tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18974782998704747242024-03-12T17:29:38.836-07:00Windmill FarmWelcome to Windmill Farm and Country Design. We are flower and produce farmers, designers, and decorators. Living the dream on a small farm, raising animals, growing flowers for small occations, events, small weddings; and raising fruits and vegetables using only the best sustainable practices. Stop by and see us on Instagram, Facebook and our blog.Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-77437643088369427852019-02-23T10:05:00.001-08:002019-02-24T14:04:24.092-08:00Flower Farming, Farm Classes and End of 2018 Re-Cap-Holiday Wreath Making<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">It is now February 2019 and a good time to reflect what our farm has been up to since my long last post. I actually hate to admit it, I have become one of those people that have become addicted to Instagram. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love posting on it every day what we are doing here at Windmill Farm. And I love to watch what everyone else is doing to. It only used to be a few people associated with my likes, farming, knitting, flowers, florists. It has now expanded. I read on a blog the other day that you can view how many minutes or HOURS a person is viewing on Instagram. I would bet very soon, there will be groups to meet to stop the addiction, Instagram Annoymous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chatter about it is a favorite thing to do with friends as they forward to you something interesting or amusing that they saw, then you become a follower. Frank became mildly interested, he is NOT a social media kind of guy. A few lessons were given to him,( like a user of some illegal substance), and now he too, is hooked. He has his own account and Frank posts on his IS account almost every day too. The photos are of his antique tractor he is working on; some welding; the dogs. Too cute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that is my excuse for less blog posts, more IS posts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't think because we don't write it here regularly now, it isn't happening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our farm is constantly a buzz of activities or planning of planting, buying seeds, scheduling classes.I keep thinking this may be our last year, as you know, we are "senior citizens" but I just keep feeling the drive to continue and I do love it all so much.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, to recap what we have been doing. The last post was about the fun, fun clock making class out of re-cycled pallets. We then had our barn wood pumpkin painting class which was equally fun. Frank cut the wood, glued and stapled it together; then he cut out the shapes of the pumpkins, 2 different sizes!!! I had an idea about having separate pieces for the leaves, so he cut out 2 leaves per pumpkins, different sizes. He was amazing and the people loved it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had so many different colors/shades of orange paint; then I put out purple, yellow, greens, blacks, browns just to see what people would do. Here are some photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In October our farm hosted a pre-school activity day. We had pumpkins to pick, craft projects for the kids, the instructors brought food; and I gave Gator/hay rides. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We decorated the lawn part of our field and Frank put on display his 1947 Ford tractor and his John Deere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">November our farm hosted a parent/child holiday Pom Pom making class. It was so much fun, we made so many different sizes of Pom Poms, arranged them to make holiday trees, made headbands and wreaths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">December celebrated our 7th year of hosting Holiday Farm Fresh Wreath Making Classes. Frank and I spend days foraging fresh greens, olive branches, eucalyptus, berries, pine cones along with our traditional fresh noble fir greens. I have so many photos of our wreath making class, but my post is way too long now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And lastly we had a fabulous flower season where our farm made beautiful, english garden bouquets, arrangements, corsages and even some funeral sprays and graveside flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I promise to try and keep you up to date on what is happening here throughout 2019.</span></div>
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-91491798166326184652018-10-24T10:48:00.002-07:002018-10-24T10:48:27.085-07:00I HAVE BEEN GONE TOO LONG!!! OUR FARM,CLASSES AND FLOWERS ARE ALIVE AND WELL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What can I say, it has been just way too long since I have posted anything on my blog. I was looking at another flower website the other day and it had a link to a "blog", I got excited and clicked on it hoping to see and learn something new. When I got there, the last one posted by that person was December, 2017. I was so bummed, I thought why have a link if you don't post. Then I had a guilt moment that I haven't posted either and just as bad. Where does the time go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here I am, from our small farm, Windmill Farm in the beautiful northern California town called Gridley, in case you forgot. We have our soil tested every other year and it keeps coming up, the most perfect, the soils that everyone trys to have, we have it right here, where you put something in the ground and it just takes off. Unfortunately, the weeds love the soil too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Busy flower season August and September. Here are some highlights:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a few fun and different classes here at the farm too. Frank made re-cycled pallet wood into round clock faces. We had a class where the participants painted their own clock face, stenciled the numbers, installed the clock workings and went home with their own personalized wooden clock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And our fall pumpkin selling season started while I was away from my blog readers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had some school kids visit the farm but way too many photos already here, so promise to come back sooner next time to show you that fun day. Please check us out on our Instagram account, I post every day there: windmillfarmofgridley. And of course, Facebook-Paula Carli and also Windmill Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The weather has been perfect, in the high 70s to low 80s with no rain in site. We do need the rain, but this helps us to get the fields cleaned up and our sheds cleaned and tractors ready for their winter rests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Talk to you soon!!!</span></div>
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-83698928717271997432018-07-24T19:52:00.002-07:002018-07-24T19:52:38.525-07:00CATCH UP-FLOWERS, NEW BARN DOORS, Bad Stone Fruit Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Can't believe it has been so long since we have talked. I kept meaning to let you know what is happening here at Windmill Farm but just didn't get it together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So in the month of June and July, we have been planting, weeding, watering, mowing. All that is for sure but then, the heat started up and has not let up at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Good News is that Frank built me some new barn doors for my sorting shed/flower design building. It was open on 2 sides for good ventilation, but some days the wind stopped me from working out there. So we came up with a design and he built them. I painted them and Frank installed them. They are 10 Feet by 8 feet, pretty big doors. They work perfectly!!!.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bad news is that we had high hopes for a good stone fruit year, but it didn't happen. We can only surmise that the blooms were there, but because of late rains and heavy winds and then high heats, the buds produced very limited numbers of good fruit. We still have a few peach trees that may give us some cases of peaches, but cherries, nectarines and apricots were a bust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank goodness my flowers have been happy in the heat. Getting the seeds and plugs in the ground was a chore though as the ground was either too wet, to windy or then, the heat. But the dahlias have just been my best investment in time and costs of the tubers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This year I dug up some space next to the green house that I used to grow zinnias and planted rows of dahlias, by color. