Good Morning everyone,
I thought I would just take a couple of quick photos of the north side garden. It is not pretty, as you can see. I do not have a huge space to work with, and at the present, my tomatoes are covered, but the snow fence sure makes a good support for them and the cucumbers. I have to share space with the vehicles as you have to keep things close here or everything will grow legs and walk off.
Where I have my walking onions in the container, I will place my cucumbers, and they can travel and meander along the fence up by the carport shed. The sun is great along the fence line, and the rest of the garden, I will place in containers around where I have sun. I have containers ready for summer lettuces and greens also, I just have to wait til it dries out and I can move them into the garden enclosure. My tomatoes seems to get through the cold. I have lost about 4 plants, but I will replace them. They either got water logged, or chilled, and I lost one to the wind whipping and breaking the top off, but I think that they did well. I placed milk jugs with water in them and that really helped. I guess what ever I can do.
I am very ashamed of my garden this year. And it doesn't help when it is very dreary like the photos show. Today it is very chilly and gloomy. If we get sun, it will be better, but not like last year's photos I had up of the house.
Well, I just thought I would chime in this morning. I have a ton of house work to do, laundry, and bathroom duties, so I had better bug out for now and I will try to post later in the week.
Please have a great week.
Hugs
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
A chilly few nights
Good Evening Everyone,
I hope that you all had a great productive week and weekend. Like I have mentioned, I have been pretty busy in the house trying to get just general house things done, painting, working outside as I can. I am so very far behind in the garden, and I am afraid that it is going to be a cool summer here, where I will need to leave my greenhouse plastic up for most of the summer like I did last summer, to get anything to grow and be productive.
It has been very chilly here the last few days. We had 2 1/2 inches of rain the last few days and nights, we really needed it, but we also are having pretty chilly weather, and I do have tomatoes in. I had to put them in, they were getting root bound and starting to die, so I had to take the chance. I have covered the tomatoes with greenhouse plastic and am just hoping for the best. My problem is: I lost my south side because of the south idiots so, I do not have the heat from the house to protect the plants, so I am just hoping I can stay ahead of Mother Nature and a prayer. It is supposed to drop to 32* tonight, and tomorrow, with even a wind chill of 23*, so yes, I would say, winter does not want to let go of her grip yet. And to think that we had 85-90* last week.
I covered my berry canes, and did cover my lettuces and greens, so they are OK and can take the chilly temps. I have my cucumber seedlings and squash in the house under the lights and they are in the "it" room where it is warm.
Other than that, that is about all that is going on here. I really have not been in a gardening mood, to be honest, I am very upset that I lost the south side, which pans out to about a 5 ft by 50 ft section of garden that I could use, but I cannot risk loosing any plants I put in and pay for from idiots. I'm not even going to risk it. I had that a few years ago from some other idiots and I lost a lot of money in plants and produce stolen, so I am just going to bide my time and hope for the best.
I also want to thank all of you for your words to help me through this very unhappy time. I do not feel isolated with all of you along side me. You are the only reason I can get up in the morning with my coffee or tea and get through the day. Thank you all my friends. I love and give hugs to all.
Well, I am going to quit for the night, I am beat, tired and am going to sit and read a new gardening magazine I got in the mail this afternoon, so I wish all of you a wonderful upcoming week.
Hugs
I hope that you all had a great productive week and weekend. Like I have mentioned, I have been pretty busy in the house trying to get just general house things done, painting, working outside as I can. I am so very far behind in the garden, and I am afraid that it is going to be a cool summer here, where I will need to leave my greenhouse plastic up for most of the summer like I did last summer, to get anything to grow and be productive.
