tabitha has a bit more from the day before to add to our first canner load, hooray.
we are getting tomatoes but it is sad to see the dying plants give up the ghost. we have been eating tons of squash and cucumbers. tabitha has canned over fifty pints of pickles. she also has the second row of beets to put up. they are very small in comparison to our first row.
there is a storm raging outside right now. i was awoke by a thunder clap. the weather here can be so dramatic. i'll take a little drama to get the rain. tabitha broadcast buckwheat as a cover crop for part of our garden. it needs rain since we don't have soaker hoses there.
the bees should like buckwheat. i got into the bees the saturday. they seem great. it was kinda windy so i didn't go for the full inspection. i did notice that we'll have to harvest honey within a couple of weeks. these russian bees are so friendly in comparison to our old bees. i hope they over winter well. you'd think they would being from russia and all. i'd like to split them in the spring or maybe we'll buy another starter nuc. having bees is a love-hate relationship. we love most everything about them except that all four of our hives died this last winter.
we took the kids to their friends for a swim-birthday-party yesterday. they love them it is so great to watch their play. i wish we lived a bit closer to them. as we all squished into my little truck the conversation always returned to our need for a van. we consciously choose to only have one vehicle and knew what we were getting into. now with toly probably needing further testing and accompanying trips to springfield our status has changed. having a second vehicle/van falls from the luxury column over to the necessity column. anyone know what a pound of flesh is going for these days?
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If it helps any, I still have those bunkbeds for you if you want them.
You have a pretty large network of friends over there. I was wondering if one of them has an extra vehicle that they rarely use; they might be willing to share for a bit, since you're in this bind. We don't but also live in Oklahoma so that's a bit of a stretch.
Nice haul! I dream about my table covered in tomatoes again... :)
Yeah, man, the storms sure can be intense here. When it gets so hot and dry though, I'll take a tornado warning with the rain too.
Ron
Nice toms! Just found your blog and em enjoying reading your old posts. Keep up the good work.
Find someone that can trade a van for your truck for a day or two. Might work out well for someone that needs to have a truck for hauling stuff.
Those tomatoes are wonderful- ours are just starting to really come in. Maybe need more fertilizer? My bees are russian hybrids too- dittos about how gentle they are. We've had a lot of clover blooming with the rains lately, so I'm waiting another week to take off the honey.
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