Whatcha Up To???

[w_r_ranch]

Prepped/roasted/skinned another pan of tomatoes & turned it into sauce all @ 0500 hrs.

Watered the garden, asparagus, crape myrtles, porch pots & hanging baskets.

Made bread.

Made a buttermilk pie for dessert.

Harvested green peppers & jalapenos for Mrs. Ranch.

Refilled the redbird feeders, put out another peanut/seed block for the peckers & cleaned/refilled their water trough. It was a long day...

 

[w_r_ranch]

Blanched & froze the green beans from yesterday. We got another 8.5 pounds of them bagged up for vacuum packing.

Canned the tomato sauce from yesterday. We got 8 more pints out of that batch.

Prepped 16 new rotary spray heads for the trees/lirope. The old ones will no longer reach the outer drip line of the tree's canopies.

 

[wolffman]

Spent a week in Cozumel with the crew. Thinking about going back in August. The 13 yr old is a total teenager now and is unenthusiastic about the idea lol.

 

[w_r_ranch]

That's a good sized spiny lobster!!!! I bet it was tasty!!!

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered the garden.

Continued covering the library books. I got 18 more done.

Assist Mrs. Ranch in making the stuffed green peppers.

Started swapping out the sprinkler heads. I did 4 of the 16, but it it just too hot right now... the heat index is 113 degrees.

 

[Titus Bass]

Spent a week in Cozumel with the crew. Thinking about going back in August. The 13 yr old is a total teenager now and is unenthusiastic about the idea lol.

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Nice pics......looks like fun......

 

[w_r_ranch]

Swapped out the remaining sprinkler heads.

Put 2 gallons of dye in the front tank.

Harvested a 5 gallon bucket of green beans for our mail lady. Also picked some green bell peppers, tomatoes & a cucumber for her husband.

It started lightning ~ 1900 hrs & around 2200 hrs Dieter woke me up trying to get in our bed. It then started raining hard (0.31"). On the plus side, I don't have to water tomorrow.

 

[w_r_ranch]

I made 'Shotgun Shells' that I put on the smoker for tonight's supper. Since I had leftover meat filling, I picked 12 more big jalapenos to stuffed & then covered them with a blanket of bacon.

Harvested a tub of tomatoes for our mail lady & another 5 gallon bucket us.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Made sourdough bread.

Watered the garden.

Did the weekly shopping.

Harvested another tub of tomatoes for our mail lady. Between yesterday & today's harvest, she will be a busy woman this weekend!!!

Put mosquito dunks in our rain water collection tubs.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Canned 7 more quarts of whole tomatoes. I believe we are done canning for this year...

 

[Titus Bass]

TSC had cattle panels on sale......I bought 80.....

 

[w_r_ranch]

Started watering at sun up, I'm watering everything. The new spray heads work good, so a few days of watering should allow me to drive in the fertilizer stakes I bought last month.

Made our homemade buttermilk ranch dressing.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered all the trees again.

Harvested the last of the green beans. Mrs. Ranch prepped them for cooking tomorrow.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered all the trees again.

Made bread.

Prepped jalapenos for 'Holy Jalapeno Relish'. We got 3 pints.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Went to the dentist...

Made split pea & potato soup for my meals.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered garden, all the trees, porch pots & hanging baskets.

Continued covering the library books. I got another 26 done.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Did the weekly shopping.

Continued covering the library books. I got another 28 done.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Made sourdough bread.

While I thought we were done canning, we decided to make picante sauce for our neighbors as we still have plenty of everything in the garden. I harvested another tub of tomatoes this morning & then got 2 pans of them roasted. After skinning, I pureed them & added all the spices. I'll finish this double batch up tomorrow.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered garden, asparagus, flowerbeds & all the trees.

Harvested jalapenos & green bell peppers for the picante sauce. Lots of slicing & dicing this morning!!!

Finished the picante sauce for now, I'll add the cilantro just before I can it tomorrow.

 

[wolffman]

 

[w_r_ranch]

Watered the grass around the well house.

Added the cilantro to the picante sauce & got it canned. We got 10 quarts & 1 pint out of it. Next up is to start harvesting & processing the soybeans.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Made sourdough bread.

Watered the grass around the well house some more.

Brought up more potatoes from the party barn & cleaned them for Mrs. Ranch.

Took potatoes, cucumbers & the picante sauce down to our neighbors.

Rained 0.12" this afternoon.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Rained 0.22" this morning.

Ground up 10 lbs of sirloin & formed 30 hamburgers.

Continued covering the library books. I got another 20 done.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Made another loaf of sourdough bread.

Harvested jalapenos for Mrs. Ranch.

Refilled the redbird feeders & put out another suet block.

Cleaned & refilled the hummingbird feeders.

Cleaned & refilled the wasp traps.

 

[w_r_ranch]

Harvested about half the soybeans & processed them for vacuum packing/freezing. We'll do the other half tomorrow.