Ducks ALIVE in 2025!

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Well live and learn that peach trees are finiky to frost. We have plenty of cherry trees and apple trees in the garden. The peach tree is a bit of a challenge in our zone too. My neighbor built a frame around the peach trees then adds plastic to protect from frost. It’s a common practice here on smaller gardens.

 

[baymule]

Well live and learn that peach trees are finiky to frost. We have plenty of cherry trees and apple trees in the garden. The peach tree is a bit of a challenge in our zone too. My neighbor built a frame around the peach trees then adds plastic to protect from frost. It’s a common practice here on smaller gardens.

That’s a smart idea!

 

[ducks4you]

OK, this is one.Weird. Spring.
First, I was moving things around and drove past my beautiful "never gives me peaches" peach tree AND it has 7 flowers on it!
Next, although I dug the trenches for the 15 seed potatoes yesterday, I Really should have had my phone. First shovel full midway down I find a large.white.chicken.EGG!!!!!!!!
Three inches down, and my shovel broke it.
It HAS to be fresh.
I DON'T have any chickens right now.
I broke it in half and saw the yolk spill out.
IF it had been old it would have reaked to high heaven!!
Many years ago, I had a makeshift chicken coop, made from a pallet and two pieces of plywood, like a tent.
I couldn't figure out WHY the hens weren't laying.
They were laying...they had tunneled underneath it and I found old and FOUL eggs there.
THIS egg was fresh.
I am Guessing that the idiot with his Hobby Farm had a bird escape and she laid it sometime this week.
They have chickens and geese and peacocks--who are loud and obnoxious.
Regardless, I reburied it.

 

[ducks4you]

I go all 15 seed potatoes, Purple Majesty IN THE GROUND!!! It's already raining and won't stop until Sunday afternoon, so the timing is great.
I also finished cleaning out the 14 1/2 cu ft freezer. We pick up "Greenland" tomorrow morning, all 963 pounds of Black Angus.

 

[ducks4you]

April 20-2025
Started 5 Turkish Orange Eggplant seeds
Started 15 Long Purple Eggplant seeds
Started 15 Casper White Eggplant seeds
Started 15 Long Purple Eggplant seeds
Started 15 Long Purple Eggplant seeds
Started 54 (2024)&(2025) Pimento Pepper seeds
Winter Sowing Jug--full package of Sage seeds

Seed starting basement today. I put the jug on top of a tray, plugged in the heat mat, turned on the gro light on the bottom shelf. Don't have time until Wednesday to put it outside. I hope to "jug" my herbs and put them all in the west facing basement window well, next to the mint bed, and mint is something I don't have to regrow from seeds this time.
The other pepper and eggplant seeds were in two 12 cells, directly inside of the fish tank next to the other peppers. Put back the tray top.
This year I intend to plant ALL of my old seeds and we'll see what I get. I am sure I can find places for them.
I am gonna give my peas another week. They were planted and then it got really dry. Maybe they will wake up with the rain?
Dunno...
I had to fix the ponies manger this morning. Buster Brown had broken my playwood piece, the one that I had cut a 1/2 round hole to fit around the post, into 2 pieces and then shoved them up against the side.
I managed to put the last of my 18" x 8' particle boards inside, broken in 2 pieces, then I was able to place the 2 plywood pieces down.
I have had them on pasture for the past 3 days. It was really over grazed last year and wasn't high, but once the sun hits it this week, it Will take off and get too rich for them, so they are back to hay for the next few weeks.

 

[ducks4you]

I must have created a very good over wintering environment. I have had several true ladybugs--not the asian ones--crawling all OVER my inside plants for the past 2 months.

 

[ducks4you]

Youngest DD got into an auction in her town and won a STEAL. ANY DR table would have been a Good buy for $20, but this looks very much like what she won. NO chips, just a couple of minor coffee cup stains.

 

[ducks4you]

Actually, there were deeper spindles, more like this one:

English Drop-Leaf Gate-leg Table at 1stDibs

View this item and discover similar for sale at 1stDibs - A classic English drop-leaf gateleg table of oak, featuring a moulded top with drop-down sides, over a stretcher of six barley-twist supports.

www.1stdibs.com

which sold for~$800
REGARDLESS, she got a steal on this one. I have had to convince her to get rid of the table now in the craft room, which was our original 1980's vintage synthetic topped, 2 leaf, round that came with 6 chairs. Most of the chairs have fallen apart, they can't use the leaves anymore, and I will burn the wood for them.
Eldest DD agrees with me.
This table is IDEAL for their craft room bc it's not a large room, and, broken down this table takes up less room.
I have to think that the people handling this estate sale didn't know furniture.
It is solid and isn't wobbly.
Just no matching chairs. I am betting that they could pick up some replica chairs to match it.

 

[Marie2020]

Youngest DD got into an auction in her town and won a STEAL. ANY DR table would have been a Good buy for $20, but this looks very much like what she won. NO chips, just a couple of minor coffee cup stains.
View attachment 74140

Good find

 

[Marie2020]

@ducks4you
I hope you don't mind my asking this question here.

Would anyone know what the Groundin bed sheet is please? It sounds good but will appreciate anyone else's input