August 2013 – A Month of Photos From the Red Double Wide

31 August, 20133 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 6 Comments

WOW! August is over already?!?!

Hope you enjoy some of my photos from August.

Bag Of Wheat — This a HUGE bag of wheat that my dad harvested. We are going to supplement the chicken feed with it and Digger wants to experiment with fodder.

Wind Storm — We had a nasty wind storm that blew over several corn stocks. I was glad it didn’t do more damage.

Tomato — We have dozens and dozens of these….now, if they would just turn red!

Bee — I am very pleased with how many bees I hear and see while in the garden. 🙂

Some of our corn grew CRAZY tall. A few of them are over 12 feet tall and the ears are so high I'm going to need a ladder to harvest them! — Some of our corn grew like CRAZY. A few of them are over 12 feet tall and the ears are so high I’m going to need a ladder to harvest them!

Sun Flower — One volunteer sun flower came up in the middle of our garden. I decided to let it grow and I’m glad I did. It’s absolutely gorgeous! I counted 30 blooms on it at one point. 🙂

We ended the month of August with the county fair.

Showing Chickens — This isn’t the greatest picture but I wanted everyone to see how the fair and chickens are a family ordeal! They all did so well with ALL of their projects. I am a very proud mom, sister, and aunt!!!

September will be bringing many changes. I have decided after much thought and prayer to go back to teaching at our local Christian School and the girls will also be attending there. This means lots less time at home. I am hopeful that I can keep up with cooking from scratch, gardening, and my blog!

Thanks for stopping by the Red Double Wide!! Hope you are all getting to enjoy this harvest season. 😀

July 2013 – A Month of Photos From the Red Double Wide

1 August, 20132 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 6 Comments

July was a month of bbq’s with great friends, many 4-H meetings, baby chicks, HOT weather, gardening, and allergies! Despite the sneezing, runny noses, and watery eyes it was a wonderful, busy month.

We started off the month by celebrating the 4th of July with a family trip to the beautiful San Juan Islands. It was a great trip and so wonderful to see family that we hadn’t seen for a while. Visiting the beach was also wonderful!

Two days after we got home from our little vacation our meat chicks arrived!

They are the girls 4-H projects. To read more about our meat chickens click here.

Spinich & Raspberries — First harvest from the garden

We have an AWESOME group of people from our church that came out and joined us for a taco feed and go-kart party. Our go-cart track goes through our hay field and it’s about three-fourths of a mile long. As you can see from the picture this is not a clean sport! Everyone was sooooooo dirty but it was a blast!

Garden 5 — My weed filled garden! The corn is taller than me now. 🙂

Painting — The girls painting the new chicken pen for their 4-H meat chickens.

Hope all of you had a great July! In August I’m looking forward to our county fair and preserving the harvest from my garden.

June 2013 – A Month of Photos From The Red Double Wide

30 June, 20131 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 10 Comments

June was a wonderful and busy month.

This last week of June has brought several HOT days and the garden has really taken off! (and with some late spring rains so have the weeds!) Needless to say I’ve spent a great deal of time over the past month in the garden. 😀

We have been getting quite a few raspberries. If the kids stop eating them we might even have enough for some jam!

The men of the house…..shooting skeet. 🙂

Happy dog!

Dusty found this cute toad. He kept it in a 5 gallon bucket until the girls and I got home so they could see it, and I could take a picture. He then let it go in the garden, after naming him “Bruce the pirate toad”.

Jo’s cats Boots and Tiger…Boots has six toes on her front paws, but this is not what makes her special. Jo bought her the pink collar with her own allowance money. We tried to tell her the cat would lose that thing the first chance she got, but for all the world Boots seems to be proud of it. Often as not she is now referred to as “Prissy Missy”.
Stirring the compost pile. (How redneck!)

Jo loves to read and she loves animals….this is her reading a book while the chickens and kittens play. As you can tell by the hair, this was about three minutes after she rolled out of bed. She would live in the barn yard, if we let her. 😀

These are the potatoes we planted in our recycled potato bin. It’s amazing how much they grew in June!

More pics of the garden….(please ignore the weeds!)

In July I’m looking forward to more gardening, trips to the pool, baking, BBQ’s, and 4-H meetings.

Thanks for dropping by the Red Double Wide!

-Grace

May 2013 – A Month of Photos From the Red Double Wide

25 May, 20131 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 7 Comments

Another month gone by! Here are some of my favorite photos from May.

DSCN6817 (640x469)-1 — Moving straw into the barn….the easy way!

DSCN7012 (640x480)-1 — The lilacs in the front yard were beautiful and smelled wonderful.

DSCN7026 (640x480)-1 — This is my niece in the garden. Playing in the dirt is always fun!

DSCN7080 (518x640)-1 — Jo’s cat had three kittens….this one is Marshmallow. 🙂

DSCN6843 (640x480)-1 — The kids found many “wooly worms” aka caterpillars.

DSCN7163 (640x457)-1 — This is Digger working on the new garden fence with help from the chickens.

The potatoes are growing that we planted in the recycled potato bin!

This is Stinky she is guarding Diggers truck and trailer. To read Stinky and Diggers story click here.

DSCN7200 (640x320)-1 — This picture really didn’t do this sunset justice….absolutely gorgeous!

May was a good month, the first couple weeks were warm and beautiful. They involved LOTS of mowing and weed control. The last couple weeks were cooler and wet, we found ourselves indoors quite a bit. Everything is nice and green now and I’m looking forward to a nice warm June!

April 2013 – A Month of Photos From the Red Double Wide

30 April, 20131 January, 2017 ~ Grace ~ 16 Comments

I’ve gone a little crazy with my camera lately, so I thought I would share (some of ) my favorite photos from the past month. Spring time is so beautiful and FUN!

DSCN6124 (640x480)-1 — This is one of our raspberry bushes that border our garden….can’t wait for fresh raspberries!

DSCN6103 (640x468)-1 — The chickens were in heaven when digger tilled the garden.

DSCN6149 (640x480)-1 — “Sleepy Dog” – This is a VERY rare moment, he is usually dropping a ball on our feet, drooling all over our pants, or trying to get the cats and chickens to play.

DSCN6139 (480x640)-1 — Hyacinth – Not only my favorite flower but my favorite color too! I need to plant more.

DSCN6601 (480x640)-1 — Great Grandma enjoying some snuggles with a barn kitten.

DSCN6491 (640x480)-1 — Little Chefs first time mowing with a push mower. She decided she prefers the riding mower! I don’t blame her…I took turns with her and realized how much harder a little labor is after a long winter indoors.

DSCN6618 (640x480)-1 — This is Diggers Grandpa….our riding mower broke down so he came out on his 94th birthday with his brand new mower and mowed some of our lawn for us!! (He had a blast and left asking when we might need him again!) What a great guy, we are so blessed to have him and Grandma close to us.

DSCN6552 (640x480)-1 — This mama barn cat is blind in one eye, but it doesn’t seem to effect her at all. She is the best mouser we have and a wonderful mommy!! She has two chunky adorable kittens right now.

Don’t let these pictures deceive you! We have had some beautiful days in April, but we also had our share of wind, rain, hail, and more wind! We haven’t yet planted anything in the garden (it’s still getting really cold some nights) but my seed order should be here tomorrow and Digger is working on getting the fence up around the garden. No use planting until the chickens are fenced out!