Small Homestead

R is home from the hospital and doing as well as can be expected.  He is pretty much house bound and hurting enough that he hasn’t complained.  He is managing to walk around the house a good bit though.  I am very glad not to be making the hour and a half drive to the [...]

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Just wanted too give everyone a quick update.  Randy had surgery yesterday for his hip replacement.  He came through with flying colors but then spiked a fever last night.  I was at the hospital until early this morning.  His fever is back down but he is on IV antibiotics right now.  Hopefully when the antibiotics [...]

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The tomatoes are finally coming in and they are coming in all at once.  It’s amazing how many you get off just one bush.  Then multiply it by 10 and you get enough tomatoes to feed an army.  For the last few weeks, we have been having tomatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Today I was [...]

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July has been a strange month here.  It was hot and dry for the first three weeks, so much so that we feared losing the garden altogether.  The last week and a half of July it rained just about every other day.  The rain gauge showed approximately 4 1/2 inches over that time period.
However, the [...]

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