Stormy cold weather made the last few fields too soggy to work until they dry up a bit. They are wet ones anyhow and the added rain will make them traps for unwary tractor operators. Our place is partly made up of fine slate soil, black as coal and rich and crumbly...one of the best soil types in the state. The rest is mostly clay...not the worst kind of clay by any means, but too boggy to work when it is even damp, let alone this wet. The good Lord willing, it will dry out a little bit soon. It has been so cold the men have been hesitant to start planting. Now, maybe with the full moon behind us the weather will moderate a bit.
My dear brother brought me down some wild raspberry and blackberry bushes (wish they grew the electronic kind rather than the prickly type) that he found on Craig's List. Got to get them planted, plus potting up some errant herbs for the library plant sale. I hate to waste the volunteers and I am delighted that the library will be able to profit from them rather than me just tossing them in the compost bin. So far I have some hyssop, spearmint, garlic chives and lots of perennial top onions. I am hoping it is warm enough today that digging won't be a misery, like most everything else has been during our mini winter. Believe it or not, I had to drag the long johns back out yet again!
And here is the eagerly awaited turkey video with the profanity replaced by Jason Aldean's Hick Town....most appropriate I think. (I wanted to use the Roosters' Kill the Mullet, but alas, Becky couldn't get it to work. It is kind of jerky and has been shortened maybe more than it should be but....
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Cool! I do like Jason a whole lot better!
GOBBLES!!!!!!!! I'll trade you six obnoxious hens for that purdy girl.
I don't know about your place, but the wind here has been really something the last two days. If that doesn't dry out the soil, nothing will.
As far as planting is concerned however, hey! it isn't even May yet! (Almost, but not quite!) Which means we could still have frosts for at least two more weeks.
I had to laugh and laugh for at the hen and the song.
I hope you can get to planting soon. Really cold here complete with snow.
Linda
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Yep, I figured that soil looked good.
Warm weather headed our way tomorrow. Hope it's headed for your neck of the woods.
I figured turkeys for forest/ravine nesters. That video is a hoot.
Lisa, yeah, ditto. lol
Dani, I would trade, if she was willing to cooperate. I love your chickens and we have no shortage of wild turkeys
Joated, yeah, but you have to be early to beat the rains that usually show up in June and last all summer...at least I read yesterday that the late blight doesn't over-winter in the soil here, which totally changes my garden plans. Now if garden centers just buy their plants responsibly so we don't get an importation of it.
Linda, most of the ground is fitted anyhow, which is way ahead of the past few years...and the kids are full of plans.
Cathy, she was so funny lying there dusting up her feathers with no regard for our regard. lol Looks as if we are going to get a wonderful day today...thanks for sending the fine weather!
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