Smartie's Bar & Grill #74

Nothing wrong with that.

Yup, we used a hoop system for the pumpkins that I fashioned out of some relatively inexpensive galvanized steel fencing wire and my wife kept dressing them throughout the summer. We weren't quite as hands-on with the tomatoes but the shade cloth did the trick.

I've thought about a drip irrigation system but it's a long way from the faucet to the garden and I have to mow through that area. I'm still kicking around that idea because it would obviously save us a lot of time and effort.

 

I've had that issue of distance to faucet, but found a couple of relatively inexpensive solutions. Of course, it was made a little simpler since we have a trencher attachment for the bobcat. Either bury the house just under the surface of the soil from source to garden so it doesn't catch up in the mower blades, or lay some basic Schedule 40 under the soil about 6" down, match your tread at either end with a fitting.....

 

Visitors this morning at the bird feeder.

 

Have you thought about an IBC tank to take a water supply closer to the veg' patch?
They are pretty cheap and you'd only have to get the hose out occasionally to re-fill them.
We use them on the farm to fill the water troughs for the livestock, picking them up with the teleporter to take them to the tap for a re-fill.

 

Is the colourful one some kind of finch? We don't have that species here.
Closest I can think of is a bullfinch.

 

Painted Bunting

 

They can be had really cheap. Someone gave my wife a semi load of them last summer. They are handy.

 

We made one into a wood fired hot tub.

 

I have two. One is ok being gravity fed, the other requires a small pump to make the water flow a bit more than squirrel spit. They also need to be kept in the shade or the water can get mighty warm, and boiled tomatoes on the vine is disappointing.

To say nothing of the looks of them. For crops, they'll do, for a flower garden, not so much.

 

Gas today, $2.69 a gallon.

 

Ah, we don't really get the problem of the water heating up very often here. I agree they aren't the prettiest things but that's not too much of an issue on a farm, surrounding them in shrubbery could hide them I suppose. Raising them up would solve the water flow problem for irrigating the veg' patch.
We also use them in some of the composting toilets we've built for the camps we have here in the summer.

 

Do you live in a very small town? Even in this small city, it's over 2.85$

 

Isn't it funny gas goes down by pennies and up by dimes and quarters

 

Very pretty. We don't have many brightly coloured birds here. Most of them are what we call LBJs or little brown jobs. Kingfishers, woodpeckers and some of the finches is about it for brightly coloured.
Oh and the robin red breast of course.

 

It will be 3.00 before the end of the month.

 

Bet we see 5$ by the end of Biden's term.

 

The robins have already moved north from here. There was one robin this year that had quite the personality. He would guard the front bird feeders to keep the other birds away. His antics were funny.

 

Sweet. That’s brilliant. Most “tanks” I see used are very shallow. An IBC could be as deep as you want basically.

 

Ours are generally 1000 litres and cubed. It's a bit tight but you can squeeze 4 people in one if they are close enough friends.
Originally we just dug a shallow fire trench and leant two old radiators to form a triangle over it. That was inefficient, used too much wood and made a mess of the meadow though so we welded a sheet of steel onto the bottom, sealed up one end and put a chimney in. No pumps required as convection circulates the water through the heater and into the tub. This works much better and has the advantage that it can be put on an old worn out farm trailer to make it permanent and mobile. It also solved the problem of the fire pit filling up with water when it rained. Often it heats the water up too much and you have to wait for it to cool down before you can get in.
We've got a woodfired sauna in an old horsebox trailer insulated with sheep's fleeces and a woodfired clay pizza oven on another trailer.
The 4 cubicle shower trailer was also built from scratch but uses LPG for convenience and ease of temperature control.

 

Knoxville TN.

 

Music for the day...

 

Bit obvious and boring for me, that one.

 

So what's your flavor?

 

Pretty wide ranging but I do tend to like songs with clever words, such as the Eagles 'Last resort'
But my music collection goes into hundreds of CD's Everything except Jazz and Classical.

 

I tend towards Celtic, Indy, older Country, classic Rock.

A number of people have called it trite, but I happen to enjoy Runrig.