAY?

A man was working on his motorcycle on his patio and his wife was in the kitchen. The man was racing the engine on the motorcycle when it accidentally slipped into gear. The man, still holding onto the handle bars, was dragged through the glass patio doors and along with the motorcycle dumped onto the floor inside the house. The wife, hearing the crash, ran into the dining room and found her husband lying on the floor, cut and bleeding, the motorcycle lying next to him, and the shattered patio door. The wife ran to the phone and summoned the ambulance. Because they lived on a fairly large hill, the wife went down the several flights of stairs to the street to escort the paramedics to her husband.

After the ambulance arrived and transported the man to the hospital, the wife righted the motorcycle and pushed it outside. Seeing that gas was spilled on the floor, the wife got some paper towels, blotted up the gasoline, and threw the towels in the toilet. The man was treated and released to come home. Upon arriving home, he looked at the shattered patio door and the damage done to his motorcycle.

He became despondent, went to the bathroom, sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette. After finishing the cigarette, he flipped it between his legs into the toilet bowl, while seated. The wife, who was in the kitchen, heard the loud explosion and her husband screaming.

She ran into the bathroom and found her husband lying on the floor. His trousers had been blown away and he was suffering burns on the buttocks, the back of his legs, and his groin. The wife again ran to the phone to call the ambulance. The very same paramedic crew was dispatched and the wife met them at the street. The paramedics loaded the husband on to the stretcher and began carrying him to the street. While they were going down the stairs to the street accompanied by the wife, one of the paramedics asked the wife how the husband had burned himself. She told them and the paramedics started laughing so hard, one of them slipped and tipped the stretcher, dumping the husband out. He fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm - Taken from a Florida Newspaper.

STILL HAVING A BAD DAY?

Just remember, it could be worse.....

1. The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

2. A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his Walkman.

3. Two animal rights protesters were protesting at the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn Germany. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.

And finally...

4. Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb he opened it and was blown to bits.

In the Jan. 6, 2002 edition of Parade magazine, Kirk Douglas wrote the following that I think applies well to anybody struggling with any adversity:

My "Operator's Manual":
To help people understand and recover from a stroke, I constructed the following guidelines. Then, I had an epiphany: Dealing with a stroke---dealing with any ailment or misfortune---is no different than the way we all should live our lifes.

1. WHEN THINGS GO BAD, always remember: It could be worse.
2. NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP. Keep working on your speech and your life.
3. NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR. Laugh at yourself, laugh with others.
4. STEM DEPRESSION by thinking of, reaching out to and helping others.
5. DO UNTO OTHERS as you would have them do unto you.
6. PRAY, not for God to cure you but to help you help yourself.

Words of Wisdom from Kirk Douglas.

Kirk Douglas says having a stroke made him appreciate life more. "I'm still alive," the 85-year-old actor said. "The sky is bluer, the trees are greener. People talk of heaven, but maybe this is heaven and we don't know it."

Kirk Douglas constructed his new outlook and survival upon these 4 great human values:

1. The love of his wife, Anne, and his four sons.
2. His intuitive conviction that laughter truly is the best medecine.
3. His immersion in the Bible study.
4. The gratification of reaching out and helping others.

Book buying info:

My Stroke of Luck , Autobiography by Kirk Douglas. Publisher: William Morrow & Company Inc., New York, January 2002. Price: $22.95, 196 pages.

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Wow,actually I am big time jealous,if I lived close by I'd be over in a sec to help ya!!

Peas,my favorite,yummy,yes alot of work,glad hubby helped with that!!
Loved the moon shot above,driving around somedays,we will run across alot of blowfish and hubby says "they need a moon".

Yeap,we were busy with end of school stuff and parties there for a couple of weeks.Did me in,was fun but with this stupid lyme it is like partying on new years eve all the time.

The costumes were adorable,if I say so myself,ha ha,.The tops were half blue,half red with yellow strip down the middle and black poms sewn down the front.I put little tux tails on the back.They wore red or blue pants.We took pics.If I can scan them and then put them up I will.Anyway,they were very cute and the MEAN FRENCH teacher was pround of her bad girls!!!!That's what Katie Bug said.

Well,now it is off to camp.Katie is already working at one barn and helping with the horses and campers this summer.She will take a break and be a real camper next week,see some old camper buddies(4 years)these girls have kept it together, to go, to away camp.It is neat,they write to each other all year and when they see each other again...well they pick back up and have another big 3 weeks!!

Yes,Weeza,I love Loribelles tales!

Now,next time that hubby of yours comes in and is acting up like a wild horse,well if he asks for some ice cold tea,well ask him how he would like it.
1.Over his head?
2.In his lap?

Just kiddin,be good and keep cool,we've had BAD thunderstorms movin thru this week,nasty.Be careful too.

later, i gotta ask you about the blowfish thing 3greatkids! the only blowfish i have seen are at the chinese restaurant in the next town....

BUT --- i have wonderfully tired fingers got to talk to Chad for a good long time this morning! (we use instant messenger) and i got in a good keyboard workout. i hadn't talked to him for a while and was missing him terribly! much mo-better now!

and dh called, said he is taking off early from work. says he is sorry and misses me. wants to behave no make-up sex tho! i DO NOT reward bad behavior! haha.... will be so nice to get along again though! those fights that are not about ANYTHING (other than showing a$$) really suck, so draining.

anyway, like i said, tired typing fingers, so will get off here for now.

hope you are all feeling your oats today

Buckets of Strawberries?!!

