Bird Houses

Well its cold as hell in Kentucky these days, so I have been working on some new bird houses. Pretty cool plan I found, based around a coffee can surronded by wood. I made four, now looking at building some bat box's.

Well, we couldnt set up the seed starting room without starting some plants. We saved some seeds from last years Marigolds and Black Eyed Susans. We were wondering if the would sprout. Good news so far, 5 days in and we have growth.

We saved several thousand seed from last year, so there should be flowers everywhere this year.

I think we are going to go crazy this weekend. We are going to start early plants for everything. See how big we can grow tomatoes and other plants under grow lights. We dont have anything else to do, damm its 8 degrees outside...

Me and Ricky got the new seed starting room set up this past weekend. We moved from my spare bed room to the basement. We have two 4 ft tables set up and a work table. We have already talked about adding on levels. Shit could get out of control with our winter boredom......

Its been way to long since my last post. There hasn't been much going on in the garden the last couple of months. We have just been prepping the ground and planning for the new years crops..

The first shipment of seeds showed up the other day, here is a pic of what came in.

Much more to come, we are trying a bunch of new plants this year!!!!

Here is a little bit of the fall harvest. We tried some late beats, and from what I hear they are pretty good. These two jars are going to Mary Helen this weekend. We have also been vacuum sealing and freezing some broccoli and alot of green peppers. My freezer is about full, and more peppers to come. Time to start handing these out. Thanks to Judy Hartlage for the vacuum sealer, I got in 4 more rolls of bags today.

Here is a pic of our lettuce patch. It is growing really well. The bright green is black Simpson, I think it taste really good. The dark green is romaine. I haven't tryed it yet, but will in the next week. We also planted spinach, but it didn't do to well. I will have to read up on it.

Its been too long since my last update. Its been pretty busy around here, cleaning up the garden and storm damage from hurricane Ike. We have had very good success with fall broccoli, ever plant has produced a nice size head. I cant believe that the marigolds are still blooming. Next year I am going to plant some in every bed.

Hurricane Ike Storm Damage

Here is a video I took of the damage we received from hurricane Ike. Its hard to describe, but 3 hours of 70+ mile an hour winds is pure hell. We were lucky, no one was hurt and minimal damage. Thanks to all my buddy's that helped out with clean up. Speaking for Jennifer, it means alot to both of us. True friends come together in times like this, like we all did last week. By the way, the campfire is at my house this fall. Thanks

Our new freind, the owl

We have a new visiter to the garden. Some kind of owl, we are trying to find out what kind. Rick spotted it in the tree and took this picture. If you double click on the picture you will get a better view.

Its been awhile since our last post, been on vacation in Cocoa Beach. Got lots of sun and did some fishing. As you can see, me and Ricky didnt catch much. Rick's dad Dickie (J.R.) had the big catch of the week, a 22" Black Drum. What a beautiful fish. We had a great time, thanks Dickie and Joy!!!!!