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I knew what the flowers were supposed to look like when I ordered them, but when they actually bloom, that is when the joy of gardening happens.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flower end of our farming business continues to grow as more and more locals know that I have fresh flowers; the word gets out; and the most important business actions-social media. I feel our flower farming business has a "style", which I describe to people as country garden flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The arrangements are natural looking; interesting in shapes and sizes of flowers; and the final touches I put on the finished vases are unique and special-and personal to the people who order them. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are a few more special occation arrangements grown, picked and arranged right here at our Windmill Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And our adorable grand kids came and visited us a bit this summer and helped me pick some glads. I sure hope not to be gone so long in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to say some negative things about my kids and people, so stop reading if you think you will be offended. NO NOT ABOUT POLITICS, about insects!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While weeding in my flower rows this week, I stuck my hand into a plant and something either stung me or bit me. It hurt and it occurred to me that I may need to keep an eye on it, but kept on weeding. Earlier in the day, I had seen a friendly gopher snake so that slightly crossed my mind. I was sweating (yes sweating, not perspiring) it was close to 90 degrees and I had been out in the flower fields for hours and covered in dirt. It occurred to me that I didn't know a lot of people who would want to do what I do-men or women and I am older than dirt person. Brave the elements of weather and nature, bent over, pulling, digging, hard physical work. The younger generations, sorry to say this, don't want to work this hard; they would rather pay a "gardener". Yes they may buy a few 6 packs of annuals and put them into a pot, but the real grunt work, lifting bags of compost, pulling weeds, cutting back dead branches, running a rototiller; fertilizing-all in the wind, cold or heat of a season.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every time we have people from "THE CITY" or our family comes to visit, we turn on the BUG ZAPPER, super clean the patio and furniture, (they hate to see a bug or frog in the back of a cushion) and I have the bug guy come and treat around the house. People seem to have developed a low tolerance for anything that bothers them when being outside. Like mosquitoes; flies; insects that move on the ground. If the weather is windy, too cold, too hot; humid; they don't want to be outside but stay in a controlled environment - inside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone is interested in becoming a good gardener or even to move to the next step and become a farmer, weather and insects and wildlife is all around you. You will become part of it, not that you have to change them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an example, we have a 2 tier large fountain on the back patio. In the early spring, before there is water irrigating; when there are dry winds or long periods without rain, the fountain will be covered with honey bees getting drinks. I was also told by a beekeeper that they take water back to the hive to keep the hives cool. Every time you walk past the fountain, they are flying all around. They don't bother me and I don't bother them. We enjoy the patio together. Even the dog water dish have bees on the rims, so we put a large rock in the bottom, cresting enough for them to land without drowning. Every time it seems, our kids and friends come to visit and we are out on the patio, someone screams there are bees and takes off. We see it as a joy and helping nature; they see it as frightful, potential pain. How many times have you been stung? I have been stung a million times in my life and survived. We used to always walk bare footed in the clover grasses and get stung on the foot several times a year growing up. Working in the flower garden, at least once or twice a year, I get too close to a bee's flower and got stung. My fault, minor pain and later discomfort but there are over the counter remedies to ease whatever symptoms. I actually love hearing nature working around me while I am bent over working. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The sweet peas seem to draw the large black bumble bees. Sometimes the bumble bee and I want the same flower when I am cutting them for a bouquet, he just doesn't want me to have it. I don't scream, or jump around or swat, I keep calm, enjoy them, see what their life is about, which flowers they like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">While living in Nevada County, we ALWAYS had snakes, and unfortunately, they mostly were rattlers. We had a huge pond so we did have those beautiful large water snakes and gopher snakes, but rattlers, yes those spooked me. We learned to live together with the water and gopher snakes, but as a gardener, I did have a bit anxiety during weeding time in my flower beds. I would pre-agitate the area, making pounding noise; I even brought my cat and dogs out wherever I was working as they were good pointers for these snakes. I NEVER would go out into tall grass or flower gardens without heavy boots on. Many a time, I would be walking by and something catch my eye and yes, a coiled up rattler. It didn't mean I never went outside; or I never gardened, I just tried to be consciencious and careful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Gridley, mosquitoes are a problem due to the many acres of rice fields in Butte County. My kids just hate mosquitoes and if outside during dusk and they see them flying around, there is screaming and panic. I am just used to it and pretty much put on the ointments first thing in the morning. I find it helps with keeping any kind of bugs I may get outside while working, fleas, big black flys that bite, earwigs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The family went for a walk along the Oroville Dam afterbay several months ago. We took a dog and the trail was hard pack rock, easy walking, view of the water, beautiful. The dog went off the path and my daughter went into a few bushes to get it. When she looked down, a tick was on her leg. Screams, panic, more screams-we all had to turn around and go back to the car to go home. When home, all the kids and herself AND THE DOG had to go into the shower, washed all the clothes and later had a hair check for ticks. Then the Internet investigation on what ticks cause Lyme's disease, and was that what was on her leg. Good grief. In Nevada City, ticks were everyplace, always on animals, I can't tell you how many times I found them on my clothes or in my hair. It was before the Lyme's disease because top billing though, it was just a hazard of living with manzanita brush and dry vegetation. A perfectly nice walk turned into a mother's panic mode. Is this my kid? Someone who was raised on a 100 acre ranch with animals and gardens?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My biggest annoyance and pet peeve and sorry, again to offend anyone but here goes. The people who say they are "farmers", when they have a few raised beds in their back yard and some plants in pots, maybe a few chickens. I love that they are interested in growing their own food or grow herbs/flowers. But there is a big difference to a "gardener" versus someone who is a farmer, someone who makes a living off what they grown, has 150foot rows, 3 wide plantings, for acres. That is farming. Or they have hired help come and clean out their chicken coop or feed their animals or hired help to dig and weed for them so their "gardens" are perfect for an Instagram photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every time I open up my garden shed door, I know to look on the floor because there is always a lizard or small snake taking refuge there. I am happy to see them because it means they are eating bugs in the shed. I am happy to see the hundreds of honey bees getting water in my fountain to help themselves and their hives, hey bring all their friends for a drink. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am happy to see the gopher snake because I get so mad at those darn gophers eating my plants. </span><br />
