late plantings

Going to try and get some fall plantings of broccoli and peas in the ground this coming week.  I'll have to peruse my seeds I have left over and see what else might like the cooler weather.

We have a persimmon tree!  I can't wait to try them once they get ripe.

I need to get some pictures of the tree that is flowering outside the bedroom windows - it is awesome looking. (edit: tree is called Crape Myrtle 'Pink Velour')

Time to get to work.

Need milk (wtb cow)

Had a good weekend visiting mom and dad at the lake.  Went swimming, caught some fish, and broke a boat.  Not ours of course, the neighbor's.  The hydraulic piston that lifts and lowers the lower unit into the water gave out.  All we saw was an oil slick behind the boat.  We weren't sure what it was leaking.  So Dad and I hitched a ride back to the house and got the truck and his boat trailer (neighbor doesn't have one for his boat) and went back to where we had left them at the marina.

His boat doesn't really fit right on Dad's trailer but it was good enough to get it to the shop.  Of course the two other guys and the neighbor rode in the boat all the way to the shop ... highly illegal but you have to have some fun when you break a boat.

Got home and discovered I had poison ivy.  It has spread to my face and now I my right eye is swollen.  I had planned on getting projects done this week but now I'm not even sure I want to mow the grass ... /itch.

Really it doesn't itch that bad, I just don't want to iritate it.  And I don't want to go out to the store or anything cause of how I look - don't want anyone to freak out over my swollen eye.  So ... here I sit.  Hopefully it will be healed soon.  I need to get milk.

meds

Must keep up with meds.
Lost the job just in time for the meds to kick back in.
Lovely.

Moving on to do more house work and try and get things ready to farm.  I had fallen out of doing that with the job and while the money was nice it wasn't what I wanted to do.  Perhaps this was meant to be - I don't think so but who knows.  I will probably reapply later.  Honestly I don't want to but it comes back to the money thing.  If I had enough time to get the farm up and running and the money to invest in livestock to start getting a return that would be great.  We were almost there.  Just had to finish the vet bills for the dogs and I would have had it.
So I try again.

black rot

Apparently my grapes have black rot (from what I can find on the internet).  So I will likely get no grapes this year from them.  I will need to trim them back and keep an eye on them next season to watch for the fungus.

Been busy at work.

Been slacking on the blog.

However I have been working on the books - so yay!
Sent off about 5 queries.  I don't expect anything.  I just wish I knew how to write a better synaposis and query letter to give myself half a chance.

Time to go to sleep though and get ready for the next night.

short odd thoughts

While I was at work overnight it rained.

It was the kind of rain you can hear inside a walmart.  It thundered a lot before it decided to pour in the pre-dawn hours.  And the rain would come in spurts as though it was teasing anyone who had a late night / early morning errand.

"Raining really really hard ....

slack off a minute to tease out some people ....

Now DRENCH the world!

Ok they ran back in.

Slack off a little longer.  Coax more fools outside ....

And gadish!"

... etc etc

I amused myself for a good half hour with imagining mother nature laughing her fool head off with this trick.

Yeah ... easily entertained.

low hanging fruit

some mulberry trees

Guilty

Also the grape vines that were already here are bearing fruit (much like my one vine in St. Louis, but I will take these three over that one.)

The boys say hi!

Squire - Khain - Bone

tin foil hat

I almost started this post saying that I am not a criminal.  And then I thought about the lady (Lois Lerner - had to look up her name) from the IRS that did that and then pled the fifth.  It seemed a cop-out.

I should have nothing to fear from the government.  I have never done anything illegal.  I haven't even gotten a traffic ticket.  But after I hear so much about small farmers being harassed about raw milk, monsanto law suits etc, I am really worried that someone might come after me once I start selling what I produce here.  I left facebook for awhile because I didn't want anyone tracking me on it.  The blog was probably something I didn't associate with a wide audience so I didn't think about anyone tracking it.

Who "anyone" is, I don't know, the "Government".  Some Men in Black looking suits that start looking for a way to shut down what you are doing because you didn't color inside the lines.

I like being connected to the internet, I like knowing what is going on in the world.  I listen to talk (politics) radio because I don't get to watch my cable news channels (and I bounce between CNN, MSNBC, and FOX).  I am a news junky.  I want to know about the riots in Turkey after the police brutally cracked down on a peaceful demonstration against cutting down trees.  I want to know what my tax dollars are paying for, whether it is to help the tornado victims in Oklahoma or to pay the IRS to harass conservative groups.  I want to know if my information is being collected in the biggest thumbdrive known to man for possible further investigation in case I ever become radicalized (not likely).

But frankly this stuff is getting out of hand in my opinion.  This is actually beginning to scare me.  I am almost to the point of unplugging from the news for awhile and hoping it all goes away.  But it won't.  It never does.  The best I can do is keep my own little corner of the world the best I can.  I hope that once we get the house sold in St. Louis to get more involved in the community here.  Fight the good fight to keep our privacy and rights (no violence).

For now, I am just trying to get my garden to grow.