Yeah, yeah, I know I don't live on a farm but I do what I can with my limited recources. Hey, I have chickens! That's gotta be good for at least one "farm" blog post.
A few years ago Bob made me this great compost bin and it has been great. There's just something about making soil that's just so satisfying. One year I even raised earthworms and that was really fun. I may try that again sometime. My garden was really happy that year.
As I said, I've really enjoyed my compost bin but recently one of my friends and my sister, Linda, have acquired compost barrels and I allowed jealousy to rule the day and asked for one for Christmas. And Bob listened! So here's my new and improved composter that is just too much fun to turn, knowing that I'm mixing up all that great new soil. I put a lot of my kitchen scraps in it and I also collect the used coffee that our Kroger Starbucks is so nice to leave out. Coffee grounds make great compost.
SPAN, the transportation company I work for, gave all the drivers a Walmart gift card for Christmas so I decided to spend it on a firepit for the little patio area we built out by the flower garden. We haven't used it yet but I'm looking forward to the first s'more party. I still need to get some outdoor chairs for the space but that'll come.
And now for the annoying happenin's on the farm. I have this amazingly beautiful and majestic Red Oak Tree in my yard. But the annoying part is that it drops these! By the kazillions!
We planted the tree about twenty years ago (I know because I have a picture of Bobby standing in front of the sapling when he's about two) and it took about five for it to start dropping acorns. But for the last couple it's been more like a downpour of acorns. Last year I vacuumed them up (I know!) with Bob's shop vac but this year it just seemed like too much (ya think?) so I gave up quickly. I hired the kids that live behind us to come and pick them up and they did a pretty decent job and then I've been collecting them a bucket at a time now and then. The problem is that for some crazy reason I decided to plant three more of these acorn dropping monsters. Two in the back yard to keep Miss Drop It All company and one in the front. So I'll either figure out a way to get rid of the acorns or I'll give up and have a brown bumpy yard instead of a green grassy one. Good grief! I probably ought to give up on the green grassy yard anyway since I have chickens.
And that's what's happenin' on the Jacobs farm (aka the back yard)!
