How We See Christmas Symbols

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Mike the Gardener Enterprises, LLC: Maximize the Germination of your Vegetable Seeds

Mike the Gardener Enterprises, LLC: Maximize the Germination of your Vegetable Seeds

2011 Sunflower Patch

My  favorite thing about Summer is seeing the Sunflowers.With fall arriving I sat down today and went  bac thru our wonderful 2011 sunflower season and thought I  would share with you. They have long since dried and shared with the birds and I collected some seed for next year.Hope you       Enjoy,Sinz

Dad  tilled the sunflower patch for us

Our very first one opening

Hubby Tim standing beside them to se how tall they are.Officially 5'10

These two beauties just screamed gmornng to me that Bright day !

 

                            This is my oldest son Chad cutting Sunflowers for my  great-neice  Aubrey     

                 

                       these are teddybear sunflowers.I painted this stone  with chinese word....Sunflower

The reds are beautiful

                                                               Indian  Red                                                         

Me sharing one with my Great-niece Maddie

This one I told kids was showing off her Freckles:)

labor day and beyond

                          Wow been a week since  I last  posted, alot going on since Labor  Day and i am still so new to posting I think I have been enjoying reading them than posting my own but here is an update  on things happening on the Smith Gang Farm :)        

My Little Black Bucket was handed off to Chase to         pick Butterbeans for supper  on Labor day

I tried making Homemade Wheat Bread but didn't have a loaf  pan lol soI used my bundt pan,they loved it anyway!Put Applebutter on it and within minutes it was gone.

Had the Best time with my oldest son for Spirit week at his   school.11th  grade one more year and I will have my second child a senoir.

Labor day weekend campout on the farm.The guys were all nice I  was so worried about hosting  that nite hubby was  on the road working but they all had agreat time. 

after the campout I talked Chad into helping me with  my hair .he wasn't all the way thrilled but he did a good  job;)

Chad and Sophia

Chase and  Sophia

I never get tired of seeing my boys helping take  care of our Grand-daughter Sophia

Sorry bout pics they are taking on my droid hoping to get a quality camera for my bday some year lol

Pre-pairing the Fall Garden August 2011

For this job the boys found the farms bigger Black Buckets

                                    Shoveling away in the old  barn.Many a laughs doing this job:)

Chase says this is is personnal cab.

Chad spreading out the manure on the fall garden spot

 Me driving the tractor to till the Fall garden August 2011

Can't wait to plant after Labor Day weekend

Sophia hanging with Lolli

 Sophia hanging out with her Lolli.We took our little Black Bucket and filled it with Sweet Corn.We counted 10 little worms.It made a wonderful skillet of corn for supper.

Sophia teething on Beef Jerkey.Got this tip from www.goddesshobbies.com.   She is  really amazing (check her blog.clooecting the moments.one by one.) It really kept Sophia happy while I cleaned all the corn. Happy Day on the Farm.

 Me with my  little Black Bucket with the corn patch behind me.just enough came up for 3 suppers..we really enjoyed it.2 more rows have been planted Aug.29,2011 just to see if we could get a small harvest before frost. my dad saved a corn cob off his field for me to plant.

Pear Harvesting 2011

This is the Beautiful pear tree on our farm. This year it is loaded with Canning Pears ,so my mom and dad told me they would teach me how to put these pears up. I'm not sure how old this tree is since we just got our farm in 2010.

This is my mom MaryAlice stirring the pot of Pear Jelly and adding the sugar. After peeling in mashing and straining it takes 8 cups of Pear Juice and 8 cups of sugar,we added 1 1/2 box of suregel. I loved pouring the jelly into the jars.we canned 34 pints.It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon spent with mom.

A Morning of Pickin

                I took my little black bucket and stepped into the Farm this morning and picked a row of zipper peas,our rows are 100 ft. long, then pulled a 5 gallon bucket of corn for supper.We got a late start on our garden plans this year ,we took the time to fertilize well with goat n cow manure and layed soaker hoses under our black plastic teqnique. With busy folks here with school and a baby we have no time for pulling weeds so this works for us. My daddy taught us this its working very nicely. Found one small spaghetti squash that had turned a beautiful yellow I have never grown these, course this is our first garden on our farm.I grew up on a farm with 7 brother n sisters we had to have a garden when I grew up but this will be my 2nd attempt on my own. Saving that spaghetti squash for Monday nights dinner. So torn between Spaghetti or Alfredo with it!
               Tim and Chad finished fixing the fence and Gate to the pasture where we plan on raising meat Goats. Plan on moving our Great Pyrenese (sp) Dog CJ,next week n getting some goats in Spetember.Post some pics after I figure out where my pics are going on my new Droid 3 .LOL. I am a total cell phone picture chic.Chad ,my MAN-Child lol  plans on tilling us some more land this evening  to add more peas for the Fall, I want to try a row of Black-eye peas n Pink-eye peas. We are doing very well on our Okra patch selling some , putting some in freezer for winter soup and cooking a nice pan full each week.We dont really like fried Okra in our Family so a quick cook down on the stove and into the oven to finish is our favorite.
                We were given a high chair this week for our little grandbaby Sophia ,this was her first morning of sitting in it while I cooked Blueberry pancakes.I sneeked her a few small pieces just to see if she could eat it  YUP she gummed it to death lol. post pic soon.This high chair will soon be sent down to her Ole Grandmaw's n Great-Grandaddy's for eating on her visits there.
                 Alrighty off to shell those sweet zippers for the freezer.
                                        May you all have a Blessed Saturday, The Smith Gang