Well, weeded to feed the goats but they were determined to have a bit of hay so I gave in. They look quite content. It is really nice today and I even have the windows in the back open already. Supposed to be 82 degrees tomorrow. That is so nice!!!! Last year was weeks of too hot.
We had a delicious smoothie for lunch and tuna fillets with a nice sauce along with some asparagus and french bread with real garlic and a touch of butter. Yep, I bought all of it shopping yesterday. Once in awhile you just have to go for the gusto!
Watering the North windbreak overnight tonight.
Gotta go pick some bok choi and some lettuce. I have a cleaning job tomorrow and I need to be organized to leave. Hubby counts on me to make him a good lunch so I need to prep the salad tonight. Might be some rads, zukes and carrots available as well.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Shopping and more!
Went shopping and got some new bath rugs and, of course, new towels to go with the new bath rugs. The old rugs were totally falling apart after the last washing so it was time to make the effort. I went around the aisles several times and starting thinking about what we have had in the past. I thought "Way too tasteful" Chocolate brown, light tan, sage green, mossy green - so this year I looked at blue!
So, I pick out the blue towels finally after rejecting yellow as too matching the yellow walls and orange as just going too far on a brighter color scheme. Spring green intrigued me but in the end blue won. So, I get a lovely shade of true blue, not too bright, and then I see a shower curtain.
Yes, our old shower curtain is, well, old. Time to change it up. So then I had to put back all my true blue towels and get the "teal silk" blue towels. Believe me, there is no silk in them, that is just the name of the color. Shopping is hard work! No wonder I put this off for so long. At least I didn't need new accessories like a trash can and a toothbrush holder. I would have been there for another hour!
I couldn't resist the salad spinner at Costco. Last week they were $18 and I thought "Have you lost your mind"! This week they are $14 and I had to have one. Go figure. Hubby was thrilled since he had to dry the lettuce in a linen towel today. I have been using paper towels. It should be a great item for the kitchen. Now I have to find a spot for it in the cabinets. Should have though about that before I bought it since I haven't got a clue as to where I will find the room for it.
Hubby picked the bok choi for the stir fry since I was running late from my shopping. I did manage to stop by and get two more bales of hay. That is about all that will fit in my little Toyota truck. So, I now have five and I want to have about 12 of them. Have to pick some up every time I go by there for several weeks.
Today was a lot cooler in the mid eighties, Nice!!! Watering the West windbreak overnight tonight.
So, I pick out the blue towels finally after rejecting yellow as too matching the yellow walls and orange as just going too far on a brighter color scheme. Spring green intrigued me but in the end blue won. So, I get a lovely shade of true blue, not too bright, and then I see a shower curtain.
Yes, our old shower curtain is, well, old. Time to change it up. So then I had to put back all my true blue towels and get the "teal silk" blue towels. Believe me, there is no silk in them, that is just the name of the color. Shopping is hard work! No wonder I put this off for so long. At least I didn't need new accessories like a trash can and a toothbrush holder. I would have been there for another hour!
I couldn't resist the salad spinner at Costco. Last week they were $18 and I thought "Have you lost your mind"! This week they are $14 and I had to have one. Go figure. Hubby was thrilled since he had to dry the lettuce in a linen towel today. I have been using paper towels. It should be a great item for the kitchen. Now I have to find a spot for it in the cabinets. Should have though about that before I bought it since I haven't got a clue as to where I will find the room for it.
Hubby picked the bok choi for the stir fry since I was running late from my shopping. I did manage to stop by and get two more bales of hay. That is about all that will fit in my little Toyota truck. So, I now have five and I want to have about 12 of them. Have to pick some up every time I go by there for several weeks.
