FBG. you are a man after my own heart! My telephone makes and receives calls. It also has other features which I ignore. Our computer is kept...
Hey, my husband brews up beer occasionally, Catdaddy. He buys ingredients from a firm in Austin and sets up on the bar area in the den. All those...
Oh Gail, that made me laugh, although I sympathize. When we lived in New York, our non-gardening next door neighbors got a spurt of yard activity...
This is sooooo much nicer than a straw nest!
Summer officially ended this past weekend. Today the humidity is at 82 percent, and the temperature is the same, and it's only morning. We are...
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Beth, it's nice to hear from a fellow basil lover! The stems are darkening because your basil is getting old--it's an annual and approaching the...
Catdaddy, if you have any thorny plant, cut some stems and place them in the pots. Cats hate to get their cute little paws pricked. This saved...
Thank you all for your kind comments, and I have passed them on to my husband, the photographer. He has the patience and the knowledge to get good...
We have a lot of Gulf Frittilary butterflies since we have their host plants and plenty of nectar for them. They are colorful, flighty, and enjoy...
The native ruellia (aka Mexican petunia, Ruellia brittoniana) is in full flower now. We have it in the yard, in the barn lot, in the pasture, and...
How kind of you! The east coast (South and North Carolina, Virginia, and possibly more inland states) have been hit hard with flooding, and now...
Gail, wish I could take credit for the photos, but my husband is the photographer/downloader/organizer. I just get to enjoy all the folks'...
Mart, between the chicken feed, the cat food, and the sugar for hummingbird nectar, I'm thinking of starting a "Go Fund Me" page for our farm!
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Jerry, I love the way your mind works. I don't understand it, but I do enjoy your captions!
[ATTACH] Our hummingbirds love zinnias, probably because these are some that grew from seeds that Netty sent me (the zinnias, not the birds!).
We are awaiting the migration here in Texas. This year's weather has been so strange that we don't really know when to expect the migratory...
As dawn comes later, the hens and I get to sleep in a bit! We've had rain every day (but not all day) since last Thursday, so I haven't been doing...
Woke up to 70 degrees, light breeze, and overcast--hallelujah! The weather got me motivated so I took care of the chickens, picked over the...