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And Frank built and we put up all over on the property fencing, little bird houses that each year supply a couple nests full of babies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am afraid there are several generations of people who want to live in an environment that they say they want to help save, but don't actually want to BE LIVING in it, just observe from a safe and sterile - pest and reptile and critter free - environment looking outside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Work is exploding around here. Everything needs to be done now that the rains have stopped and the warm weather started. One day it was in the high 50 degrees, 2 days later it was 86 degrees!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to say that Frank has a bigger jump on his jobs done than I have. He has his field plowed, smoothed, ridges made, watermelon planted, drip systems in and working; ditch water ridges made and ready for the release of the 2018 allotment of water. His tractors are serviced and ready to go. And his "golf course" lawn of weeds in the back is looking great.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have been weeding old sections to get ready for veggies; and planting some plugs I purchased, a few rows of seeds; and loads and loads of dahlia tubers. But I am having a bit of problem with my knee, more than normal old age aches and pains. I am not a complainer and just normally take my Advil and get moving. This pain is so severe it is hard to walk. So I have a chiropractic appointment today, in fact to see if she can sort things out. Deep down, I am a little afraid, because I am older than dirt, that the problem may lay with my hips, but don't want to think about that yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I am doing well, I work like crazy. My veggie and flower section is about 50% planted, I would feel better if it was 75%. I am such a control freak, it is hard for me to have any help because I plant certain things in certain places, in certain ways. Do you have that problem too?? The words stubborn, hard headed comes to mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even though it is April, my Calla Lilys are blooming; Ranuculus, Anemones; Sweet Peas; Roses; Iris; Jasmine; Lilacs; Lavender; Mock Orange. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The citrus trees are blooming right now too. In case you didn't realize, we are a full fledged produce and fruit farm too with flowers being my main focus these last few years. So when we walk from the house to the back fields, you pass the roses blooming first with so many neat smells; then you pass the jasmine vines with lavender planted under neath (the sound of bees stops you in your tracks), boy is that jasmine smell wonderful. Then you walk by the citrus orchard and you think, what is that interesting smell? Citrus blooming is heavenly. Spring is such a marvelous time of year for all senses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I received my main order for dahlias. I had received a smaller order from another company a few weeks before of dahlias and about 400 glad bulbs, so I was breezing by planting what I purchased. Then this huge order came and I thought what the heck was I thinking!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As an investment, long term, it will be better to have bulbs that come back each year and perennials. I would love to have about 400 peonies planted, I probably could retire as they get premium prices. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But they bloom once and then done, whereas dahlias keep blooming and blooming until fall which are better flowers for my weddings, events and small flower orders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I worked out the classes and flower events I am going to have here at the farm, for the next few months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Mother's Day Flower Specials May 13th: People can choose between a couple special vases + a farm fresh, country arrangement, delivered. $45 for flowers + $5 delivery cost. OR a larger flower BOUQUET (without a vase) for $45 + delivery; and lastly you can order a beautiful plant full of blooms, wrapped as a gift and card delivered. $45</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Strawberry Jam/Canning Class-May 16th, Wednesday, 6-8pm. Learn the basics of canning, hands on class, canning strawberry jam. Each person will go home with jars of the completed jam. $35 includes hand written instructions, hands on instruction, fruit and all supplies provided along with light refreshments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Cow Painting Class: June 2, 2018, Saturday, 10-Noon. $45. I am hosting this class for Artist Julie Engstrom Spohn. The class will use paper mache, paints and other items where you will create a unique and fun cow painting by the time the class is over to take home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. July-date not set yet, flower arranging class & a Indigo Dying class. Check back on my Windmill Farm Facebook page, this blog or my Instagram account-windmillfarmofgridley for these dates.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lastly, I wanted to share with you a little crochet project I just finished. A dear friend of mine, Debbie occasionally brings her grand daughter to some of our classes. She is a beautiful and delightful little girl and we always have a fun time when she comes. My grand kids are getting a bit older, so when I saw this small child's crocheted purse on Pinterest, I decided to make it for Debbie's grand daughter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After finishing it, I felt that the purse turned out a bit too large for a little girl, so I improvised and made another one much smaller. Here are the finished projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have my fingers crossed that my knee will be much improved after my chiro visit today. My stomach has been so upset lately because I keep taking so much Advil/Motrin to ease the pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter week and weekend. It is such a special time of year to be thankful for our wonderful gifts of life -like family, our freedoms of faith. And it turned out to be such a beautiful week with moderate temperatures, clear skies, nature abounding all around us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every day, I try and plant some seeds or plug plants into the flower rows here at our Windmill Farm Flower & Produce Farm. Frank has had a very difficult task of repairing a main water line that goes into our house and irrigates all the gardens around the house. Many of my hydrangea plants grow all around our house. As you may recall, our house date back to the 1920s with a remodel done, as far as we can tell, in the 1930s. So this water break was from the original galvanized water line unfortunately, broken under the concrete steps leading into the house. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Frank planned out the next step; had the USA people come out and mark where our main natural gas line comes into the house. As Murphy's Law would have it, it ran exactly where we needed to dig a trench to lay a new water line. While having to rent a trencher machine anyways, Frank also planned out additional spots to add other hose bibs; and additional sprinkling systems around the house. He can do so much by himself or sometimes with my help, but occasionally he really needs another strong hand and back to help him out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Luckily, Easter was this last weekend when our family came to spend some time with us, so Frank asked for our son-in-law's help which he gladly gave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day they rented the trencher, dug all the areas needing new pipelines and purchased all the pipe and pipe fittings. The next day, all was laid into the holes, fittings glued, water tested. It was so helpful to have Chris work with Frank and get that project finished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The grand kids were out of school so the whole family was here. In between the little bits of farm work, we went for some walks; Collin played with his Dad, Chris on a electric car course they made out back in the fields; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celli did some baking; Carli helped me dig some holes while I planted the seeds. Lots of Gator rides with the 5 dogs in the back. And of course, lots of eating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">I wanted to also recap some of my favorite flower arrangements from Sept & October of last year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For some reason, those two months were my busiest for small weddings, birthday arrangements and a few events. </span><br />