It has been very chilly here the last few days. We had 2 1/2 inches of rain the last few days and nights, we really needed it, but we also are having pretty chilly weather, and I do have tomatoes in. I had to put them in, they were getting root bound and starting to die, so I had to take the chance. I have covered the tomatoes with greenhouse plastic and am just hoping for the best. My problem is: I lost my south side because of the south idiots so, I do not have the heat from the house to protect the plants, so I am just hoping I can stay ahead of Mother Nature and a prayer. It is supposed to drop to 32* tonight, and tomorrow, with even a wind chill of 23*, so yes, I would say, winter does not want to let go of her grip yet. And to think that we had 85-90* last week.
I covered my berry canes, and did cover my lettuces and greens, so they are OK and can take the chilly temps. I have my cucumber seedlings and squash in the house under the lights and they are in the "it" room where it is warm.
Other than that, that is about all that is going on here. I really have not been in a gardening mood, to be honest, I am very upset that I lost the south side, which pans out to about a 5 ft by 50 ft section of garden that I could use, but I cannot risk loosing any plants I put in and pay for from idiots. I'm not even going to risk it. I had that a few years ago from some other idiots and I lost a lot of money in plants and produce stolen, so I am just going to bide my time and hope for the best.
I also want to thank all of you for your words to help me through this very unhappy time. I do not feel isolated with all of you along side me. You are the only reason I can get up in the morning with my coffee or tea and get through the day. Thank you all my friends. I love and give hugs to all.
Well, I am going to quit for the night, I am beat, tired and am going to sit and read a new gardening magazine I got in the mail this afternoon, so I wish all of you a wonderful upcoming week.
Hugs
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Wishing everyone a Happy Mother's Day
Good Morning everyone,
I'm still here. I haven't been sent to the pen or the gulag YET. But I thought I had better post that I am still here, but I have been sand baggin' and have been pretty busy painting and trying to get the garden in at the same time. I have been pouting a little bit also, but I have to get up and going. With all of the crap that had happened, I am oh so far behind in the garden it isn't even funny, so I have been trying to whip a bit of garden that had not been in garden for several years, but I am getting it done. It isn't going to be a pretty garden, but just functional to produce something. Hopefully it won't fail me, as this is done very slapped together. I will post photos later.
Update from next door, the south idiots had a brawl last Tuesday night. I was sitting outside with a cup of tea after supper and heard screams flying around, I didn't look, as I knew what was going on, but the neighbor lady right across the street seen it all and went in and called the cops. She had a front stage view and unfortunately, she and a tenant she rents to was out in front talking and the tenant ran in her house as she is a survivor of domestic assault and the neighbor told me later she was petrified. I told the neighbor that it will have to be up to the other neighbors to call the cops and I cannot because of the blame game crap the owner and the these trailer park trash pull. The neighbor said she was going directly to the owner to bitch about them and to file a complaint about the male running around in his underwear showing off his manhood. See this male does not venture out too much, but when he does, he is in his underwear walking down to the west of us to another crappy trailer park that's worse than this one. From what I was told, the whole area is complaining about this male as we don't know if he is a pervert or what. So, the story continues, I will keep you posted.
Well, I am going to get dressed and ready to work today. It has been beautiful the last few days and have really got a lot done. I have been very exhausted also. So I will try to post more as I get things done.
I wish all the moms a Happy Mother's Day. Enjoy your day.
I'm still here. I haven't been sent to the pen or the gulag YET. But I thought I had better post that I am still here, but I have been sand baggin' and have been pretty busy painting and trying to get the garden in at the same time. I have been pouting a little bit also, but I have to get up and going. With all of the crap that had happened, I am oh so far behind in the garden it isn't even funny, so I have been trying to whip a bit of garden that had not been in garden for several years, but I am getting it done. It isn't going to be a pretty garden, but just functional to produce something. Hopefully it won't fail me, as this is done very slapped together. I will post photos later.
