Ice pellets for Saturday, that is what a forecast for Vicktory Farm & Gardens says, ice pellets on Saturday. Fifty-three degrees on Friday with one hundred percent chance of rain. What is that? One hundred percent chance. Isn’t that a given then? Not a chance really after all but a certainty?
Gardening and Farming? The corn, beans, and squash family will be waiting another week. Not enough pvc pipe and plastic film to cover the entire farm. Ahh why didn’t we just run away to the bio-dome like good little hippies. Oh wait, that would be because Dirt is not a hippy, just married to one. With all this rain and shifting of spaces and books in the house, I’m about ready to braid my lovely grey locks with ribbon and beads and sit and read all day.
Unfortunately things do grow in this weather. Weeds.
Well really, many other things are doing very well, the peas are at near jungle stage, the onions are coming along quite nicely, and the beets are looking great for a change. In fact they really are perfect for thinning right now and making into hot beet green salad for tomorrow’s dinner.
Bet’s chick barn is bursting, some of her ducklings are huge and I can nearly taste roast duck breast when I think of them. She’s got quite a crop of poults going too as well as her meat chickens. Her very own cross, they are lookin’ nice. Not as huge and obnoxious as the crosses from the feed store but nice.
She needs to do some inventory tomorrow. We may actually have some misc. birds to sell by now.
Movin’ Around. We’re in the middle of a huge shift of things here at the Farm. The upstairs is getting gutted and what used to be the “little” girls’ room with a bunk bed, built in desk, book case and day bed cubby, is getting revamped to a room shared by three grown girls and no dollies any more. How sad.
The desks and book cases for school books are comin’ out so that Great Grandma Alma’s bed set can come back in. Bet’s favorite place to sleep is the little daybed nook that Dirt made six years ago for their room. But she really needs an actual twin mattress in it so he needs to change up the closet a bit to make more room for a real mattress. The built in desk in the sewing room/office is coming out and going out to the Fiber House and the built in from the girls’ room is going in the room next door for a better desk set up for an office used by folks who have lap tops now not computers with towers and thirty inch deep monitors.
The sixty inch loom already went out from the old sewing room upstairs to the Fiber House. Tomorrow I will haul out more of my extensive fiber stuff. Hey, I pondered there for a second for a better, more intelligent word than stuff but it just wasn’t comin’ out so “stuff” it is.
Lots of books moving from here and going there and some getting taken into town. Lots of books, lots of things that haven’t been moved or touched, lots of dust. Not lots of breathing. And as messy as it is it is wonderful to be getting to the bottom of things and getting things put to rights so that we can really get down to some productive work days.
Schedule! So I’ve threatened the girls with “boot camp” for weeks now. I think it’s coming tomorrow morning. They have seen the schedule and they all agreed to it. Bet has already headed off to bed and I should wrap this up because I’ve got a five-forty-five a.m. breakfast to do.
That’s the one good thing about all the spring rain we get, it allows for lots of indoor cleaning and organizing. And here I thought back in March that I had to hurry up the indoor projects cause we’d be spending our time outdoors in May! Hope your week is productive! Sounds like you’re off to a great start!
Oh~ by the way, the Ed Hume garden tour is free! I wanted badly to invite Rebecca and the girls and Steph and the boys but I was invited by someone else and didn’t know how large her group was already. However, my kids said right away – “We should go again!”
Beautiful May-pril we’re having, eh?
Ugh…that’s a discouraging weather report! We are in the 90’s every day. I hope all goes well this weekend. Sending love to you and the family.
Hi Lanny! Ice? Yikes! I hope it doesn’t do any damage to your crops. It sounds like everything is growing and doing well there. I wish we could find the time to do some major revamping and rearranging and dust clearing here. It could sure use it. Plus a fresh start every now and again perks me up. Hope you and your family have a nice weekend!
Ice..I suppose that may mean some snow too..it is 90 here today..but suppose to plunge., and get cool…so I guess you are sending it east. You have been busy, I always suspected you were the hippie in the bunch..I have been thinking about braiding my hair for the summer too..and looking for a flowery long dress..and my toes long to be set free of shoes.. Have a good weekend Lanny..:)
Must be global warming. Riiiiiigggghhhttt!!
Hope you and yours have a happy Memorial Day Lanny!
I hear there’s been some wicked weather up there. The garden (farm?) sounds really beautiful. I always enjoy hearing about it. It’s so far removed from where I live now, and what I’m doing as of late. I miss growing thing. Sigh.
I don’t need any ice pellets or hail which is forcast for tonight. Weird weather here in Nebraska but it’s supposed to cool starting tomorrow.
My buddy Ralph in Denver had all of his garden hailed out a couple of days ago. I told him it could be worse…I just wrote a $11K check to cover hail insurance. He said he would just replant and not bother with the insurance. I don’t think his banker is involved in his garden so he isn’t required to insure it.