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The flowers we grow here always amaze me when they cut right from the fields and put together making their magic. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span>Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-77966070435357152002018-03-20T12:43:00.000-07:002018-03-20T12:43:06.934-07:00Flower Planning, Some Planting & Favorite Flower Arrangements From July & August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Wadding through all the seed and bulb catalogs that started arriving in November, I made my lists of plants that I THINK will be asked for in 2018. Of course, there are the staples, the bed and butter flowers, as they say that I always plant.<br />
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But this year, I am trying a few new ones and adding a few more 150 foot rows. My eyes are always bigger than my budget and much stronger than my back. As I have gotten all the ordered seeds, I wondered what the heck I was thinking. Our farm is mainly worked by Frank and myself and as <br />
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I have said many time, we are older than dirt, as they say. So using our strength and ability has to be kept in check to my big, big wish brain.<br />
We started our lists on the counter again for 2018. What I need to do, what I want Frank to do. He is always so wonderful in putting what I need ahead of what he has going on himself. Like repairing the Gator, changing the oil in his tractor; burning piles of large limbs from pruning; getting his irrigation items together. I have ordered extra landscaping fabric that needs to be put down, but the field is still so so wet from the last 2 weeks of rain.<br />
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One section of flower rows needed the old landscaping fabric pulled up and the soil disked. Frank did that yesterday because we had one decent warm day. Today is another warm day but the forcast is another week of rain so we are moving around her fast to fit in a week's worth of outside work in a day.<br />
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There is no way to tell how the fruit season will be this year. The trees were budding out beautifully and then a cold snap. Then other fruit trees bloomed, like the nectarines, peaches but then we had winds and driving rains. The cherry trees are just about to bud, I bet it happens today with more rain coming. We shall see if we have any fruit this season.<br />
Speaking of cherries. We have decided to take out about 50 pomegranate trees and plant cherries. Everyone thinks we are crazy because cherries are marjorinal growers here in Gridley, Califronia. But about 2 miles away, there was a huge, huge cherry orchard for years and years and they did very well. Unfortunately, a group of investers purchased that ranch and cut down all those old cherry tries and planted walnuts. And everyone in Butte County is growing walnuts. Seems to me in a very short period of time, there will be too many walnuts on the market. So I am taking a different approach and growing cherries. We shall see!!<br />
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I have geared up orders for our Flower Subscription for 2018. If you wish to receive a beautiful seasonal bouquet from our farm twice a month, delivered to you, give us a call. We have Early Spring subscriptions; Early Summer subcriptions; Summer; and then deliveries in Early Fall. Each group will have flowers that are growing at that time of year, cut straight from our farm, made into a country bouquet-delivered to your home or business. <br />
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Here are some photos of a few of my favorite arrangements, bouquets or wedding flowers that we did here in July and August of last year for your enjoyment. And if you need any flowers for an event; party; occation or wedding in 2018, think of us, your small and local farmer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, I have been so bad about posting. I have all these lovely flower photos to continue with the flower highlights of 2017. But first I wanted to share with you what I have been up to in January and February. Yes, I felt the same as all of you, WHERE DID FEBRUARY GO!!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a fantastic Valentine's Day flower event. It was decided to really promote it via social media. I hired a great business and marketing promoter friend, Sarah Reynolds, who put together my ad; helped me boost it using special areas (such as highlighting MEN since they are the ones who usually purchase flowers on Valentine's Day) and other tips we used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The results were fascinating and VERY productive. And we made many people happy with beautiful flowers on February 14th!!! Thank you Sarah. It takes lots of planning and organizing along with having beautiful flowers available for an UNKNOWN amount of customers. It is a gamble for a small flower farmer. It made me remember what happened last year at the same time. Lots of flowers, lots of vases, lots of customers but 2 days before Valentine's Day, the Oroville Dam evacuation of Oroville, Gridley, Biggs, Live Oak happened. (Check out my blog archive for what happened in 2017).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This year went on without any hitches though. We made lots and lots of beautiful flower bouquets and arrangements.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I even made my own hand made Valentine's Day salutation cards using old buttons and special hearts to make them extra special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also in January and February, I have been bitten by the knitting socks and hats again. Every few years, I start up again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First I used up some yarns I already had in my stash. Then I went to YouTube to refresh my skills; bought a tutorial from my favorite sock knitter who has written books and speaks all over the world on sock knitting, Ann Budd. Then I made a hat that looked pretty cute on Bella.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I find even though I have knitting skills, crafts change, people learn something that helps you; people get more technical and knitting constantly evolves. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So knit, I did and everyone in my family now have lots of socks. Whether they like it or not!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am also making felted slippers; have a cat cozy pattern and yarn ready to start; a wrap project for myself, which I work on off and on, all near my favorite chair to work on since I heard it is supposed to rain next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever wanted to wallpaper your kids room or a bathroom? Or even the back of your cupboards? I have wallpapered my whole life, as styles and fads have moved in or out over the years. I have even wallpapered as a business in my youth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The classes cost $30 and people will have a hands on hanging paper experience; be taught how to figure how much paper to order; matching seams; everything you need to go home and do it yourself!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="color: red;">Finished projects in January and February:</span></u></b> Completed all our fruit tree pruning; finished cleaning up flower growing field debris and planted some seeds; ordered all my dahlias; bulbs; and seeds needed for the spring plantings; spraying dormant spray (necessary unfortunately) on fruit trees; cleaned up and organized barn storage area; Frank disked field; he raked up all the tree pruning clippings, chipped the small stuff and has a huge pile ready to burn of the big limbs; covered all the outside pipes with insulation so none will break during freezes in Jan/Feb.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I got interested in making mini pies, so in February, I have made many batches of fruit and meat mini pies. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are something I am considering making available from our farm; and also make available as part of our refreshments we provide at our classes. