CLOSED: Birthday Club 2011 # 12

Joy you totally rock!! My hero!.

Awesome Joy!!!!! I agree .... you rock! Those wild hogs can be realllllllly mean!!!! I wondered when you said you were only armed with a .22 rifle how you would handle it, but you are an awesome shot! Good thing you had the 4 wheeler to dive over. I've heard the wild hog is good eatin', but after all the running and mauling that one took, I'm sure he wouldn't of been. I saw a pic of one, don't remember where it was killed, but it was 600 lbs! One BIG porker!!!!!

Lovely heifers your son has. Are they Simental?

DH and DGD's chillin' in the pool

Joy, you're something else. What bravery and quite a marksman/woman. Gosh I admire you!

WOW! Thats a story Joy! Had me at the edge of my seat the whole story!
Just returned from Lowe's with a aculpoco orange agastache. Says its for my zone so I'm hopin!


Erin

Thanks guys, we just call it a days work here. Most hogs won't come through our fencing with the LGD's around. Haven't seen another one here although I know they are all over.

Patti they are Simbrahs, but the percentage is skewed toward Simmental.

Found two beauty berries today, and two Pride of Barbados. All are going to go around my pond if we ever get any rain.

Joy

They are lovely Joy. We use to raise registered Gelbvieh. My kids and I broke and showed them, limitedly. 4-H fairs, large local inter-state fair that encompassed people from all over KS and OK, and the Kansas State Fair. I would use all my vacation time from work to do the fairs in the summer. Great memories for me and my kids!

Wish I had gotten Evan into showing cattle at a younger age, we sure enjoyed it, and they are totally ridiculous pets. He sells the calves to help pay for his college. Occasionally one goes in our freezer as well.
We have two calves on the ground right now, one of whom (bull calf) is named Bubbles. Long story. Cows are Sprite, Hunny, and Polly. Other calf is Beau. Got one due in a couple weeks.

Good lookin' stock there Joy. Both the critter and Evan. :))

"Now I have to change my drawers, grab a bottle of oxygen, and figure out what I am going to do with a dead pig. Think I'll look up pig disposal in the yellow pages thank you very much."



ROFLMAO!!!!! I'm laughing so hard, I've got tears! Bottle of oxygen- I think it should be tequila at the very least!!

Come on down Chris, I have some in the freezer, as well as a bottle of Gray Goose! How's it going up there???

DH found this in the cellar today. Its a luna moth caterpillar! =)

Awesome Erin. We have the moths, but I've never seen one of the cats.

Joy I shared your story with my Mom who is still laughing. She needed that. Glad you survived without anything more than some soreness. But WTH at our age I can get sore brushing my teeth.

Awesome cat!!!

lol @ brushing teeth

Our luna moth caterpillar turned in to a cocoon yesterday. Can't wait to see it come out!

Just checking in to say hello to everyone and keep this thread open. Stay cool if possible.
Love & Hugs to all
Faye

I had no idea what their cats looked like. So cool it has cocooned and you get to watch it.

The kids like to watch them too. Last year we had 4 monarch caterpillars!

We have Lunar Moths too but don't think the kitties let them live long enough to lay eggs. What I usually see are just tattered wings :(

One of the B-Day Begonias you sent me, Paula, is blooming like crazy. So pretty and this is how it looks after rain beat through the screened-in porch this afternoon.

Fruity those tubers that you gave me just started blooming too. Yellow!! Yippee. Now if only it wasn't so hot so I could out and enjoy them.

Fruit - it looks like the blackberry lilies that I received from you are getting ready to bloom! Can't wait to see them!

"Sunny Day" Begonias, Neener? Mine were so slow to take off and are now loaded with pendulous Yellow blooms. Next year I'm going to put them in baskets. Over the last couple of weeks, they started to have a brownish melt-down, and decided they'd be happier on our back porch in indirect light, instead of where they were on our front porch in blazing hot late afternoon Sun. Course I could have contributed with a heavy watering hand 0:)

Good for you, Erin. Mine don't even have buds yet. How's the deal going with your well?

I was able to take a shower yesterday. Did dishes, everything seems to be going well. Haha. no pun intended! Just have to bury everything again. This time we left the top of the well out of the ground so we know where it is, if it ever happens again!

Red Shift is blooming too!

Got a chuckle out of your no pun :) Are the blooms on your Coreopsis "Red Shift" still mostly yellow? Mine took two years before the petals really started to show off tinges of red. Pic is from last August.

nope they are red in the middle.


Erin

fruit - just looked up sunny day begonias - sort of looks like the ones I bought this spring. Yours?

mine has been blah along with my double impatiens and fuschia.

p.s. Can anyone make suggestions about my fuschia? It had tons of blooms when I bought it. Same as the impatiens. The impatiens turned yellow and stopped budding. I thought waterlogged - put it in a different pot with better drainage and better soil. It is greening up and budding.

The fuschia stopped budding. It's not growing or dying. It's in MG potting soil, part morning sun then shade/bright light. Now that I think of it it might want more light. It is one of these new upright varieties I think. Whaddya think?



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Manda I always have trouble with those upright fuschia. I stopped buying them. Sorry, but I never figured out what they needed either.

Sorry ladies to be so late checking in, but I've been outside and then upstairs downstairs all around. Can't believe it is lunchtime. I know we need a new thread, but I'll have to do it later. I'm moving the rock and if I stop now it will roll back over me.

Later!

Sorta, Manda. Sunny Day is pendulous instead of upright. Can't grow fuschias worth a toot so I'm no help either.

Rock & roll, Neener?

rock n roll.... lol

Feel like I've been rolled right now. What a day.

Ultrasound in the morning. Have a cyst on my ovary (only one left) and its been hurting lately so I guess we'll see what the doc says. Say a prayer for me. I'll let you all know how I am doing after I get home tomorrow afternoon.

Erin

Captured a pic of a hummingbird moth. I don't think he liked his picture taken. He kept trying to get in my face.

Lovely capture, Erin. Hummingbird Moths have especially been enjoying the petunias the last week or so, always a treat seeing them. I'll be thinking about you tomorrow, Girl! :)

He thought you were going to try and take his flower. He was defending it. lol

Prayers be with you.

I tried to get him to land on my finger but he wanted nothing to do with my finger!

If you put petals around the tip of your finger he might, thinking it was a flower. lol

Hang in there Erin. I've had those problems as well and they hurt like heck. Mine usually resolve on their own. Be thinking of you.

Started at 6AM outside this morning and just stopped for breakfast. Got the watering, fertilizing and dead heading done. Planted some Fall crops and trimmed out the hydrangeas. Do I get a gold star?

Finally captured a couple good pics of my hummingbird moth! 1 of 2 photos.

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