Friday night, Bulldog Man and I headed to Wal-Mart
in town to pick up some crank bait for fishing early Saturday morning. The clouds were very vibrant and building
east of the store, and I thought I would share the pictures with you.
Saturday morning, we were up at 4:00AM, the truck
was loaded with our fishing gear; I just finished toasting some nice raisin
bread to enjoy on the ride down to the Lake of the Arbuckles, with our
coffee. An hour later, we pulled up to
the Lake, unloaded our truck, and set up for fishing. Bulldog Man caught 2 bass, and I caught 2
also. We each ended up tossing back a
fish due to size.
Temperatures started out at 68 degrees with heavy
cloud cover, switched to a light sprinkle, and then the sun attempted to
appear. Overall, it was a beautiful
morning out at the Lake. We packed the truck back up, went into the
town of Sulpher, and had lunch at this hole in the wall café, called Poor Girls
Café. If you’re ever passing through
Sulpher, I would recommend stopping for a good home-cooked meal.
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Garden
Updates
Instead of planting cucumbers in the garden beds, I
planted seeds in two large pots and rigged up a wire trellis between the two
pots. It seems most of the cucumber
eating in our home is from me, so I reduced the amount I planned on growing
this season. As you can see, I have
plenty of flower blossoms. Hopefully, I’ll
have enough cucumbers to can some pickles.
Here’s the tub of strawberries; several have ripened
and are ready for harvest. My other pots
are doing well, and I should have another large batch of strawberries to
harvest soon.
My green beans have produced many flowers, and when
I lifted the leaves up, I was surprised to see beans almost ready for
harvest. In the next several days, I’ll
need to go through all of the beans and harvest those ready for picking. Wooohoooo, time to do some bean canning and
freezing.
Half of my spinach garden box has started to bolt, I’ll
be keeping an eye out for when they turn brown, so I can harvest the female
plant for seeds.
The celery I started from cutting ends off of
existing celery bundles are very large, and extremely healthy. I believe from now on this will be the only
way I will grow celery in the future, it makes life so much easier.
My pink Brandy Wine, Cherokee Purple, and yellow
cherry tomatoes on the straw bales are producing beautiful tomatoes. I’m just waiting for the appropriate time to
harvest. All the tomato blossoms and
leaves are enjoying an Epsom salt treat.
I place….. 1 teaspoon of Epsom salt in a spray bottle and fill the
container with water, shake, and spray directly on the blossoms and leaves when
the sun is not out.
Here are a few pictures of some of the flowers in
bloom right now; I’m waiting for many more to start appearing.
This weekend has been very nice and relaxing. I’ll be heading down to Texas early Monday
morning to visit with the attorney handling my Dad’s estate. We have papers to complete before going to
court.
Tell me about your weekend……………………..
