Justice and the changing landscape

I know, I heard it was even way hotter by the lake yesterday with the highs being over 20° above average. Glad you got some relief!


Oh yeah it's so nice inside........62 degrees and cool ! Outside is another story. With the humidity and the total heat index it's 94 degrees........ I've been outside all day but Justice is staying indoors today. Between the heat and the biting horse flies he doesn't get a break. As soon as I let him out 5 minutes later he's at the back door wanting in. Kinda feel bad for him as it's one of our few days to spend a whole entire day playing outside. Suppose to get some strong storms tonight but I hope not too bad because I just stripped the cedar siding to bare wood...........
 
Wow 62 is pretty chilly with AC... :cold:

Yup, we're supposed to get some nasty storms tonight too and I'll be ticked if it wrecks all of the flowers and the garden since I just spent quite a few buck on this years flower haul...

Our dogs haven't wanted to go on much for walks either the past few days with the high humidity and heat, but today they both went for long ones for some reason. I have some huge welts on my arms from the darn deer flies and horse flies too. :confused:
 
Wow 62 is pretty chilly with AC... :cold:

Yup, we're supposed to get some nasty storms tonight too and I'll be ticked if it wrecks all of the flowers and the garden since I just spent quite a few buck on this years flower haul...

Our dogs haven't wanted to go on much for walks either the past few days with the high humidity and heat, but today they both went for long ones for some reason. I have some huge welts on my arms from the darn deer flies and horse flies too. :confused:


Oh those flies are nasty ! I had a deep layer of some DEET and they still were biting me. Poor Justice, he wants to play out there but he's getting eaten alive whenever we try. Another day I suppose.

62 is perfect for me inside when it's this hot out, makes me sleep like a baby !
 
Oh those flies are nasty ! I had a deep layer of some DEET and they still were biting me. Poor Justice, he wants to play out there but he's getting eaten alive whenever we try. Another day I suppose.

62 is perfect for me inside when it's this hot out, makes me sleep like a baby !

I wonder if horse spray would help Justice out? I agree, those flies can be so irritating!
 
I wonder if horse spray would help Justice out? I agree, those flies can be so irritating!


Never thought of that ! I kept trying to find out if he could use a bit of Deet spray but I never looked in the right places, nor did I play guinea pig with him. I think that stuff is pretty harmful for them. Horse spray though ? I'll look tomorrow at the feed store to see if they can recommend one brand vs the other. I'm assuming the damn flies aren't leaving anytime soon with summer in full swing now. I know there is a spray for the yard, but hell my grass still hasn't grown. I simply don't have enough hose or water to water all the crap I planted. I may be doomed until spring............ughhhhh
 
Well Rits I was wrong...... I guess you can use DEET on pets. I have some really awesome stuff for hunters that I bought at Gander Mountain. It really, really works but I try not to use it so much because it's a small bottle. I should of had that stuff on today, but couldn't find it. I typically use" OFF " spray but that wasn't cutting it today.
 
Well I'll be it's been a bit of work but it's getting there. I'm in a rush because I would like a nice lucuious green lawn before Liberty get's home to play in. It's been a bit of a struggle with all the land and all the work that comes with it. Before we maybe had an acre of actual green lawn, now will have 4-5 acres if all goes well of nice play in green grass. This is a few pics of the progress and my best friend Justice. He's doing quite well and ready to roam and run again after surgery. Glad to have him back to normal !

Prior to the Grassy knoll ? I don't think so .....

e683f0f8.jpg


After tons of chemical, 21 hours of mowing it all down, tilling it, raking it, and the final prep before we seed, it's almost done.

26806e9b.jpg


My pal taking a break from the sun in the shade

cb2a8d72.jpg


I think he hit the burn pit to get this stick, Geez what he won't do for a stick............
f39d93ce.jpg


After the burnt stick tasted bad:

68c006b6.jpg


Our hail from last week ! Yuck .......my trucks were damaged and so was my home pretty badly. Luckily insurance is on our side !

4b2f5637.jpg


Hail and the fog afterwards:

21b9f618.jpg


Hope everyone had a great day !

all I can say is this:
EFFING IMPRESSIVE stephen.... god damnit you did a shit load of work Dude! that is impressive!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::goodluck::wow:
 
all I can say is this:
EFFING IMPRESSIVE stephen.... god damnit you did a shit load of work Dude! that is impressive!!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::goodluck::wow:


Hah it was a ton of work. Here's the funniest part though, IT'S NOT GROWING !!! All that work, not a friggin grass blade is popping up. Not sure what I did wrong, maybe the lack of water/rain ?

