Saturday, April 5, 2014
We bought a used range in Branson today. It's a white Whirlpool Gold oven with the flat top burner surface. A condo unit was updating so we got this one for $150. Joe hooked it up in the shop next to our refrigerator so we can bake when we want to!! The stove top in the trailer only has two propane burners so having 4 burners will be a treat. Thank goodness Joe knows how to set up the fuse panel and add the 220 for the range. We will sell the range once we get our kitchen set up in the house.
I am looking forward to baked egg plant. Great low fat snack and only takes 10 minutes to brown both sides.
Joe, Bill, and Grandkids Callie and Meghan , went to the lake and were fishing for bass. So glad we are just minutes from many access spots on the lake.
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
Lumber arrived
Friday, April 4
Our first order of lumber and supplies to start on the floor and some walls arrived today!!
We are now ready to start the building process!!
Cold front blew through last night so we are back in the low 50's today and mid 30's tonight. We won't see 70's again until mid week next week.
Joe made asparagus wrapped in bacon tonight. I think we have at least two Grandkids hooked on this appetizer.
Our first order of lumber and supplies to start on the floor and some walls arrived today!!
We are now ready to start the building process!!
Cold front blew through last night so we are back in the low 50's today and mid 30's tonight. We won't see 70's again until mid week next week.
Joe made asparagus wrapped in bacon tonight. I think we have at least two Grandkids hooked on this appetizer.
Thorn Trees
Work continues on the outside, especially cutting down and killing the thorn trees. Some thorns are 3 inches long and the young shoots and trees are covered in thorns of various sizes. You can't just cut the tree down or it sends out roots that sprout new trees. I have been digging up small shoots about finger size around and pulling or digging up the thorn shoots roots which grow horizontally just under the ground. I dab Tordon on the end of any root I can't remove . Each shoot or tree grows off one main root. Once a tree starts growing, it can put out one root in a different direction. You have to use a special treatment that causes the tree to try to grow so fast it kills itself. I am drilling holes in some of the larger roots I find and pouring the Tordon inside the hole. I am sure this will be an ongoing project as we have a farm with 30 years of neglect to turn around. We have hundreds of various sized cedar trees we will cut down to allow the large oak trees more breathing room and open up more areas for pasture. We will still leave hundreds of cedars along the fences and in the upper areas as a forest mixed with hardwoods.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Guineas
April 3,
Just a quick note to say I was jumping for joy yesterday when my 5 squawking Guineas came home! Guineas are very hard to teach to roost in a certain area. I kept ours locked up for weeks and just this week let them out to free range. The first two nights they came home and went in their pen. Night before last they did not come home. I was sure they had flown the coop so to speak. Later yesterday morning they come down out of the top wooded 30 acres, squawking and flapping all the way to their pen. They are staying closer today so I feel they do know where they live and where the food comes from.
Oh- current cattle count is 15. For two days we had NO cows. Now we have our cow and calf, then 3 of my granddaughter's, and the rest visitors. I looked up yesterday to see 2 cows running across the pastures to join what cows that were here. Word must be spreading that we have really good grass over here. We heard a good sized calf bawling about dark. We went to let it out the gate to find its momma but it turned and went up to the top of the tree line trying to find its mom just across the fence. Joe drove me up the hill above the calf and our dog Pia stayed with me as I herded it back through 3 fields to get back to the gate. Mind you I am in shorts and flip flops out in the dark. Doesn't really conjure up an image of a cowgirl. Poor Joe kept taking the truck from pasture to pasture trying to pick me up but the calf, Pia and I were moving too fast along the fence and hill and dale while he had to go around fences and cross the creek bed on the road. I felt I had a good workout by the time he picked me up at the gate. All is well and calf and cow were reunited.
The Cow Fairy strikes again!
The Cow Fairy strikes again!
Stocked the big pond
Thursday, April 3
Joe and I were up early today and headed into Harrison to find out about fish to stock our big pond. I planned on getting some minnows for the ducks and turtles and just to have in the pond. I wound up buying 2 lbs of LITTLE minnows ( about 200 minnows), 100 little catfish, about 4 inches long, and 2 grass carp. The carp are about 9 inches long and supposed to eat algae, water grass, and green stuff in the pond. Not sure what we are going to do with 100 catfish but minimum order was 100 for $39. So we now have a pond full of catfish. I asked the man what to feed them and he said until they get a bit bigger, throw them some dog food. You'd think they would want cat food being catfish. Haha.