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since we have so much fruit from our trees, it is another way to use our fruit during each season and possibly to sell the pies. They are so good tasting and I have found a lady in Placer Co that has taken an old bus and goes from site to site selling mini pies!!! Sounds like fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>Work in progress:</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> Frank-designed and ordered necessary parts to make large barn doors on my sorting shed to enclose 2 sides of it; he is changing oil and re-conditioning his tractors and Gators to get them ready for spring; I am working on promoting my new flower </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">CSA</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> program for 2018; I am working on selecting farm classes and setting dates for them for the next few months. I am re-designing the flower/shrub plantings along our driveway. For years, they have been some plantings doing well, but others have not; plus we lost 2 trees to disease along the driveway. This requires new drip system changes; added soil compost; new rock, plantings and more. Big project. I have ordered and received new landscaping fabric for adding more rows of flowers this year. My continued inside knitting projects for the days when the weather doesn't allow me to go outside.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That is what happened to our January and February!!! What have you been working on over this 2018 winter? Love to hear from you. Be back with more Windmill Farm news soon-and more pictures of our lovely flowers -promise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is hard to go back a year and pick out some favorites, some are because of the time of year when only certain flowers bloom. Other favorites are because you remember the people who ordered them or who's wedding you provided their flowers for that special day. Here are some from April, May and June of 2017.</span></div>
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<br />Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-61045385718676154312018-01-10T10:49:00.002-08:002018-01-10T10:49:16.894-08:00FAVORITE WEDDING BOUQUETS & ARRANGEMENTS FROM JAN,FEB, MAR OF 2017<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Reflecting in 2017, I wanted to highlight a few flower arrangements, bouquets, special occasion flowers for January, February, March. My next post will have the same, but for April, May, June and so on. Hope you enjoy, love the flowers and be inspired to tell your friends to think about us here at Windmill Farm for any flower needs in 2018. My style, the flowers we grow reflect arrangments "picked fresh flowers from a country garden" which is exactly what we are and do for our customers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another Wedding-Same week wanted Same flowers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Come back next week and I will highlight more flowers from 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I have written 3 different blogs in the last few weeks. I would write them and then work on the photos to finish and publish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">But then I would get distracted with all the holiday business, cooking,</span></div>
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fun with family and they never got done. Then time- passed which made the posts not so relevant. Doesn't time just fly by way too fast?</div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My topics before Christmas were:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Re CAP of the Three Holiday Wreath Making Classes-Fun Fun</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The posts were interesting, I thought. Fun; a little educational, a window into what we do here at Windmill Farm.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I just ran out of time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I guess that is a hard lesson to learn in life, there is never enough time; time slips by too quickly; <i><b>TIMING </b></i>is everything.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Well all of these bits of wisdom from me, great fun and photos of our holiday classes and reflections aren't totally lost. If interested, you can go to my Instagram account <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">here</a>; you can go to my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paula.carli.5" target="_blank">here</a> for Paula Carli and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Windmill-Farm-326934435683/" target="_blank">here</a> for Windmill Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Reflecting always makes me want to make new plans, with new hopes and dreams for the future of our Windmill Farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Classes I am planning and preparing to give in 2018: Making your own cutting boards in Frank's shop; Painting personalized signs on old barnwood; Teaching people how to wallpaper; To Stencil walls; To make Cat and Dog beds for your pets; Another Indigo Dying Class; Canning and Preserving classes with home grown produce; Flower Arranging Classes; Flower Growing classes; Rug Making Classes; Knitting/Crocheting Classes; Cooking Classes; Chicken Raising Classes; Upholstery slipcover Class; To Have A Farm Tour Day; A Pie Making Class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">And many others to come.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Frank and I are so <b><i>THANKFUL</i></b> for you, the people who want to learn and hear about what we are doing on our farm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We are <i><b>THANKFUL</b></i> to be still healthy and strong enough to continue to farm since we are both seniors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We are <b><i>THANKFUL</i></b> to have a loving and supportive family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">There is so much to be <i><b>THANKFUL</b></i> for, how about you? Love to hear from you about what you have planned for 2018.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">HAPPY BELATED CHRISTMAS!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">HAPPY NEW YEAR from Frank and I here at our WINDMILL FARM.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I remember in January thinking how many months I had until I needed to worry about weeding and watering. Then February with all the rains and the evacuation of Oroville, Gridley, Live Oak due to the erosion of Oroville Dam and the terror we all felt for weeks and weeks of not knowing; the flooding; checking each day the level of the dam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then I remember thinking I better get those seeds in the ground before it is too late. The heat of most of the summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And occasionally I was thinking that the holiday season was so far off. If I was smart, now would be a good time, middle of summer, to buy the gifts so I didn't have the last minute worry and rush to get everything done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did I do it? I think I bought one gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">I actually remember saying more than once, that I would really, really look forward to rain, cooler temperatures after such a hot year. It was in the 80 degree weather when I was picking pumpkins to sell in October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now we have rain. The leaves all around our house are beautiful gold and about half on the ground. Not as much red in the trees as we used to see when we lived in Nevada County. But you definitely know it is fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But what happened, I lost the year and it is officially, the Holiday Season because today is Thanksgiving.