Meanwhile, back at the farm..
Just a few shots of what's going on at the Farm. They're not in any certain order. I just haven't had much time for blogging lately. But I thought this might be a little bit entertaining - at least it was for me! Garden's going good so far... cabbage, broccoli, tomatoes, purple hull peas, green beans, onion, cukes, watermelon, cantaloupe, a little corn, some dill for my pickles, cilantro for hotsauce, all kinds of peppers, squash & zucchini.
Into the sun view - don't look at the weeds...
Here's the side of my little tin garage with the rusty roof. I did this flower bed last year and my son made me a flower box and covered it with this old shutter. Neat, huh? Planted dianthus here last fall, and they came back beautifully as did my roses. I added some lilies of different colors, but they haven't bloomed yet. I also added some blue salvia and I think I'm going to add some more - I love that stuff! Found these old fence pieces at a garage sale for $2 apiece.
Can you see my little mini-gardener perched on this piece of fence? He likes it here very much - I see him quite often!
Here's a better shot of my salvia and my rock edging. Eventually I'm going to collect enough rocks to do all my flower beds. Looks more old-timey, and I'm all about old-timey, rusty, chippy, and broken-down!
Another view of the back of the house. Oh yeah - red potatoes - I forgot to add them to my list.
I'm really proud of this flower bed of roses. It was the first one I did at the farm. I've been learning as I go. Tony and I attacked this one and did it. It has pink and red roses, snapdragons, zinnias, verbena, a crepe myrtle, and a vesuvius plum - the dark purple. Gotta find me some more rocks...
Ok, I'm having trouble moving these pictures in the order that I wanted so you're gonna have to bear with me here. Sorry.
Now - look at this old iron crib. I got it for a steal at a garage sale. I thought my husband was gonna have a fit when I got him to go with me to pick it up. "WHAT DO YOU WANT THIS OLD PIECE OF JUNK FOR?" Well, I don't know yet, but I just couldn't pass it up. So I'm asking YOU guys - what do you think I should do with it? Make a flower bed in it - maybe roses or something? Maybe let some viney flowers grown on the end pieces? The one side piece comes off, and I thought maybe I could hang that up or put it in a flower garden somewhere and put clematis or something on it. GOT ANY GOOD IDEAS???
Oh, and what's THIS I see on my tomato vines? Ah-HA! Little tomatoes! Oh I can't wait til tomato season!!!! A tomato and onion sandwich with mayo (maybe throw in a couple of slices of bacon - that's called "baconizing", people). YUMM-O!!!
Ok, see I couldn't get this one to go where it should have. Just another pic of my roses...
The bluebirds would NOT come to the door of their house when I wanted a picture. This house has been up for nearly 4 years now, and this year is the first year for bluebirds to nest in it! We have tons of bluebirds out here on the farm, those and also scissortails - you can always hear them fussing.
Lookie here - can anyone tell me what's been chompin' on my cabbage and what I can do to get rid of the chomper? I'll fightcha for my cabbage. Daddy says we gotta let nature have a little, bitty portion of our harvest, gotta share a little, but looks like nature could limit their chomping to just ONE of the cabbages and not all of 'em. Greedy little boogers.
Now on to other matters. My guys are leaving today for a fishing trip to the White River in Arkansas. They are looking forward to it and I hope they have good weather, and no tornadic activity! Adam, my oldest, will go on back to Nashville, so that leaves me a sad mom today. I told him he better not wait for 5 months to come back home again. I know he's been super busy song writing and on the road playing, but that's just too long. We had a trip planned to go up there, but that was when MIL fell and broke her hip. (by the way, she's doing well, but now she's having a problem with "drop foot". I'm taking her to the Dr. on Tuesday - bet she's got some nerve damage or something...) I will be enjoying having some time off to do what I want - either go see family or spend time with friends, etc. YEA! Princess will be home, too, so I'm sure we'll find something to get into! We always do!
Have a wonderful weekend, friends. Sorry I'm brain dead and can't blog about something worthwhile of your time. So many of you have such wonderful well-thought posts about politics or current affairs or religion or such, and I wish I could do that. But I can't today. Take care of yourselves and know that I'm thinking of you "con mucho carino" (I can't get the tilde thingie to work) Bye!
