Indiana Country

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Tiny Egg

"Tinkerbell" has had a rough summer. First she decided to try to hatch a batch of unfertilized eggs...once we convinced her that wasn't going to work she started to molt. She hasn't been laying eggs for some time now. I am guessing this egg is hers as she returns to laying. I have never heard of a chicken laying such small eggs at any time.

Monday, July 19, 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Soy in the Sunrise

Sunrise July 15th

Heat Advisory for Bartholomew, IN


from 2 pm EDT, Thu., Jul. 15, 2010 until 8 pm EDT, Thu., Jul. 15, 2010



Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Coop View from the Garden

Mirror on the Coop

What do you see??

I guess he heard about the corn pudding......

End Result

Excellent !!

This ripe corn is now a corn pudding, for dinner :))

Oh, she's catching on!

Sandy and the sweet corn....

So, here is Sandy demonstrating how to identify ripe corn, pull down and twist off ripe corn, recognize when it is past ripe (kernels are darker yellow) and "Always put your corn in the bucket tassel side down"...it helps keep the moisture from evaporating.

Now we picked two buckets...it was nothing less than way hot! I try to imagine what it must have been like years ago when corn was harvested by hand....Wow.

The Tassel difference...well...here is sweet tassel.

Sweet Corn in front....

Here are the few rows of sweet corn...you can see the difference...see how the sweet corn in front is shorter and has lighter tassles...and the tassles have a whole differnt shape...see previous picture.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Teddy Sunflower in the mist...July 13th 2010

This is acutally in my aquarium inside with a mist blowing over it...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Dog Days Of Summer...by the cats.


Happy Flowers....

Can you find the bug??

Measuring the Corn progress July 5th

Koi Pond

 My Pumpkin is surrounding my Koi pond. I already have multiple pumpkins eight inches across! This vine is a volunteer...I'm not sure how big they will get. 

The Lilies July 5th

Saturday, July 3, 2010

June 28th Sunset


Baki Enjoying the Sunset June


Marvin and the Skunk


Mr. Skunk visited our yard yesterday in broad daylight. He dined on the birdseed bag I had just set out to fill the feeders. Marvin brought his have a hart trap over and loaded it with two marshmallows. Marshmallows...who thought of that one?


Next morning a Big Skunk filled the trap.


Marvin came over with a pistol and a burlap bag. He thought about shooting the skunk but then decided that it might be better to relocate him down the road a bit. Siting the qualities of skunks as consumers of pesty bugs and sometimes mice.
So, he takes his flimsy burlap bag and quietly places it over the cage and carries Mr. Skunk to the back of the truck. Now the skunk did spray a little bit...I didn't know they could spray a little as opposed to full blown explosion.
Marvin wasn't fazed by the spray. He had checked the direction of the wind and wasn't getting the smell. I was having trouble with the smell backing well away from his approach. Marvin chuckled and said, "Well, you're going right in the direction of the wind." The difference was impressive. As I moved out of the air current I found there was almost no odor.