Garden Name Contest

Garden Name Contest

Entries are:

Enchanted Acres
by Lynn

Sunflour Dreams
by Kazul

Chastity Garden
By DH

No Hope without Dope
some guy at the pool

Alaska Lowbush Moose Project
Carol Ernst and Amber


We are gearing up for planting,
filling bottles to keep the
zucchinis warm in the greenhouse.

Hugo is helping Bumpkins
fill the bottles by tasting the water.

What do you mean i can't eat this......
Celia and Hugo on Mother's Day.

knitting: nothing i am so behind! must finish stuff for the house cup this month.

Gardening: dug 2 rows by hand and DH got me some very large barrels for my taters. In the meantime, a lady at church told me about someone who grew sweet taters in hanging baskets. Now i gotta try that one.

we moved into the church today, it is nice.

Very hot dry weather. 61 F with 15% humidity.

update on the chickens. there are at least 5 roosters and one hen (Celia). Also appears Thankful is a Tom turkey.

New Contest and Saturday night sky

Saturday sky
(8:30 pm and yes it really was that blue)

New Contest:
(as Jane was the only one interested
in the chickies contest).

Here is the new one:
Please leave a comment or email me,
with a name for my garden.
I will then attempt to put suggestions in
the sidebar for voting.
deadline for entries is
May 16.
with deadline for voting
May 22.

(kind of need a name for this website)
One Million Gardens
and another site (no name required this time)
Gardener's Supply
where you pledge to grow 10 lbs of food this year.



Nana's Mother day present....
milk jugs cut in half,
morning glories,
and topped w/soda bottles as mini greenhouses.

Finished raking garden today,
let the chickies play out there.
(so cute)
still have to rototiller it/ prep it for planting.
buds on tomato plants soon will have tomatoes.

eta: told Bumpkins that we would probably be eating the nice chickie Celia (yes she named another animal). She was very sad.

Contest!

Bupkins wonders what

kind of chickens these are
and if they are all roosters.....

Rules:
Guess the kind of chicken
Guess the sex of the chicken
Person with the most correct guesses wins.
Contest Ends
July 1 2009
(by then we should know
what they are....
so later guesses may be better)
please email me your guesses with a
correct email address.

Have fun!
Prizes will not be chickens.......
(but may be farm related though)



Little brown chick.....
rooster or hen?
type?

Plymouth Rock #1
Rooster or hen?

Plymouth Rock #2
rooster or hen?

Plymouth Rock #3
rooster or Hen?

Plymouth Rock #4
Rooster or Hen?

Bumpkin's fave....
Rooster or Hen?
Type?

Thankful...
White Turkey
Tom or Hen?

The baby chicks.
sleeping for the night....

a bigger home



specifics:
a large HDTV box (free give away)
knife, duct tape
removable dog crate divider
multiple pieces of cardboard
(to prevent fly aways as i cut the opening in the side of the box to big)
cheap auto lamp

remove contents from box.
tape up ends and handle holes
cut a large rectangle in side.
lay down newspaper and straw.
and a new home is ready.

Saturday Sky....

Saturday Sky.

Mt. Redoubt puffing away.
(love the digital camera- took loads of
pictures but am only using one).



Knitting: this is a bunny rabbit.
some folks say it still needs a tail and face...
what do you think?



Knitting: still am knitting on DM's socks. But have
cast on something entirely for me!
a shawl. Already have 2 repeats of 10 done.
hopefully by the end of the weekend it will be done.

working lots of hours.
and we got more snow on Thursday night.
(several more inches).

Trying to come up with another contest.
anyone up for another contest?

Spring!

DM's yard on Monday March 17.
She has a lot more snow than I do!

knitting: am way to tired. Actually did cast on for a gauge swatch for Bumpkin's cardigan. The swatch ended up being 4.5 inches w/ US 7 needles instead of 4 inches so I will redo w/US 6 needles.

Today is the First day of Spring and what kind of weather do we have? Well the temps maybe went to 32 F. It looked like snow, smelled like snow and felt like snow. And finally when I drove home there was snowflakes falling. Which now has tapered off and the wind is really blowing.

Princess wants to change her guess is there anyone else who wants to bump up their guess? Speak up now. Otherwise all guesses are locked in and we wait to see who is right.
Hmm... and now to think up the prize. Should be a snowman or something springy? I am thinking Spring- so off to look at some Spring time patterns and colors.

On another note: I am glad that Spring break is almost over (I come home from work totally exhausted!)

Contest!

A when will the snow be gone contest!
(This is A Sticky! Please Scroll down!
There are way more posts!)

Now how to run this contest... one thought was to take pictures of my yard and have people guess what snow pile would melt first and when. Second thought was to post yard pictures and have guesses as to when the snow piles would be gone (completely).
Finally I decided that the contest would be when will the snow be completely gone. (The little corner of the house that still has snow long after all the rest of snow has melted doesn't count.)

And now for the rules:

1. Post a comment with your guess as to when all the snow will melt.
2. Please include a way for me to contact you. (If you don't want your e-mail addie public than you can e-mail me separately).
3. The winner will be whomever is closest to the actual snow free day (no snow in yard around swing set!)
4. I will be posting weekly pictures of the swing set to assist you in your guesses.
5. Contest closes... March 20 2008.

Happy Guessing everyone.. this contest is open to everyone (including those bloggers/readers who are familiar with Alaskan Springtime).

*hint sometime in May wouldn't be a bad guess. March would though.

ETA: this is now a sticky so please scroll down to read the regular posts:

Contest!

My 200th post and

1 year blogiversary!

Now for the rules: Please leave a comment about what is your favorite random website/or strange thing. (worth 1 chance)
And e-mail me w/the random facts about me. (Worth 1 chance and the bonus question is worth 1 chance).

1. What is my favorite color?
2. What does AK stand for?
3. What is my favorite food?
4. When did I go back to work?
5. How long did it take me to get on RAvelry?
6. Where did I go on Vacation?
7. Bonus question: What 2 things do I not like? (Yes they are job related and could be problem because of what I do).
   

Contest will run until January 18th.
Happy Hunting! I think everything is in there.
Prize will be non- knitter friendly!