Either a hose or a bucket. The hoses and buckets are the photo bombers on the farm. I am so used to seeing them strategically placed everywhere that I don’t notice until too late that there is either a hose or a bucket in so many of my shots. Homestead Farmers use lots of hoses and lots of busking buckets apparently.
Our rain came to nothing yesterday.
So I will be dragging the hoses today.
There is only one outside tap on the property. This tap has one long hose attached to it then every other destination has its own hose running back to the main hose. So I disconnect and reconnect often. And you get hoses in all your shots.
I think there are five hoses. Maybe more. I will count today.
Almost all of them are bandaged due to leaks so I try to set the leaky part of the hose to fill something or water something.
Oh wait I have a little pond vid for you. Stand by. It might load.
The children caught me some catfish at the big house pond. So now there are four blue hills and two catfish in there.
It is not too hot yet- but the hogs still love their wallow.
The glasshouse
Dinner!! The first zuchinni of the season! Even though it is has been hurried along in the glasshouse.
Do you see the seed packet? I have half of it jammed in the soil to see how long it will take to break down.
The saga of the internet
The internet is screwed. The trees are growing up in the way fo the signal which apparently cannot go through leaves and every thing has to line up and what the hell!
We need a new tower because of the trees. The tech person put a flag where that should go and said give us a call when it is ready and we will migrate your equipment.
Apparently this is a new kind of frequency that does not go through leaves and my trees are too high. What a load of bollocks. And I have no one here for the next few weeks to put in a tall pole for the stupid thing. And yesterday the internet was worse than ever. So today I am picking up my laptop and going elsewhere to work.
Duane and I are hoping to migrate to the new website this week! Stand by for that announcement!! And I refuse to be held up by internet woes. But make sure you are on my email list so you get a notification. Leave me a comment and I will come find you. Anyway I will be a part time digital nomad for a bit in the next few weeks.
Turn a full time digital nomad ( with much better internet) for the next few months.
There is only so much I can do on data.
Rocking along!
Celi
PS excuse any errors I am working super fast while I have internet!
The Kitchen's Garden 
53 responses to “Hoses bomb the farm photos”
I have hoses everywhere too because I still have my chickens.
I could not imagine a life without chickens. How many do you have Cheryl?
I live in the city LOL but I have 10 including my neighbors chickens who were not cared for and saw a better life at my house. I miss my old barn though but I was tired of driving all the time to go anywhere.
10 is a nice number! Just right to keep you and your neighbours in eggs!
Oh and I meant to tell you – the barn swallow babies are still doing GREAT! Only two left but they are getting real feathers now!
You just pretend that hose is a snake!
I saw a snake yesterday – it was little and brown with stripes. But I was not fast enough with my camera and it disappeared into the undergrowth. Does a baby bull snake have rings? I was going to take a photo and send it to you – being our resident expert for such things.
There are always hoses dotting my landscape!
Right? And they are just NOT PRETTY!!
Seems like I m always dragging hoses and cussing the ones that were supposed to be unkinkable but kink like crazy. One little tug and the water stops. I have 2 outside water spigots on the sides of the house not in the front or back? 1/2 inch of rain since Memorial weekend. I do have a ripening tomato! No zucchini yet I have been picking eggplants and lots of pea pods, a favorite. Love seeing the milkweed, have several plants going and had some early monarch caterpillars but they disappeared? Not sure what eats them. Maybe the geckos?
Yes, buckets, buckets everywhere. I have, right now, six sitting in my garage next to the door out to the backyard. The frustrating thing is that each one has something in it which can’t just be added to one of the others in order to free up one for actual use. There’s always the mop bucket from inside but I do try to keep that one clean for some weird reason of my own.
we finally got a day of rain yesterday, at long last
I have hoses in my garden too . Great images. Anita
I have hoses everywhere also—nine of them. It’s the only way I can keep everything wet. Tons of work moving them here and there and everywhere.
We had problems with internet at the ranch. They told us that the mountain was in the way of the signal — we were in a small valley between two ridges. We ended up getting satellite which was expensive but worked well.
Annette aspenmeadowsa@gmail.com
Thank you Annette you are on the list!
If this is not fixed by the time I get back from my travels I will look into satellite. However my little business needs to make enough to justify it. Catch 22 really.
Butterfly weed & tradescantia by the pond so pretty together.
Is that what it’s called? I the orange one?
Yes. It really is one of the milkweeds as candyt9 noted above. Its asclepias tuberosa, common name “butterfly weed” – certainly a gorgeous weed! It does grow wild by the waysides out in the country here in Western North Carolina, but is notoriously difficult to transplant (I have tried & tried) so better to buy from nurseries. Butterflies really do love it too. The blue flower blooms in the morning like the weed day flower. Its common name is common spiderwort, though it is anything but common or worty, when planted next to orange daylilies & is so special when planted next to butterfly weed as by your (John’s) pond.
Oh yes! Ok! I was not sure which plant you were referring to. ( I should know all their names but I am hopeless!) The butterfly weed does very well. And I love that blue flower. It is a native of this area. There are day lilies coming into flower in there too. I should plant more. I love them too.
I never notice things like hoses or buckets- unless perhaps an animal has its head in one! You live on a farm, why hide your tools and other necessities? The pond looks lovely.
Big decisions about the internet situation. I would be very skeptical about the whole idea of “internet that doesn’t go through leaves”??? Sounds like a really poor excuse to me.
Well I just googled it and I stand corrected. Water in tree leaves can block the signal. Amazing! So let’s cut down all the trees everywhere and no one will have internet issues ever again??
Imagine if our trees were the internet signal. Everyone would be planting them!!
There was a short downpore here, followed by more sunshine and humidity. I went out to pick up some glasses from Freecycle and only just made it home before much bigger rain and thunder. It’s still a bit sticky, but I just cycled up a very steep hill.
They look like nice catfish!
Nice that you got rain. We are still so cold! And dry. Weird. The catfish: why did I not know they had whiskers! Do they stay in the dark ?
They are bottom feeders and use their barbels to taste and smell.
I like eating catfish, they seem (to me) a lot better than carp, which can taste muddy. They are quite versatile, you can add Cajun spices and barbecue them, or use more delicate seasoning and fry or poach them. I ate a lot of them when I lived in Georgia.
So what do they feed on / at the bottom of the pond?
They are omniverous and will eat plants, insects, algae, worms and small fish. They say that raw chicken is good bait if you want to catch them in a river and they like garlic scented food! I did see soemwhere that they eat snails and I believe they’ll eat slugs…
Oh – Lordy!! I hope they eat up some of the algae. That would be a bonus. Maybe they can eat the pond lettuce there is lots of that coming.
They like algae, I’m not sure about water lettuce, but other fish eat it so why not?
I am just wondering if there is enough there for them to eat. I throw in some fish food for the blue gills but I don’t know if they eat it.
I would like to get snails for the algae but not if those catfish will eat them. They are not cheap!
They are a very successful American fish and have done well as an invasive species in Europe! They eat garden snails so I’m sure they’d eat the pond variety. I don’t think they’ll starve and you can always throw in some seeds, grains and that bastard mink 😉
I don’t mind seeing the hoses or buckets at all. As another commenter noted, it’s part of your life on the farm! Also, who knew that tree leaves were so evil as to block internet signals? Hahaha. Very strange and what a pain for you.
Yes it is a right pain. But now that I know there is nothing I can do until someone comes back to build a new tower – I will just go off site and work elsewhere each day.
I have to keep my trees trimmed for internet. Seems the wax in pine needles bounce the signal.
So boring!! Honestly.