I looked back and found the first photo of the Tigger Melon on the vine – it was taken July 27th
Today is August 24th – almost a month later and the melon was harvested. I could have/should have waited a few more days, but I was anxious! The melon is rather small … only 3″ [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Tasting our First Tigger Melon and some more Bugs!
Posted in Crafts, Garden pests, Insects, garden crafts, gardening, tagged crafty garden, garden bugs, gardening, gardens, gourds, grasshopper, melons, new website, saved spinach seed, squash bugs, swan gourd, tigger melon on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fishing Pro in A Day!!!
Posted in Fishing, Illinois, Ponds, country living, tagged Add new tag, catfish, country living, DIY, fish, Fishing, GRIT magazine, pond aerator, Ponds on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am excited to post my pictures of the recent catfish I caught while down south last weekend. I waited so I could post the link to my Blog at GRIT magazine where you will find the reason I do believe I caught these giant fish! We installed a surface pond aerator and it was quite the [...]
Southern Illinois produces Oil and other Discoveries!
Posted in Illinois, Nature, Ponds, country living, gardening, tagged corn harvest, GRIT magazine, Illinois, installing pond aeration, lizard, mushrooms, oil pump, pond, pond aerator, southern Illinois, thank you, turtle on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Traveling down south this past weekend was Great! We took an extra day and it seemed like we actually had some time to relax! The big project was installing the aerator pump on our 3 acre pond and I will post detailed information on the installation later this week at GRIT on my Reader’s Blog I recently [...]
A Huge Thank You to WordPress .. I’ve been noticed!
Posted in country living, farming, gardening, tagged being noticed, blogging, country living, gardening, GRIT magazine, thank you, wordpress on August 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes in life when you least expect it, Great Things Happen! Almost 5 months ago I started my WordPress blog to document my gardening happenings as a record for myself and also as an aid to anyone looking for information about something I had experienced or knew how to do. I love Gardening and there [...]
The Tomato Hornworm has arrived
Posted in Garden pests, Illinois, gardening, tagged damage in garden, gardening, Illinois, Tomato, tomato hornworm, tomato plants on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I knew he was out there lurking in the garden destroying my tomatoes, tomato plants and enjoying every minute. I spotted the damage earlier in the week and each day I went out several times to find this monster!
Damaged tomato
Today I finally captured the demon and he is gone! They blend in so well [...]
The Baby Swans … 2 months later!
Posted in Nature, birds, swans, tagged baby swans, birds, blue heron, ducks, swans, water birds on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I first saw and photographed the baby swans on June 8th and it’s amazing how much they have grown!
Proud parent and six babies!
There is one white baby and the other 5 are dark grey – not sure what the difference is.
Two baby swans
Closeup of baby swan
Checking each other out and this last pictures is a Great [...]
Without Power and Feeling Powerless
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday evening severe storms swept through our area leaving us without power for 20 hours. The storms started around 8 pm so we attempted to just go to sleep (we should have been sleeping in the basement), but we figured it would end shortly. We tossed and turned all night and when morning came and [...]
Luffa progress and my apologies to Sarge
Posted in Dogs, Illinois, Insects, birds, country living, gardening, tagged Dogs, gardening, grasshopper, horseflies, Insects, Luffa, miniature dachshund, orange bird, pets, spider, white fungus on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I posted about the wild dogs I spotted over the weekend and mentioned all my own dogs Except I forgot to include Sarge, our miniature dachshund who is 12 years old and in great health. He prefers to stay home with the teenagers when we take our trips down south. I image he does [...]
Wild dog pack and my own dog pack!
Posted in Dogs, Illinois, country living, gardening, tagged alma paprika pepper, country living, Dogs, first tomato, pets, puppies, wild dogs on August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Living out in the country definitely is different! One thing you have to learn is Total Awareness. For instance … I listen to my dogs when they bark. Sometimes it can be annoying when they all start barking at the passing butterfly or the newest drop of rain – but when they bark … I [...]
