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Lawnmowers

 Lawnmowers plus automatic re-locator

 Tree delouser

 Automatic planter

Happy Greenhouse Day!

 After a day of cleaning up from last years mess crop, it was ready to start the planting. A wheelbarrow full of composted horse manure (3 years in the works) mixed one to one with Triple Mix and it was ready to start. Elaine picked up the plants a couple of days ago and I had a pack of Stevia seeds from way back that I want to try. Man, are those seeds expensive! $4 gets you 11 seeds! If they grow as advertised, one of the plants will be coming in the house in the fall.



















Obviously, we got our stock from the best nursery in Alberta, McLeod Valley Greenhouses! To grow a tomato plant this size would mean starting about March and using a tremendous amount of heating dollars. There are other things we can start and have produce.


















It does feel good to be playing in the dirt again! I need to bank this thought, as next on the list is hand digging all the garden beds.

This morning we woke up to a frost heavy enough to put an ice skim on the horse trough! Fortunately, the greenhouse kept enough heat in to prevent any damage. It was +1C (34F) inside.

At Last, Some Reason!

I don't often do this, but if you are looking for some answers to the Global Warming issue (from the other side), you might want to click on the link below. It attacks science with science, and is refreshing to say the least.

thanks to http://itdontmakesense.blogspot.ca/2012/03/new-dark-age-approacheth.html for posting this.


http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/10/moncktons-schenectady-showdown/

8 More Weeks to Go!

This is one of our 8 Gold laced Wyandottes that we hope will start laying within 8 weeks, unless it's a male. It's still too soon to tell which sex they are. I think that this one may be a male due to the development of more colour on its neck.
The Leghorns and Red Sussex Cross are growing like weeds. The males here are starting to crow, sort of. They sound like a bunch of those annoying vuvuzelas from Africa. If they follow the pattern, these guys should be laying in another 4 weeks.

Elaine was counting eggs produced from the 10 Rhode Island Reds over the last year, and the count is now over 1900 eggs.
The turkeys are showing the most growth and are getting really big! Their snoods are just starting to elongate, and the necks are getting a permanent red in cclour.

These critters are going through about 6 pails of food a day, so there have been quite a few trips to the feed dealer, plus quite a few dollars spent. UFA staff seem to smile when I walk into the store.

We did pick up a new (on sale) very large upright freezer to put the garden produce in and offload the 22 ft3 chest freezer.

Fall must be coming as the potatoes are starting to die back, the peas are coming to the end. There should be about another 20 meals for 2 to go into the freezer.

So far there are also 30 pounds of raspberries frozen. Now if I could find out what to do with leaf lettuce, life would be good. I guess it will end up as chicken/turkey food. A guy can only eat so much salad!

It looks like by adding a lot of bone meal to the garden, we will be getting a good crop of carrots, beets, and khol rabi.

So far, it has been a very good garden year on the Acreage!

What Can I Say?

Here it is May 30 and this is what we woke up to this morning! In the right garden, the potatoes and peas just started poking their heads out.

It could be worse, such as the 10+ cm that dumped on Calgary and Edmonton or the 20 cm on Lethbridge.

The nearest thought that comes to mind is: " Brphhtthth"

Birth, Life, Death, ?

This little hairbell is exhibiting almost all the functions of living. Seeds are being formed, the plant is enjoying the life it has been given (if plants can, in effect, enjoy things). Some of the flowers, though pretty, are dwindling out already. In effect the plant has a "lifetime" of a few short months. The seeds will go on to reproduce another plant, and another cycle.

This existence is very much like the human one. We are born, live our "three score and ten", recede and die.

There the similarity stops. All people on earth, no matter where they are in our world, have basic beliefs in a higher being. This is true all throughout history.

When you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, have repented of your sins, and have been baptised in water, then you are promised through the Word of God that there will be eternal life.

Everyday, I am thankful of being alive, having accepted the Promise, and look forward to the life after death.

I don't know about you, but I am thankful that I am not a plant, with nothing to look forward to.

Spring Progresses

The greenhouse is coming alive. The plants are just waiting for the frost period to be over so that they can get into the big beds.





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We are starting to eat tomatoes, but they were started several months ago in a nursery Our apple trees are tough and are just starting to blossom. The trees are 6 years old and last year was the first small crop of apples. This year 4 trees are starting to flower. Hopefully, they will not get frosted.


Ah, spring is a good time!!