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Congratulations! It sound perfect!!!

Isn't she adorable! Congratulations!!!

I have a number of relatives in the Sacramento area dogmom4. Actually, my nephew is the Sacramento County Sherrif. Maybe I was close to your area last summer when I rode AMTRAK to Roseville and then on to San Francisco a few days later. Small world!

Wow, nice job everyone. Hope some of you others will post too. We have such a huge dooryard dogmom4 that I have DH till up strips here and there and we have stuff everywhere. It's crazy but kind of fun. I have a strip by the chicken house that has 2 hills of cantaloupe. I decided the strip was big enough to add a tomato plant. Another spot has 3 hills of watermelon. DH made it big enough that he put buckwheat at the other end. Another strip has 7 tomato plants. Also, we have 2 old wire corncribs that used to house birds of one sort and another. He tilled both and planted buckwheat in one and wheat in the other. There are a good 10-15 strips around here that make no sense if asked to explain why we did it. It's another nice thing about living in the boonies, no neighbors to complain! We also have big beds and small beds of flowers all over the yard. It would all be pretty if I could keep up with grass and weed invasion. With livestock, mostly cattle, we have so much fertilizer and, as any farmer will tell you, with enough fertilizer you can grow anything! What part of CA are you in dogmom4? I grew up about 15 miles east of LA. NOW, let's remember to do this again in a couple of months!!! I edited this to show you the fertilizer sitting by this one bed.

Wish I could help you AH. We grow soybeans and have often baled the straw but never used it as mulch. Interesting question. Hope you find out somehow.

Good morning everyone Last night I got everything, EVERYTHING planted. It was such a good feeling but before falling asleep I thought of a couple more projects. I don't think I'm ever finished until the greenhouses lock their doors. After a long cold winter, albeit a very mild one this last year, how can I stop adding color to my outside world.......I guess it's obvious I can't! Yesterday we went to our 3 year DGD's preschool graduation. All the children were sitting there doing pretty well as the teacher introduced each child and read a little about them. Until she got to DGD each had told her they wanted to grow up to be a policeman, fireman, doctor, etc. Nope, not Miss Ella, she want's to be a pirate. Everyone cracked up. Looking at the lady sitting next to me, I laughed and said, "she's ornery enough to be one". She replied "if Linda, the teacher, had asked me which one of these children said they wanted to be a pirate, my answer, hands down would have been Ella. That little girl marches to a different beat than the rest of us, that's for sure and I'll admit there's no one more fun to have around. I will also admit I'm glad I'm not the one that will be in charge of getting her to adulthood! Time to get busy. Lots to do, we'll see what I actually accomplish. What's happening in your world today. Remember to smile along the way.

Nice Michael. I've learned to keep my carrots moist too. It seems like the only way to get them to come up. Yes, if you make your picture smaller, it's alot quicker for you to post it and us to open. I make mine 680X480.

Nice Homey. That lettuce came back on its own? Cool!!! I have some onions, not the ones in the picture, in another garden that came back. Also one bunch of pumpkins. I've had pumpkins come back other years that never produced. Had pretty blossoms but no pumpkins. I should pull these but you never know, they just might produce this year. Can't garden w/o lots of hope and faith!

It's really very easy to post a picture. Click on Use Full Editor below and it will bring up a window that at the bottom says attach a file. If you have a picture saved on your computer click on where it says browse, find the picture and click on it. It should show up in the space where the browse button is. The picture won't show up but where to find it will. You then click on attach file and it will be there when you post. If you forget to click on ATTACH FILE, which is usually my problem, you'll have to start over. If these instructions make no sense to you, don't be surprised. I am NO teacher! Ask and I'll try to help. If not there will be someone to help you.

I took a picture of one of my gardens a few mins. ago to share here. I thought it might be fun to look at others gardens and see how they progress through the season. Where the cattle panel is are peas, then 4 rows of green beans, 2 rows of cabbage and 10 green pepper plants under the milk cartons. Onions are right in front of me. There are also pumpkin and tomato plants on the other side of the peppers but you can't see them in the picture. Who's next? We'd love to see some photos.

Morning Glories It's a beautiful morning here and I've already been out to the gardens , watering, etc. Love these days! Yesterday we spent most of the day in the gardens too. It so often seems Mother's Day is the 1st nice day of spring so it's become a tradition that we mothers prefer staying home and putzing around outside. Odd, perhaps, but true. Well, DDIL doesn't garden so she went golfing with her sister and mother. Tuesday, AFTER I weigh in at Weight Watcher's, we'll go out for supper somewhere to celebrate Mother's Day. What did all of you do to celebrate this special day? The sprinklers need moving so I'm headed back outside. Have a great day and let us know what's up in your world today.

Thanks ladies. I got all 3. I'm especially interested in the indoor gardening arby. I've tried it a number of times with not very good results so maybe I'll find just what I need with this book. Gosh I love these free books!

AND you're that far south of me Twilight. We're getting a few radishes. Asparagus too but that grows wild in the ditches. Momo, we haven't even put pepper plants out yet and you're eating some. Nice!

Glad you're reading it too Arby. Always fun to hear others opinions. I'd forgotten about the chocolate but hope she ate it before they hit the desert. Desert heat and chocolate....hmmm, sounds like a melted mess to me.

