Bob And Susan

Shelby and the squirrels continue to annoy one another. This day finds the squirrel in the top left of the apple tree, Shelby waiting for the branch to give way…..

BOB, SUSIE & THE BEAR pps

I can’t put pictures up of Ava without putting up some of Zach. I’m an equal rights Grampa.

Well, our beef is hangin’ up the Slocan valley at the butcher’s and will be packaged next week. We went in on a Black Angus with some friends. We got him from our friends Brenda & Terry who have a farm just down the road from us. They are fussy about their meat so by growing their own they can have control over how it’s raised. No hormones and other crap. As a matter of fact this year when I knocked out all the apples from the trees (bear proofing), instead of taking them up the mountain I took them to the cattle. Terry came by the other day and we took all the corn stalks and loaded them up for the cattle as well. People talk about buying locally, well I like that Susan and I are growing locally. Susan for years has organically grown our food with many interesting methods, now we are helping to grow our meat, and harvest locally. If only we could plant some toilet paper trees and grow that locally we’d never have to go into to town for shopping…..Oh, I forgot about beer……

The pictures tell tell the story…..

We’ve never really had much to do with squirrels as we’ve always had dogs and cats that pretty much dealt with them. To say nothng of the pack of coyotes living up our mountain. They used to torment Bailey on a regular basis and Bailey would stand under a tree for hours just waiting and hoping one of the little buggers slipped and fell down. Dinner! With the passing of Bailey they have been running around the yard and deck and outbuildings at free will. The other day Susan noticed something had eaten all her flowers in a hanging basket which she attributed to a deer, and she also noticed some onions and peppers missing…..by now you can figure out who did all this. They have taken to building mansions with hay and Susan’s flowers, they’ve gone and taken over the Robin’s nests in Susan’s building and turned them into mansions. Shelby has her work cut out for her and has done a good job as you can see of taking over the reins at the Whitehouse……

Last year Susan found some mould in her garlic patch which was common for many last year as we had a very wet spring, so she didn’t want to plant garlic in that area again this year so I took it over and tried to grow corn for my first time. It’s thought the corn might suck so much out of theland it may correct the soil earier than waiting 5 years as we’ve been told. Nothing in the 32 years Iv’e lived here compares to Ontario corn. Chilliwack and sometimes Grand Forks have pretty good stufff some years. Well, I’m ecstatic over how mine turned out. My neighbour (Mary age 79) grows good corn, very tall so I went and asked her what she did and she told me when they’re a foot tall she puts a 10-0-0 fertilizer. So I did that with organic bone meal but then my Doctor told me that when the fruit appears to put 10-10-10 bonemeal on them as the 10-0-0 is all nitrogen which will make the plant tall but doesn’t promote the corn. So that’s what I did and pictures don’t lie…..and so sweeeeeet!