And I took this photo at 7:30 this morning when Mama bear and her 3 cubs came back to deposit Prune Pits etc on our lawn…
This photo is grainy as I had to lighten the exposure to bring out the villains...
Posted on 08/23/2013 1:53:26 PM PDT by greeneyes
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Baileys for me with Amaretto a close second.
/johnny
Good to know. I’ll quit worrying.LOL
Well, I’d have to know what it was. Very particular what sort of stuff goes into my soil.
As usual; tomatoes are all starting to ripen at once...OMG! We tried our first ‘Dances With Smurfs’ tomato tonight...unlike other blues we have tried; this one WASN’T a spitter. (Indigo Rose, I’m looking at you.) Should know how the other three blue ones taste within a week. Monkey Ass and Clint Eastwood’s Rowdy Red have been producing like mad. Hot peppers loaded, especially beautiful Bhut Jolokia Peach.
It has been busy here for me this month. My corn did very well and required much less watering than last summer's crop. I had 3 less rows this year and my ear pick count was 275 ears, of which I managed to freeze 73 cups of corn. My hands are still recovering.
I have managed to can 5 cookers of green beans and have close to a cooker full picked yesterday waiting in the refrigerator for my attention. I have two types of green beans Jade and French fillet. The Jade plants have produced wonderfully.
The cucumbers vines have produced a bumper crop. I made 4 or 5 batches of Kosher dill pickles. I call it a batch, although I am not certain that is the correct term. I intend to make some Polish dill pickle and some dill pickle relish. This is the first time I have attempted to do pickles. I use mrs.wages ‘quick process pickle mixes.
My tomatoes are now bearing fruit and I have enough ready to begin making salsa... Probably tomorrow, as I need to do the pickles and green beans first.
I have three different types of pole beans planted for fall harvest, and my snow peas are just popping through the soil. Hopefully they can withstand the 90 degree heat until cooler days arrive.
I do enjoy reading the accomplishments of others.
diaganol = diagonal
brain ain’t workin real well transposing like crazy lately.
I guess you are an admirer of Pavlov?
And I took this photo at 7:30 this morning when Mama bear and her 3 cubs came back to deposit Prune Pits etc on our lawn…
This photo is grainy as I had to lighten the exposure to bring out the villains...
I call all my canning efforts a batch. When I just cook the beans to eat-that’s also a batch.LOL
Lovely word: Batch - not precise, but a good all purpose word.LOL
/johnny
Hubby has been bringing in a few tomatoes each day. His are smallish, but plentiful enough that we still can’t keep ahead. All his big mortgage lifters became bunny fodder the stinkin little dirty thieves.
My tomatoes are still green, and there is one that looks really nice and perfect size to cover a slice of bread. Just hoping nothing gets it while I am in Chicago.
I'm particular what goes in my soil, too. I know this stuff doesn't harm the beneficial micro-organisms, they love it.
/johnny
Ha Ha. Snappy comeback as always.LOL
Trust me, there are 3 cubs and mama in the last photo. There is one between mama and the 2 cubs but it’s head is behind the cub on the left
Well I am relieved it is an acceptable term. I even mark my jars as coming out of batch 1, batch 2, etc. Then as I typed the word I became unsure if it was the proper term to be used.
I have spent so much time with my head down and dealing with plants some cooperative and most not, that I found myself evaluating my words as they almost sounded foreign.
Thanks for sharing. I just don’t think that I could rest easy with those bears roaming around my yard. I got a real scare at Yellowstone.
About 8 years old and went to the restroom. Opened the door to come out and a bear was right in front of the door nose to nose and about 6 inches apart.
Scared the bejeezus outa me. I slammed the door and screamed and hollered and hollered and screamed and no one came for a very long time. Finally, I just sat down in the corner and waited.
Eventually my Mom came looking for me and saw the bear still in front of the door. She and a bunch of campers got out their pots and pans and spoons, and commenced beating them together and hollering and making noise like it was 1999.
The bear got up and rambled off. Been a little leery of the critters ever since. Especially after hearing all the stories about kids disappering from bearnapping.
Well my typing has certainly become a little foreign looking lately. Transpositions galore. Go to type really and instead type reaaly.
Words I have spelled forever-get in the middle of typing and just freeze, cause something is not right. Have to sit and think a while before I finally remember.
AAARRRGGGHHH.
I’ve got 10 ft cornstalks in the backyard that are just now FINALLY growing ears and tassle. For a while it looked like all stalk, no corn. SF Peninsula down by Palo Alto.
Tomatoes in abundance...great heirlooms and cherries. Nothing else planted this year, unfortunately.
Well, if you say so. Might have to try it.
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