Life on da Pharm..

[jeanette]

oh i know all about the little helpers.. i've got two big floppy, rolly toms, then i have one that has to bat and paw at everything.. including the rake and the hoe...
then there is puss puss.. she is a very beautiful longhaired orange cat with big orange eyes.. but, she is a wild cat.. she got sick as a kitten, so sick, in fact that she let me help her.. i started calling her snaggle puss because she looked so bad.. she returned to the wild so to speak, but i think she remembered that i helped her, so she started lurking in the bushes sort of stalking me, in a good way, she is so orange that she about glows, she always thought i couldn't see her but i could so i'd sneak up on her and say "puss puss puss" she'd jump about a foot in the air and run.. well you know what they say about paybacks, now she hids in the tall grass and leaps out in front of the lawn mower.. scares me every time.. i swear i can almost hear her laughing..

[Laura]

We have almost everything planted..a couple more thing's..if we can phind room..we have a lil more space..see what happen's when we let part of the garden rest..we really could have used that 250 sq.ft. this year..we could till up some more space.. seeing as how nice that old Tillsmith work's..
We too have gale force wind's here..but we planted anyway's..if there's a will there's a way..
Lil Nib's update..she has been doing alot of sleeping & laying on her side..we figure a few more week's & we will have kitten's..
We put all the screen's in..ahh phresh air..when we went to bed last night it was 76 & the temp kept going up..
Hope you all are having a great weekend!!

[Laura]

Phriday we got all the done..Phil is out watering right now..I just got up slept late..8:00..a.m. weeding to be done a lil later..

[jeanette]

i've been watering too...
can't water the fields though.. we were about to drink the mexican booze jack's girl friend brought us back from her trip to mexico, take all our clothes off and do a rain dance... i think we should have done it.. there is water standing in the fields not 5 miles from us... we didn't get a drop...
i've been so busy, lets see, schools out, the pool is open, i am almost done mowing the grass.. been dragging the blasted hose around.. oh how i hate that.. the kittens are ruining all the flowers i have planted.. as is the case every summer.. tippy overson kitty fell out of a tree the other day...i'm not sure why she goes up there.. once she spent a day and a half up there before some one found her..

[digger48]

Well Phoks it's been a mad house around here since the Friday before Memorial Day weekend.Hate these 14 and 16 hour days. Monday morning we pretty much finished up the gardens. Got the sweet corn replanted. Got two 2200 square foot patches and a 600 foot patch planted. Got some free seed but didn't know it was ten years old. O'well got a nice bucket with a lid. Sweet corn didn't germinate. Put six trailer loads of peat on one of the sweet corn plots to see if it will help loosen the clay up some. Put u the fences to keep those cucumbers in and two forty foot fences for the pole beans. Mona says she is going to put a shock collar on me when I go to wally world garden department. Went in and found a bunch of dahlias, cannas, elephant ears, glads and a bunch of others for a quarter a piece. You know how it is. 20 cannas for a quarter. Can't pass those deals up. Well on Monday when we went in to get the sweet corn seed. She found calla lilies that you buy one package of three you got three more packages for free. I don't complain when she buys so why my purchases? This fall when I dig dahlias you all can have a bunch as got tired of two hundred and fifty feet of dahlias. Took me well over a hour to plant em. Neighbor gave us a bunch of plants. Sweet potatoes which we haven't grown for several years. Muskmelon plants and cucumbers and lettuce plants. She just lost her husband to cancer and says haven't got time to garden now. Spent the day yesterday at da hospital, was on the road for nine hours to see the doctor for 1/2 hour, boy was that a waste a time. But got to see a lot a nice gardens down and back.

[Laura]

Got a dead skunk some place close by..boy does it smell out here..

[crazy1]

I know what you mean. Sure hope Tank don't phind it, you know how dogs love to roll on dead or stinky things.

[Laura]

crazy1 said:

I know what you mean. Sure hope Tank don't phind it, you know how dogs love to roll on dead or stinky things.

He is tied up for the spring/summer or he would be helping us where we dont need to.. he had a dead one by him last year..no visable sign's of dog kill..just dead..kinda like it was napping by him..didn't roll on it or smell..

[Laura]

;D 52 here & a brisk wind. Had a light & noise show last night & the power went out for a min..long enuff that we have to re-set the clock's..boy it sure get's dark out here in da country.. Thing's got a good watering..so we cant really do a whole lot out door's today..

[jeanette]

haven't got any to speak of ... yet.. maybe just maybe we'll get some by the end of today.. it's scary dry here...

[Pharmer Phil]

We got enough fer a spell, owatonna just southwest of us had 4' today!

[jeanette]

quit hogging all the rain.. we didn't get any to speak of.. just enough to settle the dust.. not enough for anything else.. sure was cold though... did you cover your maters and punkins??? i did..

[Laura]

We are going ..since it is too wet to do anything here..

[Compost Pharmer]

Hwy Phil, can you please send of that 4' of rain down my way. We are desperate for that wet stuff. Looking like it is gonna be another dry year like last year. Haven't had any rain since May 8. Just the hot weather. Was 101 yesterday and supposed to hit 102 today.

[douglas]

Yes I would like some too please

[chickenfarmer]

Four feet of rain is alot !

[crazy1]

I'm sure hopein' he ment 4 inches. 4 feet oph rain woulda made the news iph the reporters didn't get washed away

Lets see what he says about how BIG the phish he caught today are.

[Laura]

There was 4 feet of rain water in one of the newer motel's/hotel's..guess the car's were goin crazy with all the alarm's goin off too..
As for ..ha not even one bite..nutten..got off the lake right before a downpour started.. have to try another time..

[crazy1]

Hope you both had a good time. Phishin' is alway phun.

[douglas]

You have any pics to show us

[jeanette]

you get one of those toad choakers in the city, the water has no where to go.. i could have got 4 inches of rain in my garden and it would have soaked in quick.. we are really hurtin for rain here..
bout fell in a crack yesterday.. at least i'm stayin caught up on the weeding and mowing

[lilsparrow]

It's real dry here too, but they are saying we might get some T storms today. I hope so! The lawn is looking kinda brown. I got lots of cracks to fall into too. But, I only have to mow about every 10 days, so that's pretty good. And I just did that on Friday, so I should be good til after Father's Day!

[douglas]

Glad I have a hose and a few drippers

[chickenfarmer]

Think of what ya could of done with four feet of rain

[douglas]

What gets me is that today the fire department had a hose hooked on an hydrant by a building and there must have been a stream going down the street from a leak and I thought about all that precious water going down da drain

[chickenfarmer]

Shame for sure

[jeanette]

it finally rained!! the crops are saved!! ;D ;D sounds about like scarlet but, it was getting that scary.. now i suppose it will get hoggy and rain for days..

[lilsparrow]

We still haven't gotten any and it is gettin' pretty darn brown 'round here! J'nette~ won't you send the rain dancers? Purty pweaze?

[Laura]

We both have 3 day's off..boy do we need it..a lil & a or 2.. is all done.. just a few more small bed's to weed.. Company on Sat..Kenzie & Ken are commin to visit!! Pic's will follow..

[chickenfarmer]

Must be the weekend for visits... Crazy is on his way down here.. Likewise pics to follow