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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    DD's sat down DH and myself to decide what to do with all of the stuff in our "Carriage House", a building that could house a single car, which is 1/3 of our outbuildings, if you count the barn. We Finally made the decision to market/sell the small trailer. We bought it from a guy some 25 or...
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    Festive for July 4th, as we kick off one year of the Semiquincentennial

    I went festive in my bathroom, with extra hand dry towels for family visiting for the fireworks, which a neighbor shoots off, while we all sit in my north pasture. What are YOU doing, how are you decorating?
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    TEG Prayer Chain

    Thanks for ALL of the prayers for Eva. She went peacefully with the help of a strong sedative and VERY strong pain medication (I am familiar with that) on Wednesday. See my thread for the grave. PLEASE pray for the safety of all of the people along the Guadeloupe River in Texas! Catestrophic...
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    Coffee

    🙏 🙏 🙏 for everyone's safety.
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    What Did You Do In The Garden?

    I completely disassembled my 3' x 6' salad garden bed to be used as Eva's gravesite. I still have broken cattle fencing from the direchio and limbs falling on it from 2 years ago on the fence 12 ft from the street, south yard. I messed up a mower and had to have it repaired bc I didn't see the...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Thank you ALL for your well wishes. I will continue to grieve, but I won't revisit this Here until we reset the pavers/grave in September. First real garlic harvest this week. I harvested 43 Great Lakes porcelain garlic. Since I mucked them up and had to remove straw around them to give them...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    https://modernfarmer.com/2025/06/attract-beneficial-predators/
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    I thought that it would be a bear to get the tomatoes out of the 40 gallon water tank, but, after filling it with water, they slipped right out. I Did put in 6 inches of rough compost and covered it with a thin layer of potting soil. I'm sure that helped. I got 4 transplanted yesterday, 3...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    October, 2024, right before this all started.
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    A Seed Saver's Garden

    If my roses can survive being strangled by blackberry canes, Yours should hang in there until you move them, just keep them watered.
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Eva Janie Martel, GSD, 07-02-18 to 07-02-25, RIP Eva with Pyg, now both gone. DD's helped me to finish digging the grave yesterday. My Vet gave her a shot to knock her out, and said it also contained 4x the normal human dose of morphine, so she was out of pain. There we were, the 5 of us...
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    Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

    Let me begin with something good--I harvested all of my garlic today. More on that later... Today I get to dig my dog's grave. I cleared out the very weedy 3' x 6' bed that hasn't grown anything good in 4 years, even though I dug out one ft down 5 years ago in the Fall and deposited straight...
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    Your Weather, 2025

    They Said that the heat broke last Friday. They lied. 87 today, starting with 60% humidity, Still Hot, sweating profusely with every effort. I cleared the bed for Eva's grave (below). Today I get to dig it out, then back into the AC.
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    The Cat's Outta the Bag!

    Lynx avoiding everyone and everything...
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    Rose thread + poll!

    The tropicana rose is recovering nicely and I have lots of rose hips on the Mr. Lincoln rose. The latter shows Japanese beetle damage on a leaf. I had to flick one off of the bud to take this picture.
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