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[Gardening with Rabbits]

Exercise yesterday was burying 7, 5-gallon buckets of kitchen compostables . I wasn't sure if the bucket contents were thawed, but they were. Two went in a flower bed that, at least, has a half day of sun. Zero went in the little veggie garden because the ground is still frozen! That bed has 100% summer sun but is shaded because of the low winter sun's low angle of light. Five buckets, I found room for after prying the top frozen layer off the compost. Everything under that looked like it had been decomposing nicely through some of the winter weeks.

Today, I'm washing sheets (for exercise ). DW wants them to go out in the February sunshine. Maaaybe sheets will dry. Despite being dedicated to clotheslines, I'm sceptical of winter drying outdoors. When I was young, I had an indoor clothes rack . Basements are not nice but a clothes rack in the middle of the living room - that'll do it!

Steve

Our washing machine quit a few months ago and DS and I bought a used one and sometimes it will not spin and seems to be getting worse. I cannot get it to spin and need him to mess with it, so if he is at work I am kind of stuck, so I have been taking the big towels outside to drip and air dry some before bringing them back in and sheets. They are not drying, but it helps and then I can use the dryer for smaller things. I quit using the clothesline after going from 4 people to 2 and getting stung by a wasp. They just seem to love the wet clothes and get on the clothes pins, but I think for exercise and save the dryer, I am going to start hanging clothes out again. I have been using the fence right outside the for sheets and that is just lazy lol.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Had my coffee and it is 41 degrees already. I logged into my job to type, but hardly any work. I have started an Etsy shop for money on the side and actually made more money selling stuff than typing so far this month. Medical transcription jobs are not what they were. I am not sure what is going on. I see others working for other companies having the same problem of no work, and I think most going to different platforms or other countries. I thought my job was about gone and then the last 2 days I have been typing and my feet swell and almost hope this job ends soon. I am going to get some sewing down for the shop and I am finishing up dresses for the 2 granddaughters I started a long time ago and hope they will still fit. I am getting ready to start some seeds, but I got this thing in the mail from Gurney's for Whopper strawberries. I bought those several years ago and they were everything they said they were, but where I planted them the weeds just took over. A special offer in the mail 35 plants for $19.99. They are June bearing. I am thinking of ordering these and get some everbearing. I just have to figure a way to have strawberries not in the ground. I went shopping for asparagus yesterday and it makes me want to redo my asparagus bed. At one store organic asparagus was over $6 a pound. I am not sure what country that was from. At another store they said organic from Mexico for $2 something a pound. I am getting big ideas and not sure if I really have time for all this, but I need exercise.

 

[flowerbug]

Exercise yesterday was burying 7, 5-gallon buckets of kitchen compostables . I wasn't sure if the bucket contents were thawed, but they were. Two went in a flower bed that, at least, has a half day of sun. Zero went in the little veggie garden because the ground is still frozen! That bed has 100% summer sun but is shaded because of the low winter sun's low angle of light. Five buckets, I found room for after prying the top frozen layer off the compost. Everything under that looked like it had been decomposing nicely through some of the winter weeks.

i'm always curious about what is happening to what and how fast. keeping worms is just another way of composting and i do also enjoy what happens in those buckets too. also to give me an excuse to play in the dirt in the middle of winter. plus to see all the different critters "chasing out their destinies".

Today, I'm washing sheets (for exercise ). DW wants them to go out in the February sunshine. Maaaybe sheets will dry. Despite being dedicated to clotheslines, I'm sceptical of winter drying outdoors. When I was young, I had an indoor clothes rack . Basements are not nice but a clothes rack in the middle of the living room - that'll do it!

Steve

we have racks here and i like them for some things much better than the dryer. in the winter with the air being so dry it's nice to have something drying all the time to add some moisture to the air.

 

[flowerbug]

Our washing machine quit a few months ago and DS and I bought a used one and sometimes it will not spin and seems to be getting worse. I cannot get it to spin and need him to mess with it, so if he is at work I am kind of stuck, so I have been taking the big towels outside to drip and air dry some before bringing them back in and sheets. They are not drying, but it helps and then I can use the dryer for smaller things.

i hope it is fixable without too much trouble!

ours i'd like to throw out of a flying airplane just to watch it hit the ground. that's about all i want to say about that...