Congratulations Homey and DH. You won't know what to do with yourself with roots again. Hope you love your new house and yard.

Good Friday morning to everyone Another Friday night by Kenny Chesney is the "day of the week song" I chose for today. I don't know it but I do know lots of people like Kenny Chesney so I'm hoping it's a good one. Anyway, I was to the hospital lab for blood work and back home before 8:30 this morning. It's about a 50 mile round trip so I was very proud of myself for getting around and getting over there so early. One thing I didn't do was stop at Hardee's and get a bacon and egg biscuit. I love them and normally I would but I'm trying sooooo hard to be good and I looked at the WW points and it's 21. That's practically my entire day of points. Yikes! I am so glad I don't live in a town that has restaurants and/or fast foods. Those of you east of me that are having bad weather just wait a couple of days and it should be nice. It's was beautiful here yesterday and this morning. I made a dent in the weed population yesterday but not nearly enough so I'll be out there again today. If I could last all day like I think I will while sitting here at the computer I could be finished but the reality is I only do 2 or 3 hours. You all have a good day and be sure to check in and let us know what's going on in your little corner of the world!

I wonder how many of our modern conveniences look like that underneath it all. Good luck out_of_the_ordinary, I hope you can get it corrected.

Ok, I'm in the minority here so I'll give it up BUT I want to say one last thing and then I'm done. IF YOU'RE READING THE BOOK AND DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING QUIT READING HERE!!! This morning when I wrote about the flooding I just knew they couldn't face one more flooding w/o something really bad happening. I'm in for dinner and reading and sure enough, one of the main characters has drowned in the crossing. He was in his 20's, engaged to a girl on the train but since they didn't cross the night before he is dead with no reason for this death that I can see....unless you want to say it helps the story. They had stopped early enough that the majority of people rode their horses a "few" miles to see "the great monolity in the desert". Some of them took a chisels to carve their names on it AND yet they're too tired to cross the river? When their lives are in danger from so many things, why take a chance on something that could have been so eaily taken care of? I still don't get it!

I agree with all you're saying but I still think I'd rather add an hour or two to my day and easily get across a river than risk losing everything and as in the case of this book, spend an extra 2 or 3 days drying out, repairing wagons, losing precious provisions like corn meal thats gotten wet and having to throw it out, etc. etc. Like you said, many couldn't swim so there were also drownings. It's just I would truly think after one such experience I'd rather cross that river while my wagon and livestock could walk across than try crossing a raging river the next morning. I know for us there have been times when we've driven 100 miles to a sale "just to look". No intentions of buying and end up going home and then back again to pickup a cow, llama, donkey, horse, or some such critter that we need the stock trailer for. In the end we don't get to bed until 1 or 2 a.m. because we have all the work of getting it home, settled in, watered, fed, etc. It's then done and we don't have to worry about what's going to be a problem the next day and that's in this much simpler world of today with bridges etc.

TJ Hanson's Oregon Country is a $.99 Kindle book from Amazon. It's about the 1st wagon train going to Oregon in 1843. I don't know if any of the characters are real, etc. but it's kind of interesting. I have one BIG problem with these people. When a river was low and easy to cross why would they NOT cross this river before stopping for the night???? How many times do they have to cross a swollen, fast moving river after a night of rain before they learn???? Surely in real life these people knew this, or leared awfully quick, didn't they???? Or is there something I'm missing?

Good Morning I have a free day and it looks nice out so, I'm on my way outside. I have lots of weeds, after lots of rain, so lots of weeding to do today. Have a great day everyone!

Morning all Hadn't heard of Ruby Wednesday until this morning while looking for a song. This one popped up and I thought yesterday was Ruby Tuesday so today could be Ruby Wednesday. Anyone know it? I did listen to a little of it on you tube. So, my day of fun in the garden yesterday turned out to be a morning of DH and I playing suduko. The clouds moved in as well as the rain so my hopes of gardening vanished. I went to the library and did my walking and then over to weigh in at WW. Lost 1.8 lbs. which made me happy. I then got a few groceries and came home. We just aren't real crazy about TV so played more suduko in the evening. He has the tv and a computer hooked up so we sit in our recliners and enjoy ourselves. The sun has just come out from behind the clouds and it's supposed to be nice today sooooooooooo, I'll be outside as soon as the grass and things dry off. How's your day shaping up? Hope it's a good one!

Thanks Timeage I now go daily to the website you posted and get more books. She does a great job and I just keep getting more and more. It's like an addiction!

Good morning everyone..... Monday, Monday caught peoples attention yesterday so how about Ruby Tuesday today. It was by the Rolling Stones and another oldie that I liked. Anyway, I don't have one thing on my schedule for today. It's going to be a beautiful day and it's going to be a day of being outside for me. I can hardly wait, I've been waiting for a day like this for weeks. I do have to weigh tonight at Weight Watcher's however so there is that! Time to do a few things here in the house so I can get out there. You all have a great day and be sure to let us know what's going on in your world.

My word for scams. You hear of new ones everyday it seems. Glad this one was ridiculous (lack of an address) and that your cousin got to visit with everyone.