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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lazy Cats and Vermin.

The cats are supposed to be hard working farm cats yet I have noticed gopher mounds appearing in my garden. OK, I will cut them some slack because they are being terrorized by that vicious stray tom cat...but really...
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I put Max and Andy outside for an airing and poor little Tommy Two Tone had to watch from the window.
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He longs to go outside because he's getting bored of tearing up my curtains and furniture. I decided to give him supervised tree climbing session. Here he is climbing in the weeping Elm (Camperdown Elm).
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Muffin climbed up there to play with him and they looked so cute together but when I returned with my camera she had gone off to play with a butterfly. Tommy had a good climb anyway.
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For the second time in ten years I have cherries on my cherry tree!
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The tree has five different varieties grafted on to it. The first are about ready to be eaten.
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As I was marveling at the cherries to my horror a magpie jumped down to the ground with two cherries in his beak. I went to put him into orbit like I did Jet Lag but he fled leaving the mutilated cherries on the ground, which were ironically eaten by Jet Lag.
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I don't feel so bad about the magpie that drowned in Foxsun's water bucket the other day now.

Well those birds maybe eating my cherries but they'll never get my..............................................
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Strawberry!

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I put a glass cup over my strawberry to protect it while it ripens.
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Today I ate my strawberry and it was GOOD. I've been trying to eat those cheap tasteless strawberries from Walmart and almost forgot what a real one tastes like. I found another and quickly covered it for later.
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I ordered 50 strawberry plants this Spring but couldn't decided where to plant them. I needed them to be safe from the chickens but handy and easy to maintain. About the time half of them were dead I had a brilliant idea. We had a 800 gal tank that had rusted out in the bottom.

Strawberry troughs forever!
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They are filling in nice and hopefully we'll have lots more to eat.


2 comments:

nikki said...

Love the pictures!

Home grown strawberries are the best!! My grandparents used to have a little garden that had a couple of rows of the june berries. Those strawberries got HUGE and were yummy to eat! :)

Pony Girl said...

Great photos! I love the three of the cat sleeping. Fun colors, those felines.
Great idea, with the glass over the strawberry! You'd need a lot of glasses for your new patch though, LOL! So the chickens don't hop up onto the tough? I'm now craving strawberries! I had a lot last week while visiting my parents, my dad has a little patch and I had them on my breakfast cereal or on shortcake every day!