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I got pics [EDIT] I have a golden digger wasp https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.php?identification=Great-Golden-Digger-Wasp
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Stacking sawmill lumber in his barn over at my neighbor's. I seen this lawn mower. I said is that a rear bagger? He looked and said yep. I said that would be great for my garden with a mulching blade. He said sold!
This was out at the door of my barn when I got up this morning. I'm gonna let the rain knock the dust off of it. See about getting it started, get a mulching blade for it and prop the rear discharge open. It's one of those old high HP craftsman self propelled jobbies. Free is free, it should work well for knocking down weeds in-between rows in my garden
Hooray Rain
it came from Iowa 
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This was out at the door of my barn when I got up this morning. I'm gonna let the rain knock the dust off of it. See about getting it started, get a mulching blade for it and prop the rear discharge open. It's one of those old high HP craftsman self propelled jobbies. Free is free, it should work well for knocking down weeds in-between rows in my garden
Hooray Rain
it came from Iowa Jesus is Lord and Christ
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I got this thing for Texas. So I ordered two Sam Houston peach trees. The variety only requires 500 chill hours (45 degrees or below) to set fruit. We have 1400 chill hours here. 
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Peach 'Sam Houston' (Prunus persica) - MyGardenLife
FeaturesA low-acid, flavorful peach developed by researchers at Texas A&M University. Low chilling requirement is ideal for warm climates. Produces an abundance of freestone peaches in late spring into summer. Eat fresh or use for canning and baking.UsesProduces fresh fruit for a delicious and...
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The storms mostly missed us the past 4 days. Friday night, about 40 miles south of us, they got almost 3 inches of rain.
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Yes you do have a thing for Texas! Why don’t you share some of that rain and send it to me? Drought here, pastures are curling up and turning brown. I’ve dry lotted my sheep, feeding hay. No rain in sight.I got this thing for Texas. So I ordered two Sam Houston peach trees. The variety only requires 500 chill hours (45 degrees or below) to set fruit. We have 1400 chill hours here.
Peach 'Sam Houston' (Prunus persica) - MyGardenLife
FeaturesA low-acid, flavorful peach developed by researchers at Texas A&M University. Low chilling requirement is ideal for warm climates. Produces an abundance of freestone peaches in late spring into summer. Eat fresh or use for canning and baking.UsesProduces fresh fruit for a delicious and...
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Coffee is ready! I worked on cleaning fence row yesterday from branches and mess left from cutting trees. This is my next project, getting this stretch of fence up. Then I can cut over to driveway fence and have another pasture.
I got back of truck full, parked at gate to sheep field and took a water break.
Then truck wouldn’t start. Chris brought 30’ trailer back, to pick up my 18’ flatbed to put new floor in it. He checked truck, batteries were dead. Went to Sam’s and got new ones. He’ll come put them in today after church.
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Sipping morning coffee from a mug I bought from a little hippy diner west of Denver.
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Heated milk for cheese while having morning coffee. Frig too full, have to convert milk to whatever. Made cream cheese today. Left some plain, savory season on some. Kept some cream out and in frig, before cheese making. Still 4 gal in there & more milk every day. 
I drink about a qt a day, too.
Load of clothes ready to hang out. Lovely breeze, they'll dry fast and looking like they were ironed.
Hope to finish running hot wire today. Waiting on special insulators to arrive shortly...today delivery.
Made cream cheese today. Left some plain, savory season on some. Kept some cream out and in frig, before cheese making. Still 4 gal in there & more milk every day. I drink about a qt a day, too. Load of clothes ready to hang out. Lovely breeze, they'll dry fast and looking like they were ironed.
Hope to finish running hot wire today. Waiting on special insulators to arrive shortly...today delivery.
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Farmbabe and I bottled up her kombucha after church. In the bottling bucket she added 3/4 of a tsp of both cranberry and apple natural flavoring a quarter tsp at a time and tasted. Once you add the flavorings you can't take it back out so best to stir in a little at a time, taste and add more until the like how it tastes.
7 pints of apple cranberry kombucha, capped tightly. I believe It'll get fizzy (carbonated) over the next week or a so.
Here's the flavorings she used.
I then added Mrs SCOBY and her attached momma SCOBY and the attached starter culture and remaining liquid into a clean and sanitized 6 gallon food grade bucket. I then poured 5 gallons of very sweet and very strong black tea into the bucket snapped the lid down and placed air lock filled with sanitizer into the grommet. I reckon in 2 weeks we'll have a 5 gallon batch to flavor and bottle.
All in all it went well and now farmbabe knows how to bottle using star san sanitizer. She flavored it well, nice balance of sweet/sour and apple/cranberry with a nice flowery aroma. Mighty tasty apple cranberry kombucha right there 
The key is to keep it all sanitary (star san).
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7 pints of apple cranberry kombucha, capped tightly. I believe It'll get fizzy (carbonated) over the next week or a so.
Here's the flavorings she used.
I then added Mrs SCOBY and her attached momma SCOBY and the attached starter culture and remaining liquid into a clean and sanitized 6 gallon food grade bucket. I then poured 5 gallons of very sweet and very strong black tea into the bucket snapped the lid down and placed air lock filled with sanitizer into the grommet. I reckon in 2 weeks we'll have a 5 gallon batch to flavor and bottle.
All in all it went well and now farmbabe knows how to bottle using star san sanitizer
. She flavored it well, nice balance of sweet/sour and apple/cranberry with a nice flowery aroma. Mighty tasty apple cranberry kombucha right there The key is to keep it all sanitary (star san).
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How much do you drink a day? Like, how long will the 7 pints last? Is it drink as is, or dilute?
