September 2006
Monthly Archive
Irrigation
Posted by Moo on 17 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, farm
I took down all the metal irrigation pipes today. Our weather has cooled down significantly and I figure there isn’t much longer left for irrigating before the water gets turned off anyway. Plus the pipes had come apart and needed me to put them together again so I took the easy way out and took them all apart and away for the winter!
Rock Creek Fall Fair
Posted by Moo on 17 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: web page
Today I went to the Fall Fair at Rock Creek where there was lots there to keep the whole family occupied. I have added a web page all about it, including a few photos. Go here to read all about it.
Update on the veggies, fruit and nuts.
Posted by Moo on 16 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Grow your own, farm
The corn is all picked now and the corn plants have been pulled up and put on the compost heap.
The pepper plants produced little red chilli peppers, but the plants are so tiny that I am surprised they produced anything at all!!!
A lot of the hazel nuts have been blown on the ground. They are now big enough that they can be eaten, unless like the last lot that were blown off the tree that had very tiny nuts or nothing at all inside the shells.
The tomatoes are still producing.
The apples have mainly fallen from the trees and been eaten by the deer. A lot of the apples did have worms in or were wasp eaten.
The plums have all been picked from the tree at the back and made into jam or eaten as they were.
There are still lots of pears on the first pear tree. The second pear tree pears are not yet ready to be eaten.
The beetroot is jsut about ready to be pulled and the few carrots that are there are ready too.
The cabbages are growing still but I see the caterpillars have been enjoying the leaves.
I picked a cucumber the other day!!!! I think there is one more to pick soon!!!
New Lewis/Laker family tree
Posted by Moo on 16 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: web page
I have added a new family tree to the site.. the Lewis/laker family tree. It is one that I have been working on for some months now, and have at last found enough information to make it worth while putting on the web!
smoke from fires
Posted by Moo on 12 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I notice on the weather web site for Grand Forks
that there is a new symbol (been in use now for a week or two) for smoke from any fires in the area.
We have been getting smoke from the tripod fires for several weeks now and at times ash on the vehicles, even though we are over an hours drive away from Osoyoos.
A friend in Lillooet says that they have had smoke from the Tripod fires too and they are further away than we are.
Mower back in action! just!
Posted by Moo on 12 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: farm
The sit on mower is back in action after having the tyre pumped up. It needed an inner tube as well since i must have damaged it riding it back to base the other day with a flat tyre. So on Monday and again this morning I was back mowing.
Both days I have had to nurse the mower round. It needs the choke now to get it going at all and once going it stops everytime the choke is pushed in. Not good! However I have managed to mow a good section of the 3 acre field and some of the back acre so am happy with that! Every day it works is a bonus!
Using fruit and vegetables
Posted by Moo on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Grow your own
I have had a surplus of tomatoes and so far have made some salsa and also some red tomato chutney. Both are delicious!
Also I had some surplus plums from the fruit tree at the front of the house and have made some plum and apple puree jam (called summer fruit jam!). That too is tasty!
New page
Posted by Moo on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: web page
I have a new page on Children’s manners.
Skunk and deer
Posted by Moo on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Uncategorized
I was up early enough this morning to see a skunk in the veggie patch. I quickly put Bo on leash as I didn’t want him chasing it and getting skunked! Jaxx was still sleeping but on hearing Bo’s excited bark he was up in no time but by then the skunk had gone!
I also saw four deer on the three acre field, and three of them came across, passed the fruit trees and went down the side of the house and onto the road. The other deer went another way as it saw we were in its way as it hasn’t been as quick as the other three!
Then three more deer on the same field, but they crossed over it going from west to east.
Bo swimming
Posted by Moo on 08 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: pets
We went down to the river the other day and Bo went in the water and swam. The next day we did the same, but this time i had him on a long 20 ft leash and had my camera ready! The little video is now on his Bosun - Sept web page.