Update from next door, the south idiots had a brawl last Tuesday night. I was sitting outside with a cup of tea after supper and heard screams flying around, I didn't look, as I knew what was going on, but the neighbor lady right across the street seen it all and went in and called the cops. She had a front stage view and unfortunately, she and a tenant she rents to was out in front talking and the tenant ran in her house as she is a survivor of domestic assault and the neighbor told me later she was petrified. I told the neighbor that it will have to be up to the other neighbors to call the cops and I cannot because of the blame game crap the owner and the these trailer park trash pull. The neighbor said she was going directly to the owner to bitch about them and to file a complaint about the male running around in his underwear showing off his manhood. See this male does not venture out too much, but when he does, he is in his underwear walking down to the west of us to another crappy trailer park that's worse than this one. From what I was told, the whole area is complaining about this male as we don't know if he is a pervert or what. So, the story continues, I will keep you posted.
Well, I am going to get dressed and ready to work today. It has been beautiful the last few days and have really got a lot done. I have been very exhausted also. So I will try to post more as I get things done.
I wish all the moms a Happy Mother's Day. Enjoy your day.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
An un-nerving few weeks
Good Morning everyone,
I hope that all of you are OK, if I have readers from the south, I pray you are OK and getting through the turmoil of storms. My heart goes to the south for the devastating destruction it has left.
I apologise for the lengthy away time I was. But I had a very un-nerving and then anger filled few weeks.
I will not go into great detail about this little bru-ha-ha, but the trashy neighbors who are to the south of me accused me of graffiti on the back of the crappy trailer they live in. The accusations flew, the cops called, evidence checked, and then as quickly as the finger pointing came, everything went. OH yes, these people also accused me of window peeking.
This happened sometime between last Tuesday night or very early Wednesday morning, the words "move" was spray painted on the back of the trailer. Now I will tell you, that yes, I was inquiring about these people, and I was told that the man who suddenly moved in with this woman was very violent, which he is, as I had seen him punch this woman down the stairs and the screaming that comes from this trailer. But, unfortunately, living in a shit hole town such as this place, if you even want to call it a town, if you ask anything, eventually it will get around.
I am sure that these people have baggage that they moved with from their previous digs. I was told that they were evicted from the last residence for non payment and the violence. I also learned another larger lesson..don't ask about things and be careful WHO you ask. Since this 3 groups of people who have moved into this area came, we have had nothing but people coming and going and strange things going on in the air and around the neighborhood.
I was so very angry about this, and I was angry as I had a cop here, which when we do have them, they treat you like the trailer park trash they think you are. This cop was brash, and condescending. I told him, that I am not exactly well, and have other things to do besides paint things on wall, and peek into windows.
The other thing that angered me was the owner was right along blaming me for all of the social ills that he puts here. So I did go to his place of business and lit into the middle of them and told them to leave me alone and to step up to the plate and YOU be responsible for what you put over here, and that they were not going to pin the crap onto me. I then had to go and talk to my attorney, which I cannot afford, and discuss my options and at the moment, we are just sitting and seeing what will come about, which is all I can do at the moment.
Then the old, " I can't have a garden or flowers" bit came up again, as this trailer park trash have kids that are allergic to bees, and I told the owner to shove it. Bees and bugs are in the environment and I can't control the world or the bugs so I told him to tell these people to get a life, if they even know what that is and then mentioned I had council with my attorney and whether he wanted to press on with the attorney, which he backed off and said he hates attorneys and shut up from there.
I wish I could move, but it costs a fortune to move. I was pondering selling the modular back to the owner, but currently, I am not in a position to do so, so I have just concluded that I will with draw into my home, I moved my garden area to the north side, brought my blue buckets around and will pull them into my garden area, and just take it one day at a time.