Yeesh, I'm a pathetic excuse for a gardener..
with my unintentioned 'baby vegetables' and just enough strawberries for sustinance while I'm weeding...

A good harvest is when I come in all sweaty and dirty and empty my pockets producing a handful of what looks like a single serving of assorted crudate`, and one asparagus stalk.

Maybe in zone five I still have time?
One can only hope...

My herbs are doing well, tho - I planted them here and there haphazardly mixed in with some of the nicer wild things that do well here. I have a frog that sits for his shower every evening when I water them

I'm so easily amused...

Mo

this evening i went to the armory where the 224th family group has a float for a parade next week. my job is lettering the float backboard and making posters for the sides of the vehicle. kind of fun working on a project aside from my daily stuff.

i was alone in this huge bldg. and it was kind of dark other than my little area... the dang pop machine in another room kept making scary noises, creeped me out a little. then one of those t-storms 3great warned about came up. haha, i gave up and came home to dh!

the lady who asked me to do the lettering is mom to one of Chad's close friends. he is in iraq too, but is home for 2 week leave. i went up to 'get a look at him' the other night poor kid, got mauled and bawled on, haha! he gave me a big hug and i bawled like a baby. i am so happy for him and his family but i have to admit a tug of jealousy...

i met his beautiful girlfriend, she looked so happy! i can't wait to see that look on MY son's girlfriend's face!

uh, Mo, i hate to tell ya this but i am in zone 5 too, haha! lower end, but still zone 5

i noticed quite a few pretty white butterflies hanging out in the garden today. that means i better get out there with the garlic spray in the morning! they are laying eggs, which will be leaf-eating fools at catapiller stage.

hey, Mo, do you put deodorant on that frog too or just do the shower?

Zone 5 huh? shoot.

For some reason I thought you were in the South. Course, I could have just looked under your name there..huh?

We did have a long cold Spring here, just recently warmed up.

I just started seeing those butterflies, too..thanks for the tip!
If they just take a few bites there will be nothing left!

You know garlic repells ticks, too...

Mo

Ah,Loribelle,that is great you got to IM Chad.Now, that is the kind of thing IM is good for!!!!Instead of with the trouble some of these teens use it and get into.

I bet your fingers were HAPPY fingers and you were on xtra happy MOM.Great.Hope it happens soon again.Keepin that boy close in my thoughts for you.

Well,Loribelle,you have now put your float decorating hat on,I'm sure it will be fantastic,the love alone that will go into it would be the beauty in it!!!Have fun,watch next year,Loribelle will be decorating the Rose Parade Floats!!!

Mo,how bout we go raid Loribelle's garden!!!Doesn't it sound beautiful?I can see it now,us out there eating away,picking away and she comes out with her shot gun and defends the homeplace...oh no.....!!!

Anyway,Loribelle, a blowfish is the type of guy,seen around my parts in over abundance,drives a spotless current model BMW,or Lexus,sport car the norm.

These guys will puff out their chests while passing you,glance over as if to say "watch ya lookin at girls".This is done at a fast speed so we can all meet at the stop light at the same time.Hubby and I shake our heads now and laugh at these guys,slicked back hair,reflective sunglasses,trying so hard to impress everyone!!Remember Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd in wild and crazy guys...well this is a modern version of it.

Well, Mo,how are the baby blues???Mo is goin to be a new Mom Loribelle,little bluebirds on the way.

Have a nice weekend.Hot here,can start slicing the air and the dogs are hovering over the AC vents,oh my and we still have how many weeks of summer?Skinny Dippin Time!!!!!

Bugrepel report...usually I am still finding ticks,since I have sprayed outside,dogs,around the foundation,life has been,well tick free,which is a wonderful difference!

thanks for the explanation on the "blowfish" haha, i have seen the type, but usually around these parts it is a shiny new pickup (or monster truck), not a beemer seems pretty "high school" like when we used to cruise the strip. (i am not THAT old btw, it was allowed in the 70's and 80's still) guess midlife crisis puts some guys back in their glory days, haha! too funny!

3greatkids (missy, right?) and Mz MO, you are great salesmen for bugrepel, you should get a commission! i am ordering too! will send some to Chad to see if it helps with sand fleas! glad to hear it works on mosquitos!

hey Weeza, whatchu up to today?

think i will post those garden pix in another thread since they are long downloaders....

We did go to a lobster fest at the barn!!!

Here is Katie Bug on the right with her buddies.
Have their horses,have their dogs,have each other,,,,don't need no cowBOYS!!!

These are my other sweet girls!!My girl Jayne on the left with Amy a good friend.

that Katy-bug has the prettiest eyes, and wow, that smile of Jayne's!

They have a sparkle in thier eyes, Miss 3..
something from within!

Katie Bug's got the world on a string..
her horse and her friends, doesn't get better than that..
glad she knows it!

Thanks for sharing these. I'll have to show Ryan..

Mo

sorry,cable is still out.need to do sumtin'...,gary

we got a nice basket-full of bass and (huge) bluegill last night tho, will be supper tonight!

OK,how bout this...Hushpuppies,dipped in butter and the dipped again in sugar!!!!A LYME fix.