Wordless Wednesday

Goaties in the green.....

After so long with the drought this is truly a blessed sight!

Catch Up

Whew! Well, the garden is planted for the most part and  I would like to say that means less busyness but, in reality, it just means more work with the weeding and tilling! Then comes the good part the eating and canning!  I will say there is an urgency for me in getting the garden planted  living in, what I at least consider, a difficult climate. The window to get everything planted is somewhat small. It has to be planted soon enough that the veggies will make before it gets too hot or too dry, although this year the dry isn't a problem, and late enough not to get nipped by a frost. I never forget though, this is Texas and every rain could be the last for who knows how long! Once everything is in the ground it takes the pressure off and makes it a little more enjoyable. You all have to remember I am an asthmatic,out of shape middle aged woman breaking up gumbo clay soil with a tiller so it takes a while to get the garden ready to plant! Now, I will show you all some pictures of what I have been up too. This is a raised bed up close to the house ...that biggest plant is Clary Sage and there is some New Zealand spinach and some kind of celery stuff, kohlrabi, chives, purple sprouting broccoli..red onions and further down is some lettuce and one cauliflower..there use to be more cauliflowers but Mr.Tumnus got out and ate them. He always eats them if he gets out..apparently they are his favorites!  I have yet to have a year that I get more than one cauliflower! Mr.Tumnus on the other hand gets plenty,lol! There is another bed next to it that has red bell peppers,parsley lettuce, celeriac, eggplants...more onions...

Here are some of my cabbages covered by some burlap for shade. I planted these in the wrong spot and it is getting too hot on them but the burlap shade cover seems to be working.That bed also has herbs,sage and horehound and some onions plus some small cherry bushes and flowers.

This is a separate garden place where I have some raised beds..the grass is impossible to keep up with with all this rain so just ignore that! This looong bed has giant jalapenos..bush winter squash, cantaloupes,lemon squash and some tame blackberries. The other beds in here have asparagus,onions,leeks fennel and some paprika peppers.

On to the big garden. 51 tomato plants and 6 tomatillos! I use the cattle panel method for the most part for tomatoes. I did plant some carrot seeds directly under them and the hay between the rows keeps down weeds and conserves water plus I planted squash and cantaloupe and water melon to grow between the rows on top of the hay.

I had more tomatoes than I realized and ended up making a few cages out of a roll of old hog wire.

I already have some baby tomatoes!!!

I also have 8 tomatoes in a raised bed up by the house. They are all  different types of cherry tomatoes like yellow pear,fox cherry,black cherry....

I made some shade tunnels to grow Kentucky pole beans and speckled butter beans on.

Underneath I have some summer squash and peppers and I have a little room for something else under there..don't know what yet!

 The first pole beans are already coming up!

These are green beans up..

I also planted more peppers,purple hull peas, corn, more squash,more watermelon,okra, cucumbers,beets...parsley..sunflowers ..just anything I could find I stuck in the ground!

The apple trees have apples!

 This is the omega rich chicken forage I planted for the chickens coming up nicely.I threw  some black oil sunflowers and sorghum in the mix too. Those chickens can not wait to get in there believe me,they love their garden too!

  Peanut Doodle would like to say hi...but since he has a mouthful of my skirt he will just have to look at you sweetly instead!

On to other news...my friend Texan is having a giveaway to celebrate the opening of her new Etsy shop ,My Suite Retreat! She has some super cute things for sale and I can personally testify to the quality of her work because she makes me stuff! So click on over  to her blog and get in on the giveaway,you may be the lucky winner!

I got 2 awards while I was away. I will only do one today. It was from Suzan at Tree Hugger!

Suzan has a great blog! She is always doing something fun and has great photos and she loves the past and genealogy! One of these days, when I get some spare time, I am going to get her to give me some helpful hints on how to get past the dead ends I reached in researching my genealogy!

The rules of this award are to link back to the giver and pass it along to 5 other blogs with less than 200 hundred followers. I like this because it help us little blogs get a few more friends! I think almost all my blog friends fit in to this category  so...I choose you all! But I will list 5 because it does help with getting new folks together. 

OK...I will do 6 because I am putting Texan on here and ..well I already linked to her give away but she really has a great blog too!

Dakota Goats- Deb,she is about so much more that just goats! She has a lot of critters and makes soap!

Homesteading at Redtail Ridge-Dr.Mommie all kinds of good stuff over there!

I Forget what I Forgot-Sharon, she is a good blogging friend who never misses commenting on a post! She is retired and living with disability but she keeps on going despite it. Inspirational and she has had some pretty great adventures and somtimes she tells all about them!

The Wild Magnolia- Her blog is filled with beautiful poetry and photos.She adds a smile to every day!

Grow Fish Eat-Chris..he just cracks me up! 

Isobelle Go Lightly is one of my favorite goatie blogs along with A Goats View of Eden Hills!..

Oops that is 7! I could do 2 dozen more but I am out of time! I have such a wonderful blogging family. I will list more next time since I have another award to post.

