Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Summer. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2011
Summer
Well, cleaned a house and not much more. Went to the dirt car race outside of town. Had a nice steak and fresh garden corn for dinner with our friend. Nice day!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Summer
Summer has officially arrived. I haven't minded that it has been reasonably cool this year. It is about 95 degrees out right now.
My new barn door style shutters are keeping the place nice and cool. It is only 74 degrees in here and it is 4 in the afternoon. Won't be running the A/C today! That warms my frugal little heart.
Not much doings in the garden. I picked plenty of lettuce and Hubby took a big bowl of green salad to work with him to share at the BBQ at work. I got just enough strawberries to add flavor to our smoothies. Frozen cantaloupe from last fall and fresh strawberries. Yummy.
I will have to keep an eye on everything to see that it is getting watered properly.
Picked up in the garage and the breezeway. Got the dishes washed early and then mopped the floors. Have to get things done early when it is hot out. If I mop the kitchen floor while the A/C is running it sucks up the moisture and freezes the pipeline. Then it doesn't work until we get it to thaw out. Trust me, that sucks!
Fed the goats weeds and watered everywhere that I planted seeds for a little bit this morning , as well. Weeded the strawberry area while I was searching for those tasty red berries.
Nice to have things slow down a bit. I have three books coming in the mail. John W. Loftus The End of Christianity is out earlier than expected and I pre ordered it. I also ordered Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinch beck and Nomad: by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both books look super. Can't wait.
Fed th egoats weeds even though I didn't feel like getting out there and weeding. Good for me.
Watered front and back for an hour or so each.
Watering street side zone overnight.
My new barn door style shutters are keeping the place nice and cool. It is only 74 degrees in here and it is 4 in the afternoon. Won't be running the A/C today! That warms my frugal little heart.
Not much doings in the garden. I picked plenty of lettuce and Hubby took a big bowl of green salad to work with him to share at the BBQ at work. I got just enough strawberries to add flavor to our smoothies. Frozen cantaloupe from last fall and fresh strawberries. Yummy.
I will have to keep an eye on everything to see that it is getting watered properly.
Picked up in the garage and the breezeway. Got the dishes washed early and then mopped the floors. Have to get things done early when it is hot out. If I mop the kitchen floor while the A/C is running it sucks up the moisture and freezes the pipeline. Then it doesn't work until we get it to thaw out. Trust me, that sucks!
Fed the goats weeds and watered everywhere that I planted seeds for a little bit this morning , as well. Weeded the strawberry area while I was searching for those tasty red berries.
Nice to have things slow down a bit. I have three books coming in the mail. John W. Loftus The End of Christianity is out earlier than expected and I pre ordered it. I also ordered Breaking Open the Head by Daniel Pinch beck and Nomad: by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Both books look super. Can't wait.
Fed th egoats weeds even though I didn't feel like getting out there and weeding. Good for me.
Watered front and back for an hour or so each.
Watering street side zone overnight.
Monday, June 20, 2011
Summer
Well, summer is starting. Took it a while this year. Not that I mind as it has been ridiculous hot last few years. Got the misting system up and running just in time. The A/C works. Tried it out last week. We are ready for summer this year.
The two new barn door shutters are up and they are great! We never did put an old style shutter on the guest room so I am hoping that shading that window will help keep the house just that much cooler.
I planted marigold and cornflower seeds this morning. It is a bit late in the year but there should be plenty of time for them to get going. I have a pink cornflower in the Secret Garden on the east side of the house. Wow! Really a pretty color. I have some mystery flowers coming up in the Secret Garden as well. They are starting to get flower buds so I guess we will know soon what they are.
Oh yeah, I am starting a cactus garden in the front and it is a modest start but I got the three cactus pads into the ground today. I got the cactus from the high northern sagebrush area near Wild Horse reservoir. My neighbor is going to give me some more and I can always order out of the catalog. High country gardens have cold hardy cactus.