I quit using the clothesline after going from 4 people to 2 and getting stung by a wasp. They just seem to love the wet clothes and get on the clothes pins, but I think for exercise and save the dryer, I am going to start hanging clothes out again. I have been using the fence right outside the for sheets and that is just lazy lol.

if those are wooden clothes pins the wasps are going after the fibers from the wood. switch to plastic or coated pins and that should stop that from happening.

 

[baymule]

Good morning. I've been running the past couple of days. Son and I went to Commerce Saturday morning, to pick up small animal huts and took them to Groveton. It SNOWED on us practically all the way. We unloaded them, dropped that trailer, then went and borrowed a longer trailer, went back to Lindale, got there at 9:30 PM. Tired. Sunday morning neighbor Russell came over with his cab tractor and loaded hay bales and telephone poles on the borrowed trailer. It naturally had a flat, had to go to town to get a plug kit, son fixed the tire. Loaded the fuel tank and stand on my trailer and we went to Groveton to unload. I came back to Lindale, got here at 7 PM last night.

Ridgetop from BYH and her DH are coming today to join me in camping out in the house. She said they would get an air mattress to sleep on, furniture is kinda scarce around here, LOL Plans are to pack up the @Lstewart86 's cargo trailer and my stock trailer. I want to get EVERYTHING out of the house, all this annoying little stuff and the stupid BIG pictures that wont go in a box, wall mirrors and the like. All the hard work I've done to empty the house and there are STILL things in here.

Ok, back to plans......... I close on the farm Wednesday afternoon. Ridgetop and her DH have to be in Sulphur Springs to take care business for their farm on Wednesday. So plans are to pack all the rest of the inside stuff up, today and Tuesday, as much of the stuff in the portable building as we can, outside stuff, may even pack up the flatbed trailer. Anybody want to come pull it to Groveton? :yesss:

Thursday morning we'll load the refrigerator in the cargo trailer, recliner, end table and whatever else we have left. Couple of folding chairs-can't expect old people with crapped out knees to sit on the FLOOR! We'd roll around like bowling balls trying to get up!

Somewhere in there, work the sheep for the last time here. Give shots, wormer, ear tag a few lambs, in preparation for moving them.

Hopefully I can hand the key to the house to the new farm owners, and my new friends, when we close. It sure won't be for lack of trying. They are so nice, telling me, no hurry, take my time and I appreciate that. But at the same time they are like cute little speckled puppies that just had a bowl of warm milk and soft puppy food set down in front of them, in a wire cage and they have to wait for it. They can SEE it, but they can't HAVE it!
I can't stand the thought of hungry little puppies, so I gotta get out of here! hahaha!

Thursday we trailer down to Groveton, unpack. With Ridgetop's organizational skills, it should go smoothly. With my lack of organizational skills, it should be a crap shoot. Then we start build pens, fence, etc for the sheep and dogs. Neighbor Robert is going to feed sheep and dogs Thursday-Sunday. Hopefully on Monday we can come back for the sheep and dogs, then keep building fence for them.

Tuesday my daughter is coming to help. She will have to stay at a friend's house for her sleeping comfort. LOL Plenty of beds in Groveton! But not here anymore. I may put her to work unpacking boxes and organizing the kitchen-at least enough for us to be able to cook and eat. The crock pot is important! She will stay through the weekend and go back to Corpus Christi, her help is greatly appreciated. She will set me up with a phone linked internet while she is here and maybe I can get her to connect all those confounded TV wires that hang out like long skinny spaghetti. Eh.

 

[baymule]

I'll check in on my phone when I can!

 

[flowerbug]

i had some coffee this morning (first coffee of the year). i already feel like i am zooming around! less than half a teaspoon in a large mug of hot water, i also added some of the fake coffee that i need to use up and then made it a mocha with some hot chocolate mix.

will i get something done today? i did get something done yesterday, but nothing important or really needing to get done. not as critical as other things i have here waiting for me to get to them.

what's for breakfast? *eyes your eggs and taters*

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

i hope it is fixable without too much trouble!

ours i'd like to throw out of a flying airplane just to watch it hit the ground. that's about all i want to say about that...




if those are wooden clothes pins the wasps are going after the fibers from the wood. switch to plastic or coated pins and that should stop that from happening.

