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My days are usually a mixture of going outside and doing a little yard work, then being too hot and tired from the heat and humidity and coming back inside. It is taking me forever to get even simple things done this year, between all the rain and then the hot/humid days , and still usually having some rain.
The only thing I have done outside so far today is pick the blueberries for ice cream. But the laundry is all done, and I made a peach cobbler from some of the fresh box of peaches we got before. There is butterscotch ice cream ready to be made in the Creami, so we just have to decide if we want the ice cream with the cobbler or not.
 
Shave. I go a long time in between shaves now, partially it started when I decided to let it grow out but also I'm finding the grungy look is more common today.

But when I want to feel "clean" off it comes, and I plan to make a big run for groceries today.
 
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Yvonne Smith said:
My days are usually a mixture of going outside and doing a little yard work, then being too hot and tired from the heat and humidity and coming back inside. It is taking me forever to get even simple things done this year, between all the rain and then the hot/humid days , and still usually having some rain.
The only thing I have done outside so far today is pick the blueberries for ice cream. But the laundry is all done, and I made a peach cobbler from some of the fresh box of peaches we got before. There is butterscotch ice cream ready to be made in the Creami, so we just have to decide if we want the ice cream with the cobbler or not.
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Pulled a few vines, cut down a dew bushes and have 3 punctures in my arm, which not too bad.
Its raining here a lot too, but we really needed it bad, even the hurricane didn't give us any rain to speak of. Forecast to rain hard all this week and I'm glad.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Shave. I go a long time in between shaves now, partially it started when I decided to let it grow out but also I'm finding the grungy look is more common today.

But when I want to feel "clean" off it comes, and I plan to make a big run for groceries today.
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Hubby is letting his beard grow out, been years since he let it get long, and he is playing music more.

I'm back to walking the trail and exercising with music and dance. Foxy loves to dance and sing with me, of course She yaps and I just dance.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
It is supposed to rain this afternoon, so this morning Bobby helped me dig up the little rose and move it to a better location. It is next to the neighbors yard and has been mowed down over and over, so it never really got icy of a chance to grow and become a large rose bush. Now, it is in the front yard and inside a tire planter and good planting soil around it, so it should grow and bloom much better now.
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I just came home from doing chores and dropping off one of my daughters. A deer had eaten down my new rose bush again before I had gotten taller fence for it:(
I am now off to take a newly trapped chipmunk to find a new home. Good use of rancid walnuts for trap bait.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Just went out to pick some peaches.
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I didn't think peaches grew that far north. There were 3 producing trees on our property in northern Ohio in the 1950s, and everyone thought them quite a novelty. I guess they have a lot of different varieties now. (Well, duh...) ;)

My mother canned dozens of quarts and we hauled a bushel to relatives in WV every summer until they died (the peach trees, not the relatives).
 
Nancy Hart said:
I didn't think peaches grew that far north. There were 3 producing trees on our property in northern Ohio in the 1950s, and everyone thought them quite a novelty. I guess they have a lot of different varieties now. (Well, duh...) ;)

My mother canned dozens of quarts and we hauled a bushel to relatives in WV every summer until they died (the peach trees, not the relatives).
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Two varieties grow up here. Reliance is reputed to grow up here and as far as Canada where it was created. I got one tree back in the eighties. It was COVERED in peaches. I had them ripening in the bathtub and in brown paper bags all over the house to keep them from wasps and birds. Then rabbits girded the tree. It grew back with many 'trunks' but froze out the following 20 below zero winter.
Contender is the other variety. I like the flavor better and they seem free stone but they are small.
 
Mary Stetler said:
Two varieties grow up here. Reliance is reputed to grow up here and as far as Canada where it was created. I got one tree back in the eighties. It was COVERED in peaches. I had them ripening in the bathtub and in brown paper bags all over the house to keep them from wasps and birds. Then rabbits girded the tree. It grew back with many 'trunks' but froze out the following 20 below zero winter.
Contender is the other variety. I like the flavor better and they seem free stone but they are small.
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I read an article from some orchardist in Michigan or Wisconsin who said he made a mixture of prepared sheetrock mud, white latex house paint (he recommended Glidden for some reason) and water, all in equal parts. Mix them together and paint the trunks as high as the snow usually goes. He claimed that rabbits, voles, etc. wouldn't touch the stuff. They would take one taste and never try again. I don't know if it works or not, but i am going to try it this year if I can get around to it. We don't have rabbits here unless someone releases their domestics, but we do have snowshoe hares. They have never damaged a tree that I have seen. The voles are terrible here, though, and will girdle any tree they find under the snow, They seem to concentrate on apple trees, but, as far as I know, no one grows peaches here unless in a greenhouse.
 
Our goats kept chewing on the inside of the siding (4 x 8 sheets) on the goat barn. I decided to try coating it with whitewash, which they used to use on trees. The goats liked that even better. It has a salty taste. Ask me how I know. Chewed every single square inch off they could reach. You gotta love goats.
 
Nancy Hart said:
Our goats kept chewing on the inside of the siding (4 x 8 sheets) on the goat barn. I decided to try coating it with whitewash, which they used to use on trees. The goats liked that even better. It has a salty taste. Ask me how I know. Chewed every single square inch off they could reach. You gotta love goats.
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We had goats for 22 years here, so I am familiar with what they can do.:)
 
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