I recalled another blogging friend, who I will mention, FlowerLady from FlowerLady's Musings had something similar to my dilemma, the shitty neighbors and the trash that seems to walk upon the urban areas now. We are seeing this now here where I live as it seems since the news had been mentioning that the middle states are doing better than other parts of the country because of the economy, we are now seeing all manor of people, all colors, coming here to live, thinking we have jobs and places to live, which is far from the truth. Along with this urban crap that is moving into the area, they bring their urban problems and social issues which we are not really prepared to deal with here. Issues with color and cultures. When people move here, they cannot deal with the idea that there is nothing to do here. We have no anything to go to or clubs or night life that they had before. This is a very low paying state, which you will find part time work, IF you can find work, and way below minimum wage and I mean way below, most pay is around anywhere from $4 an hour to $6 and that's it. And maybe 15-20 hrs a week if you are lucky. And forget about housing, its not here, except places like where I live, where I would not let a dog live in some of the places this owner has to rent out. And on top, he charges $600 a month for the dumps to boot.
So, I have been extremely depressed, and almost afraid to go out, worrying that if something else happens, I will be the first to get nailed because I am the target. I am amazed that I, who mind my own business, am now the enemy of this place who lives among drug dealers and general shit of the lower population.
So, I have been trying to work inside, I am getting ready to paint some rooms and just general fix up so just in case, IF I decide to sell my investment of the modular back to the idiot owner, I can, and be done with it. But at the moment, I am holding my ground.
Currently, I put in my berry canes, in small containers to see if they grow. I put my dwarf blueberry's in the larger containers and will see how they do. I will try to get onions in some containers, and I haven't even started on the area for my tomatoes and cucumbers yet. We had a beautiful day yesterday, into the low 70's but this morning, it is chilly and very windy. Personally, I have not felt like gardening at all now. I have lost my desire to garden, period. Funny how quickly everything turns to ca-ca.
Well, I think that I have pissed and moaned enough, so I will take leave and wish all of you a wonderful gardening weekend, and we will try to post later.
Hugs
I hope that all of you are OK, if I have readers from the south, I pray you are OK and getting through the turmoil of storms. My heart goes to the south for the devastating destruction it has left.
I apologise for the lengthy away time I was. But I had a very un-nerving and then anger filled few weeks.
I will not go into great detail about this little bru-ha-ha, but the trashy neighbors who are to the south of me accused me of graffiti on the back of the crappy trailer they live in. The accusations flew, the cops called, evidence checked, and then as quickly as the finger pointing came, everything went. OH yes, these people also accused me of window peeking.
This happened sometime between last Tuesday night or very early Wednesday morning, the words "move" was spray painted on the back of the trailer. Now I will tell you, that yes, I was inquiring about these people, and I was told that the man who suddenly moved in with this woman was very violent, which he is, as I had seen him punch this woman down the stairs and the screaming that comes from this trailer. But, unfortunately, living in a shit hole town such as this place, if you even want to call it a town, if you ask anything, eventually it will get around.
I am sure that these people have baggage that they moved with from their previous digs. I was told that they were evicted from the last residence for non payment and the violence. I also learned another larger lesson..don't ask about things and be careful WHO you ask. Since this 3 groups of people who have moved into this area came, we have had nothing but people coming and going and strange things going on in the air and around the neighborhood.
I was so very angry about this, and I was angry as I had a cop here, which when we do have them, they treat you like the trailer park trash they think you are. This cop was brash, and condescending. I told him, that I am not exactly well, and have other things to do besides paint things on wall, and peek into windows.
The other thing that angered me was the owner was right along blaming me for all of the social ills that he puts here. So I did go to his place of business and lit into the middle of them and told them to leave me alone and to step up to the plate and YOU be responsible for what you put over here, and that they were not going to pin the crap onto me. I then had to go and talk to my attorney, which I cannot afford, and discuss my options and at the moment, we are just sitting and seeing what will come about, which is all I can do at the moment.
Then the old, " I can't have a garden or flowers" bit came up again, as this trailer park trash have kids that are allergic to bees, and I told the owner to shove it. Bees and bugs are in the environment and I can't control the world or the bugs so I told him to tell these people to get a life, if they even know what that is and then mentioned I had council with my attorney and whether he wanted to press on with the attorney, which he backed off and said he hates attorneys and shut up from there.
