The Re-Farmer

You can take the girl out of the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the girl.

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Damocles is home, and other good stuff

Well, I’d say today was a productive day, in a very positive way! Quite early on, I started getting a whole bunch of messages. Some were from my brother regarding our mother. She has come down with a cold, though they are still waiting for test results to confirm, and is currently in quarantine, and the staff made sure to let him know. Then I started getting messages from the rescue. Domino,…

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Our 2026 Garden: critter rescue, and redoing a garden bed cover

First, though, an update. I have had no word back about the truck yet, which means they haven’t had a chance to look at it or do a diagnostic. I should try phoning directly, tomorrow. Before I share about today, I wanted to share what I found last night. I am so glad I decided to enjoy the long daylight and walk around the yard before bed! This, of course, included checking the garden beds. In…

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Seriously??? What now?

Good grief. This morning, I headed into town fairly early to pay for the repairs on the truck, and take the keys. I talked to the owner for a bit and told him the background on when this happened before, and the C clip fix that I’d meant to ask him to check before but kept forgetting. He told me that, with Chevy/GM vehicles, this is the most common thing he’s seen break down. He’s replaced a…

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Our 2026 Garden: transplanting and our furry family

We had another chilly night last night, with temperatures dropping to 7C/45F Today reached 22C/72F, but we’re supposed to drop to 7C/45F again, tonight! In fact, over the next while, our overnight lows are expected to be below 10C/50F more often that above. Not good for the garden. This morning, after doing my rounds, I started on transplanting the purchased plants. I decided to plant the…

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Our 2026 Garden: mulching the potatoes and garlic

We have ourselves a downright cold day, for this time of year. As I write this, we’re at 11C/52F, with a humidex at 5C/41F Our expected high of the day is only 15C/59F With that in mind, I decided to leave the transplants I purchased in their bins and will transplant them tomorrow. Today, I focused first on weed trimming around the main garden beds for as long as the batteries lasted. After I…

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Good grief

It’s not the rain that’s giving the garden trouble. View this post on Instagram It’s the temperature. 9C/48F is chilly for fresh transplants, but that “feels like” humidex of 1C/34F, with the potential to feel colder, is another thing entirely. Most of what I’ve got out there can either handle the chill, or has protective collars that will provide some protection, but it’s hard to say just how…

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Our 2026 Garden: replacement transplants and herb harvest

Today we are expecting rain, off and on, with possible thunderstorms, until tomorrow morning. After that, we are expecting a break in the rain for at least a week. For the past while, more people are sharing images and information about damage in the region. This morning, I learned that an iconic building, known for a cheerful message to drivers on the highway passing by, is gone. Just… gone.…

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Some progress done, and oh... did I order more seeds again?

Today has been an odd feeling day. The assessor from the insurance company wasn’t going to come this morning, but we were still expecting the prescription delivery, so when I headed out this morning, I made sure to open the gate for him. While doing my rounds, I decided to check in the old garden shed to see if the raccoons were still there. They were, but the mama was on the seat of the rolling…

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Brutal

The storms that hit last night were absolutely brutal. Thankfully, we seem to have escaped most of it, but there is massive damage to the south of us. Highways were flooded over, and people shared images of cars with nothing but the top of the roof showing, along them. One of the highways we regularly take to the city has been shut down due to flood damage. One person reporting a sink hole the…

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Just in time...

View this post on Instagram My daughter and I headed out for my ultrasound early. I had instructions that included drinking 500ml of water by a certain time, so we first went to the Walmart parking lot, since it was nearby, and and I chugged it. We were early for the appointment, but didn’t wait too long before heading over to the hospital. They actually got me in a bit early, and the…

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Conflicted, and our Sword of Damocles

Oh, what a day yesterday turned out to be. I had not planned to go out at all yesterday, for starters. I had my medical appointment in the the smaller city hospital this afternoon, and anything we might have needed could wait until we were done with that. My younger daughter was even going to come along to help out. While I was doing the watering, I couldn’t resist taking these photos. View…

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Our 2026 Garden: new growth and more transplants

I’m going to catch up on the garden stuff before I write another post about yesterday’s bizarreness. I didn’t get home until well past midnight by the time it was all done! Yesterday, some plans went out the window. I’d hoped to be able to get another bed ready to plant more short season corn, but I ended up focusing on watering, instead. I was very happy to see this. View this post on…

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Damocles strikes again

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Our 2026 Garden: corn is in, and some clean up done

Things stayed way too hot overnight. None of us got much sleep, even though the house is so much cooler. With today supposed to reach 31C/88F today, I headed outside shortly after 6am. My plan to dig more beds for the corn quickly changed. We had high winds, I could hear thunder in the distance. So I quickly planted one package of corn, first. View this post on Instagram We’ve grown the Yukon…

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Our 2026 Garden: reclaiming for corn beds started

As I write this, it’s coming up on 4:30pm, and we’re at 29C/84F, with the humidex at 33C/91F – and we are just reaching our high for the day. Things are not supposed to start cooling down for another couple more hours. We have a 1% chance of rain where we are now, but some areas to the south of us and into the US are expecting storms with high winds, heavy rain and potentially baseball sized or…

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Our 2026 Garden: transplanting gourds and hollyhock, direct sowing luffa and sunflowers

After waiting for the call from my doctor until well past the clinic closed, I headed outside to finish up. The bi-color pear gourds transplanted, I wanted to sow the short season luffa next to them. I also wanted to mark where they were and protect any seedlings, but I was out of collars, so I grabbed more 4L water jugs and cut them to make more. The packet has only 9 seeds, so I cut 5 collars…