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PaulN/KS:
Gotta love those little Kubotas. They are handy as all get out and worth the price.  :OK

Still got poblanos,jalapenos and anehiem peppers on my plants here. Also still getting tomatoes though the plants are starting to "fade". The wife's tired of seeing the counter covered with them now but she'll be missing them come December...  ;)

Eric Krewson:
My neighbor is out of town for a few weeks. When he comes back it will be too late for him to plant a greens garden, he loves turnips, they need to be planted now.  He was gone last year at the same time so I planted his winter garden for him, I planted another greens patch for him yesterday, with my tractor and tiller it isn't a hard job.



We had 1 1/2" of rain two days ago, I plant through black plastic, I pulled up the plastic yesterday and found the soil was still too wet to till properly; the plastic holds moisture in the ground. It is going to be sunny today, hopefully the ground will dry up enough to plant. We have two days of rain coming this weekend, if I have my green seed in the ground, it will get a jump start.

The flash on my camera makes the ground look drier than it is. I planted a small patch of late tomatoes on the right and left a well producing plant to the left.

Eric Krewson:
I got my garden in at dusk just before a front came in, I woke up to this yesterday morning, for planting greens it doesn't get any better.

Eric Krewson:
A little follow up on my trail clearing, the mower operator found out he could get his mower down the trail to the grown-up spot once the log was removed.

The trail went from blocked to open in short order.

Eric Krewson:
Had a good time at the Key Cave Refuge this afternoon; the doves were high and flying with the wind at their tail. I couldn't hit anything, so I reviewed my shooting form. I realized I wasn't putting my face down hard on my stock which threw off my sight picture. Back in my younger days I was really deadly so all the missing was very frustrating. At one time I had bird dogs, a great retriever and was wing shooting every chance I got.

Now I only shoot my shotgun once a year on opening day of dove season and haven't shot well in years. I changed to a more correct form and almost everything I shot at fell out of the sky, I had forgotten how to shoot a shotgun but once I had it back, I was deadly again.

The field was just OK, no big flights of doves, the sunflowers were completely over grown with morning glories.
There was a dad with his son young down from me, both were really struggling to get a dove. After shooting all afternoon they only got one bird, every time I knocked a bird down, I would hold it up and motion for the youngster to come get it. He was really excited about having something to take home.

It was a rainy dismal day but everyone I talked to in the field was having fun. I quit wearing camo 30 years ago but got out my old turkey hunting outfit so I could hide better from the dove's sharp eyes in the grown-up rows of sunflowers and morning glory vines.

The field was a huge sunflower field.

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