Waiting on my Porch

I found this exciting box waiting for me on the porch when I got home today.  Can’t wait to get up to my sewing room this weekend!

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How Will it Fit into the Truck?

Rich finished making the new dog collar rack and we put all of the collars onto it last night.  It looks fantastic. 

I am excited to have it on display this weekend.  Its going to take up a lot more of the table, but make it much more pleasing to browse the selection of collars it holds. 

I am a little concerned about fitting it into the truck though… hum.

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Stepping Stones

We have a fence up to keep the dogs in the yard and a second fence up that keeps the dogs out of the garden. 

We do not have real gates on the fences.  They are just the end of the fence secured close with a snap.  So they are a bit of a pain to open and close repeatedly.  Not to mention keeping the dogs in the appropriate section while you go through. 

Since we go in and out a lot Rich made us stepping stones to step over the fences.  Nothing fancy, just cinder blocks on either side.  We might need to stack up a second stone though, as with the way they currently are, I can just barely step over. 

Nothing exciting, just a little peek inside of our garden.

From the garden to the hose

From the dog yard to the garden

 

From the yard to the horse trailer parking

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Eggs Smash

This past weekend when I was at the Harrisonburg Farmers Market  working my stand, tragedy struck. 

To get the image, you must first understand that it has been really nice out lately, but Saturday morning it was cold and windy (thanks everyone that ventured out anyway!).  So I had on tons of layers including my purple carhartt coveralls and jacket, which are super thick and baggy and also, oh so attractive.

During the market I had to slip between two tables in my stand a couple times to get to the sales area and then back into the “operations” area behind the stand.  One of the tables had a cooler sitting on it with eggs inside of it that I was selling.

The tragedy happened during one of my slips between tables.  Picture McDonald’s Grimace trying to fit between two tables placed closely together with fine China stacked precariously on top of them.  You know there’s comedy abound.  My butt caught the cooler, and in what felt like slow motion, knocked it, and CRASH!  Five dozen eggs destroyed in seconds. 

Awesome. 

photo compliments of friends; Woodart Studio http://woodartstudio.blogspot.com/

I am not sure how but I did manage to get my gloves, which I took off before attempting to clean up the mess, covered in egg. 

I felt bad.  All that work my chickens put into laying those eggs was totally wasted.  But, even though we lost 5 dozen eggs, after getting home and cleaning the cooler and eggs out, I did collect two dozen that were still in fine condition and managed to salvage about a dozen that were only cracked that I could fry up for the dogs. I almost wish I had taken a photo of the mess before I cleaned it up, but that was not in mind at the time. I did take the two egg photos in this post earlier in the morning, before the egg smashing event.  My chickens sure do lay pretty eggs.  The light blue one is a huge egg.  It’s not just the angle of the camera making it look like that.  My Araucana chicken named Gryffindor laid that egg. 

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Harrisonburg Area Garden Tilling for Hire

Do you need your garden tilled? 

Rich is available for hire.  He will bring his BCS garden tractor and leave you with a nice fluffy garden. 

each approximate 10X10 space or each 40ft row = $20

Rich will also weed your garden, help you with planting and other odd jobs.  Give him a ring to discuss.

$20 Minimum.  Plus a little for gas. 

Call Rich 540-220-5738

First sweep through the dirt

First sweep through the dirt

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Sustainability vs. Monsatan

Reblogged from soilentgreens:

A fellow blogger asked me to expound on the topic of heirloom/organic vs. hybrid/organic seeds. I’ve been putting it off because the subject is bigger than just seeds and begs a much more detailed account of what “sustainability” means to me and my partner. To answer the question simply though, Heirloom/organic = sustainable/healthy; Non-heirloom/non-organic = non-sustainable/potentially unhealthy. Heirloom seeds produce fruits and vegetables that in turn produce seeds that will make the same fruit and vegetable, over and over again, year after year.

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This is a really fabulous blog post from Soilentgreens that I think says some of my thoughts better than I can express them myself.

Can There Be Too Many Dog Collars?

Last week I completed 65 dog collars to add to the selection we already had available.  The previous selection was already over packed onto the rack we use to display them and after adding the new additions this Saturday, we decided that the dog collar rack is now severally ’over grazed’.

Rich started making a new, much larger rack to display them that afternoon.  The new rack is going to be four feet long and will have four rungs.  The current rack has three rungs on which we display sizes Medium, Large and XLarge.  The new rack will still display those sizes, and the additional rung will be for the new selection of Small and XSmall dog collars that are in the works.

I took these photos at the market to show the extraordinary selection we currently have.

The pile of collars in the front was held back and not put out this weekend.  It’s nice to have some extra inventory again!

Tags: cosmic earth, dog collars, harrisonburg farmers market