Today was a lot cooler in the mid eighties, Nice!!! Watering the West windbreak overnight tonight.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Notable Quotable
Stephen Jay Gould shared similar views regarding a heuristic role for dialectical materialism. He wrote "Dialectical thinking should be taken more seriously by Western scholars, not discarded because some nations of the second world have constructed a cardboard version as an official political doctrine."[17] Further
when presented as guidelines for a philosophy of change, not as dogmatic percepts true by fiat, the three classical laws of dialectics embody a holistic vision that views change as interaction among components of complete systems, and sees the components themselves not as a priori entities, but as both products and inputs to the system. Thus, the law of "interpenetrating opposites" records the inextricable interdependence of components: the "transformation of quantity to quality" defends a systems-based view of change that translates incremental inputs into alterations of state; and the "negation of negation" describes the direction given to history because complex systems cannot revert exactly to previous states.[18]
Garden
Picled a huge basket of garden peas. Huby and I shelled peas for a long time this morning. Worth all the effort. We both has a large bowl of fresh green peas with a little salt and some butter. Yummy!
It doesn't look like we will manage to freeze any of those garden peas this year. It is such a treat to have the fresh produce. You can't buy those green jewels in the store. Nope, you have to grow them your self.
I picked a small zunchinni today. I couldn't resist. I put it in Hubby's work salad. Of course there was delicious lettuces, home grown carrots in there as well.
I picked snap peas and blanched and froze them. I still need to package them up for the winter. Also, blanched Swiss chard and beet greens and still need to package them up for winter use.
I need to pick bok choi and blanch and freeze that tonight. We'll save some for tomorrow's stir fry. Chicken, bok choi, carrots, a sweet pepper [bought those], onions and maybe some zukes. Should be delicious. Told Hubby he needs to create a sauce for that.
Driving into town early to go grocery shopping. At least I don't have to do mega shopping and I should be able to leave around 7:30am and get home around 11am.
Time to get out there and pull some weeds for the goats to eat. I would throw hay since I feel tired but, hey, being lazy doesn't pay!
Watering the fruit tree zone overnight tonite.
It doesn't look like we will manage to freeze any of those garden peas this year. It is such a treat to have the fresh produce. You can't buy those green jewels in the store. Nope, you have to grow them your self.
I picked a small zunchinni today. I couldn't resist. I put it in Hubby's work salad. Of course there was delicious lettuces, home grown carrots in there as well.
I picked snap peas and blanched and froze them. I still need to package them up for the winter. Also, blanched Swiss chard and beet greens and still need to package them up for winter use.
I need to pick bok choi and blanch and freeze that tonight. We'll save some for tomorrow's stir fry. Chicken, bok choi, carrots, a sweet pepper [bought those], onions and maybe some zukes. Should be delicious. Told Hubby he needs to create a sauce for that.
Driving into town early to go grocery shopping. At least I don't have to do mega shopping and I should be able to leave around 7:30am and get home around 11am.
Time to get out there and pull some weeds for the goats to eat. I would throw hay since I feel tired but, hey, being lazy doesn't pay!
Watering the fruit tree zone overnight tonite.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Garden
A much nicer day at 92 degrees and the garden is growing well. My zukes are still really small but I may be able to pick them tomorrow. Not much exciting happening today. Of course, one does need abreak now and then.
I did a bit of weeding this morning and a little more this evening. Keeping the weeds out of the yard for the past few years is paying off as I haven't had to do nearly as much weeding this year as in the past.
Hubby transplanted some of his melons. Lets hope we have a good crop despite being a little behind due to weather.
Tomorrow I will kick butt and weed, pick peas and such.
I did trim the bottoms of the black locusts in the front area. They are small but growing fast. They are trying to sucker and also trying to be multi trunked. I want a single trunk so I shaped them. Dead headed the coreopsis and the blanket flowers and cut off the iris flower stems. The iris are already done for this year.
Watering the East Windbreak over night tonite.
I did a bit of weeding this morning and a little more this evening. Keeping the weeds out of the yard for the past few years is paying off as I haven't had to do nearly as much weeding this year as in the past.
Hubby transplanted some of his melons. Lets hope we have a good crop despite being a little behind due to weather.
