What's Going On Around Here?

First I have a confession to make. I never got the greens planted. It may be too late now as we have temps in the 40s forecast for the weekend. I guess I can wait and plant the seed next spring. The day I was planning to plant the greens rain came and came hard. That stopped the planting for a few days.

Another excuse I'm using is that I've been really busy with taking care of all the paperwork that we inherited when my MIL passed away September 3rd. It's been like a maze trying to get through all the bills, insurance policies, etc. I'm still working on it and I know that I have several more weeks before I'll be finished.

On another note, the green beans are loaded with blooms. We should have fresh green beans in the next few days. The yellow squash are beginning to produce and I found some small zukes. Both squash and zucchini are full of blooms. I wish every bloxxom would produce fruit.

The cucumbers have blooms also. I haven't found any cucumbers yet but if we don't get a frost there should be some soon.

The jalapeno peppers are hanging with red peppers. I don't have enough sweet peppers to make pepper jelly but when I go to the grocery store I plan to buy some to use for the jelly. I love pepper jelly on a sandwich.

William and I are trying to decide if we want to sell our animals. I got an offer one day last week but it wasn't near enough to pay me back for what I paid for the ones I bought. I can't do that. William suggested waiting until spring and then trying to sell them. I just hope that the critters don't come calling and we lose a lot of them. This happens most every fall. I hope the pens are reenforced enough to keep the varmints out.

One more thing that is about to take place is our oldest grandson is being deployed again. He flys out this Saturday for more training and then it's off for another tour. There's going to be a ceremonial send off Saturday for his unit. We plan to go. I know it's going to be so hard to say goodbye to him but I want to see him before he leaves. He's a fine young man and I'm so very proud of him. Still I wish he didn't have to go.

That's all I have to say for now. I've been wordy enough, don't you think?

Greens, Greens, Greens & More Greens

We have the bed ready to plant the fall greens.....Turnip Greens, Mustard Greens, Collard Greens and Kale Greens. I'm thinking there'll be some good eating around here this fall and winter. Good and healthy!

Now, I have to carry myself out there and get the seeds in the ground so they can be watered in by that rain in the forecast for next week.

This a short post. I have to get to work. Thanks for coming by. :)s to you all.

The Latest Block For A Forum Quilt

I had planned to have the quilt block sewn and sent off by September 3rd. I didn't know that my Mother-In-Law would pass away. We thought she was getting a little better. We were wrong.

Anyway, William and I have been busy taking care of things that have to be taken care of. I wasn't sure if I'd even get the block sewn. But I did! It's mailed and should be there tomorrow. I like the colors in this block. It's hard to see the bluish/greenish color in the center square but it's there. :)

This block is called Squares In A Square:



I'm glad that I had time to finish the block and get it mailed.

Fall is in the air!

The temps have been much cooler the last few mornings and evenings. It feels so nice to walk out on the porch in the morning. Think it's time to start to have coffee every morning out in the hide-away. It will be nice to sip coffee and look at the plants and smell the aromas of fall. :)

The yellow squash are beginning to put on some fruit. I got one this afternoon and there's another almost large enough to pull. I saw several more on the vines so it won't be long we'll be having fresh squash again.

The zucchini plants are healthy but haven't started blooming yet. I hope the frost will hold off until we can gather some zukes too.

The green beans aren't looking very healthy. Neither are the cucumbers. I don't think the seed for cucumbers were viable this year. We're not the only ones having troubles with growing cucumbers this summer.

The Taladega tomato plants are loaded. Unfortunately we only have two plants. There should be enough to have tomato sandwiches until frost. Yummy. The Marianna's Conflict have several tomatoes on them. We pulled a ripe one and made sandwiches.

The birds are growing. We still have to make a pen for the young guineas. Or we may just move the game hen and Easter Egger roo into the large pen and put the guineas into their pen. At least for a while.

We need to go rabbit shopping. I have to call Mr. Irons to see if he has any breeder rabbits he would like to sell. If we are going to put any young rabbits in the freezer we need to get busy. It will soon be chilly for butchering outside and I'm not going to butcher rabbits in my kitchen. OHHH YUCKY...

