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I would like suggestions as to what perennial to plant near Eva's grave. Right now I am starting seeds in this blue pot, but I don't leave nice ceramic pots out all year. Ice will crack it. Now that I have room in my carriage house my big ceramic pots will live there upside down during the...

Being outside all afternoon in muggy heat I think it was 10-20 degrees F cooler in the shade, so , Yes!

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...

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?

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...

🙏 🙏 🙏 for everyone's safety.

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...

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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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...

October, 2024, right before this all started.

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

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...

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...

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.