Gardening

Here are some gardening  needs and pictures.

Need 1. Children.
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Need 2. Any kind of manure.
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Need 3. Garden beds(raised.)
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Need 4. The final need sleds (if you don't happen to have any wheelbarrows - which we didn't) and shovels.
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Children pulling sleds full of manure to garden beds.It is prone to work...unless you have rebellious children. Here are pictures of our garden.

Cantaloupe

corn

watermelon

tomatoes

garden

squash

basil

Can you believe we planted seeds in the ground and grew this?  I guess God did the growing part.  Amazing!

and cucumber. Parker

Cubby creatures

The other day I went outside and found two cats and my dog being extremely cute. I call them cubby creatures because they were hidden away in their special spots. My mom thinks it is funny. Here are the pictures

Scruffy and Velvet the cat

and Dusty the dog. Hope you like the pics.                     

 Parker

Rikki Tikki Tavi

One day our cats killed a weasel. We called it Rikki Tikki Tavi. My brother was carrying it in a pink dish. Here are some pictures of the weasel.

Rikki

TikkiTavi!

Pictures

Here are some pictures for you all to view.

Chickens

Chicken coop

Pig   

Chicken

Deer

Posts

==I haven`t posted in a long time. My mom says I have been neglecting my blog. Here is a cat story. My little sisters cat scruffy had a maggot in his face. It was gross, the worm would pop its head out every now and then to breathe. Our vet was out of town when we noticed the worm.  So, we had a cat with a worm in his face for 5 days.  But we got him to the vet on Monday and he is all better now.

On the way to the vet the cat started freaking out and wanted to be out of the car.  No one wanted to hold him because there was a small unwanted passenger living in his face.  Blegh.  Scruffy thought the back window wasn't there.  He attempted to jump out the back window (that he thought wasn't there) and we heard a thud.  The cat hit the glass and fell down on to floor in the back of the van.  Next he ran up to the front of the van, stood on the dashboard and stared at my mom.  Meanwhile, mom was trying to see to drive and all 4 of us kids were laughing.  Scruffy no like cars.

heat

 Today is extremely hot,and when I said hot I meant HOT!!!  The kind of hot as in bake your brains, cook you like a turkey, and melt you like a popsicle. It is hot enough to make metal burn a hole in your hand.It is hot enough to make oven heat feel like a match(not really).So that is what it feels like today.

Parker

chicken death

One of my chickens was killed.  Here is the story.  My mom had a person come out to fix our dogs invisible fence. The person also brought their dog. So my siblings and I were in my hammock and we hear a bock (chickens say "bock-bock"). We turn around and my chicken is dead and the dog is standing over it.

I get up, grab my boots and start hitting the dog with them.  Every time the dog went for the chicken I hit it with my boots. After that every one except my sister (the oldest one) was crying. 

After I got the dog (Anika) off my (now dead) chicken, I went to find Mom.  My siblings beat me there.  My sister told Mom what happened because she was the only one who could talk.  Andie was crying hysterically because she thought the dog killed Belle (the chicken she named).  Cole was bawling because the chicken was dead.  I was crying for the same reason Cole was. 

So, then the person fixing the invisible fence went to get her dog.  We couldn't see her with the dog but we heard some loud whimpers.  We then got a discount on the fence repair.

Cole and Andie cried for almost an hour.  I got two one day old chickens later on that day.

So that is the chicken story.


Parker