As I said nothing much is happening around Hunny Bunny Haven at this time. We will get busier in the next couple of weeks but until then...I thank you for dropping by and hope you all will come back soon.

One Less Chore Waiting To Be Finished

Today the turkeys moved into their new home. Now they have a pen to run around and fly around in. They didn't seem very happy about the move at first but when I went back out to check on them they had adjusted well to the new surroundings.

We need to build a tractor for the young guineas so they can go live under the pine trees and be extra "Tickanators" for us. They are loud little rascals. The two older ones we hardly notice they're around but those four younger ones can be heard all over the place. They sure make their presence known. LOL

The young pullets are molting. I hope that means they'll begin laying in a few weeks. I'm eager to start gathering the eggs. It would be nice if every one of them would lay every day. We'd get two dozen eggs just from them each day. There would be enough eggs to sell once the younger hens' eggs are added to the Buttercup hens' eggs.

I can be like my Grandmother Rushing when the younger hens begin to lay. I'll have my cookie jar with the egg money in it. :)

The green beans are bowing up out of the ground. We still don't have the other bed planted. I was hoping to get that done this weekend but sometimes there's changes made to our plans. This was one of those weekends. Maybe we can put some greens in the other bed. Turnips would be good! So would collard greens or kale.

The tomato plants are blooming and there's some small tomatoes on them. I hope the frost holds off until about the middle of November. I'm probably hoping in vain but it doesn't ever hurt to hope.

That's about all that we having going on around here. Thanks for dropping in. Please do come back for another visit soon.

Early Morning Gardening

The temps have been cooler the last few mornings so it's been easier to get outside to work. This morning I hoed and fertilized the yellow squash, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes. Then I planted a four foot by twenty foot bed of bush green beans. AND then it RAINED!!!! Perfect timing.

We still have another bed to get ready to plant more green beans. I'm hoping that we will have fresh beans until frost and that I'll have enough to put more in the freezer or can some of them.

When the rain stops I need to gather the peppers. Sure wish I knew someone who would take these peppers. I've already put some bell peppers in the freezer and canned jalapeno and cayenne peppers. We don't need anymore pickled hot peppers but I guess I will can them because I don't want them to waste.

There you have it! All the exciting news from Hunny Bunny Haven. :)

Hot and Dry!

It's still hot and dry here at Hunny Bunny Haven even though we did get some rain last week. It takes a lot more water for raised beds than rows. At least that is my thinking.

The cucumbers and zucchini are up but the yellow squash didn't come up very good. I saw two plants out of the six hills we planted. In the morning will be replanting time.

William pulled up the pole beans (Louisiana Purple Pods) and the tomato vines that had died back. We're (or I'm) going to plant some Blue Lake bush type green beans in both beds. I talked to a lady at the county agent's office and she said according to the info she had bush type green beans can be planted through August and produce before frost. We should have four thirty-six foot rows of green beans. I hope they produce good and I can get some more beans put up for winter.

William and I are talking about going back to rows instead of the raised beds. I love my raised beds because they're so much easier to work but it takes so much more water to keep them well watered and raised bed do not produce as large a crop as rows do. If we decide to go back to row gardening, we're going to till up the garden and cover it with leaves and chicken/rabbit manure. Then we will cover it with black row covers to rid the area of weeds (I hope). If we do this maybe next spring we will have good, soft, pliable soil instead of the hard, clay, gravel laden soil we have now.

We have the pen almost ready to move the turkeys and the guineas into. The door is ready but has to be hung and then we will move a rooster and hen we have into that pen, clean out the pen where those two chickens are now and then move the turkeys and guineas into the old chicken pen. The pen that the chickens are in at this time has a tin top on it. The turkeys won't drown when it rains in this pen.

Life is knd of boring here right now. It's too hot to do very much outside. At least I'm getting the inside chores caught up. I'm looking forward to cooler weather of which some is supposed to be coming into our area next week. The night time temps will be down in the low to mid sixties. About a fifteen degree drop for nights. The temp should be a lot lower in the mornings when I get up so I can get outside and do some work before it gets too warm.

Thanks for dropping in. I hope you'll come back again soon. :)