My Stuff

The sunflowers have bloomed and they are big, bold, and beautiful! This is 10 to 12 inches across.  Hmm, how to harvest sunflower seeds?...

Biggest egg ever. Can't even close the carton.  I wish I knew which chicken it came from.

Remember Barbie Carrot from May 26, 2009?  Well, here's her husband, middle-aged Ken, and their slightly freaky offspring, Baby Hugh...

Mochi wants to learn to chill with Harry.  Harry's a pretty good baby sitter Sometimes Mochi has to squeak in protest. Mochi sez, ...

More bird's nest sprinkler system problems resulted in Tom spending yesterday on his knees digging under roots and trees.  Zone 5 of 1...

Tom has been fighting the battle of the nettles this year.  We have bull nettles and Carolina horse nettles and some other kind of nettles....

or "been there, done that". Tom helped me repair the well planter this evening after church.  It is hot and humid and we were ...

This is what I found when I went to check on my goldfish today.  Apparently, just dumping the clay in the well wasn't sufficient.  But ...

We've been dry as a bone this spring; about one rain in the past two months or so and that rain was a month and a half ago.  We were el...

Yay!  I missed having flower beds and am so excited about putting this one in. A row of dwarf yellow cannas along the wall.  Cannas do...

Circa 1974 (I don't know what circa means; I'll have to look it up) Is this not a-MA-zing?  We have two A/C units, one for each end...

This is Jasper cat.  At night we call the cats in and close them up in the barn to keep them safe from the scary creatures of the dark.  Som...

For the enquiring minds among us and those of us who don't know anything about butterflies, I did a google search and it appears that th...

Or maybe it's a moth?  I'll have to look it up.  In order to fully appreciate my admittedly terrible photography, you might have ...

Some bozo who previously owned our house thought it would be attractive to put rock flower beds along the front of the house.  There's n...

Potato advice that I've read says to not harvest all of the potatoes at once and that they would keep well in the ground for awhile.  I ...

I finished laying all the stones this morning and swept the first layer of decomposed granite into the cracks.  I'll let that settle...