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Slowing down

There hasn’t been much garden to blog about and it makes me sad. I wish I was able to plant my fall/winter garden and be working with that and blogging about it. Hopefully in spring we’ll have another one going where ever we may be. The tomatoes are still producing and I’ve just been making tons of salsa, because these guys are eating like there’s nothing else in the house :lol It only stays in the freezer for a week at most! I’m kinda glad I planted so many now.

The pumpkins continue to grow. I can’t wait to see how well they do for the contest :bounce We’ve gotten a lot of rain and everything is greening up so nicely. It’s funny, in Idaho, everything dies and stops growing in the winter and here, the grass turns yellow and plants slow growth in the summer, but grow most of the winter.

The herbs are really the only other things growing/producing now. The strawberry plants and threatening to take over the neighborhood, I think next year if we were here, we’d see a ton of fruit from them. We only got a tiny bit this year.

I got a deposit from Google Adsense for $307. I’d like to tell the person on that message board that tried to screw me up, to go bugger off, but I won’t. Or did I? It comes at a great time – I had planned on it helping with moving costs, but I have enough web design clients that that will cover the move, so this money will pay for badly needed kid’s clothes. I was starting to think they’d have to wear sheets soon :lol Thank you to all my visitors!

Hurry, voting is almost over!

I had an incredible hard time voting but I finally did it…

don’t forget to vote now before it ends!

2008 Blotanical Awards

Contest: Guess the weight

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This is going to run for a few weeks because we won’t pick and weigh the pumpkin until it’s time to decorate it for Halloween.

Comment this post with your guess on the weight of our biggest pumpkin. The guess that is closest to the weight of our biggest problem without going over, will get a gift certificate from Territorial Seed, with a minimum amount of $10. I won’t post the comments with guesses though, until the contest is over! The only hint I can give you is it’ll be over 5 pounds.

Another one time only post (run, it’s politics)

When America elected Bush the 2nd time the world cried “How can 59 million people be so stupid – again??” and it’s scaring me to think there will be a repeat.

No child left behind is a travesty.

The ongoing, unending wars, are a travesty (here’s a fact for you: At the turn of the 20th century, civilian casualties of war were 5% of the total. … At the end of World War I, the number of civilian casualties was 15% of the total. By the end of World War II, civilians accounted for 65% of total casualties. By the 90’s, they amounted to 75% of total war-related deaths. In Iraq now, the percentage of civilian to military deaths is over 90%  Link)

I’m all for sustainable hunting – hunting for food and supplies, only hunt what you need. You’re welcome to enjoy the hunt, but only kill it if you need it. Sarah Palin makes my husband look like a freaking anti gun pansy and he’s the biggest gun and hunting nut I know. She also is against abortion even in the case of a child being raped. http://www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage.htm I do not want this woman in any office in this country, let alone the White House.

John McCain cheated on his first wife with his current one (I can’t say much about that, I did the same, but then I’m not running for prez am I? My moral fiber has no bearing on the direction of this country!) Not only that, but he’s on camera called her a cunt. And he’s got a horrible temper. I am not impressed by this man! He scares me, like my abusve ex scares me. He’s unstable and will have so much power if he wins :( I need to at least on some level look up to my prez and I can only look on him with disgust.

Obama has problems, I know. He’s policies aren’t perfect, but at least he genuinely loves his wife and daughters and would never call a woman a cunt.

I’d take inexperience over unstable and abusive any day.

Please resume your gardening reading :)

What is this plant?

I know I haven’t had many readers lately mostly due to Blotanical’s (really Google’s) feed problem. Hopefully it’s fixed and this is picked up and displayed!

This weird yellow fruit is getting huge, please help me identify it :treehugger

http://www.garden-of-eatin.com/2008/09/11/identify-this-pumpkin/

Farming Part 2

Farming won’t happen any time soon. The USDA Rural Development farm loan program requires 3 full years of verifiable farming experience. Kinda silly, but there’s ways to do it. I am however looking at a regular single family loan…I don’t think my credit will let it go through ($9k in medical bills), but there’s always hope.

I’m sending the application off tomorrow, keep your fingers crossed!