I wish I could move, but it costs a fortune to move. I was pondering selling the modular back to the owner, but currently, I am not in a position to do so, so I have just concluded that I will with draw into my home, I moved my garden area to the north side, brought my blue buckets around and will pull them into my garden area, and just take it one day at a time.
I recalled another blogging friend, who I will mention, FlowerLady from FlowerLady's Musings had something similar to my dilemma, the shitty neighbors and the trash that seems to walk upon the urban areas now. We are seeing this now here where I live as it seems since the news had been mentioning that the middle states are doing better than other parts of the country because of the economy, we are now seeing all manor of people, all colors, coming here to live, thinking we have jobs and places to live, which is far from the truth. Along with this urban crap that is moving into the area, they bring their urban problems and social issues which we are not really prepared to deal with here. Issues with color and cultures. When people move here, they cannot deal with the idea that there is nothing to do here. We have no anything to go to or clubs or night life that they had before. This is a very low paying state, which you will find part time work, IF you can find work, and way below minimum wage and I mean way below, most pay is around anywhere from $4 an hour to $6 and that's it. And maybe 15-20 hrs a week if you are lucky. And forget about housing, its not here, except places like where I live, where I would not let a dog live in some of the places this owner has to rent out. And on top, he charges $600 a month for the dumps to boot.
So, I have been extremely depressed, and almost afraid to go out, worrying that if something else happens, I will be the first to get nailed because I am the target. I am amazed that I, who mind my own business, am now the enemy of this place who lives among drug dealers and general shit of the lower population.
So, I have been trying to work inside, I am getting ready to paint some rooms and just general fix up so just in case, IF I decide to sell my investment of the modular back to the idiot owner, I can, and be done with it. But at the moment, I am holding my ground.
Currently, I put in my berry canes, in small containers to see if they grow. I put my dwarf blueberry's in the larger containers and will see how they do. I will try to get onions in some containers, and I haven't even started on the area for my tomatoes and cucumbers yet. We had a beautiful day yesterday, into the low 70's but this morning, it is chilly and very windy. Personally, I have not felt like gardening at all now. I have lost my desire to garden, period. Funny how quickly everything turns to ca-ca.
Well, I think that I have pissed and moaned enough, so I will take leave and wish all of you a wonderful gardening weekend, and we will try to post later.
Hugs
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter Everyone
Just a quick note to all to wish all a Happy Easter.
I will try to get a blog note in next week, I have had a few things going on that required attention.
And it is so wet and cold, I don't have any gardening news or anything anyway.
So enjoy a wonderful Holiday and peace to all.
Hugs
I will try to get a blog note in next week, I have had a few things going on that required attention.
And it is so wet and cold, I don't have any gardening news or anything anyway.
So enjoy a wonderful Holiday and peace to all.
Hugs
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Snow all gone
Good Morning everyone,
I hope that all are having a great week and getting gardening and home matters going and in order.
We are unfortunately in a very unsettled spring/cold pattern that is very wet, and it borders with snow and rain and sleet, very drippy so say the least.
I am SOOOO very behind in gardening. In fact it is pretty bad. Too wet to do anything, and my problem is here where I live, the owners do nothing about the water and standing water that is around. This park is not code ready or even close. It is very uneven ground, and has never been leveled or maintained at all so we have nothing but water, water. And nothing can be done about it as the owners will not do anything anyway.
I am hoping that if it dries out some, I will bring my blue tubs around the front and work under the carport and get my strawberry roots in at least. I have got to do this in the next day or two or I will loose them. I will keep them around my north side for now, and move them later to the back for the sun. I also have to put in some shallots and a few onions, but it has been so wet and muddy, I cannot even get through the back to have my garden man come and roto till my spot. I am afraid it is going to be like last year, where it was a cool summer to start out and I had to use greenhouse plastic on and off throughout the summer for anything to get going. Everything was very late, in mid August and September and some of my tomatoes clear into October. It was crazy.
