Re: So much to do etc

Well duh buckwheat, why don't you get a few females and keep your boys at
home - HELLO??   Not the sharpest Crayola in the box.

On 5/9/06, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
>
> Exactly Jim.  LOL.
>
>
> james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Yeah... catching guineas is like herding cats. Only worse.
>
> On May 9, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Jesse Bell wrote:
>
> > WOW...do you work outside the home too? And I thought I was
> > busy....I'm flat out TIRED after reading all of that! LOL.
> >
> > Since you are a country girl, you'll appreciate this. My neighbors way
> > back behind us had some guineas...and they would run around the creek
> > area between our two farms. Well, the other day he saw my husband and
> > said, "My damn guineas are all over at your place...I don't have ONE of
> > them left!" He didn't have any females. We do. It's spring....and his
> > guineas are looking for love in all the RIGHT places! My husband just
> > laughed and said, "Yep...I think our guinea population doubled over the
> > last week....come on over and get 'em!" Ya gotta know...there is no way
> > in hell to catch 15-20 guineas...no way man. They do what they wanna
> > do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT wrote:
> > Good weather and gardening, what more can you ask?
> > I meant to take pictures of the gardens this weekend but once again
> > didn't
> > get to it. It'll be in full bloom for a little while yet so there's
> > still
> > plenty of time.
> > I did most of my activity in the vegetable garden, figured I would get
> > on
> > top of the weeds there while they are still small. So the onions, the
> > lettuce, and the peas are all weeded and mulched. We are feeding our
> > ewes
> > oat hay instead of alfalfa to help dry up their milk, and they waste
> > so much
> > of it there's plenty of mulching material. The tomatoes look pretty
> > nice,
> > the soybeans and the corn are up, but the green beans I planted didn't
> > sprout. Could be old seed...or maybe the ravens ate them all...I
> > figured I'd
> > replant and see if it works. It's very late to be doing that, green
> > beans
> > don't set real well in the kind of heat we get in the summer, but what
> > the
> > heck - I don't need many. And I direct seeded some eggplant and okra,
> > pretty
> > old packets though, we'll see what happens there too. Peppers are
> > hardening
> > off and will go in probably next weekend. One thing about cutting back
> > this
> > year is I didn't buy new seed, so I'm getting rid of all those old
> > packets I
> > was going to use "someday". Silly to keep old seed but I am a pack
> > rat, no
> > denying it. Now I can plant them with a clear conscience and I've even
> > tossed those I know I won't use.
> > We have gophers and ground squirrels galore. It's incredible, there
> > can't be
> > 10 sq ft anywhere without a gopher hole in it. My husband has about 10
> > gopher traps set all over the place and as soon as he catches one and
> > moves
> > the trap to the next place, a new hole sprouts where he just was. And
> > ground
> > squirrels, we have not seen them in years but last night we saw two
> > scampering in the vegetable garden. They do a lot of damage to my
> > irrigation
> > system, plants, and they dig big burrows. I hear they steal eggs from
> > chickens too, but I've never seen that. Anyway we are trapping for
> > them too.
> > Sheesh!
> > We bought a new ram lamb the other day, the girls need a boyfriend for
> > next
> > fall. Lots of pushing and shoving when you introduce a new member to
> > the
> > flock. Sometime during the night somebody busted through the gate into
> > the
> > veg garden. My husband shouted for me that morning and my heart just
> > sank,
> > but it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. They had walked on
> > everything but didn't eat much so there was surprisingly little damage
> > considering. Talk about lucky.
> > Out front the roses are blooming, not yet fully loaded but soon. The
> > dutch
> > iris and bearded iris look great. The hardy geraniums are the best
> > I've ever
> > seen them - maybe they really liked the wet/cool weather we had since
> > February? I've got to get after the vinca though, it will smother
> > them. I've
> > moved a bunch of daylilies, I don't even know what colors they are so
> > that
> > will bear watching. The dry garden looks very nice indeed although I
> > still
> > have bare spots. It's harder now to plant in there, new natives want a
> > season of almost regular water while the established ones will hate
> > that.
> > Going out there with a watering can is not real practical but it may
> > be what
> > I have to do. I have already lost a few of the new salvias to gophers,
> > grrr,
> > it's what I get for not taking the time to make the cages.
> > But all in all, it's pretty good. Going to be about 90 today. Wish I
> > were
> > outside...
> >
> > Cyndi
> >
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> Island Jim
> Southwest Florida
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> Hardiness Zone 10
> Heat Zone 10
> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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