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Mr_Yan · Sep 18, 2017

Got to my garden and saw that something started eating my popcorn. So I harvested some of it. Maybe a quarter to a third. My 7 year old and 2 year old helped me husk it all. Now I have popcorn cobs drying.

I have three bags of beans to shell.

I think I need to make some drying racks. I'm running out of space.

w_r_ranch · Sep 19, 2017

Made my 'liquor run' to the big town of Brenham this morning. The trip was interesting as I was curious about the damage sustained from the recent hurricane/flooding.

Refilled the hummingbird feeders.

Made our Spanish rice to go with the enchiladas for supper.

ksk · Sep 19, 2017

Made a few runs to ''SPECS'' this past year.Finished mowing frontage fence line inside.Reworked the spillway at the pond as.I am getting erosion on one side of the levee.I am rerouting the water away in a different direction.The humidity was brutal.

Mr_Yan · Sep 19, 2017

Picked a small section of pink beans I still had in the ground.
Cut down the corn stalks I picked from yesterday - left the roots in the ground to decay until spring.
Pulled 26 more ears of popcorn that looked ready.

All told about half of my popcorn is out of the gound, husked, and drying a little until it is pulled from the ears.

Really starting to hate sitting behind a computer in a corporate cubical setting.

w_r_ranch · Sep 20, 2017

Made a pot of pinto beans

Refilled hummingbird feeders.

Cut the grass.

Hosed off the back porch again to remove the 'love bugs' bodies.

w_r_ranch · Sep 21, 2017

Filled & put up the new sunflower seed feeders for the redbirds & woodpeckers.

Yesterday many of the hummingbirds moved on, so I won't need to refill the feeders. As they become empty, I'll start taking them down & prep them for storage. I've been telling people for the last 6 weeks that it's going to be an early winter based on them arriving 2 weeks early & now they've departed 2 weeks earlier than normal.

Continued prepping the garden (I need to get the potatoes in the ground this weekend). This chore was cut short when it started raining cats & dogs...

Saw a new to the ranch bird today, a male Vermilion Flycatcher!!! This not not my picture, I just used it for a reference for those that may be interested.

ksk · Sep 21, 2017

Leveled out a hog waller that would swallow my tractor About 30 minutes after I finished,the sky opened up.We have had 3 inches in 3 hours.I had plan on weed eating around my planter boxes.

Mr_Yan · Sep 22, 2017

Well our forecast has us within a degree of Dallas TX today. We're north of Chicago.

w_r_ranch · Sep 22, 2017

Did the weekly shopping & picked up the herbicide as it is almost time to spray the pastures again.

Started cleaning the hummingbird feeders before putting them up.

Treated all the fire ant mounds that sprang up in the yard with Sevin.

w_r_ranch · Sep 23, 2017

Made rolled wheat bread.

Put the 8 hummingbird feeders I cleaned yesterday away for the season.

Trimmed another oak tree.

Continued working on the garden.

Made Spanish rice per request.

Mr_Yan · Sep 23, 2017

Painted exterior window trim.
Removed sunflower seeds from flower heads.
Shelled some black beans.
Set some conibear 110s for rabbits in my garden.

Hope to kill more small furry animals.

ksk · Sep 23, 2017

Weed eater around planter boxes and weeded boxes.

w_r_ranch · Sep 27, 2017

Been sicker than a dog for the last 4 days...

whistech · Sep 27, 2017

Mr. Ranch, hope you get to feeling better quick.

ksk · Sep 27, 2017

w_r_ranch said:
Been sicker than a dog for the last 4 days...

I was wondering were you have been.Hope you get to feeling better.

w_r_ranch · Sep 27, 2017

Thanks guys.

w_r_ranch · Sep 30, 2017

I'm feeling better after 6 days of the flu (I'm running at about 85%). I'm behind in everything...

Made a pot of pinto beans.

Pull the mower deck off the garden tractor to sharpen the blades. I noticed the belts are worn so I left it as is & will go on Monday to get new ones. Cutting the grass this time is going to be a PITA, but it is what it is.

Made our version of Spanish rice to go with the stuffed jalapenos that Mrs. Ranch made.

Made a loaf of buttermilk bread & then used the old loaf to make bread pudding.

whistech · Sep 30, 2017

Glad you are feeling better Mr. Ranch and that bread pudding looks outstanding.

ksk · Sep 30, 2017

w_r_ranch said:
I'm feeling better after 6 days of the flu (I'm running at about 85%). I'm behind in everything...

Made a pot of pinto beans.

Pull the mower deck off the garden tractor to sharpen the blades. I noticed the belts are worn so I left it as is & will go on Monday to get new ones. Cutting the grass this time is going to be a PITA, but it is what it is.

Made our version of Spanish rice to go with the stuffed jalapenos that Mrs. Ranch made.

Made a loaf of buttermilk bread & then used the old loaf to make bread pudding.

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Great to see you up and around,even at 85%.I have cut my deer feeders off as the deer are not eating corn[acorns] and I'm being over run with hogs.Maybe they will go to my neighbors feeders. lol

w_r_ranch · Oct 1, 2017

Start my 'beginning-of-the-month' household chores.

Did the monthly maintenance of all the computers.

Mr_Yan · Oct 1, 2017

Lifted the center of the south wall of my garage 2.25 to 2.5 inches. Cut out the rotted base of the studs. Replaced the sill plate. Sistered and bolted new stud sections to the original studs. I still need to setup an image hose account to post pics of it.

w_r_ranch · Oct 2, 2017

Went to town to get the replacement belts for the garden tractor & while replacing them I found a bad pulley on the drive belt, so I had to make a 2nd trip to town.

Cut the grass.

w_r_ranch · Oct 3, 2017

Made another load of buttermilk bread.

Since it's rained most of the day (1.110" thus far), I finish my household chores.

ksk · Oct 3, 2017

Planted winter oats in the pasture and rye round the house.

whistech · Oct 3, 2017

Yesterday I planted broccoli, cauliflower, snow peas and sugar snap peas in my raised beds. Today we have had about .7 inch of rain so that should do everything some good.

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