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• Posted by: SierraTahoeDad on February 5th, 2012 at 10:36 pm

  Congrats on making Farmer of the Day!

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• Posted by: brittley47 on February 5th, 2012 at 09:35 am

  Congrats!

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• Posted by: Red Hill Hollow on February 5th, 2012 at 07:38 am

  Congratulations on being farmer of the day. You really do have a very bountiful backyard! Great pictures. The cat knows a great place to hang out.

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• Posted by: City Girl Garden on February 5th, 2012 at 05:51 am

  Congrats on being named Farmer of the Day! You have a great looking garden. Hope you have a great day in the garden!

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• Posted by: guchswife on August 1st, 2011 at 01:35 pm

  I use whiskey barrels too! And the cat looks like one of mine too. Nice garden you have.

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• Posted by: Nebraska Dave on February 21st, 2011 at 06:51 am

  LoBo's Backyard Bounty, Things around the urban ranch have been a little busy the last couple weeks. For a week I helped some friends with electrical wiring for some ceiling lights. We removed three fluorescent lights and replaced them with 15 can lights. We split a circuit off an existing circuit to a circuit of its own and wired in a new circuit as well. It did turn out really well.
  
  The weather here has all the signs of spring but our frost free date for this area is May 15th. I don't know about the tulips and daffodils being up already. I tried to convince them it wasn't time to be waking up but they just gave me the silent treatment. We had a warm week last week which melted all the snow and started the spring thaw. It was nearly 70 degrees one day and the time spent out on the front yard patio was a welcome change from the cold snowy winter weather. This week looks to be a little cooler but still not bad for February in Nebraska.
  
  My daughter decided to replace my grandson's bed with a nice flat box furniture bed. For two days I tackled the task of assembling three boxes of parts into a Captain's twin bed. I had to laugh at the instructions which had five steps for the assembly and that the bed was made in Vietnam. I don't think much is manufactured in the States any more.
  
  Hopefully, I can get back to working on the storage area this week. Spring is indeed coming and I need to get my winter project completed before the outside projects begin.
  
  I hope you are enjoying the pre spring time of garden and flower anticipation. Have a great day.

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• Posted by: Nebraska Dave on February 4th, 2011 at 05:14 pm

  Well, the great snow storm of February seems to be over. Here in Nebraska the snow accumulation was about 8 to 12 inches with 40 mph winds driving the wind chill down to -20+. I was brutal outside and school was cancelled two days this week. I finally cleared the driveway and sidewalk only to find out the possibility of more snow on the way this weekend. When the weather men say don't worry it will only be flurries, I start to be concerned. I do love a good snow. It always makes things look so clean and fresh. It was just too cold to get out and play in the snow so grandson and I staid inside and did games and puzzles.
  
  I've been working on a food storage area in my basement and the progress has been slow but sure. My plan is to have the area completed by fall harvest time. If you want to read more about that project you can go to my personal blog
  
  http://www. olddavesgarden. blogspot.com . You have to manually remove the spaces in the link for the link to work.
  
  I have some major rewiring of cable TV and telephone lines that have been run willy nilly over the last 25 years that I've lived here. It just goes to show that if it's done right the first time then it won't have to be redone later.
  
  Well folks, it's only 44 days until spring, Phil the groundhog says it will be an early spring, and I'm ready for it to warm up.
  
  Have a great garden planning day.

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• Posted by: Nebraska Dave on January 24th, 2011 at 07:04 am

  Here we are bearing down on February. We are definitely into the new year.
  
  Ah, the joy of having the energy of a six year old in the house. Bradley and Gramps have tobogganed down the school yard hill this Winter. You should have seen us go down the big hill. We looked like the snowball express streaking down the hill with snow broiling up over the front of the toboggan as we whizzed down the hill. It scared the crap out of Bradley and it took about a half an hour before I could get him to go down the little hill. By the end of the day he was ready to tackle the big hill again, but Gramps told him we better just leave the slope on a positive note and think about it the next time we go tobogganing.
  
  The basement food storage project is moving along. The electrical wiring for the two new florescent lights with a new wall switch has been completed. The insulation in the ceiling will begin today with drywall right after that. It's been a challenging project and as with any projects there have been unexpected things to deal with. Distractions like shoveling snow and shoveling snow and then there's shoveling snow has been prominent the last couple weeks. Hopefully, that will settle down a bit this week and allow me more time to work on the project.
  
  I hope that your new year has started with many good positive things. The good news is it's only 56 days until spring and yes I am counting the countdown.
  
  Have a great garden anticipation day.

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• Posted by: Nebraska Dave on January 18th, 2011 at 05:12 am

  Thanks for requesting to be a friend. I hope we can have many conversations in the future.
  
  Have a great California day.

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