Scattershooting and Pics
3/28/08 - 6th - After Breakfast. Preparation of the Sabbath. Ok y'all, I will do some scattershooting among some really interesting pictures I finally have uploaded off of Danielle's camera. This first picture is of my family at our orange party (Ain't Catholics Day) over at the Sifford's. From left to right there is Tracy, Robert, Jennifer, Little Sarah, and Danielle. I'm the one with the hat.
Here we are butchering the pig. Remember, it was the last cold morning, so it was in the 30's for the first few hours. Yesterday and Wednesday, however, it was in the 90's. We have hung the pig on a very Agrarian engine hoist, which is handy for a small pig, and you can crank it up and down as you work. Assisting me is Tracy and Jennifer. Robert and Danielle helped too, but aren't in the picture.
This bowl of lettuce is a lot bigger in real life. We are getting a bowl this big (or bigger) every day from the garden. I will try to get a picture of the garden to put on here too, but it is a very cloudy and gloomy day today, so we'll see. Anyway, the salad from the garden is awesome; the only thing that would make it perfect is some nice tomatoes, but we will have to wait for them.
Here is a picture of the children up at the front of the land collecting manure for the garden. There is literally tons of it up there to get (from us having all the cattle in this area over the winter), so we have been gathering it when we have time.
Here are some pictures of the garden presently. At least what we have done so far. I like to put pictures of the garden up so I can look at them (if the Lord wills) in future years and see what things looked like and when. We have 5 of the 6 double-dug beds finished (not all planted yet) and the three long raised beds we are doing this year are finished. I have also added two smaller double-dug raised beds which are currently planted in squash and melons.
In this picture, looking from east to west, you can see the progression of double-dug beds and how they have been planted. In the closest you can see onions, garlic, cauliflower , and broccoli. There are 450 onions planted in this bed! In the second bed, you can see our "lettuce and greens", and the third raised bed is not planted yet. The fourth double-dug is planted in carrots and turnips, and the fifth is being planted in potatoes.
Ok, one last garden pic. This one is a closer view of the three raised beds.
Danielle and I went to Brownwood yesterday (yes, again) and picked up a 55 gallon barrel of Kerosene and some propane. We also bought two storm doors for the porch. David and Kelly came over and helped me unload the Kerosene, which by the way is now nearing $6 a gallon. Hopefully this will last us awhile. I can see us using fat lamps in the future.
Oh, and we found out yesterday that the feed store in Santa Anna is closing down (somebody bought the building), so we will likely have another antique store or tourist store and no feed store. Looks like we will be driving to Coleman for feed unless someone else in Santa Anna starts carrying feed.
Oh well, gotta run. Y'all be cool.
Michael
Here we are butchering the pig. Remember, it was the last cold morning, so it was in the 30's for the first few hours. Yesterday and Wednesday, however, it was in the 90's. We have hung the pig on a very Agrarian engine hoist, which is handy for a small pig, and you can crank it up and down as you work. Assisting me is Tracy and Jennifer. Robert and Danielle helped too, but aren't in the picture.
This bowl of lettuce is a lot bigger in real life. We are getting a bowl this big (or bigger) every day from the garden. I will try to get a picture of the garden to put on here too, but it is a very cloudy and gloomy day today, so we'll see. Anyway, the salad from the garden is awesome; the only thing that would make it perfect is some nice tomatoes, but we will have to wait for them.
Here is a picture of the children up at the front of the land collecting manure for the garden. There is literally tons of it up there to get (from us having all the cattle in this area over the winter), so we have been gathering it when we have time.
Here are some pictures of the garden presently. At least what we have done so far. I like to put pictures of the garden up so I can look at them (if the Lord wills) in future years and see what things looked like and when. We have 5 of the 6 double-dug beds finished (not all planted yet) and the three long raised beds we are doing this year are finished. I have also added two smaller double-dug raised beds which are currently planted in squash and melons.
In this picture, looking from east to west, you can see the progression of double-dug beds and how they have been planted. In the closest you can see onions, garlic, cauliflower , and broccoli. There are 450 onions planted in this bed! In the second bed, you can see our "lettuce and greens", and the third raised bed is not planted yet. The fourth double-dug is planted in carrots and turnips, and the fifth is being planted in potatoes.
Ok, one last garden pic. This one is a closer view of the three raised beds.
Danielle and I went to Brownwood yesterday (yes, again) and picked up a 55 gallon barrel of Kerosene and some propane. We also bought two storm doors for the porch. David and Kelly came over and helped me unload the Kerosene, which by the way is now nearing $6 a gallon. Hopefully this will last us awhile. I can see us using fat lamps in the future.
Oh, and we found out yesterday that the feed store in Santa Anna is closing down (somebody bought the building), so we will likely have another antique store or tourist store and no feed store. Looks like we will be driving to Coleman for feed unless someone else in Santa Anna starts carrying feed.
Oh well, gotta run. Y'all be cool.
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 3/28/2008 05:41:00 AM
7 Comments:
What a wonderful garden. I'm not getting lettuce yet, but will be very soon. I've also got everything planted that you have planted. Good Luck!
Manette
Great pics, thanks for sharing!
Bill and Deb
Enjoyed seeing all the pictures of your family and the fruit of your labor!
God Bless,
Debbie
Nice pictures! What do you have in your raised beds? Is it that manure that the children were gathering? You must have really sifted it well. It looks very fine and nice. The plants all look really healthy, too. Good job!
Ginny,
Yes, we broke up and sifted the manure, and then we also sifted the soil we mixed with it, so it turned out very nice, and the plants are really thriving this early in the season. Now we just pray for regular rain. In fact, the family is waiting for me right now. They just filled up our watering barrels from the pond and we are going out to water.
God Bless!
Michael
Michael,
I love the agrarian pig hoist. Mine has been just sitting and not realizing its true potential, which will now be rectified
God bless your endeavors!
Allen Shropshire (Promised Land)
Allen,
Yeah, that was the idea of a guy here on the land. I kind of laughed at first, but it worked well. Then I told him that it might not work on a bigger hog - I mean it is a 2 1/2 ton hoist, but it doesn't go high enough. He suggested that we put it up in the bed of the truck for a larger animal. Sounds good to me. We'll try that this next winter.
Michael
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