I will look for some plastic or coated ones. LOL about the washing machine, I think DS would like to do the same, throw out of an airplane. He actually had a dream about the washer. He dreamed that somebody came in our house and was stealing the washing machine and the thief and DS where pulling back and forth trying to get the washer and DS said in the dream I felt sorry for the thief and said if he wants it that bad, he must really need a washer and so DS and my brother loaded the washer up for the thief. LOL

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Good morning. I've been running the past couple of days. Son and I went to Commerce Saturday morning, to pick up small animal huts and took them to Groveton. It SNOWED on us practically all the way. We unloaded them, dropped that trailer, then went and borrowed a longer trailer, went back to Lindale, got there at 9:30 PM. Tired. Sunday morning neighbor Russell came over with his cab tractor and loaded hay bales and telephone poles on the borrowed trailer. It naturally had a flat, had to go to town to get a plug kit, son fixed the tire. Loaded the fuel tank and stand on my trailer and we went to Groveton to unload. I came back to Lindale, got here at 7 PM last night.

Ridgetop from BYH and her DH are coming today to join me in camping out in the house. She said they would get an air mattress to sleep on, furniture is kinda scarce around here, LOL Plans are to pack up the @Lstewart86 's cargo trailer and my stock trailer. I want to get EVERYTHING out of the house, all this annoying little stuff and the stupid BIG pictures that wont go in a box, wall mirrors and the like. All the hard work I've done to empty the house and there are STILL things in here.

Ok, back to plans......... I close on the farm Wednesday afternoon. Ridgetop and her DH have to be in Sulphur Springs to take care business for their farm on Wednesday. So plans are to pack all the rest of the inside stuff up, today and Tuesday, as much of the stuff in the portable building as we can, outside stuff, may even pack up the flatbed trailer. Anybody want to come pull it to Groveton? :yesss:

Thursday morning we'll load the refrigerator in the cargo trailer, recliner, end table and whatever else we have left. Couple of folding chairs-can't expect old people with crapped out knees to sit on the FLOOR! We'd roll around like bowling balls trying to get up!

Somewhere in there, work the sheep for the last time here. Give shots, wormer, ear tag a few lambs, in preparation for moving them.

Hopefully I can hand the key to the house to the new farm owners, and my new friends, when we close. It sure won't be for lack of trying. They are so nice, telling me, no hurry, take my time and I appreciate that. But at the same time they are like cute little speckled puppies that just had a bowl of warm milk and soft puppy food set down in front of them, in a wire cage and they have to wait for it. They can SEE it, but they can't HAVE it!
I can't stand the thought of hungry little puppies, so I gotta get out of here! hahaha!

Thursday we trailer down to Groveton, unpack. With Ridgetop's organizational skills, it should go smoothly. With my lack of organizational skills, it should be a crap shoot. Then we start build pens, fence, etc for the sheep and dogs. Neighbor Robert is going to feed sheep and dogs Thursday-Sunday. Hopefully on Monday we can come back for the sheep and dogs, then keep building fence for them.

Tuesday my daughter is coming to help. She will have to stay at a friend's house for her sleeping comfort. LOL Plenty of beds in Groveton! But not here anymore. I may put her to work unpacking boxes and organizing the kitchen-at least enough for us to be able to cook and eat. The crock pot is important! She will stay through the weekend and go back to Corpus Christi, her help is greatly appreciated. She will set me up with a phone linked internet while she is here and maybe I can get her to connect all those confounded TV wires that hang out like long skinny spaghetti. Eh.

WOW
That is a lot of work. Glad you are getting it done. Sounds like things are going as planned.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

On my second cup, just sipping. I really do not drink 2 cups anymore. I have been picking up things so the kids will not get into my sewing stuff, got the rabbits fed, swept the floors, cleaned the bathroom, got a big fire going. It is cloudy and sprinkling. DD coming over with kids in a few minutes. I made dresses for them. Just coincidence they are finished on Valentine's Day. I actually did not think to get them anything. DD did enough for them. They do not need a lot of candy. The dresses were going to be for around Christmas and I gave up on them for awhile. I had trouble with a sleeve and just got frustrated and no fun and covid started getting worse again and DD stayed out of church, so they really did not need dresses. I made a Valentine dress for Evelyn a couple of years ago and Izzy wore it yesterday. I am not sure these dresses will even fit, since I measured them before Christmas. After they leave, I am going to look through my seeds and see what I have and see if I need to order anything. My boss from my job left a message on the phone this morning to call her and sounded serious, so I thought I was being fired, but no, my main account is being sent to the overseas company so the hospital can save more money. Now, my main account will be my backup account which is not all that great.