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| Check out the sky....you can sorta tell we were having a dust storm yesterday. It was nice and warm, but SO windy and nasty! Not the best afternoon to set up our new experiment, but I am so excited about it that we did it anyway. The kids didn't mind the wind, though it kept blowing their arrows around before they could hit the target! |
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| Most of the straw bales have been set up for a straw bale garden. The extra one is the target for the archers in our house. Straw bale gardening is supposed to be great if you have poor soil and supposedly uses less water. Might be perfect for us! |
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| I promised Dad, Mo, and Mel pictures. They are veteran gardeners. I have only dabbled in it. So, they are curious what I am up to with this deal. These pics are for them. :) First, we set up the strawbales, spread 1/2 cup of fertilizer on each bale. Then we soaked them all with water. There will be 12 days of preparing the bales before we plant them. On alternating days, we soak them just with water and fertilize again. Supposedly, strawberries, carrots, and lots of other veggies love growing in straw bales. We'll see!! There are 8 bales set up. 5 for me and each kid each gets one. We'll keep you posted. |
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| Dust storm covering the sun did make pretty light - had to snap the archer who was sitting on the fence. |
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| Windy Cindy! |
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| Robin Hood |
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| Taking a break from the archery to practice whittling. We got Shane a whittling book for his birthday. I didn't know it would cause such excitement among all the kids. Especially after they all bought new knives at the Rattlesnake Roundup! :) |
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| And guess who stood there watching all the archery and gardening? We love these guys! |
2 comments:
Wow, nice picture of Morgan and Michelle, Hope you shed your winter hair soon.
Why the LONG faces?
Looks like fun with the new gardening technique. Can't wait to see the produce start cropping up!
Super pics of the kids too, and the dust DID make a nice background. That was the same DIRT we experienced hours earlier in Lubbock!
Frank said he turned on the air conditioner and it even blasted out of there right into his eyes because he leaned forward to put his bi-focals on the controls!
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