Scoop The Poop.

Even with the major rain storm we had yesterday the garden is doing well. The corn went "a little bit sideways" with the strong wind gusts but stood back up as the ground dried and the raised bed began to firm up. The garden plants benefited from the extra water because they are spending the summer in the scorching Florida sun. It broke 90 degree's today and that was a bit frustrating as I had to work the duck pen this afternoon. The raised vegetable bed is full and many of my smaller plants need to be moved to another bed. My husband hasn't made the additional beds yet but they should be finished by the end of the weekend. The duck pen was getting mucky and I couldn't wait for the raise beds to be made so my son and I shoveled the pen out and set the pen waste (mud) out in piles near the garden to bake in the sun. After a few weeks these new mounds can be used to fill more garden beds and fertilize the plants. I am really excited about the prospect of no longer having to buy soil and manure. The rabbit and goat manure that I have been using to fertilize the garden has worked better than I imagined it would. I was concerned that the PH might have been wrong in the untreated waste, but letting it bake in the sun for a few weeks has seemed to resolved any issues I might have otherwise had.

Another phone call from Cassie came in this evening. "Turn on the TV,  TLC, watch Extreme Couponing!" A half an hour later and after about 30 texts we decided we are going to try it, together of course. We have no intention of becoming "Food Hoarders" or stocking a fall out shelter but there is definitely money to be saved in coupons. So we are going to start a coupon blog, collect websites and get ourselves two of those cute little binders with the cellophane pages so we can begin to piss off everyone standing behind us in the checkout line at Walmart. Obviously that's not why were doing it but I already know that's what's going to happen. Even on the show with the cameras clearly visible so the other shoppers knew something was going on, they still made faces and sighed when they saw the ladies reach into their hand bags and pull out a 3 to 4 inch thick stack of coupons.

Well that's today's news from Scott Farm.  Have A Good Night!