Under the watchful eyes of our long-eared owl family, I planted the very first of our crops today.

Earlier we built another set of garden boxes in our front lawn. That doubles the boxes to four 4×6 and two 2×5. Eventually, we’ll add four more 4×6 boxes and that will complete one half of our front yard.

I know, it’s hard to visualize, so I’ll get some pictures tomorrow. Gotta do it then, or wait until Monday, as there’s a storm headed our way. I expect that by tomorrow noon, we’ll be back into high wind advisories, and then thunderstorms and rain on Saturday into Sunday.

We have to be very careful about planting things here as our last frost doesn’t come until the middle of June… yep, we could have frost the night before we have summer!

We’ve got the garden plots prepped, and the first of the drip irrigation systems is laid out waiting to be drilled. I’ve been pretty insistent about waiting until our seeds arrive, and we’ve bought the necessary plants to actually drill the drip holes into the PVC.

Hopefully, we’ll have a quiet day next week so we can put the new cover on the greenhouse. This is our third cover in as many years. Sure glad we bought a greenhouse with a long guarantee on the covers.

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Tags: drip irrigation system, garden, garden boxes, garden plots, greenhouse, owl family, spinach

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Over the past couple of months, we’ve been watching what we thought was one long-eared owl sitting in first one pine tree and then the other pine tree.

We could see evidence (litter and dropped food) that “it” was spending most of it’s time hanging out in our front yard and the two pine trees.

Now, the one big pine tree has a very large nest, which hasn’t been used since we got here in 2005.

Imagine our surprise this morning when all-of-a-sudden, Cindy hollered for me to grab the camera… there’s a baby owl sitting on the edge of the nest!

We spent several hours trying to get decent pictures with the digital camera, but between the wind, the long pine needles, a rather long distance, and a bashful baby, we didn’t get much.

Bev has now set up her 35mm and we’re shooting a roll of film, exclusively owls.

Guess you could call it “film at 11″… several weeks from now.

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