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The Winners 2008-05-17 06:26:00 Good Morning,Billy drew the names out of the hat late yesterday evening. I had pictures of it but deleted them accidentally.(really).As you will see in my next post, we had a very busy day at the water wheel yesterday and I am a little behind on posting this morning.I truly appreciate each one of your comments and wished I had a Georgia BullFrog or PeeWeeDog for every one of you.Now the winners:Ju Read more:Winners
Getting water to the Water Wheel 2008-05-19 15:42:00 Good Evening,After getting the wheel to spinning, Billy built the chute to carry the water to the wheel.First he put the posts in and made sure he had enough drop for the water to flow down hill.Then he made the chute.Almost to the end.Here the pipe will fit in.The water will come from the old original mill pond that we are in the process of putting back.Here is the original raceway/earth chute fr
Video of the Water Wheel 2008-05-22 07:44:00 Good Morning,Here it is. The water wheel in action. Have a great day!
Water Powered Water Wheel 2008-05-21 06:04:00 We worked until the moon was shining on the waterwheel.Then the next day just in time for the grand event of water to the water wheel our son, grandchildren, and their dog Bonnie arrive.Getting a top view.The long, long awaited water arrives.A beautiful sight to us all.We and especially Billy have worked so hard for this moment.The end of the day I just sat on the bank and watched and watched. It
Farm Friday 2008-05-23 02:00:00 Good Morning,It has been a long week here on the farm. Billy and I are both are exhausted from getting the water wheel finished and running. We are still hard at work though on new projects, like the saw mill. I will have more on it next week.Now for this weeks farm pictures.The barn.Annie and the goats on the way to the barn for supper.A cactus blooming. You DO NOT want to step on these barefoot. Read more:Friday
Upside Down Peach Cake 2008-05-25 13:25:00 Good Afternoon,I just had to share this recipe with you. Yesterday our son came by to fish a little in the pond and stayed for supper. You know Mamas just have to feed their children good. I hadn't made this upside down peach cake in a while. It is fast and simple. And Good!Upside Down Peach
CakeMelt 1/3 cup of butter in a heavy cast iron skillet.( You can use a baking dish)Sprinkle 1/2 cup of bro
On Going Battle with the Birds 2008-05-24 08:31:00 Now don't get me wrong, I really like birds. Just not on the porch. You remember I put a bird house on the corner column where the birds kept trying to build? That went well. They built on top of the birdhouse. I should have baby birds and more bird poop soon.Then we had more birds trying to build on the porch ceiling fan and I had to keep the fan running for days to keep them off.Then they start Read more:Going
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Where I am From 2008-05-27 04:00:00 I am from clothes drying on the lineFresh country air and sunshine.I am from black and white television. Transistor radios.I am from the deep South, rolling hills and a half a century ago.I am from the thick Pine straw, Day Lillies, and the red Georgia clay.I am from cotton fields, Magnolias, and Jonquils.I am from soldiers who fought for all of us.and from farmers who worked from dawn to dusk.Fro
Morning Harvest 2008-05-29 08:36:00 Good Morning
,I wanted to share this morning's harvest with you. I picked asparagus,broccoli, spinach and Swiss chard. I have to start picking and preserving all the greens, fast now. The temps are suppose to be in the 90's all next week here. Plus I don't use pesticides and the bugs are discovering some of the greens now.I am just about to make one of our favorite treats from the fresh spinach. ( Read more:Harvest
Weekend on the Farm 2008-05-28 11:05:00 Good Afternoon,I want to show you how we spent part of last weekend.First in the garden.Billy is mowing and hoeing. That is what our oldest son called it when he was knee high to a knat.Now I did the hoeing between the plants until the hoe broke. (I didn't do it on purpose). Billy told me there is a back up hoe in the barn. I will try and find it real soon.You remember the part of the old waterwhe Read more:Weekend
Farm Friday 2008-05-30 08:05:00 Good Morning,Friday
sure rolled around fast again this week, hasn't it?Here are a few pictures from around the farm this week.This road leads down the hill to the pond from the middle pasture. I don't walk it often because of all the rattlesnakes that like that road also.(sorry, no snake picture today)The cows down the road in the bottom pasture.Billy and the water wheel.The guineas in the front y
The Last Georgia Peach 2008-06-01 03:53:00 Good Morning,Last fall my husband wanted to cut down what is left of this little peach tree.I couldn't do it. It still had some life left in it. It is one of two dwarf peach trees we planted about 12 years ago. The small tree has survived drought after drought, late freezes and frost, insects and storms. The little gal just didn't do as well as her sister tree did.She has put up a good fight. I am Read more:Georgia
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More Snake Pictures 2008-06-02 02:05:00 Good Morning,Guess what?? More snake pictures. I don't think this is the big king snake that lives in the hole in the tree near the pond, maybe one of his children. Anyway, as me and Billy was coming back from the pond yesterday evening this big fellow was trying to cross the road.Here are more pictures of him. Isn't he or she a beauty?I know you want to see more!And another.What about this pose?! Read more:Snake
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Morning Harvest 2008-06-04 02:37:00 Good Morning
,I wanted to share with you this morning's harvest. I am so thankful to have these wonderful fresh fruits and vegetables. It makes all that work in the garden worth while to see the fruits of our labor.This morning I have red cabbage, carrots, broccoli, lettuce, turnip roots, asparagus, onions, collards and peaches.
