Sunday, June 15, 2014

Farm update - beans, figs and potatoes

The season of plenty is upon us. On Saturday June 14, 2014 the grandkids, my wife and I dug 4 1/2 bushels of potatoes, beans are doing good, fig trees have figs on them.

Friday, June 6, 2014

How to store potatoes

You have harvested the potatoes, now how do you store them?

Go down to the local feed store, buy a few bushel baskets and some hay. Sometimes feed stores will sell a bag of hay instead of a full bail.

Put a layer of hay at the bottom of the bushel, layer of potatoes, layer of hay, layer of potatoes, layer of hay,,, until the bushel is full.

Monday, June 2, 2014

Drying String Beans start of new project

Green beans are starting to produce. So lets do a project of stringing them up, let them dry for a few months and see what happens.




Saturday, May 10, 2014

Planting fig trees

My wife, nephew, nephews wife, their son and my grandkids planted three fig trees.

The trees were bought at Lowes here in Jasper Texas. One of the trees was wilted so we got it for 1/2 price.

Around each tree we spread a bag of cow manure / compost mixture that was also bought from Lowes. One fig tree was a Kadota fig, the other two trees are Brown Turkey fog trees.

Now it is just a matter of keeping the trees watered until they get established.

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Received a warning from google on my blog

I received an email from google saying part of my blog was in violation of their adsense policy.  The link the report contained was to the urban survival section, and not to an exact article.

The warning stated,

Violation explanation

HATE/ANTI: Publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on sites with content advocating against any individual, group, or organization. More information about this policy can be found in our help center ( https://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105947 ).

VIOLENCE: As stated in our program policies, AdSense publishers are not permitted to place Google ads on pages with violent content. This includes sites with content related to breaking bones, getting hit by trains or cars, or people receiving serious injuries. More information about this policy can be found in our help center ( https://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105954 ).

The only thing I could find in the urban survival section was a post on the beheading  in London.

This makes me wonder if google is pushing a policy of suppressing opinions on radical islam?

Are we not allowed to express our opinions on radical islam without google threatening revenue?  Its eitehr do as we say or we cut your sites source of income.

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Plans for memorial day

Memorial day is next weekend.  After talking about it my wife and I decided to help a friend move saturday, then spend the rest of the weekend relaxing.

Instead of launching the boat at bevil port, we might launch at Martin Dies park, walnut run side.  I would like to throw out some noodles and do some bass fishing while on Dam B.

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Summer is here

The weather is starting to warm up, trees have finished blooming, it feels good getting outside and doing something,

A couple of weeks ago my daughter and I made up some noodles for catfishing.  I will probably make up some more in the next couple of weeks.

Walmart only has the pool noodles in for a few months.  So I have to buy the noodles while they are in stock.