Not much to post about around here the last few days. Only thing out of the ordinary last night was that one of the cows in the pasture behind us got out and tromped through our back yard and left us a huge cow-pie. The barbed wire fence is loose and they've come through before. You should see me out there in the yard waving a broom and chasing these freaked out cows trying to get them to go back through the fence! Quite hilarious I'm sure! We didn't know one got out last night...
Also, when I got up this morning I heard the most awfulest (is that a word?) racket from the back of the house. I opened the door, and there was a band of coyotes howling, barking & chattering out in the pasture behind our house! They were hidden in the grove of trees, but they sounded like they were in the yard. We hear em all the time, but not this close! I kept a close eye on Bug (the chihuahua) as she went out to do her business this morning.
Ok, today the temp's supposed to get up to 78-80 or so. Pretty warm for February. Wish I didn't have to work today and could go to the farm and work on my garden. I started getting some seed and little plants to set out. The onions will go out first and then after the last cold spell, which is usually around Easter, we'll start setting out the rest. Altho Easter is a little late this year, may have to start before Easter. I can start the taters pretty soon, too. We were going to have our garden tilled up last weekend, but Princess's car konked out and we had to go trade cars with her at her college town. So, the garden had to wait til this weekend. I'm hopeful that everybody's garden will do better this year. 'Round these parts, something was "off" last year and alot of people's plants did not do well. Mine didn't either. And if Daddy's doesn't do good, then nobody's do good.
Here's a couple of before and after photos of the farmhouse. I was looking through them last night and am still amazed at the transformation. You can't appreciate
the way it is now without seeing how bad it was before.
the way it is now without seeing how bad it was before.
Amazing what a little paint, elbow grease & of course $$ can do. We did most of it ourselves except for the siding, windows, and central heat/AC. We've also taken that stupid satellite dish down. I hate those. I guess they're necessary but not for us.
Well, guess that's all for today. Our plan for this spring/summer/fall is to get working on the outside of the house. We have to paint the front porch and rails - it's so humid here most of the time, we had to let the wood dry out before painting. We've got flower beds to do, shrubs, the garden, and other landscaping stuff. I'm looking forward to it greatly. I love being outdoors.
I need to go by the chemical place and see if they have something for moles. It's so sandy out at Sand Flat Farm that we've scads of 'em. Somebody told me to put poison peanuts down in their holes, but we've got dogs, and don't want them finding the peanuts. Other than traps, I don't know what else to do. Traps can only work if you have a very fresh mound and if you can find the burrow. Maybe about 50% of the time. Any ideas you could throw my way would be greatly appreciated.
How come this goofy blogger leaves such huge spaces between paragraphs! I arrange and re-arrange several times, and it still does what it wants to!
Gotta get busy! Work's calling!
