It’s been a while since I’ve mentioned what’s going on at our place. Part of the reason? I’m not completely sure what’s happening. Why? We are living in a tropical rain forest this year, complete with an abundant crop of mosquitoes! We’ve had big hatches of mosquitoes before. However, usually they overrun the place for a […]
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First harvest 2016
This is an exciting time of the year: getting to harvest our first produce from the garden. Although, it didn’t go exactly as planned. A week ago I had checked one section of the garden where I thought I had planted radishes, but when testing, I pulled up long, tiny threads. Then I assumed it was […]
Fall harvest – hickory nuts
There is a farm that connects to our property at the back; years ago when we moved in we got permission from the farmer to walk a certain section because it’s fairly unattainable for him. It’s a stretch on the same ridge as our property sits that juts out for a ways to a point, […]
Fall harvest – black walnuts
I know I’ve mentioned that our back yard is full of black walnut trees. Most of the time we find they are a pain in the (#@X. They are the last tree to grow their leaves in the spring, the first ones to lose their leaves in early fall (August!), and for most of the […]
Fall harvest – picking apples
We don’t need to buy apples this year – unless we want something specific for eating. Our Haralson apple tree was LOADED with apples. Papa said the tree sighed when we finally got them all picked! Every. single. limb. looked like the one above! We’re fortunate that the tree is still short enough that Papa […]