Well, my wife has been after me to change the oil and filter in her lawn mower. I was a little depressed with the work on the truck so I changer the oil and filter for her. I no more than said it was ready and out the door she went with a hoody on, a heavy coat, a hat with ear flaps and by God she got the first mowing of the horse pen done. All I saw was wheel tracks in the grass but she was happy and so=== our mowing every 5 days has probably started.TomC
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here in kansas we call that yard art...
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Thursday afternoon I put out my broccoli and cauliflower starts and came in for a bite to eat. I went back out to find I left the gate open and the chickens had stripped them bare and moved on to the lettuce. last night I brought in my young peppers and tomatoes. This morning there are no peppers. Something gets me every year. Last week there was just one night of freezing temps in the forecast through the end of May. We have had 3 with more in the forecast now. I knew better than fall for that one, we are not safe from frost for another month. It is no wonder there are no small farms left. I was working towards starting a market garden, but between this and the two week delay due to a batch of seeds that never sprouted it looks like something else I started that gets put on hold. It seems the last few years I get kicked in the teeth every time I turn around .
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I know what you mean.
Predators are a problem (the furry kind, and the not so furry kind).
I lost 5 lambs night-before-last without a trace.
Think it was Coyotes.
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Sorry to here that Kyle that makes my peppers sound trivial. last weekend my neighbor said he seen the fox eyeing up my chickens. My chickens all charged at the fox. This week my chickens been staying real close to the shack and always under some kind of cover I lost 8 last spring while I was in Argos and one a week it seemed 19 total to what turned out to be a neighbor’s dog. These eight have been holding strong, but things are not looking good for them now that the fox knows where they are and they seem to know it.
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Jim, that’s why I like to grow buckwheat. Plant it on the 4th of July.
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What do you do with buckwheat Jeff?
Sounds like you need to spend a couple nights outside with a small cal.rifle & starlight scope
Jesse
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Wild oats seem to sprout no mater how carful one is as well!
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Jesse - I have some helpful neighbors. One is former special forces and another is x-army and a seller of sporting goods and gear to the local police, etc.
They were out here the night after it happened with thermal imaging, a couple of AN/PVS-14’s, and plenty of firepower.
They are experienced predator hunters, but only saw a fox and a coon.
That’s the way it goes.
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Hi Jim, started growing it two years ago. Have a big time problem so most of it goes to waste or fertilizer. Right now I eat it raw like a salid and it tastes great! Someday I’ll learn how to put the seads on the table.
I also like dandelions and should start growing them in the garden but Mr. Time gets in the way…
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sounds like this situation should be under control soon
I spent several night at my sister’s house before I finally got the weasle that was killing her chickens. she had lost quite a few in the previous week
I had gone over her chicken run and made it critter proof but lost three hens the next night "weasle " I said to her I’ll be back, so I spent several nights up on the barn roof about fourty yrds. away and in the trees on different nights. I did see him for just a moment at the eastern corner then he was gone a couple seconds later I could hear a ruckuss in the hen house so I climbed
down quickly and got there in time to shoot him with a 22 cal rifle. in the couple min.that it took me to get down and get the door open he had killed six hens! Nasty little bugger
we cleaned the hens up and put them in the freezer
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Put your dog house right beside the hen house 
I take my dog feed off my farm taxes . They are a tool,friend and a necessity .
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Sound wisdome there Mr. Keith
Jesse
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At my place in Myrtle Point, Oregon, I have one resident bear, one BIG mountain lion, couple of smaller ones, a few bobcats and all the normal small stuff. A dog is in almost as much danger as a chicken. The hawks, eagles and owls can’t carry off a big dog though. The big lion will stalk you at night and makes everybody nervous. i’m less nervous when I have my 45-70 Winchester. 
The neighbor up-river is getting real nervous about our bear. Previously, she told me that bear meat was the best tasting meat she ever had. Life in the food chain.
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We had a good car show here Saturday.
You know you’re getting old, when a late model looking Corvette has an “Antique” license!
But I did win a couple myself along with a bucket of cleaning supplies.
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I seen my share of 57 Chevy’s when I was a young lad walking too school,since I was born in 1959.short life it is, I got the grey hair too see I am getting old much faster than thought when young.ain’t near as far away as most young people think !.
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Congrats Carl, I bet you had the only wood burner there. Did you feel like you were back in grade school and it was your day for show and tell?
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Hi Kevin,
I think the green chevy looks like a 56 Chevy which had that same swept back line on the side, but also most 57’s had 2 separate hood ornaments and the fin became a bit more prominent. The 55 Chevy had straight lines down the side, no fin. I think that body style started in 53 and went through 57. The 52 Chevy still had a sloped rear section. My dad bought a new 58 Chevy which was the gull wing style on the rear fenders.
I’m pretty sure the black Chevy is a 57 with the more rounded grill opening and the “bullets” on each end of the grill. I think Chevy came out with a 265 ci V8 in 56 and the 283 ci in 57 which with options could put out 283 HP. A HP per cubic inch, a mile stone. I was 15 in 1957 and the 57 Chevy was a car of my dreams.
