Archive for 'Scrounged'
Posted: February 27th, 2007 by
Lisa
We got quite a bit done of the chicken palace, I mean coop over the weekend. The weather on Saturday was awful, clear and cold, but really windy, so we didn’t do much outside at all. Sunday was gorgeous, though, and we made real progress pretty quickly. Having two cordless electric drills was a
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Posted under Bjarki, Building, Chicken Coop, Dogs, Drill, Farm Life, Hay, Injuries, Llama, Scrounged, Sheep, Valerie, Worms.
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Posted: November 10th, 2004 by
Lisa
Calvin gave us some incredibly good fencing that he’d taken up at his place. Frank went over to get it yesterday, and came home with three bundles of woven wire. He thinks this stuff is much better for going up hills like we’re going to have to do, and we feel grateful to have gotten
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Posted under Fencing, Firewood, Honey Bees, Scrounged, Sheep.
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Posted: November 6th, 2004 by
Lisa
We’ve been going around and around trying to figure out where the best place to store hay will be. We keep saying “the barn†except we don’t have a barn. The sheds are going up behind the house, and there’s no good access there yet. We’ve got enough pallets to put it on, extra, actually.
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Posted under Hay, Pallets.
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Posted: April 18th, 2004 by
Lisa
Frank still thinks I’m nuts, but I worked my tail off today putting in that new bed where the lilacs I planted aren’t going to make it. I think it is probably twenty feet long, and it entailed much digging up of sod and dirt, hauling of much crap, and generally hard, physical labor. I
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Posted under Chips, Coffee Grounds, Grass Clippings, Honey Bees, Lasagna Layering, Lilac, Mulch, Pallets, Raised Beds, Shredded Paper, Stone walls, Weed Whacker, Weeding, Weeds, Wishlist.
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Posted: August 16th, 2003 by
Lisa
Whew, it’s hot out there. I am not, however, complaining. We’ve had so much rain (almost 8 inches so far this month alone) that I haven’t been able to really do much in the garden, so I’ll take hot over hot and raining any day. We went out into the garden pretty early this morning,
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Posted under Building, Chips, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Deadheading, Fish, Grass Clippings, Harvesting, Lily beetles, Milkweed, Pallets, Peppers, Pruning, Reviews, Sawdust, Self, Shredded Paper, Tomatoes, Weeding.
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Posted: August 4th, 2003 by
Lisa
We had heavy, heavy rain most of the day today. I remain quite surprised at how well all the flowers are holding up, because the rain has been so hard that I expect to look out and see all the flower stalks lying on the ground, but so far, so good. The hollyhocks are blooming
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Posted under Clematis, Compost, Delphinium, Grapes, Grow lights, Hollyhocks, Honeysuckle, Pallets, Rain, Scrounged, Soil, Star Gazer, pergola.
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Posted: July 9th, 2003 by
Frank
I got out after work tonight and turned compost piles. It was way too hot over the weekend to do then. I moved the last of the stuff from the old middle bin over to top up the new bin I turned ten days ago. It looks like we’ll have two full bins ready to
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Posted under Compost, Irrigation, Mushrooms, Pallets, Potatoes, Soil, Tomatoes, Turning, Weather.
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Posted: June 28th, 2003 by
Lisa
We got a lot done today. Frank’s big to-do item was to turn the compost. The far right bin of the old set (right near the house) is our finished stuff, and has collapsed down to less than half a bin. It’s too late to spread that stuff now, so he was hoping that the
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Posted under Boulders, Building, Compost, Deadheading, Gardening, Horsetail, Lawn, Lupine, Pallets, Potatoes, Turning, Weeding, Window Boxes, tulips.
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Posted: May 25th, 2003 by
Lisa
Despite the gray and wet day out there today, it wasn’t actually raining for the first time in days, so we were determined to get in as much work in the garden as we could. We’ve been wanting to get started on the clearing and such for the land that will someday be the
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Posted under Blackflies, Building, Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Compost, Firewood, Lawn tractor, Mushrooms, Pallets, Soil.
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