Farm life
You never know what is going to happen around here. Thursday night, Ciara showed me we have Broccoli worms and some kind of bug that hatches as spiders in our garden. Since we have an organic farm, we have to find something that can deal with these worms that are organic. We are going to use bacillus thuringiensis (BT). Our garden is doing well we have a lot of tomatoes, squash, okra and peppers growing and ready to eat. Ciara has planted Beets and Pumpkins that are still growing.
One of our Hens was acting lethargic, so she spent the night in the house in cage on Thursday night sleeping with a fan on her. I was kind of hoping that after they grew up and moved out to the chicken coup that I was done with them in the house. I told Ciara I believe the black and brown hens are going to start laying eggs any day now, and sure enough we had one tiny egg. Our 5 easter egger chicks will take longer before they lay eggs. I hope the lethargic chicken isn't egg bound, but we will deal with that when the time comes.
While we were outside a group of deer ran right by us, like 20 feet from us and Chewy our husky went after them and chased them all the way down to the woods.
We still have two of the three outside cats around and they are in our barn behind the house. Smokey who I was able to pick up tonight, she is a girl, the other kitty Shadow is a boy. Momma cat has been gone a couple weeks; I hope she is safe somewhere.
Happiness is in the little moments
I love Saturdays, it is my relaxation day of the week. Today it is cloudy and overcast which is wonderful and I am on the couch doing Genealogy & watching TV shows with Ciara, the dogs and cats. Ciara is crocheting a long neck dinosaur today lol.
When I was younger, I got into the habit of watching channel 8 which is PBS channel when I lived in Arizona it would have cooking shows, and this old house. Our here our TV doesn't broadcast PBS too well with our antenna, so I am always looking for shows to watch on Amazon or other streaming channels, and even YouTube. My all-time favorite shows to watch I find on the Discovery and the PBS living channel... here are my most favorite: Homegrown with Jamila Norman she is amazing here is her farm Patchwork City Farms, and anything Jacques Pepin, Julia Child and Lidia the Italian chef.
Family
We got a call from our daughter Nichole she said our son-in-law Matt is sick with Covid and they need help, so Dave packed up and is headed to Tennessee right now to help. I wish I could go so bad, but I have work. I am so happy that Dave's job is one he can do anywhere and that he is able to go help our kids. That is the hardest thing about being away from family that I miss, is being there to drive over quickly to help. It is going to take Dave about 8 hours to drive to them but that isn't a rough amount of time to drive. I told Dave to send me tons of photographs.
What I am up to....
Genealogy: I am working on the Zornig (German), Pfaender (German), Plambeck (Denmark), Flavelle (Staffordshire, England) & Weidman (Denmark) families. This is Ciara's Paternal family lines, and they all ended up in Illinois when they came to the United States. I am close enough to go and research in Chicago, which is exciting.
August Weidman born 1882 in Bornholm, Denmark and passed away in Evanston, Illinois 1959.
Christine Plambeck born 1882 in Copenhagen, Denmark and passed away in Evanston, Illinois in 1952.
Ellen Weidman born 1906 in Rockford, Illinois and passed away in Palatine Illinois in 1995.
Marion Weidman born 1909 in Evanston, Illinois and passed away in Alma Michigan in 1991.
Carl Weidman who is Ciara's Great Grandfather born 1912 in Rockford, Illinois and died 1961 in San Diego, California.
Bread: Ciara and I are going to create our very first sourdough starter. I got Ciara a Bread cookbook for her birthday, and we are going to make all kinds of breads. It is starting to cool off use the oven to bake soon. In October I have another book coming called: The Big Book of Bread by the King Arthur Baking Company. I cannot wait.
Gardening: I am thinking up ideas to put a raised garden by the back door. I want to find some old things I can upcycle to make the area around the outside of the garden. This is going to be a small area It is going to be for flowers and herbs.
Things floating around in the back of my mind...
My Daddy, Ronald William Thomas, August 30th is the 20th anniversary of my dad passing away. I cannot believe he has been gone that long. I want to do something in honor of him... maybe plant a tree or a bush or make something that I can look at and think of him.
That is about it for now...
Oh great Movie we watched last night.... Fly Me to the Moon
FLY ME TO THE MOON - Official Trailer (HD) (youtube.com)
