Ducks4you for 2022

[ducks4you]

I haven't forgotten that I have perennials. Somehow I always get blue flowers on my hydrangeas.

 

[ducks4you]

You saw the strip next to the folding chairs underneath the pine tree? That area has been a mess since my plumber redug our lines. I tilled it up last week, planted 100 pounds of oats, topped with 7 packages of wildflower seeds, and swept up from the barn's floor and covered. Haven't watered them Once, but some have already sprouted. We are expecting good rain tomorrow, and I expect to see a lot more.
Funny, I really thought the birds would be eating on the oats, but they haven't touched them. Must be food availability and time of year.

 

[ducks4you]

One of my sweet pepers is puny and hanging on by a thread. I made a slow drip water bucket out of two identical plastic pots, with a piece of plastic wrap in between, where I had poked a small hole. It also has a rock in it so it won't blow away empty. Every time I go out I can fill it up.
After the cistern was full I puddled all of the sweet peppers and tomatoes around the cistern. It is cloudy and threatening rain, but no real rain to come until tomorrow afternoon.

 

[ducks4you]

Didn't want to muck up the humor thread...so...

Carry on Wayward Son​

Kansas

Carry on, my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion
I was soaring ever higher
But I flew too high
Though my eyes could see, I still was a blind man
Though my mind could think, I still was a mad man
I hear the voices when I'm dreaming
I can hear them say
Carry on, my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more
Masquerading as a man with a reason
My charade is the event of the season
And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know
On a stormy sea of moving emotion
Tossed about, I'm like a ship on the ocean
I set a course for winds of fortune
But I hear the voices say
Carry on my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry no more, no
Carry on, you will always remember
Carry on, nothing equals the splendor
Now your life's no longer empty
Surely heaven waits for you
Carry on, my wayward son
There'll be peace when you are done
Lay your weary head to rest
Don't you cry, don't you cry no more
No more
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Kerry Livgren
Carry on Wayward Son lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

 

[ducks4you]

DD's and I went to see Kansas a few years ago when they played the Virginia Theater in Champaign. They waited until their ENCORE to play this.

 

[ducks4you]

This morning I finished prepping the area to the north of fence#4 of my main garden bed. I dug it up--ALL have had to be dug since the soil next to and underneath the fencing has compacted--then I used my gloves to break up the still moist clods with my gloves. I planted pole beans just under the fence, then cucumbers, some maybe 3yo, then I emptied packages of zinnia and wildflower seeds.
Rain tomorrow and I hope to put in the 1st planting of Brussels Sprouts.
I KNOW!!! Seems Too early, but all I have read said, "12-16 weeks before the first frost, direct seed," and our 1st average frost is mid October.
I plan to water all of my beds in a few hours, before I go out to eat dinner.
We are having an excessive heat warning, but it's not too bad right now, might get some mowing done. I have let the grass get a little bit long but it got burned out from a recent drought, and I wanted my grass to have a chance.

 

[ducks4you]

Gardening Clothes:
Everybody has their own gardening/outside chore clothes.
This summer I have 2 sets:
1) black jeans and an old baseball type shirt
2) blue jeans and an old t shirt
As you KNOW my washer doesn't work. Last weekend I came in to find it busted. Had to take a shower. Had to wash my gardening clothes.
I took a shower IN my gardening clothes, then used a gardening bucket that has handles to take them out and hang on the gate to dry.
(Underwear is a little Too tacky to hang like that in public.)
Still, it works.
When I am done this PM I will be wash (clothes), strip and wash, rinse (repeat.)

 

[flowerbug]

i have heavy work clothes for when it is cool enough and then now when it is getting too hot i have cooler ones which are a pair of light shorts and a long sleeve shirt that i leave the front open so there is some air flow.

when it has been cool enough in the morning i can get out for 2-3hrs and do random puttering which is normal for this time of the year when gardens need to be lightly weeded as they have been filling in with the plants. right now i can't even see the ground between the tomato plants and the beans are starting to fill in their rows. a few hours a day is plenty.

lawn mowing might happen next week sometime now that i see it will be cooler, but the lawn areas are mostly all brown with a few spots of random other plants doing their own thing: mints, yarrows, indian paintbrushes, birdsfoot trefoil, clovers, thymes, ... in some spots i consider the grass more of a weed than the other plants.

 

[baymule]

How cool it is to have a cistern! Save the rain water to use on garden, nice!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I was telling hubs about this Cistern of yours. We have a bank where the previous owners took out about a doz old growth evergreens. (such a shame). So that bank weeps. Alot. There is a small 3" wide stream that runs off the bank at the base, down towards a grassy area. I was saying a pit or a cistern would be great to be able to water our garden and fruit trees with someday. They are all downhill from that stream.