That does look yummy! I think it's very interesting that a poodle/yorkie cross is a useful dog for hunting. Nice to know that the characteristics that poodles and yorkies are bred for these days can be undone, so to speak. I would never have thought of those breeds useful for hunting, even as a crossbred. Learn something new every day!
Leah Sattler wrote: I really suspect the other two were released on purpose. but I sometimes think the worst of people. a bad habit of mine.
Yeah...me too. But it's hard not to think the worst when you're right, like 95% of the time! That's my situation anyways. I listen to my "gut". It's rarely wrong. On the odd occasion when I didn't listen...I really regretted it!!!
Those pigs look like they got some good eating flesh on their bones. The loose ones may taste even better! I think your DH needs to do a little hunting this weekend!
I've got this plastic foot pump, use for blowing up floatie things for swimming pools. I'm thinking I can use it to blow some DE around, but I haven't tried it yet. Looks like I should be able to put the powder inside the plastic accordion air pump, shake it and then step on it to shoot the powder under cabinets and shelfs. I'm pretty sure those dang recluse spiders are under there.
When I lived/grew up in IL, 2 young red maple trees were planted in front of our house. My dad worked in the garage, drank beer & he would just pee in a jar, as to not go in the house all greasy & dirty.
When the jar was full he would dump it around the root zone of the trees. One tree got pee tea more than the other because it was closer. after about 10 years of doing this the pee tea tree was obviously larger & more robust. I haven't seen those trees in 13 years. I wonder how they look now?
I have some DE that I would like to use to try & kill recluse spiders. I have heard both, yes and no as to whether DE will work. I thought I'd try it anyways, what the heck> I have some just sitting around. I was thinking it would be cool if I could figure a way to shoot poofs of it underneath shelves & cabinets (in the garage) that have gaps between them & the floor. That's gotta be a great hiding place for those spiders & poofing it might help it contact those spiders who are lurking on the underside of the shelves. I realize that there is some kind of gardening powder poofer I coud buy, but I'd like to rig something up that's mostly home made, if possible.
Thanks! We have lengthy cold periods (unfortunately; I don't like cold weather) in NE Okla. I've never been able to overwinter them outside. Freezes wipe them out. I've only successfully overwintered them once indoors, and I've had them for 10 years. Most years I have to go to a store and buy one (like I did this past May) and by August I end up throwing them out because they are crowding the ponds!
I have never been able to fathom the cost of any expensive gourmet foods. Organically grown or not. I don't have a very discriminating palate, I guess. You eat it & poop out the waste just like any other food. Whatever!
Nothing special compost-wise in this area of my yard. This lil' shroom just popped up after all the rain. Used well rotted horse manure in other parts of the yard. It's funny how mushrooms just seem to appear out of nowhere sometimes.
Being originally from the Chicago suburbs, I'd never seen a sandburr until I moved to Okla. & I used to call them cockleburrs, as that was the only thing I could compare them to.
Sorry, I guess I've become a bit of a stickler (pun intended! ) for plant names!
Different parts of the US have different common names for plants, this is certain. I'm familiar with the plant in the above "wiki" link being referred to as a goathead. However, it's not the plant commonly known as sandburr in Okla. I would almost be grateful if I was dealing with goatheads vs. our sandburrs, and pictured below is the reason why.
Our sandburrs are a grassy looking plant that doesn't flower in an obvious way. Often, you aren't even aware of these sandburrs until they start producing the little pricks...oops...sorry...prickers!
It's been my experience that getting these early is the way to go. When they are green, and just emerging from the stem, they hold together and don't scatter or stick to things as easily. You can see the progression of development in the last picture. Once they dry & turn black, they fall off and/or cling to anything, I bet they're even blown around in the wind. My neighbor has let his yard go & grew one heckuva crop of these this year. Consequently, we continue to battle them in our yard. He is south of us, and our very strong south winds blow them to our yard. So the war continues!
We've picked them by hand, mowed them down, used a bagger, etc. Amended our soil, tried almost everything, except the corn gluten meal or vinegar. I'm thinking the vinegar would damage the bermuda we'd like to keep, but I dunno. I have noticed that if you get the bermuda growing nice & thick there are less places for the sandburrs to take hold. We didn't quite get our grass going that good this year. ops:
What ever I try doesn't seem to be worthwhile; as long as I have a nextdoor neighbor who neglects his lawn (it borders ours) we will always have to fight sandburrs. We will often mow the neighbors bordering strip of lawn, but dh forgot to do it last time he mowed & the sandburrs went crazy!
1st pic shows ripe, blackened sandburr dead center. You can see how easily the sandburr plant blends in with surrounding, grassy plants.
2nd shows plant. It's basically a very shallow rooted plant, which makes sense because they prefer dryness.
I can only relate geese experience as a bystander, but thought I'd share this anyways.
