The Garden, etc.

My garden is coming along. I am posting a picture here of it not quite finished. I've since planted corn and green beans and the corn is coming up nicely. I'll get some updated photos for you soon. I've spent the last few days weeding. We had alot of rain until this week and the weeds have really loved it! You won't see my tomatoes here as I moved them over to a more sunny spot. They are in the "orchard" area, as Tony calls it. That's where his pecans, peach and plum tree are. May have to move the entire garden over there if it doesn't do well here this year!


That old fence you see in this picture is coming down soon. We are having pipe fences put up instead. I kinda like that "old timey" fence - looks real "farmy". But we're moving it out about 10 feet on that side of the house to enlarge the front yard and to give us more garden room. I still will probably have to put up some kinda wire fence, too, to keep the critters out. I'm still dealing with moles, however. They like to pull things down from underneath the garden! My dad says we have to share a little with the critters. Well, my garden is not big enough to share! I found 8 different runs yesterday weeding. We've put out traps but so far, they've eluded them and managed to spring 'em without getting caught. Another trait of sandy soil - moles...

This year I planted onions, yukon gold potatoes, some little red potatoes, purple hull peas, cucumbers, yellow & zucchini squash, a few okra just to see if they would flourish in my sandy soil, different kinds of peppers, eggplant, corn, green beans, corn, and a few broccoli (probably got em in the ground too late this year). I really didn't get to enjoy my garden much last year because of being so sick, but am really having fun with it this year.
One of our dear friends, Jay, brought Tony an oak tree to plant in honor of his dad who passed away 3 weeks ago. Some of Tony's office folks brought us a Japanese Red Maple. They wanted to give us something that would last. Tony's dad left us the farm. I really thought that was especially thoughtful to receive these trees. I'm going to have a couple of plaques made for both trees.
We're moving Princess home from college this weekend. I really dread it - the moving part - not having her back home. Her "stuff" has grown and maybe doubled since she left in August last year. We're renting a UHaul truck with her roommate's family and are going to get it all at once and bring it home. Plus we have to clean her apartment real good. Saturday's going to be a long day...

Help - I'm covered with chigger bites! Working at the farm my legs and a couple of places on my arms have unbearably itchy chigger bites that are driving me crazy. I've been using Camphophenique, but it's not helping much. I went to the CVS and they don't carry Chigger-rid anymore. I wonder if Walmart does... I couldn't hardly sleep last night for scratching! I'm using insect repellant while out there, but probably should have re-applied it. Think I'll run to Walmart at lunch...

New topic... I came across this mama donkey and baby the other day down the road from us. They actually let me get this close for a picture - didn't run away at all...

Well, I guess that's all for now. Have to scratch my chigger bites...*$*#(&@#$(*&@$^@$#