I thought I would post some after photos of the no snow thing. The snow started to melt Saturday afternoon, and by Sunday, it was gone. The only nice thing about spring snow storms, it goes quickly.
Really not much else going on, being so wet and cold. You just cannot get out to do anything. But I will start to work my strawberries and shallots at least. I know we need the moisture, but it sure puts a damper on gardening when you do depend on what you grow. And I am afraid that I will be unable to use the south side of my trailer because of the new south people who moved in. We had the cops there Sunday afternoon, three cars to be exact, and it got a little ugly. I didn't even know about it, (I was cleaning house, and had the shop vac going and I couldn't hear anything anyway) but one of my house neighbors called me that she called the cops as the male was beating the woman and the kids as they were going out the door, so I am going to just garden to my north and I will have to spray weeds on the south and not do anything until they are kicked out or move. The male is violent and I am not going to be on the receiving end. I will tell you if I ever was, you would probably be reading my blog in prison as I would hurt him real bad....
Anyway, I am trying to catch up with laundry and things I didn't get done while I was ill, so I will talk to everyone later, and have a great week.
Hugs
I hope that all are having a great week and getting gardening and home matters going and in order.
We are unfortunately in a very unsettled spring/cold pattern that is very wet, and it borders with snow and rain and sleet, very drippy so say the least.
I am SOOOO very behind in gardening. In fact it is pretty bad. Too wet to do anything, and my problem is here where I live, the owners do nothing about the water and standing water that is around. This park is not code ready or even close. It is very uneven ground, and has never been leveled or maintained at all so we have nothing but water, water. And nothing can be done about it as the owners will not do anything anyway.
I am hoping that if it dries out some, I will bring my blue tubs around the front and work under the carport and get my strawberry roots in at least. I have got to do this in the next day or two or I will loose them. I will keep them around my north side for now, and move them later to the back for the sun. I also have to put in some shallots and a few onions, but it has been so wet and muddy, I cannot even get through the back to have my garden man come and roto till my spot. I am afraid it is going to be like last year, where it was a cool summer to start out and I had to use greenhouse plastic on and off throughout the summer for anything to get going. Everything was very late, in mid August and September and some of my tomatoes clear into October. It was crazy.
I thought I would post some after photos of the no snow thing. The snow started to melt Saturday afternoon, and by Sunday, it was gone. The only nice thing about spring snow storms, it goes quickly.
Really not much else going on, being so wet and cold. You just cannot get out to do anything. But I will start to work my strawberries and shallots at least. I know we need the moisture, but it sure puts a damper on gardening when you do depend on what you grow. And I am afraid that I will be unable to use the south side of my trailer because of the new south people who moved in. We had the cops there Sunday afternoon, three cars to be exact, and it got a little ugly. I didn't even know about it, (I was cleaning house, and had the shop vac going and I couldn't hear anything anyway) but one of my house neighbors called me that she called the cops as the male was beating the woman and the kids as they were going out the door, so I am going to just garden to my north and I will have to spray weeds on the south and not do anything until they are kicked out or move. The male is violent and I am not going to be on the receiving end. I will tell you if I ever was, you would probably be reading my blog in prison as I would hurt him real bad....
Anyway, I am trying to catch up with laundry and things I didn't get done while I was ill, so I will talk to everyone later, and have a great week.
Hugs
Friday, April 15, 2011
Now for your viewing pleasure, snow
A few pictures of snow, probably shouldn't even show it. I think that everyone who lives in snow country has seen quite enough, but really this should be gone in a few days, its wet and heavy and sloppy and it is starting to melt as I blog.
I had to get some new batteries for my digital camera, I will post a few more photos so you can get a chuckle.
Take care all and hugs
I had to get some new batteries for my digital camera, I will post a few more photos so you can get a chuckle.
Take care all and hugs
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