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The End of the Summer Gardening Season
On Saturday we ripped up all the watermelon, cucumber, and tomato plants from our front-yard garden. It’s such a cathartic process to purge everything.
We had a pretty good season. We didn’t stake our tomatoes well and bought the really sprawling kind, so those didn’t go as well as they could have. Our watermelon plants got aphids, but they continued to produce a ton of watermelons all summer long. Next year we’ll be more intentional about which kind of tomato plants we buy, and we’ll do some proactive organic stuff to head off the aphids.Last year, I was so spent from work that I had no energy for the… Read More -
Our Newest Pet
Can you guess what it is?
We already have a bloodhound and two chickens.
So what is the logical next step?
We gave up on the goat idea because they are simply too destructive.
Someone guessed bees, which is a good guess but not accurate.
Any other guesses?
A Vietnamese pot-belly pig! His name is Danger and he’s the sweetest thing. A player on Matt’s soccer team is reporting for basic training and needs to get rid of him. We are currently having a trial period with him.
We’re still trying to research what it would mean to have a pet pig. Any ideas?
