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[modern_pioneer]

How hard is it to grow mushrooms?

I don't know, have you ever grown mushrooms? I know a few sweet spots we walk and check on this time of year to gather Morels. I also have a few Wild Asparagus patches along the way. I have one patch I visited as a child, and its still there, grown off the old beaten path now, still the spears appear around it.

My DD is very upset because we missed the Father/Daughter fishing day because of the weather forcast, which didn't mount to a hill of beans. DD is pretty mad at me right now, but I based my plans on the weather forcast. So I need to take her bass fishing while the hogs are setting on the beds.

I was awake and moving by 0615 this morning, I slid out of bed and left DW to sleep as she has been sick along with DS. DS was up already and watching the cooking channel, his cough hasn't changed much over the last week. DW closed herself into the house all weekend, and tended to duties as she saw fit.

To be honest, I have planned a lot of work to move our homestead forward. I have been doing that, and she has been taking care of the kids. When she asked me to do the shopping today, it through a monkey wrench into my plans but I needed to find a way to work around that.

So I dropped what I was doing, did the shopping, and didn't say a word. Its give and take, and I really hate shopping. List in hand, couldn't read some of it, called ask what is this? Bought it and moved on.

I did finish the flower bed in front of the shop today, which was my goal.

 

[TanksHill]

Good job jay, I am sure you dw appreciates it. Shopping while under the weather is miserable. Especially with children in tow. I hope she is feeling better.

I like the idea of foraging for food , mushrooms, asparagus etc.. I would be in fear that I would end up picking the wrong thing.

Oh, last night I stepped into my yard at about 6pm. There were 5 rabbits on my lawn. The grass is dead, so I am not sure what they were eating. Hopefully not my lettuce. Maybe that recipe will get used.

 

[modern_pioneer]

What do we have here?

No Morels along the way, but they are fickle and I am about to learn.

I did get these Asparagus shoots from a known patch I found during late summer when I first moved here.

I finished the flower bed yesterday, and finished the planting today.

So what is the deal with the flower bed on a country lane? To make people slow down, some eye candy to make people want to slow down and look. People fly down my road, nothing I can directly do about it, but I can cause people to rubber-neck. Think tatic, and I know I will have to change it from time to time.

What is the flower bed made from?

Two big ole pine logs Steve dropped off from a job, cherry firewood logs on the corners from my property, Hickory slats in the back fastened to a pine board. I tore up the grass around it when I was setting the pine logs, so I used some horse manure and grass seed to set the ground I tore up while moving the logs..

 

[TanksHill]

Wow, how creative. Great use of stuff you already had as well. I would definitely slow down to look.

The asparagus look yummy!!

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[lorihadams]

Looks nice! I didn't do much in the way of flowers this year but all my bulbs from last year are coming back with a vengeance! Easy, no maintenance

 

[Henrietta23]

I am stealing that log idea!!!

 

[modern_pioneer]

Pics of the girls during their last few days in their brooder. They will be sent off to the big house Sunday, as I plan to build their coop on Saturday.

 

[big brown horse]

I just stumbled onto your journal, I haven't made my way all the way through yet so don't tell me what happens. I had to stop to ask you a question about using your own logs to build things.

We live in Washington and about 1/2 of our land is forest, we just moved here from a treeless area in Texas. Did you treat those logs first before you used them?

By the way your spread is FANTASTIC so far...I'm only on page 2 of your journal. (I am a certified farrier and love to work with metal (bar stock and old horseshoes so far) and my forge.) I love your light that you made!! I want to get into welding soon to make my art.

O.k. back to reading...
-Sally

 

[modern_pioneer]

Sally, nope, I am living on the edge....

I see no reason to treat the pine logs, they are part of a natural enviroment.

Thanks, wait till you read page 3, now thats when things get interesting.

I am a outcast of sorts, people encourage me to keep posting, but nobody
says hello or offers advice.

Me? I am just doing my thing. I am doing it for myself, I don't have time to post to
others journals, or comment on which bible cover looks best.

Me? I make sure I put in a good days work, I don't have time to thread sit like other folks do.

I like to keep it real, no bullchit.

Some folks around here are full of stuff, and not the stuff that Legends are made from.

 

[modern_pioneer]

I am the male version of 2dream, Wanda, I am the crazy dude next door...LOL...