Oklahoma Rain Gardens
Megan Huntley
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Comments (32)honalee, We love Shelties too. I love the names you gave them. How cute!! Right now, we have a male Sable Rough-coat Collie (Angus McColly), a large English Shepherd, black with sable (Sheppie) and a female Bluetick Coonhound (Bonnie Belle). Lots of fun and games on our place from them! All were adopted. We adopted the boys and Bonnie adopted us! :) My DH liked your pictures of your DH with the Shelties. We plan to go for smaller breeds eventually. He wants Shelties; I want Corgis. :) Our dogs are so big. In this tiny cottage, it is congested traffic 24/7. You literally have to step over the furry bodies to get from room to room. :) And when they all get excited and rowdy, watch out and grab hold of something to anchor yourself! :) All sweet pups though and very loyal. We sure enjoy them and love them. Our 12 remaining cats tolerate them, because "dogs are handy when you need a warm body to cuddle up with...so I guess they are good for something", or so the cats seem to regard the dogs :) I started Little Brother on Clindamyacin two days ago. He seems somewhat better, although still running a fever and feels cold. His stomach is very tender when touched. You have to lift him carefully or he cries out in pain. He is using the potty box and drinking a tiny bit of water. He acts like he is sick to his stomach, but is not vomiting anymore. That is good. The medicine is staying down him. He started making "biscuits" on his bed this morning and purring again. :) I rubbed a little bit of tuna broth on his gums and let him lick it off so he wouldn't get choked. Keeping him warm and comfy and giving him lots of loves. That's about all we can do. Thanks for the hugs and well wishes everyone. ~Annie...See MoreOklahoma Rain Gauge
Comments (12)Adella, I was in Tulsa yesterday, and feel for you. Tulsa looks almost as parched as OKC. Somehow, however, my master gardener friends don't see anything wrong with spending LOTS of money to keep their gardens looking good. Chris spends about 3 hours hand watering every day right now. Normally she does this twice a week. Moni...See MoreSouthern oklahoma more rain?
Comments (18)That's so true about the video. It is easy to enjoy it knowing that it wasn't from anywhere around here. I heard the screams from a long ways off (probably down along the river) for 2 or 3 years before I heard one up close, and it truly is the most horrifying sound I've ever heard in my life. Let's hope she had to scream a lot and never found a male in your neighborhood (or mine). And, if a tornado wouldn't scare one off, then what would? Tim and I decided to drive down and check out a couple of our favorite river roads yesterday to see how much water they'd been under. Some of what we saw, in terms of mud residue left on trees and such quite a distance from the river, was horrifying. I just cannot imagine water got that close to homes (most of which, thankfully, were not that far away distance-wise but were up on a higher ridge). We didn't get to drive around as much as we wanted because the roads were one or more of the following: closed off (and we do not drive around barricades), still under water, washed out in low spots or covered with so much mud and debris that they look washed out, or still under water, still under water, still underwater. It is scary to see that much water still on roadways that far from the river even after it officially has dropped below flood stage. While our Flood Warning for the Red River bridge is gone, much floodwater remains in the flood plains areas. Now that it is so hot outside, my gardening ambitions have been whittled down to harvesting, eating the harvest, and processing the harvest to put up a significant part of it for future meals. Tim mowed like a maniac yesterday, cutting down everything his wife would allow. Ha ha! I didn't want for him to cut down the front meadow that sits between the roadway and the house. I regularly put out a little henscratch and cracked corn there for the doves and other birds, and our young wild turkeys are coming to that spot to eat. I wanted him to leave that area tall so they'd have good cover.....and also because it is filled with wildflowers from a seed mix I sowed back in the winter. With so many mostly drought years recently and poor wildflower showings in those years, I'm loving having a rainy year with tons of wildflowers. While he mowed out there in the heat, I was inside running tomatoes through the tomato strainer to prep them for salsa-making. As I did it, I bagged up the finished tomato product in gallon zip-lock bags, with enough in each bag for one batch of Annie's Salsa. Then I fed all the tomato waste to the compost pile. I have enough tomatoes prepped for nine batches of salsa, so that's how I'll be spending the rest of today. After the cold front comes through and we have some cooler temperatures this weekend, I'll try to catch up on weeding the garden and harvesting other stuff. I might run outside in a couple of minutes and harvest the peaches that are ripe. We're getting about a dozen a day and mostly have been eating them, but they are starting to pile up so I can see that some peach processing is in my future. Probably I'll slice and freeze the freestone peaches and will boil down the cling type peaches and make jelly from them. I'd rather be out in the garden if the heat and humidity weren't so bad, but since they are so unpleasant, I guess it is just as well that I have a lot of tomatoes to process. Well, I think they are tomatoes. They are beautiful and big and look like tomatoes. They are the shape of tomatoes. They grew on tomato plants. But, are they tomatoes? Their flavor is so watered-down that 95% of them aren't worth eating fresh (the only really tasty ones are the ones I harvested in early June in between the big May rainfall and the big June rainfall), and their texture also is sort of mealy thanks to the ridiculous amount of rain that has fallen here in such a short period of time. I really devoted time to draining off as much of the excess water as I could while processing them for salsa yesterday. I think that the salsa will be fine, but I'll taste the first batch carefully before I make the next 8. It would be such a waste to make all that salsa and have it taste bland, but I don't think that will happen. There are things I could do to fix the flavor if the salsa doesn't taste right due to the watery nature of this year's tomatoes. After doing the amount of processing required to end up with 72 cups of chopped and drained tomatoes for salsa-making, my kitchen had red splotches everywhere....it looked like a slaughterhouse in there. My family and our pets are pretty well-trained to stay out of the kitchen while I'm canning and doing canning prep, so I was able to get all the mess cleaned up before they came in there and started asking questions about what I was killing in there. : ) I've got enough tomatoes piled up on the shelves but not quite ripe to make another 3 or 4 batches of salsa, so I suspect that I'll be spending a portion of every day for the rest of the week making salsa. Today, I'll probably spend most of the day and late into the evening doing just that....See MoreMaster Rain Gardener - Rain Garden in TN
Comments (5)Intended planting list: Callicarpa americana (American Beautyberry) Hibiscus grandiflorus (Swamp Rose-mallow) Baptisia australis (Wild Blue Indigo) Panicum virgatum (Switchgrass) Veronicastrum virginicum (Culver's Root) Asclepias incarnata (Swamp Milkweed)...See MoreMegan Huntley
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