Archive for July, 2006
July 31, 2006 – Peppers
The peppers are starting to come on strong. Here’s an assortment from the garden.
The dark purple peppers (Purple Beauty) are the size of normal grocery store bell peppers and the big green one is called “Napolean Sweet Pepper” – just for fun here’s a description of it from the 1923 L.L. Olds Seed Company ...Read more.
July 30, 2006 – Taste Highlight of the Summer
Our new peach trees are just giving their first few fruits this year. There are very few things that taste better than a warm, even hot, ripe peach picked right off the tree and devoured! Truly a taste highlight of the garden this year.
Yea, it’s still hot.
It’s also very dry – last week ...Read more.
July 29, 2006 – Refreshment!
July 28, 2006 – Odds and Ends
I probably don’t need to comment on the weather – other than you know it is muggy when you get out of the car and your glasses fog up. Or when you walk into the barn and see the bricks on the floor are wet. Or when you stand in the shade staining ...Read more.
July 27, 2006 – Thingamajig Thursday #34
Here’s this week’s “Thingamajig Thursday” entry. Also check out
last week’s answer.
As always, put your guess in a comment below.
Answer…
This is a section of scaffolding.
July 26, 2006 – A Time for Dreaming
Last week Linda went to Athens, Ohio to tour ACEnet, one of the nation’s most successful incubator kitchens. An incubator kitchen is a place where a person or aspiring company can process food for retail sale, or ramp up a recipe in a batch food environment before building or taking it to a food ...Read more.
July 25, 2006 – Not Three Blind Mice but One Blind Lamb
One of the bottle lambs we were given was blind from birth. He seems to be doing very well so far
He’s nice and fat. For a while, one of the other sheep acted as his “seeing eye” sheep, but now every once in awhile this one will start bawling when the others ...Read more.
July 24, 2006 – News from the Farm
Among other things, today was onion and potato harvest day.
We pulled all the onions. It wasn’t the best year for onions, as they weren’t all very big – the white variety did best this year.
We pulled about 1/4 of the potatoes and Martin was excited to haul a load from the garden to the drying ...Read more.
July 23, 2006 – Linda’s Pies Strike Again!
Today, we got a few more rows of crops planted. Earlier in the week I got the first buckwheat planted following some garlic. The lack of rain has hit again, I started watering the new brambles again. We had about 1/10 of one inch in June – we had over an inch the week ...Read more.
July 22, 2006 – Here We Go Again
Today a package arrived in the morning. Any ideas what could come in a package like this?
There’s holes in the boxes, the post office calls us to pick it up at 7:00 am, even though it is regular post, not express.
It’s round 2 of baby chicks! It’s sure easier to brood chicks in July ...Read more.
July 21, 2006 – Garlic Drying
Here’s an update on the garlic – it was pulled a few days ago, and here is drying on old refrigerator racks in the hayloft of the barn – as warm and dry place as we can find these days.
Garlic is a great crop for us – it’s planted in the fall gets pulled in ...Read more.
July 20, 2006 – Thingamajig Thursday #33
Here’s this week’s “Thingamajig Thursday” entry. Also check out
last week’s answer.
As always, put your guess in a comment below.
Answer…
These are Tofu Noodles drying at ACEnet (see July 26, 2006 entry for more info)
July 19, 2006 – Bubbles!
Today Claire substituted dish soap for dishwasher soap in the dishwasher.
She was surprised at the results and that there was that much difference between the types of soaps. They tried many methods of cleanup, and scooping up the bubbles and into the sink was the best strategy.
July 18, 2006 – Big Beautiful Bug
When I went out to get laundry off the line, I found this beauty on a towel!
I haven’t tried to identify him yet, and couldn’t wait until Thingamajig Thursday to share him. Any ideas who he/she is? It looks cicada-like, but I haven’t heard any buzzing yet. He had a wonderful army camoflauge ...Read more.
