Just thought you should know :-)

I see the bales are working out for you.

Val

bales workn great, need more to start a new pile

I whasn't anywhere near the wine! :-)

Val

I know where you can get some great bales of hay. Don't say anything to anyone, but Lloyd sometimes puts some close to the road down by his place in Manitoba there, and you can just pull right up and load up the truck, eh? :O)

And you would know this....how? Hey, if it's close to the road they must not want it anymore, right?

Val

What is it the Americans say... I plead the fifth??? Canadian interpretation - 'I think I'll shut up now...' :O) Lloyd thinks I took his bales of hay so I don't think he'll come to my defense. Ah! Life is bittersweet!

Happy New Year folks!!

But I digress, let us review the facts as we know them:

1) Confession, admitting to the crime.
2) Photographic evidence of similar looking purloined materials in possesion of confesser.

So unless some unidentified ungulate comes along to give evidence to the contrary, I'm gonna go with a Nova Scotian driving 2576 kilometers one way (that would be over 5000 kms roundtrip so as to not confuse any seniors out there) to load two 45 pound bales of primo wheat straw into her car so she can lean it up against her compost structure. It's the only logical conclusion.

Lloyd

P.S. West, if ya need some, I got some.

Ungulate...deer, moose, elk, that kind of thing.

Val and Gerri couldn't work it into a sentence so I had to show them how. :-)

Lloyd

John

I also used the distance from Halifax to Winnipeg so that would have been incorrect as well, if you promise not to tell my old math teachers I won't either. Tiff is still probably curled up in the fetal position so I don't think she will notice.

Kinda cool to be called a youngster, I think I like that.

Lloyd

'Little' storm?? No such thing here. Blowing snow at 120km/hr made for a stay at home day. Our favourite neighbour came to plow us out at 4pm when things started to finally calm down after 24 hours of the stuff. Paul was probably out of power for a while if he's back on since his area was hit even harder.

I'm dealing with compost items in an inovative way these days. Gave up on the piles for the winter so the UCGs are getting flung into the snow on the gardens and the lawn and whatever kitchen scraps we have are feeding the crows and ravens in the morning.

I don't have to be curled-up not to notice such things, but since I am noticing, add 25 km one way to get to beautiful Prospect Bay. :O)

West, sorry we hijacked your thread... Just to make it up to you, what are you planting in that wonderful spot?? Is that deer fencing I see in the background?

Frank - got your KY soil sample today.
Lab closed 'til Tuesady. Will get it in the mail then.
Lab is 'backed up' from holidays - will probably take 2 weeks to get results.

Robert

and yes that's deer fencing in the background, or good ol' barbed wire as we call it round here hehe. it comes complete w/ some deer hair in the wire, yet i've never seen deer on my land???

here we are with our freezing weathers, slowly developing cabin fever day by day and you're just rubbin it in soilguy!! I sat out in 34 degrees today for about an hour and a half when my truck ran outta gas on the freeway (also had to walk about a mile), I sat in front of a gas station waiting for my wife and even fell asleep. no body left me any change, hehe. so think bout that when you're strollin round in shorts everyday!!

We don't have a big veggie garden. It's more like an amusement area for DH. He's the kind of guy who let's the Brocolli go to flower and then wonders where the 'eating part' went... He grew lots of peas and lettuce for the deers last year...

I'd like to try Canteloupe. Yes, maybe I'll do that this year. :O)

On another note, why is it that men run out of gas more than women do?? Is it related to that concept of asking for directions/reading a map? Grew up with 6 brothers and always wondered about that...

Robert,
Being a little facetious this time of year? You naughty boy! LOL! I won't suffer from zonal envy when in the middle of summer you are out there sweating your buns off and I'm pleasantly turning my pile in the cool breeze of the Atlantic Ocean. :O)

Actually, where we reside at water's edge, our average 'breeze' is 12mph - and can get a bit 'gusty' in summer months.

While temps to consistently hover near 100 in this coastal area, the humidity is the 'killer' - usually in the 85% to 95% range. But then, I'd rather sweat than shiver...

I think the 'gas can follies' come from the male concept that the gas gauge is actually linear (i.e., reads 'true'), but seems women don't trust gauges - my DW gets gas when the dial gets to 1/4 tank - doesn't trust male intuition, either. She says females naturally have better "intuition" than men - any truth to that?

my wife, when i met her, would fill her car up in a panic when it got to half a tank, then she met me......but now she does something that even i, a man, actually complain about, she'll drive around all the time w/ her low fuel light on, and i can't stand it!!!!!! drives me nuts, she'll put no more than ten bucks in her car and wait til the light goes back on and i swear seems like she drives for a couple days w/ the light on, i try to tell her that it's bad for a fuel injected engine any way, but what's the point in filling your 15 gallon tank up anyway, it only keeps you from making a stop at the pump every day, right?

the gas gauge doesn't work in my truck, she's ran out in it WAY more than me, and i drive it all the time. so intuition's out the door, i think i may only seem like women's intuition is better because they seem to depend on luck, at least my wife does, i like to play it safe.

When the gas gauge is on E and the little light comes on, I put gas in my car, and I fill it full. DH doesn't like to be below 1/4 tank, and gets annoyed b/c often the light comes on when he happens to be driving my car.

I haven't actually run out of gas in years, well, pretty much since I've had cars with the little light...

Check out Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter - it's really good! My mum used to go on endlessly about the saying that men think while women feel. She thought it was nonsense but I'm beginning to think there's some truth to it.

I must say though that of all the folks who come to the station to get a jerry can full because they have run out of gas, over 90% have been men...

Karen

Got more pictures West?

i am going to take more though, im gonna stake and string my garden plot and probably photo all of that, plus i will try one of soilguys CP methods, and i'll probably pic. that too.

here's my front yard, i'm trying not to get anything big and permanent growing next to the house, because hopefully i'll be able to haul this thing off of here and build sooner or later.

the 1st pic is when we moved up here, it's dated...

you can see the garden surrounding the house, had a lot more plant that were ravaged by my dogs each time they got loose, and you can see the increasing organic matter on the "lawn"...ground.....call it whatever...hehe

LOL - too true and too funny! There's also a very old saying about it not having a conscience either but I won't say it in mixed company.

Val

Keep us posted on when you build.

the only new plans i have, except for putting more plants around the house, is over there by the telephone pole, i plan to make a lasagna bed, there is already a type of hydrangea nearby, and a type of magnolia (not one of the huge ones).
I plan on shaping the bed....bean shaped?? about 15 -18 ft long.

In Tenessee, I start with things like echinacea and Black eyed Susans, gaillardia and agastache, salvia, melampodium...
Email me or Tiffy if you're interested- we'll get you on the road to a beautiful flower garden by summer. And you can wintersow veggies, too.

Karen

kqcrna: thanks for giving me something to do (lookn through all your garden pics on photobucket!! very nice work!

Karen