Vote for Gracie! (Thank you!)
Sights from around Crooked Acres.
Probably the last Rose of Sharon bloom for the season.
I am now understanding why y’all were amazed that I planted Purslane. Invasive is exactly the word I’d use to describe this stuff. It’s growing EVERYWHERE now. (On the plus side, next year I’ll just harvest it from the lawn!)
Left to right, Meyer Lemon tree, sweet gum tree (which started growing in the driveway, then Fred potted it to see if he could keep it growing. Because we don’t have enough sweet gum trees. Please, can we have more gum balls to slip on in the Fall and Winter?) and garlic chives, which didn’t do much this summer.
Leaves are finally changing.
Volunteer tomato plant in the middle of the row of butternut squash.
Teeny tiny butternut squash. Hope springs eternal, I guess.
If he plants Tabasco peppers next year, I’m going to kill him. What a PAIN to deal with, these tiny peppers.
Morning Glory, I love you.
Okra flower. So so pretty.
Sungold tomatoes. I finally started pulling up the tomato plants earlier this week – got about half of them pulled up – and got a huge bucket of split and chewed-on tomatoes for the pigs and chickens. I’m going to pull the rest of the tomatoes up later today. Time to put the big garden to bed.
Charlie Peppers now has the nickname “Chuckles.” Patty’s nickname is “Sissy.” I remember a time when I thought Charlie Peppers was never going to meow, he was so quiet. Now he’s the whiniest little complainer I’ve ever seen. Good thing he’s cute.
“I sleep now. You go ‘way.”
“HEY. Where you goin’?!”
Molly, near the laptop where Fred works on his book. One day he reported that when he sat down to write, the document had a row of Ts across the bottom. Clearly Molly wants to be a writer, too!
The face. The little crossed eyes. Doesn’t Lucy Peppers just kill you DEAD?
Molly makes herself at home.
Tree full o’ Peppers.
Pepper tree!
In the evening, when it gets dark out, we call all the cats inside so we can close the back door. As a reward for coming inside, they get crunchies. Some cats like them, others don’t. These cats assuredly do.
Tommy, Jake, Elwood, Buster, Miz Poo, Corbie.
Previously
2010: “I SAID stop making the googly eyes at me, Melodie!”
2009: I love me a good juicy Asshole.
2008: Pretty batshit crazy, as it turns out.
2007: No entry.
2006: You all have my full permission to skip the boring stuff to get to the cute kitten stuff.
2005: I forsee a lot of spud-teasing this evening.
2004: Phil Hellmuth is a whiny little bitch.
2003: “And then he told me he likes to have sex with you in the break room every day at 11!” he lied.
2002: No entry.
2001: Recovery.
2000: No one ever said I had a long attention span!
I was thinking about your babies yesterday – have you had a batch named after candy bars yet? Because Zagnut would be the perfect name for an orange kitty. 😉
Gracie: 1281! Smile of the Week!
HOORAY FOR GRACIE!!!!! 🙂 WHO’S a pretty girl? WHO’S got a pretty smile? That’s right! GRACIE!!!
Now, can I stop clicking her Vote button? My hand hurts… 😉
Noooooo, Jennifer, the contest isn’t over ’til the 21st! This is just an interim award (ie, no prizes involved)! Keep votin’! ::crackingthewhip::
You are a slave driver. FINE. I’LL CLICK. 😉
We need to start up a collection to get you a new kitchen rug – your current rug is pretty but it does not provide a proper compliment to the cats. A few of them just fade into it especially Miz Poo – and that ain’t right! What were you thinking?
I can’t even see the kitty treats on that rug (or any crumbs from them). Maybe that’s why Robyn chose such a busy pattern in there?
Your Meyer lemon tree and tomato plants look unmolested. Do you get a lot of bunnies and squirrels nomming on them? I can’t grow any edibles on my property because our place is absolutely crawling with bunnies. Lots of squirrels and birds too but GOOD GRIEF we’ve always had a ton of little rabbits ’round here. They’re very cute but very destructive to yummy plants.
Those bookcases flanking the kitty tree look so nice with the wood ceiling and floor in that room.
Congratulations Gracie!
As usual your pictures are wonderful. By the way this is what I got yesterday and today when I went to Jane’s site: “Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here”. What’s up with that – any idea???
1378 for Gracie…and I see she is now number one!
Have you seen this? http://youtu.be/T278WA8W8Mc
Hey Robyn,
We are going to expand our chicken yard and are wondering what kind of fencing materials you guys use for your chicken yard. We will be putting our flock dog in there with them as you guys did. I’ve tried looking back through Crooked Acres Thurs. pics and it looks like you might use several different types of fencing materials, but I wasn’t sure if the different types were for the chickens vs. pigs. Thanks, Will