Laundry day. Hanging stuff out on the line. More later.
Planted Rocky Mountain Bee Balm Purple
Rocky Mountain Bee Balm Yellow
Dill
Cleome
More marigolds
More cornflowers
Did I mention that it is laundry day? I have taken to putting the clothes on the line and it is a bitmore work than just throwing them in the drier. It took us 4 years to get a clothes line in, maybe five. Now that we have one I am trying to use it diligently. I did save $50 last year on electricity. Was it all because of the clothes line? I don't know but that amount of money did pay for the clothesline. Everything I save this year will be gravy.
Don't forget that the world is in a bad state and saving electricity means burning less coal. So, it is a win for my pocket book and a win for the planet.
One last load of clothes to hang up. The sheets. They are hard to keep out of the dirt. I do have plans to pave underneath the clothesline but we have to go up on the ridgeline maybe ten miles away to get the nice flat rocks for pavers and we just haven't managed it yet. Maybe over Fourth of July weekend.
Fertilizing the front and back areas using the new Venturi fertilizer hook it right up to the drip system fertilizing system. Loving it. Saves me tons of time and effort and it makes it easy to keep up with the fertilizing. Should I mention again that my yard has trees you can see? Wow.
If you haven't started out with a completely barren yard you just don't know how much time and effort and patience goes into developing said yard. I will one day have real shade. A commodity in short supply in this desert environment.
Anyway, watering and fertilizng the East windbreak overnight tonight.
The two new barn door shutters are up and they are great! We never did put an old style shutter on the guest room so I am hoping that shading that window will help keep the house just that much cooler.
I planted marigold and cornflower seeds this morning. It is a bit late in the year but there should be plenty of time for them to get going. I have a pink cornflower in the Secret Garden on the east side of the house. Wow! Really a pretty color. I have some mystery flowers coming up in the Secret Garden as well. They are starting to get flower buds so I guess we will know soon what they are.
Oh yeah, I am starting a cactus garden in the front and it is a modest start but I got the three cactus pads into the ground today. I got the cactus from the high northern sagebrush area near Wild Horse reservoir. My neighbor is going to give me some more and I can always order out of the catalog. High country gardens have cold hardy cactus.
Laundry day. Hanging stuff out on the line. More later.
Planted Rocky Mountain Bee Balm Purple
Rocky Mountain Bee Balm Yellow
Dill
Cleome
More marigolds
More cornflowers
Did I mention that it is laundry day? I have taken to putting the clothes on the line and it is a bitmore work than just throwing them in the drier. It took us 4 years to get a clothes line in, maybe five. Now that we have one I am trying to use it diligently. I did save $50 last year on electricity. Was it all because of the clothes line? I don't know but that amount of money did pay for the clothesline. Everything I save this year will be gravy.
Don't forget that the world is in a bad state and saving electricity means burning less coal. So, it is a win for my pocket book and a win for the planet.
One last load of clothes to hang up. The sheets. They are hard to keep out of the dirt. I do have plans to pave underneath the clothesline but we have to go up on the ridgeline maybe ten miles away to get the nice flat rocks for pavers and we just haven't managed it yet. Maybe over Fourth of July weekend.
Fertilizing the front and back areas using the new Venturi fertilizer hook it right up to the drip system fertilizing system. Loving it. Saves me tons of time and effort and it makes it easy to keep up with the fertilizing. Should I mention again that my yard has trees you can see? Wow.
If you haven't started out with a completely barren yard you just don't know how much time and effort and patience goes into developing said yard. I will one day have real shade. A commodity in short supply in this desert environment.
Anyway, watering and fertilizng the East windbreak overnight tonight.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Summer
Suddenly it is summer. We went camping for four magnificent days in the far north of Nevada. We come back and suddenly it is summer. I summerized the place today by getting the mister system up and making sure all the screens were in the screen doors. Storm windows are in the ready for next winter.