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I am such a planner, a list maker, a future thinker that sometimes, I think, misses enjoying the moments. I work so hard to get each crop in and to be the best that it can be. I work so hard to plant my flowers so that when they bloom, they will be so beautiful, nobody can resist them. I plan all my farm classes in such detail, in hopes that not one of the participants thinks it was a disappointment or that they wasted their money to attend. That they learned a lot; had a great time; took home with them a finished product and will want to come back to Windmill Farm again and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do they? I am not the best judge, but everything we do here, we work the hardest we can to make them a success and that our produce, our craft classes and our flowers are the most beautiful, the most delicious. Our standards are high, on ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But maybe, in 2018, I need to appreciate what we have already done to our property. To see the beauty that so many people say is here when they come to attend a class or stay for a visit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At my last class, the Indigo Dyeing class, a wonderful lady (who brought their daughter and grand daughter) sent me a message on Facebook "</span><span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; color: #4b4f56; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>it was a fun day for all..!!! It was so lovely to be out in your yard...the fall leaves, crisp air, and sunshine are good for the Soul. My kids both enjoyed their day with you and everyone. I think the class was a huge success..!!! Looking forward to attending some more classes in the future." </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4b4f56; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f1f0f0; white-space: pre-wrap;">For 2 days before the Indigo Dyeing class, I was fretting about where to have it because the uncertainty of the weather. Whether inside Frank's shop, inside my shop or outside at my Sorting/Design Studio where I have a sink, running water, outside to make messes. I kept looking at the weather, should I or not. The day turned out actually beautiful, a little cool but crisp, clear, lovely. More than once, a person mentioned how beautiful it was out back; how the flowers still looked wonderful; how quiet and peaceful it was; what a lovely spot to work during the year. All compliments that I almost missed because I was too busy trying to make everything perfect. Too absorbed in the "doing" instead of the "enjoying".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First of all, I want to say that our pomegranate season is finished. We sold our last 4 cases yesterday. A few days previously, a lovely young girl contacted me to purchase as many cases as I had of the splits. She purchased poms from me last year also because she makes the juice, freezes it and later makes pomegranate soaps. She took home 6 cases of splits and non-splits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This last week has been busy getting ready for one flower event on Friday; and the flowers for one wedding on Sunday. The plant for this year that just about EVERYONE wants is EUCALYPTUS. Seems people have fallen in love with how it moves in arrangements; how the silver tones blend in so well with so many flower colors. These two customers were no exception, they both wanted silver eucalyptus in the bride bouquets, in the table arrangements. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Both the seeded Eucalyptus and silver dollar Eucalyptus are the most popular. And the prior event customer wanted it in every table setting along with the silver leaves of the olive tree. Those arrangements turned out wonderful because the pallet was white, a blush rose; green hydrangeas; white dahlias and silver with just a pop of dark blue from the Sea Holly Blue Thistle flower. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had the wonderful help from my friend Sarah on Saturday and together we put a lot of flowers together to make a beautiful finished group of bouquets, boutonnieres, flower cuffs and table arrangements. I will show you those flowers next time because I don't like to show the flowers until the bride or family posts the wedding photos themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank has been painting the walls of his remodeled shop which is bringing this project closer to being finished. It all needs to be done so we can transform it to hold all my December 5th, 6th, and 7th fresh greens wreath and garland classes inside his shop. We decorate it all for the holidays, lights everyplace, great food, music and loads and loads of different types of locally foraged Holiday greens for people to make and decorate their own Christmas wreaths.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before those classes, I have one class scheduled in November, the 18th. That class will be learning to use the Indigo Dyeing process called Shibori. Indigo is a natural plant dye and we will be using 100% cotton kitchen towels to create all types of designs using rubber bands, folding and string. Loads of fun if interested, sign up now. Cost is $30 and we supply everything. 10-Noon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a couple of raining days, I have been working on my Christmas knitting projects, a Shrug for my grand daughter, hat for my grand son; </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">crocheted fall leaves for a swag on the mantal; and a shawl for myself!!! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe it or not, I still have beautiful flowers growing in my gardens but colder and more rain is in the forecast so I am sure, the 2017 flowers will be finished soon. That doesn't mean my Windmill Farm Flower business is done!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We use fresh greens, pine cones, red berries and special farmed flowers from my fellow flower farmers who use greenhouses or tunnels to grow flowers. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We trade or purchase from each other so that we keep the small flower farming business alive!!! So for the holidays remember us if you have any flower needs. Our arrangements are always creative and special, nothing ordinary comes from our farm!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Talk to you before Thanksgiving and thank you for continuing to come back to read our blog.</span></div>
Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-84800880110621021212017-10-31T22:29:00.002-07:002017-10-31T22:29:16.709-07:00LOVE OF WRITING AND FLOWERS CHANGES COMING????<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the air I feel the changing of seasons. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">It may have been in the 80 degree heat this last week, but the trees are turning yellow and oranges. The evenings are cooler. The air smells differently. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I feel like knitting instead of planting seeds. </span></div>
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I want to stay in bed just a little longer instead of bouncing out at daylight to head out to the fields. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The citrus on the trees are turning from green to yellow</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been picking and selling our pomegranates and making some juice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"> The last 275 pumpkins were bought up in one bunch by a pumpkin patch in Grass Valley. </span></span><br />
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The price was extremely reduced but happy because I had already picked, moved and sold that many already one-by-one.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My thoughts have been to the last of our Windmill Farm classes of 2017, setting dates, deciding on what classes to try and schedule before Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And asking myself what will be in store for Frank and I, Windmill Farm in 2018.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My biggest concern is "TIME". Having the time to do all that I want to do; what Frank and I want to do; what Windmill Farm should be doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love to write. My life has revolved around writing for the 28 years with the Nevada County Superior Court. Writing for the United Way campaigns when I was chairman; writing gardening tips and letters in Nevada County; writing articles in antique journals (I have always been an avid antiquer and at one time, owned an antique store); writing proposals, articles about designs and spaces; I wrote for a year on farming and gardening for the Edible Shasta Butte magazine; I wrote a blog for The Gridley Herald newspaper on gardening and farming for a year; I contributed a year long sequence of articles for the Farmgirl Flower's special project, Field To Vase website on gardening-flowers-marketing-flower farming. And I have continued writing my blog here since I started it in 2009. It sure seems like it was just a few years ago, but now we are talking 8 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always secretly dreamt some magazine would ask me to write consistently for them either on the topics of Interior Design; Antiques; or Gardening/Farming/Vegetables/Fruit/Farming topics. Maybe everyone hopes for that to happen, I always felt I express myself better in writing than speaking in person.