Mart, your ? apple may well be a Yellow Delicious. Ours is full of apples, and we had them last year so we know that it is truly a Yellow...
Our apple trees and two of the pear trees are loaded also. I thinned one apple tree because I was afraid of broken branches. Mart, what varieties...
As Mart so emphatically suggested, we have gophers! Texas Parks and Wildlife guy took one look, said "gophers" and wanted to know what was for...
No rain today so I picked the usual suspects--squash, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Cut a cantaloupe in half and de-seeded it, and then stemmed and...
Odif, I contacted the Texas Soil Commission and the substrate for blackland prairie soil is sand. The man I spoke to said he had no idea what was...
Good Monday afternoon! We received 1.9" of rain this morning and early afternoon, but things are beginning to dry out now. A lady who moved here...
Good Sunday afternoon everyone! Wimbledon is over, finally. Watching tennis is about as interesting as watching paint dry. I froze a gallon bag of...
Odif, we don't think it is a trick--folks around here aren't that inventive! Jerry, we raked off the soil--no hole under the mound. The grass...
For the past week, we have been finding two or three of these mounds in our yard. We are on blackland prairie soil, aka "gumbo," but the mounds...
Ahhh, bless your hearts! My knee is getting much better--just a bit sore, and if I sit for a few minutes I'm back up and functioning. Mart, I have...
Logan, I don't know. If I did know what I did to my knee, I surely wouldn't do it again! It's better now, and tomorrow I'll go out and harvest...
My dear husband has been picking garden vegetables while my knee heals. I mentioned today that I need to get out and harvest herbs. He told me he...
I post a lot of photos of hummingbirds, and I do hope you aren't getting tired of them. Here is a Black Chinned hummingbird at our feeder. They...
Eileen, we are missing Meadowlarks, Scissortail Flycatchers, and Chipping Sparrows. I also don't know why--is it the climate change, the wet...
Barn Swallows love our farm. Not the barn, just the utility wire and our car port! They are pretty birds, and if they don't nest in the car port,...
My knee is fine today, and I'm touched by Logan's and Sjoerd's concern. Now I need to get all the things done that I didn't do yesterday!
Today was not the best for me. I did something stupid to my left knee, and was hobbling around with a brace and taking Advil (an over the counter...
My favorite is Roma tomatoes--meaty, small seed cavity, and ideal for making sauces. Second favorite is Celebrity--a heritage tomato that is...
Cayuga, thank you! Yes, she did appreciate the meals I brought and mentioned that to me several times. I love to cook, and when someone likes my...
We had showers, light ones that didn't amount to much accumulation. They did diminish the chance of grass fires from fireworks on the 4th. Since...
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