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try chard instead sometime. :) beets here were a good indicator crop for me and soil quality - at first i could not get them to grow very well, but after amending some gardens and improving the organic matter and worm counts they started giving a better result. however, once the groundhogs...

i don't think it really matters that much to the beans, but the garlic will not do great if it gets overgrown.

definitely the action hoe/stirrup hoe/scraper. cost about $15 and saves a lot of hours of weeding by hand.

i like a desktop computer where when i'm done with it i can go do something else and not carry it around with me. the screen is much bigger and also i can control the software that's on it.

a very different looking tweety bird. :) pretty. :) USA Robins are about twice the size by the looks of it.

i did have fun Friday trying to fix one of the spare mice i had that wasn't working as well as it should have been. i learned how to take it apart and how to take the switch apart and how to take the bit of metal spring out of the switch and to rebend it a bit more to get the spring back, but...

any kind of speedwell or morning glory...

needed a new mousie for the computer as my old one was giving out after only six weeks. yes, i bought a cheap one because i knew i was going to get a better one as soon as i could get some research done on what i really wanted to get or at least had some idea of what was available out there...

they need enough light and some should not be trimmed and let grow to full size (as in the less light you have the more leaves they need to be left untrimmed). we have full sun and almost all clay here in many places and the chives will take over if we let them, but we also hardly ever cut them...

frost warning for tonight and tomorrow night. it was rather cold today and may have had some chances of rain but we only saw a few drops coming down.

i'm surprised my back didn't get upset about dead lifting a big chunk of cement and stones, but so far it hasn't said anything to me in protest. we'll see what it says tomorrow...

Mom mentioned this morning that she wanted to move some windchimes. I said, "Yes, Master!" um, well, ok, when? now? oy... ok, so i got my work pants on and some gloves and just went out and pulled the windchimes and pole right out of the ground and brought it up to where she wanted to move...

she really is for me too... i've never lived with any one else for as long. about 2/3rds of my life.

there aren't any major coywolf populations around here that i know of as there aren't any wolves around either. there are coyotes around for sure. i've seen them running and can hear them yipping some nights. the major predator of pheasants around here is likely the automobile and also some...

forecast said rain chances today after 11am, starting to rain 8:15am...