I used to board a horse at a barn that had geese. They also had a pond. I don't know if the pond made a difference, but the geese hung out at the pond most of the time & never really seemed to bother people. They didn't appear bonded with anyone (that I can remember) and if approached, they would pretty much go the other way. I do remember them getting protective if they had eggs in a nest, but that didn't last long because of the dogs. They would often find the eggs & that would be the end of it.
The geese were not fenced & would come in the barns from time to time & pick at whatever grain they found on the ground. They would also go into the indoor riding arena at the most inconvenient times (when you were riding, of course!), but it was usually just to cross from one stabling area to the other. (horse stalls bordered both sides of the arena.)
One of the barn dogs had a habit of stealing goose eggs & would walk around most of the day with her prize egg in her mouth. It was pretty funny, unless the egg broke and it was rotten. Whatta stink bomb that was!
Wow...that is so cool, HWH! Really glad you posted some pix! I guess I need to fly to France & have you color my hair, just for fun! Now that would be an expensive dye job! Definitely worth the trip though. Going to Europe is on my bucket list!
We are on the same page with that! (Pun intended!) That's exactly what i decided to do, was make pico de gallo & it turned out great! Thanks for the recipe!
If I knew you moved the Iceberg rose with you...I guess I forgot. I think it's great that you still have it & if "Speckles" didn't eat the roots, it should come back. I hope!
Well, I have tomatoes that are all ripe at the same time. Been thinking about making some fresh salsa. I realize that I could google up a ton of salsa recipes, but first I thought I'd ask if any permies had a tried and true recipe they were fond of.
That's a logical assumption...but...if you are keeping chickens, baby goats or perhaps have young children, etc. The question remains...do you really want to attract foxes, stray dogs, etc. to your property? Granted, they may already be attracted by the livestock.
Noooope...not gullible nor a farmer. Didn't spray boards with water & don't have any chickens. Don't need to spray anything with water around here. It's been raining off & on for weeks now. I got so many little dime sized snails in my yard I can hear them pop when I walk on them. Kinda like bubble wrap that pops & then sticks to your foot. Ewww.
Marty...I have a pretty good sense of silly humor...but...from now on I think I'll take your posts with grain of salt! Guess you got your April Fool's prank in a little early...like 6.5 months early!
As Ralph Kramden (aka Jackie Gleason) on the Honeymooners would (sarcastically) say:
Thanks, Kathleen! I wasn't thinking it would work in those areas, but the gadget Jeremy is talking about sounds like it would. I think it might be fun to use a scythe under the right circumstances...especially where chiggers don't exist! We visited a friend recently & DH walked with him to see the view from the hill. Very grassy & wild. I opted not to go along, was only wearing sandals. Wouldn't you know it, dh was breaking out in chigger bites the next day!
Oh for sure! I can understand that. I dunno how true it is, but someone I know who used to visit France often told me that the peck on the cheek thing was a fairly common place thing, greeting wise; but hugging was considered too personal. I've never been to France, so I don't really know. Oops...getting really off topic here. Sorry!
Just to chime in...I use Mozilla/Firefox & I have an iMac. No problems with anything jumping around. Every now & the I get that IP message about my posting being less than 60 seconds ago, but it's no biggie & doesn't happen very often.
I've been pretty handy with my camera lately & I've been trying to clean up my place. If I find a goodly amount of insects under anything in my yard, I'll take a picture...but...I don't have any chickens! Wish I did.
Anyways, a picture of chickens going after those uncovered bugs would be much more dramatic!
Haha! You are most welcome! I'm laughing because my posting that was totally random & it actually helped someone. I love it! Hope you are able to confuse those already confused flour beetles right out of your homestead!
Someone gave me an insect fogger. Don't worry...I'm not planning to use it. I was reading the label though & I had to laugh because one of the insects it has on it's kill list is called a confused flour beetle. I'd never heard of this one before.
Ok, well...I'm ever the skeptic. Let's just talk about stray dogs. I've seen dogs chew up (and sometimes consume) everything from plastic bags to plastic containers to carpet to wooden rungs on the bottom of kitchen chairs.
If I scattered "dry, picked clean, sun bleached old bones" around my front yard at the base of trees, it would attract stray dogs. I'd bet money on it. A canine's sense of smell is at least 100 times more sensitive than a humans.
If I gave those same bones to my friend's dogs, they would chew on them. At least until they got bored. Whether or not the bone method works to repel deer, etc. is moot to me. I wouldn't use a method that would likely attract stray dogs to my property. Even if the dogs just came to investigate the bones but didn't hang around for more than 5 minutes, it would not be worth it to me. Just MHO.
Because I've never used one, I'm having a hard time understand how using a scythe is "easy" when you are trimming the edges of a lawn, say, along a driveway or curb. It seems you'd have to crouch down, kneel or whatever. We have extended our patio using flat rocks & the grass grows up between the rocks. Trimming that with a scythe seems laborious, to say the least. Perhaps some other tool works better (sheep shears?) in this application?
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