The other night we had a visitor at the door. A tree frog. I was able to take a few photos. and then go out and actually feed it a few moths. the greedy gut took them all. the weather doesn't seem to be calming. this morning around 4 am it started to thunder. and the alarm went off warning about flood danger for certain counties. and it is not only out here in the country that can get flooded. cities are in far worse danger. with all the cement and other stuff blocking the natural seepage of rainwater into the ground . Instead of going into the ground it travels on top. collecting and causing havoc. This morning I woke up to partial sun wet ground from the evenings rain. the ground is too wet to do any weeding without sinking to my ankles in the soil.
the garden is huge and when we first moved here it was pure clay. each year it gets better and the vegetables grow better and stronger. and the soil itself gets more added humus.
we did have a semi late hard frost this year. everything had leafed out roses were in bloom then bam. we had such a hard frost that the leaves on the trees were toast as well as the flower buds on the nut trees and acorns. and the roses. my poor roses. every one of them died. see the growth means there is fluid in there flowing. and when we had that fast hard frost. it caused the fluid in the cells to expand. effectively killing the plant. thankfully the fruit trees survived.. all the leaves on the rhubarb were toast. and the new growth has spindly stems in comparison to the earlier first growth. ahh the life on a farm never know what is gona hit you next. lol. heck about 6 weeks ago I wake up early go to feed the dairy goats. and notice a baby's leg is hanging sideways. I'm thinking. o damn.. so i go to get the baby. an hour later.. I catch her..
I give her a little ace to calm her down and semi knock her out. take a PVC pipe that I had prepared by cutting to size then in half. wrapped her leg in batting. put the half pipe over the back of her leg. and wrap it all in sealatex bandaging. the self sticky stuff. about3 weeks-4 weeks later I gently take it off and examine her. it is solid. and not moving. there is a big lump around the area where the bone restructured itself. bone does that and about a year or 2 later it will look normal again as it re restructures itself.the area of the break will also be stronger than it was before. she was gimpy for about 2-3 weeks.. and now can walk run and jump like nothing happened.
the garden is huge and when we first moved here it was pure clay. each year it gets better and the vegetables grow better and stronger. and the soil itself gets more added humus.
we did have a semi late hard frost this year. everything had leafed out roses were in bloom then bam. we had such a hard frost that the leaves on the trees were toast as well as the flower buds on the nut trees and acorns. and the roses. my poor roses. every one of them died. see the growth means there is fluid in there flowing. and when we had that fast hard frost. it caused the fluid in the cells to expand. effectively killing the plant. thankfully the fruit trees survived.. all the leaves on the rhubarb were toast. and the new growth has spindly stems in comparison to the earlier first growth. ahh the life on a farm never know what is gona hit you next. lol. heck about 6 weeks ago I wake up early go to feed the dairy goats. and notice a baby's leg is hanging sideways. I'm thinking. o damn.. so i go to get the baby. an hour later.. I catch her..
I give her a little ace to calm her down and semi knock her out. take a PVC pipe that I had prepared by cutting to size then in half. wrapped her leg in batting. put the half pipe over the back of her leg. and wrap it all in sealatex bandaging. the self sticky stuff. about3 weeks-4 weeks later I gently take it off and examine her. it is solid. and not moving. there is a big lump around the area where the bone restructured itself. bone does that and about a year or 2 later it will look normal again as it re restructures itself.the area of the break will also be stronger than it was before. she was gimpy for about 2-3 weeks.. and now can walk run and jump like nothing happened.
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