Some Things This Summer . . .

We had bunnies born.

My roses bloomed.

I had an excellent crop of figs.

The dear husband and I got a much needed vacation.

And I processed twenty five gallon of pears.

Mexico Beach

Quail Eggs

In May, some of my son's friends gifted him with a hundred quail eggs. He popped them into his incubator, and around June 7, itty bitty baby birds popped out.  We only got twenty birds because our hydrometer wasn't be working right, as we finally figured out.

And then six weeks later, this.

I predict a lot of quail dinner in the future.

Feed Sack Recycling #1

I am a waste not, want not kind of person.  If I can find a second (or third or fourth) use for some thing, I am happy.  One of my favorite things to reuse is feed sacks.  We always have a couple laying around, and I have found some handy uses over the years. A common use for me is to use them as weed control.  Just cut them open down the sides with a blade and - v`oila.  Free weed control.  For smaller areas the sacks can be cut to size.

Snapping Turtle

Potato Harvest

Cabbage were harvested the other day, and now potatoes.  We grew them in old tires stacked up - the first year we tried to grow this way.  We were at three truck tires high when my son accidentally killed the plants.  We needed to put tomatoes in the tires so we decided to go ahead and knock the tires down.  The first tire (top) - nothing.  Second tire (middle) - a few small pearl sized taties.  Third tire (bottom) - I pulled the roots and nothing came out.  I was disappointed, but shrugged it off as not being in the ground long enough.  I went and got my tomato seedlings I had started and began to dig around the dirt in the tire when my fingers brushed something hard.  I ended up pulling out the biggest, prettiest new potato.  After dumping the third tire, we ended up with a nice batch of new potatoes.

Cabbage Harvest