Let's see..what else..Hubby is home! That is always good news! All the critters are good and the grass is high and the Boy just keeps getting taller! Life is good....

Hello.......

I am  still here..just super busy! I will be back when I finish getting the garden put in....Happy Spring everyone!

Lovelies

Hey everyone! My friend, Texan, has got her ETSY shop open! It is My Suite Retreat. She has some really cute stuff in there like this...

and this....

and this...

and this !

I can testify to the quality of her work because  she makes me stuff, I have best girlfriend benefits ya know,lol! You won't find better anywhere,seriously! She used to make her living sewing  so the girl knows her stuff let me tell ya! Yes, she is my best friend but that would not make me be dishonest about her work.  You will  be thrilled with anything you buy from her! So, click on over and check out My Suite Retreat and see all her great stuff!

Peanut Doodle

Hi! It's me, Peanut.....Peanut Doodle, son of Dolly Doodle!

I am here to talk to you today about a very serious condition. It is called GCEOHCD. That stands for Goaties Compulsively Eating off the Human's Clothing Disorder. I have been told by my Grand-maaaa that I suffer from this hereditary  condition. She says there is a good side to this...condition, it is always accompanied by extreme friendliness. Well, yeah! A goatie with this condition has to be friendly! How else could he get to the source of his compulsion if he wasn't! 

 

I know you all are wondering about this disorder of mine...well...it's  simply that I must eat off the peoples clothes! I can't help it ! They are just soooooooo good and  I must do it! I must, I must, I must!

As soon as I see my people I run to them as fast as I can and get a mouthful of clothes....and I chew and suck till they are soggy and I can't stop! I do not want to stop! It 's soo ..good...mmmm.mmm...mmmm....

My Grand-maaa says she has lost many clothes to this disease because eventually  GCEOHCD  progresses from sucking to biting her clothes full of holes.

Grand-maaa also says she has retrieved many a cud covered pajama drawstrings from the gullets of  GCEOHCD  baby goats. She says,"Yeah..it's even grosser than it sounds.." I have not had pajama strings but I have had camera strings and they are oh so yummy!

My sister, Zazzy, also suffers form GCEOHCD  as you can see...

The Boy says maybe we are were-goaties! We do like to attack our prey but we aren't were-goaties  because we do not need a full moon to devour the clothes off humans!

There is no cure for GCEOHCD. The only thing that can be done is to start a fund for Grand-maaa some new clothes. If you would like to donate..Zazzy and I prefer cotton....just sayin'!

At Long Last

I have a Pyrenees! Meet Jack!

 He is a 6 week old ball of fluffy cuteness!

A friend and neighbor has been helping me look for several months. She actually found me two leads before this that didn't work out.

 Today she called me to let me know she had found a flyer right here in town with puppies for sale. They weren't exactly in town...we drove waaaayyy out deep in the woods to get to where they were. I just love having GPS on my phone, you know, for when I have to find my way out of deep in the woods!

He is sleeping at my feet as I write this. I know he is supposed to be in the goat pen but he is little,which won't last for long, and some of the goats are mean and could hurt him right now. Sweet Pea ,who was obviously named wrong. She should have been name something like "Jack Hammer" or "Pound-You-To-A-Greasy-Spot"....and Butter Bean just because he is a Diva and doesn't like anyone getting in on his attention! Bean will give any lesser creature a good flinging if they get too close. He can use those horns just like a catapult!

I knew on the way to get him we would get a boy and he would be called Jack. The named seemed right even before we saw him. Funny how that is sometimes. The Boy is in love as to be expected with boys and dogs.

I am going to scoop up Jack and we are going  off to feed the goats....

Hubby's time home is coming to an end. When he is home it seems we are always in a whirlwind of activity. There's always so much to do  here on the farm. Heck,there's always a lot to do on any farm, even a small one but when your trying to create the farm at the same time that is almost chaos! For those of you who are new to my blog when we moved here a few years ago this was not a farm. It was a rundown over 100 year old house on 15 unimproved acres. We, insert hysterical laughter here, said we would have the house and land the way we wanted in 2 years! We were sooooo wrong! A big part of that is Hubby's job that takes him away more than he is home.  Things have changed for the better with that and he is supposed to be home more in the future.We are keeping our fingers crossed!   

Here is one of Hubby's adventures while he was home, sticking this rented tractor in the mud! I tell you all, if something can get stuck in the mud, Hubby is the man to do it! I have know this man since I was 16 and he is just drawn to a mudhole,  which usually means getting stuck there for various amounts of time!  Buy hey,a man needs a hobby right!?! This time he was not looking for the mud the mud kind of  came looking for him! He has been stuck in this spot before,a couple of years ago.

There is probably a spring under this area, it looks perfectly fine unless you drive over it in something heavy then you will sink like quick sand.  Notice the wheels up in the air!

 Luckily,since Hubby has been stuck a lot in his life, he is an expert at getting things unstuck!

He and the Boy had the tractor out in no time and were right back to work!

Life with Hubby,a little humor in everyday!