We’ve been planting like crazy every single day, from morning until dark. I got in dozens of 100-foot rows of beans, both pole and bush, quite a few rows of squash, about a half-acre of pumpkins (many of which are sold to our local nursery, The Watering Can), quite a bit of various corn, and some more peppers.
Will’s also been busy — hauling manure out onto our pastures, re-tilling some of the garden spots, and pounding in steel T-posts to fasten our cattle panel bean trellises on. He also is working on the old haybine, trying to get it into working order as a spare. Unfortunately, as he was heating a bearing, trying to get it loose, it caught the dry hay in the rollers on fire! He tore to the house, hollering at me to get the fire extinguisher, then tore to the bathtub full of water by the chicken coop, that we use as spare water. With the big fire extinguisher and several buckets of water, we got it out without serious damage to the rubber rollers. But both of our hearts were sure beating fast for a while! Keeps life interesting.
As I have to run to Mayo Clinic with our friend, Tom, I’m doing double time this weekend, getting ready to be gone for two days. I’ve got to do the laundry, pack a bag, plant more sweet corn and some more beans today. Some days I wish I were triplets! But I know it’ll all get done. Thank God, Will’s so good about taking up my slack. I appreciate him so much!
— Jackie
Still praying for you to get rain. Down here in Southern Illinois we are going to get more rain starting tomorrow. To me that dry dirt sure does look good! But we have to remember that God is in control. I’m really glad that roller didn’t get destroyed by the fire! And those white lilac sure are pretty!
I Jackie. I hope you might get a blessing of some good rain soon.
It was hot and dry here and now is raining since early morning and it’s almost 6:30 in evening.
I pray some will come your way.
You’ve been super busy planting and especially since have to go with friend to Mayo.
The fruit of your labor will make it so worth it all though.
I know I’ve been planting like crazy here too with more to go. Just a bit difficult to do much
in all the rain right now.
I’m thankful Will was able to get the fire out with no damage to the rubber rollers.
I’m glad the smoke isn’t bothering you too badly.
It just makes me sneeze and my nose run at times but can deal with it.
The lilacs are beautiful and glad to take time to enjoy the beauty of nature around you.
Dear Jackie,
Can you believe the smoke is here in Tennessee. Yep, they were talking about it on the news and our smoke detectors have gone off twice in two days. (no real fire of course) Mother Nature sure is a strange Mama! But makes for beautiful sunsets and sunrises. We have those fancy smoke detectors that are sensitive to everything, even dust. Just never thought about smoke particles from Canada. You two are truly work maniacs. But you seem to be a lot like our folks and want to get it all done asap. Good work ethics: but you never know what tomorrow will bring so do today all that you can.
We got .001 of an inch. The ground barely got wet. We’re still hoping…
Jackie, your white lilacs are beautiful. You and Will are busy as beavers. Hope the smoke is not being a problem.
Makes our eyes and noses run but not awful.
Again, a decent amount of rain in our forecast. Again, we’ll see if it comes to fruition. Need to take a closer look at the strawberries to see how the berries are growing. Tater plants are looking really good – time to mound the 2nd planting.
Glad a potential disaster (fire) was snuffed out quickly. Hopefully we’ll both get decent rain/winds to clear out the wildfire smoke.