On the farm – Saturday

I got up early because I had a lot that I wanted to get done before the afternoon. So after a couple of loads of laundry done and on the clothes line, I grabbed some of the flowers that I was growing in William’s greenhouse and started to figure out just where they should go. I have kind of mixture of flowers started, and I’m not that picky on where I’m going to plant them, so it didn’t take too long until I was digging up some dirt in front of our house and started to show some progress. Little Kitty and Kaiser still don’t get along and I grabbed my camera quick when I saw how Little Kitty gets away from the puppy. She climbs into the old milk can. DSCN8456Now that’s pretty funny and also pretty safe! I thought how cute that was and then got back to work. When I looked up the next time I saw this! DSCN8458OK, now that cat isn’t so cute anymore. And when I tried to get her off of the flowers, she just looked at me like ‘What’s your problem’. Yea.. Well, there wasn’t much else that I could do at that time so I ended up planting them and even though the flowers look a little crooked, I’m sure they’ll pull out of it and be OK in a week or so. I put a time limit on how long I was going to work on the flowers and I was ahead of schedule! Yea for me!! After giving Kaiser a drimk from the rain barrel DSCN8461 I grabbed the push mower and worked on trimming the yard and around some of the buildings. I didn’t want to work too long on it because I was still going to go on a run. I just shut the push off and was heading into the house for my running shoes and heard it thundering. Now normally I wouldn’t care, but for some reason this time I checked the radar.DSCN8464 OK, I think I should wait and see what was going to happen with the weather. It didn’t take too long and our phone was ringing. It was Daryl and he was coming home and stopped on our neighbors hill. He said that I should go check out the sky to the south because it looked like a funnel cloud just starting. Crap! So I ran outside while still talking to Daryl and by the time I got out there it started to go back into the clouds. Thank Goodness! But I still told William to get everything in the sheds (cars, lawnmowers,… ) and hopefully it’ll just blow over. It didn’t take long and then the rain came. And then the wind came. After checking out the weather on the IPad, we were in store for 50 mph winds and possible small hail. But it only got windy and a lot of rain. We were lucky. But now Daryl’s hay is wet and it won’t get baled for a couple of days. We also are getting ready for a wedding this afternoon at our friends farm and I sure hope that it doesn’t rain again until after the ceremony. Their daughter is getting married in their barn and they’ve worked very hard to get it ready. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what this afternoon brings.

The photo of the day is one of some crazy plants that I bought from the Mennonites awhile ago. I planted them in an old pan that I had and I kind of like how they look. For some reason they look like they might be cactus’s  but I found out the hard way that you need to water them much more frequently that a cactus. DSCN8452

 

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