Now it's stripping the stain of the cedar siding and re-staining it a neutral color........All the while looking over my field of MUD ! LOL
 
I'd be really really careful of the deet since it's potent stuff and they even have warnings not to use it on kids. I can't touch anything with deet in it or I get really sick. :sick:

There are some recipes for a natural wipe you can use to repel flies on dogs and if I can find the link I'll post it.
 
Here we go - one recipe.
Witches Brew
1 cup flax seed oil
1 cup buckwheat honey
1 cup crude molasses
1 cup apple cider vinegar
Just put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk it up.
I store mine in a ketchup bottle in the fridge. When it is time to feed, I just get it out and shake it up and squirt about a tablespoon on top. They eat twice a day so it is 2 tbls. a day that they get.
I don't know if this stuff is the answer, I just know that Drake has never had a tick and Greta has had only one before I used this stuff. The big thing for us is the flies. We spend most of our time outside of the dogs can be with us without all the flying bugs bothering them.
 
You certainly have been busy, Stephen ~ the place looks great! What chemical did you put down on the area that you planted the grass? If you used Round Up,I believe there is a waiting period before anything will grow on it . :scratch: Also, the grass seed really needs to be kept moist so if you are not watering and/or it's not raining, it might not come up. I know you had no choice with this, but we usually seed in the fall. Did you cover with a mulch or something? When we bought our 10 acres, it was a prairie similar to yours and it took years to bring it under control.......still a work in progress. :D
 
You certainly have been busy, Stephen ~ the place looks great! What chemical did you put down on the area that you planted the grass? If you used Round Up,I believe there is a waiting period before anything will grow on it . :scratch: Also, the grass seed really needs to be kept moist so if you are not watering and/or it's not raining, it might not come up. I know you had no choice with this, but we usually seed in the fall. Did you cover with a mulch or something? When we bought our 10 acres, it was a prairie similar to yours and it took years to bring it under control.......still a work in progress. :D


I used a herbicide called " Corner Stone Plus ". I get that from a feed/farm store that sells all the local farmers there stuff. It's a really neat store and has high quality dog food if I'm in a jam and cannot get my regular stuff.

As to watering ? Well I don't have water that reaches quite that far. I have 400 ft of hose but that's just not possible to water it with a sprinkler. I really need a underground watering system to have done it right. I knew that kinda, but insisted I try to throw hard earned money down the drain......... I think I've spent over 1,000 bucks trying to get that right with seeding. I even bought a machine to drag behind my John Deere to till it up, among other attachments to make it right. I'm looking to really grow grass up to my little shed. Yeah that sounds good enough for summer fun. The rest of it can wait till fall.

As to mulch ? Well not exactly...... I threw the chopped up left over hay over it with the mower as I went along seeding. The concept seemed to work as to covering it. However we had 7" of rain a few days prior to me seeding so the ground was quite moist, flooded in some areas which I of course went back to do when it dried.

Hope your well haven't heard from yah in a while.
 
Sounds like you've done about all you can do when the area is far from a hose. We have the same 'problem' (as have the farmers, eh? ;) ) and have probably lost lots of seed too but there is still a lot that has come up over the years! It will take diligence and more seeding and fertilizing to get it growing well. The chopped up left over hay to cover it was a great idea. I've even used dried up, pulverized manure! Pulverized by horse hooves! LOL Just taking stuff from the corral that is almost a peat moss consistency and throwing it over it. And of course we are at the mercy of rain, which we haven't had in about a month! I think there was one day of nice rain but it wasn't much. We are really in a drought and our grass is drying up. It's maddening!
 
Sounds like you've done about all you can do when the area is far from a hose. We have the same 'problem' (as have the farmers, eh? ;) ) and have probably lost lots of seed too but there is still a lot that has come up over the years! It will take diligence and more seeding and fertilizing to get it growing well. The chopped up left over hay to cover it was a great idea. I've even used dried up, pulverized manure! Pulverized by horse hooves! LOL Just taking stuff from the corral that is almost a peat moss consistency and throwing it over it. And of course we are at the mercy of rain, which we haven't had in about a month! I think there was one day of nice rain but it wasn't much. We are really in a drought and our grass is drying up. It's maddening!


Well 2 weeks ago I would of said you could have our rain........... But nowwwww I kinda need it.
 

Back
Top