Tomorrow I will kick butt and weed, pick peas and such.
I did trim the bottoms of the black locusts in the front area. They are small but growing fast. They are trying to sucker and also trying to be multi trunked. I want a single trunk so I shaped them. Dead headed the coreopsis and the blanket flowers and cut off the iris flower stems. The iris are already done for this year.
Watering the East Windbreak over night tonite.
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Hay
Well, this year I am stocking up on hay early. Hubby called around and found us some hay for $6.50 per bale and the going rate right now is $13.50 per bale. I am hoping the price will go down a little more but I think the best we could do is $12 per bale.
The bales are the three string bales and weigh about 115 pounds each. We managed to get 11 in the trailer and three in the back of the old Chevy pick up truck. The reason the price is low is because there are quite a few weeds in them and there are some fox tails. That would be mostly cheat grass fox tails. Our three goats are used to eating weeds [that is what they do all spring and summer] so we don't think it will be an issue. Richard says he feeds it to his goats and they are doing fine. Sure enough when we got there he had goats running around. The goats eat at least 2 bales a month for much of the year so I would prefer to have 4-6 more to get us through until next July when they will be cutting hay again.
Watering overnight tonight is the north zone.
Weather a bit cooler, 92 degrees and windy this afternoon.
Yesterday we got two bales of straw on the way home from Dayton. We met at Starbucks for coffee and Hubby went to the parts store and recycled the oil. I went to Smiths and got a few groceries. Also went to the bank.
That evening we did something we haven't done much in the past. We went to a live concert downtown Carson City. It was a blast!!! Now that Hubby is working swing instead of graveyard we are able to do something like that. The weather was warm and just a little breeze and the sun was going down in the west. We were people watching and enjoying the band. Some blues, some rock and a good guitarist and a good keyboard player. Fun.
The bales are the three string bales and weigh about 115 pounds each. We managed to get 11 in the trailer and three in the back of the old Chevy pick up truck. The reason the price is low is because there are quite a few weeds in them and there are some fox tails. That would be mostly cheat grass fox tails. Our three goats are used to eating weeds [that is what they do all spring and summer] so we don't think it will be an issue. Richard says he feeds it to his goats and they are doing fine. Sure enough when we got there he had goats running around. The goats eat at least 2 bales a month for much of the year so I would prefer to have 4-6 more to get us through until next July when they will be cutting hay again.
Watering overnight tonight is the north zone.
Weather a bit cooler, 92 degrees and windy this afternoon.
Yesterday we got two bales of straw on the way home from Dayton. We met at Starbucks for coffee and Hubby went to the parts store and recycled the oil. I went to Smiths and got a few groceries. Also went to the bank.
That evening we did something we haven't done much in the past. We went to a live concert downtown Carson City. It was a blast!!! Now that Hubby is working swing instead of graveyard we are able to do something like that. The weather was warm and just a little breeze and the sun was going down in the west. We were people watching and enjoying the band. Some blues, some rock and a good guitarist and a good keyboard player. Fun.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Garden
I got an entire basket of garden pes. Wow! Picked five delicous carrots as well. Looks like it will be hot and windy today so I need to get out there and pick a few pea pods, maybe a few more carrots, some Swiss Chard, check the zuchinnis.
I have little green tomatoes which is wonderful. I never get tomatoes until so late in the season that I have to worry about frost!
I have little green tomatoes which is wonderful. I never get tomatoes until so late in the season that I have to worry about frost!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Garden
Picked pea pods and snap peas. Only got a few but that will give us some for our home lunch salads and Hubby's work lunch. Three kinds of lettuce make that four plus pea pods, home grown carrots, store bought sweet peppers and my first teensy tinsey little zuchinni. Fun!
Bean plants should start producing in another week. Potatoes are putting up flowers and that means I can start digging up little potatoes soon. If you are careful you can dig in from the side and leave the plant unharmed for more potato production. The melons are taking their time getting off the ground but some of them are starting to grow faster.
