TURKEYS & GEESE:
Turkeys are the new thing around here.
I raised my first ever this year from hatching eggs.
I started out with 16 eggs and ended up with 4 live hatches.
Four females. No boys.
I've falling in love with turkeys! They are SO bright and people loving. They come running when they see me
and follow me around like a band of puppies.
I got way too attached to them which I typically don't do when I know they are destined for the freezer.
I sold two that will be used for breeding and I'm keeping tow.
I was going to get a tom but I pondered, do i really want to hatch out more turkeys that I don't want to eat?!
This Thanksgiving my girls are grateful we ate an anonymous frozen cousin from the grocery store but I
really would like to raise some for the freezer vs. buying mass production turkeys.
More and more I don't want to support that kind of commercial meat production.
I still have my geese but plan to cut back next summer after the breeding season because the cost of feed is getting ridiculous.
ROSES: I haven't purchased a single rose the last few years. Despite putting down Milky Spore 4 - 5 yrs. ago or so I still have
enough Japanese Beetles that pretty much ruin my annual rose crop. Plus I have Rose Chafers as well.
It reduces me to tears every summer. Maybe I need to try Nematodes. This year I used Sevin as much as I don't like to during the peak Beetle season.
As for my roses I have probably already mentioned I've weeded out most of my smaller roses and what's left is the most care free roses such as Rugosas, Ramblers, a few Austins and some OGR. Albas have done especially well. Many of these roses are growing up through sod and weeds and only get one application of fertilizer in early June....typically Rose Tone by Epsoma. A lot of my roses are HUGE, HUGE, HUGE now! Its great having such grand, large shrub roses but painful to see my gorgeous blossoms devoured by those bastard Beetles.
OLD KITTY:
Very sadly we had to put down our 20 yr old cat 'Gremlin' about a month ago.
She was born here and was buried here. She will be greatly missed.
ME: Quit my home health care job. Got burned out on the company I worked for.
Horrible managers and treated their employees like S.
Kind nice not working but not liking no money. Looking around for another job.
Good thing hubby works full time plus gets a pension.
In general everything is doing well on my end and hope everybody around here is doing like-wise.
Here's some pics from this year.