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blogging has been an excellent outlit of sharing about our mini life here doing crafts, projects, farming, DIY, animals, children, just plan LIFE. But blogging has become an avenue for many people to move into a business; to careers; to selling lots of products. There are techniques, but I have had no TIME to venture into that and my daily reading numbers show that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess my point, is, even though I have a minimum of 200+ people view my blog <i><u>every day,</u></i> I feel that my presence of my content is, well fairly interesting; barely relevant; basically not that exciting enough for people. After 8 years investment of my TIME, I am feeling like I should have 1000 people views a day. And I think, from my point of view, my writing is too long. People only want to SEE things; in seconds of videos. To see and hear it; experience it and then move on. People may go back and follow someone over and over again, but most people don't have TIME for the READING part. Life has become a visual reality. YOUTUBE and INSTAGRAM are the new frontiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since in this 8 years I haven't become a STAR; haven't been featured in any magazines; haven't made a million dollars selling products that we make or grow; and rarely is there ever at least a slight comment from someone; I am thinking for 2018, it may be time for me to say goodbye to my blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think, at least right now, starting in January, 2018, I will use the TIME I used to use preparing for the blog; doing my research; downloading photos, that I will work harder at our Windmill Farm presence on YouTube and Instagram and of course, continue with Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It does make me sad to think about this. I love to write, to share, to express myself. Not everyone does do all these other social media, there are people that I do reach that like to read!!! These people are like me, we still buy magazines to touch and feel and read paper. To read actual paper books instead of on a technology tool. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love flowers and I love showing how beautiful flowers can look together, hence I try and put photos of our Windmill Farm flowers on every blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I love the classes we host here and enjoy sharing that experience with you for those that weren't able to be right here with us.<br />So the season maybe changing here in my fingers and my mind. What can I do with the TIME not spent here? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Maybe you all will find my short videos on Instagram more entertaining, more informative??? Maybe you would move over from reading to watching a short YouTube video of my classes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We still have 60+ days left in 2017 to post here so don't leave yet. Stay tuned to what I finally decide to do and hope you will continue to find the TIME to stay with me here at Windmill Farm to any new adventures we do end up doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Doesn't anyone get married in summer any longer??? At least in my tiny flower farming world it doesn't seem so this year. In the last blog, I showed you the flowers of my 1st wedding in October, but the following week, I had another one. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, if that wasn't enough, I knew I had my annual pick your pumpkin, carve it; pick your own flowers from our flower gardens; and then make your beautiful arrangement the following weekend. Lots to do, lots of planning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let me start with wedding #2 in October.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Beautiful bride, lovely, lovely family. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This wedding requested dark red colors in bride's;pink and other color flowers for table and bridesmaid-no ribbons hanging; burlap and lace. </span></div>
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I think the wedding party looked beautiful.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Pumpkin/Flower class quickly followed. I readied my sorting shed, Frank set up tables and chairs. I put out all the details needed like flower clippers, buckets, hand towels; brought out the food and drinks and put them in the cooler. I also pre-picked lots of greens, fillers and some flowers so they could get started before going out into the field to pick their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At 4:30 am, I was awakened to loud noises. It was the wind blowing at least 20 mph. I almost feel back to sleep when I thought: all my class stuff is outside and probably blowing away!!! And would 14 ladies want to be outside in that kind of wind to try and enjoy themselves? No.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I waited until daylight, got dressed and examined the class area. It was a total disaster, stuff was all over the yard, some tables had blown over. I thought to myself: 1. I am too old for this. 2. Maybe I should cancel. 3. Where would I hold it that was outside of the wind? ANSWER: I didn't cancel and inside the house was the best place, and get my butt moving and maybe the class can still happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That meant, clean up the house quickly. I woke up Frank - I needed his help to move all those chairs and tables and greens and buckets and food to the front door and I would set up inside the house. He was a good sport and could have just put the covers over his head and pretend he didn't hear me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know how it happened, but we made it just in time. I took a video, I will try and load it right here before the class.Before class <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7YpSPKBpm0" target="_blank">video</a></span></div>
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But we did have to brave the wind to go out and have them select their pumpkins; and they cut their own flowers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fun time, love it when Moms and daughters come; or when people bring a friend. They get to share the experience here at Windmill Farm.</span></div>
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-49347806895997747742017-10-03T20:54:00.000-07:002017-10-03T20:54:01.546-07:00Fall Pumpkins, Wedding Flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It finally got cooler and our pumpkin harvesting time has begun. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We picked all the white pumpkins first which will mostly be used in our October 14th Pumpkin and Flower Decorating Class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also picked many small and medium sized pumpkins to sell out at our roadside stand. The ugly part about this is that the stems on pumpkins have these sharp prickly points all over them so gloves are a must. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The fields have been so dry and dusty, the pumpkins are dirty too, so each one had to be picked, loaded into the Gator; then unloaded in our sorting shed to be washed. Then re-loaded up and placed out front at our roadside decorated stand. I cut up a few smaller ones, put some floral foam and filled with fresh cut flowers to sell at a very reasonable price.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another event happening at our farm is on October 19th, the Walton Pre-School kids are coming out to spend a few hours with us. They will be picking their own pumpkins; taking Gator rides; and then doing a little craft project out at our sorting shed. The kids are ages 3-5 years old so this should be such a fun thing to do. If anyone locally or nearby is needing any pumpkins, we have them either one or many!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Everything is coming up flowers!!! It is interesting how everyone starts doing the same thing at the same time. Let me explain. I may not get a telephone call for my farm fresh chicken eggs for a week or more. Then in one day, I will get 5 calls just in the morning for as many eggs that I have available. This last week, I have gotten at least 10 calls from all over California with people looking to buy fresh green olives to cure. My olives are very small this year so not selling any but do refer them to the few places I know to look for fresh olives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The same thing happened about a month ago, people started calling to see if our farm could do the flowers for their small weddings, all in OCTOBER and November!