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Rain is skirting us, again. Last week it downpoured 5 miles from us, we didn't get one drop! :he The ground is hard, rock hard. The sweet potato vines grew around the raised beds, grew tubers, but the ground is too hard to dig them out. :barnie

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How are you feeling?

I remember reading about "milk fever" in the James Herriot books. The vet injected the cow with calcium as I recall, and it usually worked quickly.

Today...videos of my chickens, narrated for my 6 year old great niece. She wants to be a farmer! 1. "Short" of the chicks 2. Sussex Coop 3. Coop Deux

Thank you. Like my chickens, my gardens give me joy.

Glad to have you with us. I have bantams that I raise for pleasure, and eggs. Right now they're molting, so egg counts are way down.

You enjoy your "easy" time, help your body recover from your cold. Forecast here is also for rain midweek. I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm sorry about Cowboy, but 30 is really old for a horse. I'm sure you have some good memories to think upon. :hugs So glad the calves were found, safe.

Gardens Update Saturday I took down the plastic netting fence from around the blueberry patch. Then I trimmed and mowed all the weeds on the edges. I placed fence sections to mark the blueberry area. Much better! Sunday after church I bought four bales of pine straw (needles). I mulched the...

Thank you for checking in, you've been missed. :hugs

BTDT?

4am. No. 6:30, yes. :caf

I am SO HAPPY that you've gotten two of them back!

I was unmotivated this morning, but I've learned to listen to my body, did some inside stuff. I decided to go outside after lunch, and "putter". The puttering morphed into taking down the netting fence from around my blueberries, then trimming, mowing, and doing a clean up of debris. Fencing...

Awake at 4:00. Uh, no. Got up about 5:00, now sitting with coffee in hand.

Bantam Speckled Sussex :love This is their sire, Zaccheus: Poor guy lost his tail feathers during a molt, they're still growing in. We're in USDA Zone 8a here, rarely get frost before November. I've covered my leaf crops with plastic in the past, and they did well. Collards laugh at freezing...

I have two bosses, one a physician, the other is an admin. Both already know that I plan to retire soon. I told my physician boss last week that I would be retiring before the end of the year. I'm concentrating on getting us through the interview season (September). My admin boss and I have a...

Social Security is now all set up, I just have a phone appointment in November, retirement date is 11/30! :weee

Sounds a little like the bug I had, with NO energy, fever, sore throat. Rest and fluids did the trick.