Joe and I took turns releasing the fish. What fun being in the country. Releasing fish is something that never crossed my mind until I saw the flyer about pond fish being sold outside the feed store April 3! This sounds terrible and cheap but, if all the fish die or are eaten by the wild ducks turtles, and herons, then I am not out too much money on fish. On the other hand, if the catfish grow big, we might be eating catfish quite often. I can't get the picture of Joe releasing the fish to download! I tried to cut and paste, but the picture may be too large to view. Bummer.
The weather has been beautiful today, with light rain off and on, and occasionally the rumble of distant thunder. Temperature hit 75 which was wonderful with the cloud cover. We will be under a thunderstorm watch later tonight . We are camped in our LQ trailer right by what we call " the bomb shelter "since it is made out of concrete and blocks in the side of a small hill. Shelter is just across the drive from the house.
Think I will go sit outside as soon as the news is over and soak in the beauty surrounding us. Well, the thunder is getting closer, so I might just lay here on the sofa with Muffin (my Yorkie) and listen to nature and look out the screen door.
Joe and I were up early today and headed into Harrison to find out about fish to stock our big pond. I planned on getting some minnows for the ducks and turtles and just to have in the pond. I wound up buying 2 lbs of LITTLE minnows ( about 200 minnows), 100 little catfish, about 4 inches long, and 2 grass carp. The carp are about 9 inches long and supposed to eat algae, water grass, and green stuff in the pond. Not sure what we are going to do with 100 catfish but minimum order was 100 for $39. So we now have a pond full of catfish. I asked the man what to feed them and he said until they get a bit bigger, throw them some dog food. You'd think they would want cat food being catfish. Haha.
Joe and I took turns releasing the fish. What fun being in the country. Releasing fish is something that never crossed my mind until I saw the flyer about pond fish being sold outside the feed store April 3! This sounds terrible and cheap but, if all the fish die or are eaten by the wild ducks turtles, and herons, then I am not out too much money on fish. On the other hand, if the catfish grow big, we might be eating catfish quite often. I can't get the picture of Joe releasing the fish to download! I tried to cut and paste, but the picture may be too large to view. Bummer.
The weather has been beautiful today, with light rain off and on, and occasionally the rumble of distant thunder. Temperature hit 75 which was wonderful with the cloud cover. We will be under a thunderstorm watch later tonight . We are camped in our LQ trailer right by what we call " the bomb shelter "since it is made out of concrete and blocks in the side of a small hill. Shelter is just across the drive from the house.
Think I will go sit outside as soon as the news is over and soak in the beauty surrounding us. Well, the thunder is getting closer, so I might just lay here on the sofa with Muffin (my Yorkie) and listen to nature and look out the screen door.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Wasps
Monday, April 1
Today we noticed wasps starting to come out of an old dead looking branch on the huge oak tree right off the patio. Joe took his 32 inch chainsaw and cut the branch off the tree. Only about half a dozen wasps came out. We are going to haul the branch off tonight and burn it in our enormous burn pile of all the junk and wood and trees we have collected so far. We need the branch gone before any more wasps hatch tomorrow. We are hoping wasps don't come out at night as we need haul the branch off tonight with the tractor.
Joe and I volunteered to work at the two snack shacks at school games tonight from 5 pm - 9 pm. We enjoy helping when we can and like working with Leslie and Bill in the snack shack.
LUMBER IS COMING TOMORROW MORNING!
Today we noticed wasps starting to come out of an old dead looking branch on the huge oak tree right off the patio. Joe took his 32 inch chainsaw and cut the branch off the tree. Only about half a dozen wasps came out. We are going to haul the branch off tonight and burn it in our enormous burn pile of all the junk and wood and trees we have collected so far. We need the branch gone before any more wasps hatch tomorrow. We are hoping wasps don't come out at night as we need haul the branch off tonight with the tractor.
Joe and I volunteered to work at the two snack shacks at school games tonight from 5 pm - 9 pm. We enjoy helping when we can and like working with Leslie and Bill in the snack shack.
LUMBER IS COMING TOMORROW MORNING!
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Grandkids
Sunday, March 30
Wonderful day at the cabin on the White River with all the Grandkids! I haven't seen Doug's kids since Halloween. Leslie and her girls were there also. We had a campfire Sat night and made s'mores. Good times making good memories.
Jack turned two in January, and Evan is 7 months old. Leslie is holding Evan, Emilee, Meghan, and Callie in the chair. The last picture is the view off the side deck towards the river.
Wonderful day at the cabin on the White River with all the Grandkids! I haven't seen Doug's kids since Halloween. Leslie and her girls were there also. We had a campfire Sat night and made s'mores. Good times making good memories.
Jack turned two in January, and Evan is 7 months old. Leslie is holding Evan, Emilee, Meghan, and Callie in the chair. The last picture is the view off the side deck towards the river.
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