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Early Morning Exercise 2008-06-03 12:13:00 Good Afternoon,I have a good excuse to being late posting today. All because I have a handy dandy husband. He was so proud to tell me he had the hoe fixed that I had broken and now I could hoe the garden. I was thrilled! So, early this morning that is what I did.Before the sun was up good me and the hoe( the garden one) was in the garden.I worked until the sun was shining and it was getting hot.T Read more:Early Morning
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Inside the Chicken Pen 2008-06-05 12:30:00 Good Afternoon,We were so proud to have the bigger chicken pen finished. Those rascals are growing fast.I thought you might like to see a video of inside the pen. We still have the roost to build and the automatic water system also. The chicks are all glad to have more room to move around. Yesterday they were treated to collards and lettuce from the garden.Now when we get the sawmill running a Read more:Chicken
Farm Friday 2008-06-06 12:40:00 I know you were thinking I had forgotten farm friday, but I have just been so busy. To make up for it I am starting with a new picture of the water wheel. We have done some more work around it and it is starting to look better. Of course we have a lot more to do.Billy did some more work on the saw mill. We should be ready to saw lumber real soon.We finished the putting the wire up on the new chick Read more:Friday
Midnight Skinny Dipping in the Old Mill Pond 2008-06-07 07:25:00 Good Morning,I didn't mean to shock you early this morning and no I don't have actually pictures of Farm Man and Farm Woman skinny dipping(what would the Grand kids think??) Lol....Yesterday evening we got the sprinkler system hooked up for the garden. We have a gas powered pump we use in a little natural pond that is down from the barn. If we didn't water the garden it would be just a large sand
Spinach Pockets 2008-06-09 04:41:00 Good Morning,I hope everyone is staying cool. It was officially 100 degrees here yesterday and expected at least that hot again today. Good thing I picked the spinach and greens when I did because they are wilting fast, even with watering them.Here is the spinach recipe I promised you. I like it because it has a pizza taste to it and even the grandkids will eat their spinach in these spinach pocke Read more:Spinach
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My Life with Birds 2008-06-11 05:46:00 I now co-exist with the birds. Birds
love me, or at least love my front porches.Now these birds didn't hatch in the nest on top of the birdhouse here. I can see at least 4 birds up there. They hatched from the bottom porch in a hanging basket. They have been kicked out of their nest to make room for new eggs and they just sit up there on that nest. I don't know what has happened to the bird that b
Project of the week Chicken Nest Box 2008-06-12 06:14:00 Good Morning,We have a new project this week here on the farm. It has to do with chickens. That 's a surprise to you, I know.Chick keeps insisting on laying her eggs in farm man's shop. In the process she knocks down a lot of junk, I mean farm man's things. She needs a nest box.We have an old rusty nest box left from when we raised chickens years ago. The wooden roost have rotted away and the whol Read more:Project
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Farm Friday 2008-06-13 02:05:00 Good Morning,This week has been extra long with all the hot weather here. We've had days and days of highs in the high 90's and low 100's. Wednesday evening we did get a small shower and it was so nice to see the plants green up a little the next day.I just have to start out with a sunflower that came up on it's own in one of my raised beds. Isn't it just beautiful?We got the tomatoes caged this w Read more:Friday
To Blog or Not to Blog That is the Question 2008-06-17 02:35:00 Every week I say I just don't have the time to keep blogging. The garden vegetables (and weeds) are growing.We haven't had a rain in ages so we are having to use the little pond below the barn for irrigation.The garden is important. I plan on canning and freezing as many vegetables as possible this year.I have so many projects that are calling my name and blogging is so time consuming.I enjoy visi Read more:Question
Shake, shake, shake your footy 2008-06-16 11:40:00 Good Afternoon,My little angel here is my 2 year old grandson.His favorite song for the last year has been Old McDonald has a farm-eee iii eee iii ooo.Well, he has a new song now. Shake shake shake your booty! He can sing it very loud and plain too.Farm man didn't want me to admit this part to you. When that song came out years ago, I thought a booty was your foot. So I would shake my foot to the
Farm Friday 2008-06-20 02:05:00 Good Morning,Friday
is here already and you know what that means. Farm Friday pictures!Billy has been hard at work down at the water wheel site putting rocks along the banks of the creek. BoDog always willing to help or at least take a swim.I took a little time to smell the flowers, well look at them anyways. Notice the butterfly inside this Day Lilly.Another Day Lilly.I also took a little time to
To Blog is the Answer 2008-06-18 11:40:00 Alright, so I couldn't stay away. You buttered me up real good. I have been busy though. This morning I went to work in the garden at 6:15AM.I had to choose which pair of my dainty gloves to wear for weed pulling.Note the fingers worn off of each glove.Then I went to work and before long I had a wheelbarrow full of grass and weeds.I push the wheel barrow out to the chicken pen.Where all the chicke
I Found the Enemy 2008-07-04 12:32:00 Hey Everyone,Did you miss me?? I missed you all. It has been a hectic summer so far. First, my Mother is still in the hospital but seems to be doing fine. My car needs work so I can't get up there to see her right now. It has sort of been one thing after another, if you know what I mean. Things will get better, I am positive.I fell and broke my camera, so I wanted to see if it would still work. My Read more:Enemy
Young Dreamers Chapter 6 2008-06-30 04:15:00 UPDATE: June 30, 2008Hi Everyone,My Mother, who is almost 85, is in the hospital. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.We have our sons and their families coming to the farm this weekend. It will be so wonderful to spend time with them, and other family members coming also.I am still re-posting an earlier series I wrote about our family's adventures of building our homes.I will have some n Read more:Dreamers
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Young Dreamers Chapter 5 2008-06-29 02:00:00 Good Morning,This is a story of a family who built their house the hard way. Doing it their own selves. No architect, no draftsman. We did hire an electrician,just to be safe, that did both the electric and heating.( We bartered some on that too).A young man(my husband Billy) that did most of the work. He figured out everything on this house. He would spend hours drawing in his notebook.He knew ho Read more:Dreamers
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