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the goat may just be smarter in that he knows there's better things to eat someplace and sometime elses...

i've had chili (from the freezer) the past few days for breakfast so the evening meals have been light and just snacks of different kinds. tonight i'll probably just have tomato chunks and noodles with some butter.

me either (other than looking at them with the plumber who came by to do some work). it rained last night enough that i didn't want to go out and play in the mud/dirt.

you may be surprised later by odd bits that managed to survive.

there is no want beyond the animal that is annoyed by a noise and wants to make it stop and squish is the most direct and non-thinking way for that to happen... in the past when Mom had to get me up to go to school (after she'd gotten my siblings up) she would often find me burrowed under a...

progress! :) hang in there!

agreed, a greed! me wants empty quart jars and cases but can'ts have as we don't have enough rooms precious...

i didn't plan on being outside as much as i was out there but i guess i'm in a little better shape than i thought. will keep at it again tomorrow. i've not looked at the north garden for a few weeks. it hadn't started sprouting too much yet back then. now in half the area i planted the...

same here, i do have to spend some money here or there on hoses and shovels but so far not too much else other than some seeds i'd like to try out. this year, so far, i've spent more money on sending seeds to others than anything else as a way of paying it forwards. i like sharing beans with...

i don't ever recommend that black plastic stuff that is about 8inches tall, it's just not deep enough for a lot of the problem grasses/weeds like quackgrass or horsetail. 18 inches minimum. even a few layers of overlapping cardboard (use the plainest kinds you can find (no shiny stuff and...

two days of good enough weather to get outside as much as my body can take. plenty of projects to choose from and things to get ready for the season. i think today i'll get the north garden scraped and weeded as much as i can get done. i have the garlic in there to work around which will slow...

i just keep after it and eventually it gives up. my major concern is to get it before it drops new seeds or gets too big to easily scrape. last year in the north garden i had some that were 4-5ft across, it was so much more work to get those removed before they could drop their seeds but i...

you learn after a while which weeds you need to keep after right away and those that you can just get after eventually. quack grass in this heavy soil is no fun but after a few years i can clear it from an area and keep it under control as long as i have the time to scrape and work on the edge...

that's entirely reasonable...

i'm just annoyed by them to the point where i want to squish them (in direct proportion to how much it is morning).