Watering for three hours from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Seems to be working out well.
Hung a couple of loads of laundry out on the line again today. Looks like I am done with that chore until next week.
Fertilizing the front three zones. That would be front, back and East Side windbreak.
Fertilized with VF11 all zones.
Really cloudy. We have been threatened with a mega thunderstorm but so far, nothing. Doesn't surprise me. That is why we live in one of the driest places around.
Bean plants should start producing in another week. Potatoes are putting up flowers and that means I can start digging up little potatoes soon. If you are careful you can dig in from the side and leave the plant unharmed for more potato production. The melons are taking their time getting off the ground but some of them are starting to grow faster.
Watering for three hours from 11:30am to 2:30pm. Seems to be working out well.
Hung a couple of loads of laundry out on the line again today. Looks like I am done with that chore until next week.
Fertilizing the front three zones. That would be front, back and East Side windbreak.
Fertilized with VF11 all zones.
Really cloudy. We have been threatened with a mega thunderstorm but so far, nothing. Doesn't surprise me. That is why we live in one of the driest places around.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Garden
Well, I got quite a bit done today by 11 am. It was already getting hot. In fact, I don't think I will bother to open the windows tonight since it is only going to cool down to about 70 outside.
I trimmed the bottoms of the trees in the North forty as I like to call the back two acres. I dead headed some of the blanket flowers and cosmos. I got three loads of laundry hung up to dry. Weeded the front zinnia garden. Pinched those back to encourage them to branch out. The candy stripe cosmos are just tsarting to bloom and the zinnias will probably be blooming in another week or two.
I picked two gorgeous heads of lettuce. So far the lettuce has not turned bitter even though the heat is on.
Watering the East Side windbreak overnight tonight.
I trimmed the bottoms of the trees in the North forty as I like to call the back two acres. I dead headed some of the blanket flowers and cosmos. I got three loads of laundry hung up to dry. Weeded the front zinnia garden. Pinched those back to encourage them to branch out. The candy stripe cosmos are just tsarting to bloom and the zinnias will probably be blooming in another week or two.
I picked two gorgeous heads of lettuce. So far the lettuce has not turned bitter even though the heat is on.
Watering the East Side windbreak overnight tonight.
Notable Quotable
Me
Harry - What a detailed article! Does the Lord advocate lying? Yes, He does because the lies and the half truths spill from the pulpit in a steady stream. I left Christianity and I had this thought: I thought church would be about truth and love and I found out it was about lies and Hell.
The whole basis of Christianity is lies. Sadly, I do not think you can ever build a truthful world view from a religion that is entirely based on lies. Fictionalized accounts of a glorious past as in the Old Testament and the almost complete fabrication that is the New Testament will never be the path to understanding who we are or our place in the Universe.Whatever small kernel of "truth" that is in the Bible is completely underwhelming given the book as an entirety.
Did a guy named Jesus walk the earth? Debatable. Did he say anything wise? The Golden Rule is hardly original and is the only part of the book worth keeping. The rest of it should be shoved into the mythical writings of past eras section of our libraries.
Harry - What a detailed article! Does the Lord advocate lying? Yes, He does because the lies and the half truths spill from the pulpit in a steady stream. I left Christianity and I had this thought: I thought church would be about truth and love and I found out it was about lies and Hell.
The whole basis of Christianity is lies. Sadly, I do not think you can ever build a truthful world view from a religion that is entirely based on lies. Fictionalized accounts of a glorious past as in the Old Testament and the almost complete fabrication that is the New Testament will never be the path to understanding who we are or our place in the Universe.Whatever small kernel of "truth" that is in the Bible is completely underwhelming given the book as an entirety.
Did a guy named Jesus walk the earth? Debatable. Did he say anything wise? The Golden Rule is hardly original and is the only part of the book worth keeping. The rest of it should be shoved into the mythical writings of past eras section of our libraries.
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