Got a few clothes on the line. Got the camping gear stowed and all the clean clothes back in a drawer. Made sure all the plants are getting watered around the yard. Watered the street zone overnight last night. Most of my plants are in great shape but the bronze leaved weigala still looks unhappy. Darn it!
The whole place is popping all of a sudden with three kinds of penstemmon blooming. The purple penstemmons [they just went in last year] are really pretty and the garden variety of penstemmons are very nice. The crimson penstemmons are coming up in several places and I didn't plant them there. In our climate I think volunteers are great.
The trumpet vines are working it. I have tried for several years to get those going and this year I have the big one I bought coming back all over the vine and the little guy that is three years old is really trying hard this year. Might need to make it a trellis. Yeah!!!! I noticed that one of my tiny oak trees in the front yard is alive and growing as fast as an oak tree can. Another small victory for the desert garden. A lot of the pine trees are putting on a lot of growth this year. I couldn't be happier overall.
The peas in the veggie garden are just starting to put out flowers. The lettuce is coming on strong. The melons are coming up and the winter and summer squashes as well. I need to get the Arminian cukes planted and some more radishes and lettuce and what ever else I can think of.
Delicious meal today of smoothies with last years cantaloupes [still a bit left in the freezer] and home grown strawberries. I put the over ripe ones in the smoothie and sent the rest to work with Hubby. Also, trout from our camping trip with Almondine sauce. And a green salad of mixed lettuce and rads we grew ourselves.
Planted:
Asian cukes
Garden cukes
Rads
Head lettuce
Cabbage, Mitchelli
Chives
Dill [left over from a couple of years ago]
Beets
Emerging:
Beans, melons, winter and summer sqauahes
Tomato and garden peas are just starting to flower. I am so excited to see a tomato flower already as I always seems to get tomatoes just as the weather turns frosty. Maybe I will be having a plate of tomatoes before fall.
Fed the goats weeds this evening.
Watering NOrth side over night.
Got a few clothes on the line. Got the camping gear stowed and all the clean clothes back in a drawer. Made sure all the plants are getting watered around the yard. Watered the street zone overnight last night. Most of my plants are in great shape but the bronze leaved weigala still looks unhappy. Darn it!
The whole place is popping all of a sudden with three kinds of penstemmon blooming. The purple penstemmons [they just went in last year] are really pretty and the garden variety of penstemmons are very nice. The crimson penstemmons are coming up in several places and I didn't plant them there. In our climate I think volunteers are great.
The trumpet vines are working it. I have tried for several years to get those going and this year I have the big one I bought coming back all over the vine and the little guy that is three years old is really trying hard this year. Might need to make it a trellis. Yeah!!!! I noticed that one of my tiny oak trees in the front yard is alive and growing as fast as an oak tree can. Another small victory for the desert garden. A lot of the pine trees are putting on a lot of growth this year. I couldn't be happier overall.
The peas in the veggie garden are just starting to put out flowers. The lettuce is coming on strong. The melons are coming up and the winter and summer squashes as well. I need to get the Arminian cukes planted and some more radishes and lettuce and what ever else I can think of.
Delicious meal today of smoothies with last years cantaloupes [still a bit left in the freezer] and home grown strawberries. I put the over ripe ones in the smoothie and sent the rest to work with Hubby. Also, trout from our camping trip with Almondine sauce. And a green salad of mixed lettuce and rads we grew ourselves.
Planted:
Asian cukes
Garden cukes
Rads
Head lettuce
Cabbage, Mitchelli
Chives
Dill [left over from a couple of years ago]
Beets
Emerging:
Beans, melons, winter and summer sqauahes
Tomato and garden peas are just starting to flower. I am so excited to see a tomato flower already as I always seems to get tomatoes just as the weather turns frosty. Maybe I will be having a plate of tomatoes before fall.
Fed the goats weeds this evening.
Watering NOrth side over night.
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