tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post5500631639527142050..comments2024-03-26T19:41:26.017-06:00Comments on Bees, Birds, Berries, and Blooms!: Unbelievable...Bonnie Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052974547161586063noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-40078744419791162762015-10-14T22:09:41.300-06:002015-10-14T22:09:41.300-06:00I've never heard of cucumber jelly, but it rea...I've never heard of cucumber jelly, but it really sounds interesting. I love your new flower bed, and all of your garden produce and products are gorgeous!GretchenJoannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13641677400029070452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-50903972713283427912015-10-14T21:08:11.997-06:002015-10-14T21:08:11.997-06:00What a great guy your Hubby is! The new flower be...What a great guy your Hubby is! The new flower bed is so nice.<br /><br />Beautiful, golden honey. We got 4 cases of honey from the bee keepers. Yay!<br /><br />I've been picking tomatoes and yet there are still many green ones on the vine. I gave them a talking-to today in hopes that they'd hurry it up before frost. They've had a good, long season to ripen. I might have to put the spade down in the roots to get them to ripen.<br /><br />The lost hair clip -- how cool!! It's funny, but we have found many little trinkets that were lost on horseback through the years or while fencing. I often find little plastic army men or hot wheels cars in my garden diggings. The kids left a few things outdoors. Hubs found a wrist watch some years ago -- a Timex that was still ticking! (remember the ads?). <br /><br />I would love to see the sweet grass growing too. I don't think we have any such thing out here. But we do have sage, and I like that too.Gumbo Lilyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02747138637571716591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-10718350575697277902015-10-14T07:15:40.016-06:002015-10-14T07:15:40.016-06:00Oh, I hadn't noticed your preserving list on t...Oh, I hadn't noticed your preserving list on the side. That's great! Do you make your own hard cider? I just went to a workshop about that... mostly to learn about cider vinegar making as the workshop leader prefers to use his (uncarbonated) hard cider to make vinegar to get more consistent results. :) <br />Your home looks wonderful! And that is so crazy about that hair trinket! Old Gates Farmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17685259960106384067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-46640586954410765632015-10-14T06:51:38.344-06:002015-10-14T06:51:38.344-06:00the new garden looks great, a lot of people are us...the new garden looks great, a lot of people are using raised beds for flower and vegetable gardens!! it's so nice that you husband appreciates your hobbies and helps to make things works out!!! the cabin looks great but i can't help but think, it will soon be covered in snow!!!<br /><br />looks like you had a great season!!!!Debbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16823369215793154260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-76613686644548982192015-10-13T18:42:07.321-06:002015-10-13T18:42:07.321-06:00I love your raised bed. I am forever fighting with...I love your raised bed. I am forever fighting with the weeds and raised beds are my dream!! That is pretty amazing about your hair trinket. Once we found one of the kid's plastic toys in the lawn which had met an unfortunate end with the lawn mower. Not nearly as exciting as your lost and found. -Jenncoffeeontheporchwithmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618627688821849806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-2114039623077350582015-10-13T14:54:14.206-06:002015-10-13T14:54:14.206-06:00I love your new garden bed, how handy to be able t...I love your new garden bed, how handy to be able to sit and garden! And to find your hair trinket after all that time is truly unbelievable (and neat!!) We are missing two shovels and a watering can, I always wonder what became of them, but I doubt I will have your luck. :-)Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368318730124533690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-28721879021387495742015-10-13T13:18:34.130-06:002015-10-13T13:18:34.130-06:00Your cabin is GORGEOUS and the jelly is lovely. H...Your cabin is GORGEOUS and the jelly is lovely. Honey, too? Wow!Pom Pomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01524994024698986829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-27037955562093280892015-10-13T09:30:34.241-06:002015-10-13T09:30:34.241-06:00That new bed looks wonderful, all that lovely dark...That new bed looks wonderful, all that lovely dark soil, and then full of your flowering plants. I made tomato soup for freezing last weekend too. I love having soups and stews all winter long. I do have a lost and found story. Once many years ago while getting into the car, I banged my engagement ring on the car door and the diamond got knocked out. It could have been on the ground, outside the car, or it could have been somewhere inside the car. I couldn't find it. A couple of years later, while getting in the car, my son saw something shining in the dirty auto carpet, and lo and behold, it was my diamond! Good thing we don't vacuum the car much, I guess.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323262555906240701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-39152242188961442392015-10-13T07:48:48.117-06:002015-10-13T07:48:48.117-06:00I love your new flowerbed!!! It will be so nice th...I love your new flowerbed!!! It will be so nice there. I love all of your honey. My bees were the meanest things I ever saw. The absconded with the honey after we robbed them in the fall. They left that hive as clean as the day I put them in there. I wasn't sorry to see them go, but I do miss the honey. <br />I would love to tell you a lost and found story. When I was a kid, we were down at the barn, where my back yard is now. We were throwing hay to the cows. My Dad had bought himself, this huge diamond ring. This was the early 70s. He must have lost the ring while throwing hay. We looked for it for years and years. <br />When we decided to build this house, we had to have all of the dirt work done and there was lots of heavy equipment and they took out the old foundation where the old barn had been. The old pens and such. <br />After we had finished the house and had got the white fences up my husband and I were walking around, when he saw something in the dirt. He leaned over and picked it up, and it was that ring. All of the diamonds were in tact and it was a little scratched but none the worse for wear. I still have it as a reminder, that nothing is ever lost. Isn't it fun to find things like that? Thanks for asking.Farm Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00998621464797636686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-54973107002544453742015-10-13T07:04:24.065-06:002015-10-13T07:04:24.065-06:00Your garden bed looks great. I am impressed with ...Your garden bed looks great. I am impressed with all you accomplished in one weekend. Also, now I have to find some sweetgrass (or seeds or keep an eye come spring:) <br />Thank you for sharing.Lady Locusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12661298925602199106noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-80768678740164522782015-10-13T06:44:44.066-06:002015-10-13T06:44:44.066-06:00Can you post a photo sometime of what the sweetgra...Can you post a photo sometime of what the sweetgrass looks like growing?<br /><br />That was a major project but good you did it before the porch collapsed. Major projects here? We are having the concrete sinks in our master bath replaced in Nov. Decided we just didn't like the shape or the color and how they we wearing after 10 years. Figured when it came time to sell and move to a retirement community we'd have to re do them so why not enjoy the replacements before then. <br /><br />Gardening projects have been the put away type. Also planning what to do next year differently to keep the deer out.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00992626996077874832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7809908055754014264.post-7676052646681041372015-10-13T05:50:46.071-06:002015-10-13T05:50:46.071-06:00I was at a fall festival all weekend. I love to wa...I was at a fall festival all weekend. I love to watch old tractors and go to craft shows, so there were a few to see.This is a time of year to catch church suppers and I let them have the mess.I thought my tomatoes were finished but have a couple dozen I need to pick today. Yesterday was the average frost date, so I will play with that a bit, it is really nice out all week again.I like the raised bed, it will be fun to work with.Out on the prairiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09548162534362532705noreply@blogger.com