On my previous post, I mentioned we ordered a part
to fix our free digital camera. The part
arrived; Bulldog Man got to work removing the broken old part, and replaced it
with the new part. This fix was quick
and very inexpensive……meaning: we didn’t have to buy a new camera.
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| New Part |
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| Broken piece and little pieces found. |
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| Fixed Button. |
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Every week, I usually bake off a beef roast, ham, or
a turkey; to cut thin with our meat cutter to make our own lunch meat. This week we selected a ham. We coated the ham with brown sugar and
crushed pineapple. OMG…..talk about
good! The guys were happy to have
homemade sandwiches with our own meat instead of the old processed lunch meat
from the grocery store.
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| I took the picture to late, Bulldog Man started to clean the slicer. |
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We recently picked up a couple of new bird feeders
from Lowe’s while in town. As you can
see here, the squirrels are having a field day with one of the new feeders. I’m thinking it’s time to fix this problem
and maybe have fried squirrel for dinner……..what do you think?
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I love to use tires for planting my potatoes. As we all know, tires hold water unless you
cut the side walls off of them. In order
to do this, you need to puncture the sidewall with something sharp, or an
electrical tool (like a drill) with a spade bit attached. After puncturing the
tire with a wide punch mark, insert the blade of a Sawzall to cut the sidewall
off. This is a tedious, time consuming, and
back breaking process; but in the end your potatoes will grow and not rot.
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| More to Cut. |
This past weekend, Bulldog Man, Tank, and I removed
the old garden fencing with the bamboo; because it really didn’t hold up as we
expected. This fencing will be chopped
up and hauled off to the dump. As for
the remaining T-posts, they’ll be reused.
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| Beans Investigating Some Pieces of the Old Fencing. |
We had decided this year’s garden was going to be doubled
in size. That is, until we realized we
would be dealing with some things we can’t control, like a sick parent (mother),
and upcoming surgery for Bulldog Man.
We ended up increasing the garden size, but not
doubling it. Bulldog Man pulled out his
handy dandy measuring tape, marked off where the T-posts would be placed. Tank and I pounded the T-posts in to their
new locations. As I cut the overgrown grass
where the old fence used to be, Bulldog Man and Tank wired feedlot panels to
T-posts and now we have a fenced in, expanded garden.
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My lettuce seeds have already starting growing. It will be nice once again to have fresh
lettuce in our salads in a matter of a couple of weeks.
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| Once lettuce seedlings get larger, I will thin the bed. |
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While at our local Atwood’s Ranch store, I picked up
several small pots of organic purple cabbage to plant in one of our garden
beds. As soon as you walk into the
store you knew they had baby chicks for sale.
All that was heard was a constant chirping. I so wanted to head back to
where the chicks were and surprise Bulldog Man with a couple of baby chicks,
but I changed my mind.