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not the best time to get flowers in a season, but we still have beautiful dahlias, hydrangeas and other flowers so we said YES. Above are some photos of a flower cuff I made; a bridesmaid bouquet and the boutionerres.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we received a telephone call from a local photographer who wanted to know if they could take some high school graduation photos out in our flower gardens. Of Course!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I did tell her that this is not the best time of year to show the gardens off and especially since we had such a huge wind storm recently. Honestly, I was afraid to even go back there to look at it, I figured everything would be blown on the ground. Luckily,, only one row of dahlia plants were slumped over, which I can re-prop back up for at least another couple of weeks until the flower season is completely over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The best news is, I am wearing a sweat shirt today. Why is that good news you ask? Because since June, our area has had the hottest weather anyone can remember. No day was cooler than in the middle 80 degrees and mostly all summer long it was in the 90s. I am just happy that it is cool enough to even think about wearing something warmer and not be sweating just walking across the room. Fall has arrived!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I think I figured out a way to include videos to my blogs. In a round-about way, using Youtube, but it seems to work. I have also been obsessed with taking short videos of our gardens; the outbuildings; anything to do with our farming business and then posting them on our farm Facebook account. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have especially loved taking videos of my flowers, growing and finished bouquets. </span><span style="font-size: large;">It seems that just a quick snapshot of an finished arrangement just doesn't do the whole look of it justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The project started out with the finding of one galvanized metal farm container at a local antique pop up sale. My initial idea was to hang it in my office to put pens/pencils, clips, office supplies in it. But it sat in my garage for a couple of weeks because I kept forgetting to ask Frank to drill some holes in it so I could hang it on my wall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then one Saturday, Frank and I decided to take a break from all our work at the farm and go for a drive. We ended up in Marysville and I remembered a friend of mine told me she had an antique shop downtown. We found the shop and she had a basket full of very similar galvanized bucket/scoop things. And a bit cheaper, so I purchased 2 more, but really didn't have a clue what to do with them, I just liked the shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day I was trimming back my succulents and thought they might be perfect type of plants to put into these old farm implements. So I rounded up all the necessary planting items: soil; succulents; moss; rocks; Oasis twine and took the videos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All I can say is it is a miracle we got through this summer. And a miracle our veggies and flowers got through it too. It all started in February when we had the evacuations due to possible Oroville Dam breaking, the spillway broke up and flooding everyplace in all the streams and water tributaries. Then Butte County had some fires in the foothills. And if our poor community didn't have enough happening, we have had 90-107 degree heat since July.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank and I just took each day as it came, we watered, we got up earlier to do what we had to do in our fields and orchards. And in the evening, Frank would open up his shop and continue to work on building his cabinets and fixed small mechanical things needing done. Most nights we would stop working around 10:00pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some of the fruit just fell to the ground for a couple of reasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because they ripened so fast due to the heat; and also because it was just so hot, we weren't able to get out there and pick the fruit before it got too soft. I hate the waste, but we just couldn't do anything else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We belong to a Neighborhood Watch group and people started posting on our on-line site, how much their PG&E bills were to see if others were having the same high bills. YESSSS!!! A few people said their bills were $800-$1200 when the year before it was $200-$300. Solar was spoken lots of times. Putting on those air conditioners even for a few hours during the hottest part of the day has added up to many hundreds of dollars for everyone. Tough for all of us!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In spite of it all, in early spring to early summer, my roses, iris, ranunculus and hydrangeas just bloomed and bloomed; lilacs were so so, but still nice to see them even if only for a few days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the Queens Anne Lace, some statice bloomed in the flower gardens. </span><br />
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I kept chipping away planting vegetables and flowers-a row of seeds at a time, between 7-9 at night because that was the only time it got in low 80 degree weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some dahlias started blooming in early July, several rows of zinnias bloomed, the dusty miller looked good; glads and the Celosia started up. And it has been getting better and better including the Teddy Bear sunflowers and many other varieties of sunflowers just started to bloom like crazy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then the 2nd round of glads bloomed which actually I had forgotten I had planted so that was a nice surprise. Now all the dahlias are blooming and each day I see a new size and color dahlia popping out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In between the flowers, I got rows and rows of cucumbers; beans, corn and just in the last 3 weeks, an explosion of tomatoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The failures that I had in flowers-straw flowers and most of the statice; in veggies-watermelons and peppers. Gosh, my peppers were always huge and very productive. We planted in March, they were ruined in May with winds and downpour of rains. Replanted but they have been slow getting going and now the watermelons are just about ripe, but the aphids have taken over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The flower rows look fantastic, so many colors, textures, heights; it helps to make up for the disappointment in the vegetables and fruits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank and I have really felt the heat and we are heat loving people. It has been like a heavy weight on our shoulders so when you walk from the house to the chicken pen, do a few chores, you go back to the house and have to sit down to rest. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of chickens, it has been hard on them too. I had several die through the summer. They were old hens, but still, you feel bad for them. I have kept sprinklers on their roof and a fan inside their coops but with feathered friends all nestled together at night, it just creates more heat for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In spite of all of heat issues, nothing compares to the sadness and loss as happened to the poor people of Houston, Dallas and other parts of Texas and southern states where they have had the flooding. My heart feels for them. we are sending money, prayers, support and love to our fellow Americans. Also we want to thank all the people who have helped rescue stranded people and animals; thank the people in churches and evacuation centers for providing support to those who lost so much. The true American spirit-people pulling together in hard times. Frank and I send our heartfelt prayers to all those people affected; and to our heroes like the police agencies; fire fighters; rescuers; FEMA people; Red Cross; all the churches that opened up their doors; all those that have come out to help others even when they have their own personal losses too. God Bless.</span></div>
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-86405263212783632012017-08-23T10:45:00.003-07:002017-08-24T10:47:30.184-07:00Learning New Social Media Skills For Farming-Flowers-Video Downloading<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, I got it about Social Media. I use it, I think I have a basic understanding about it. I took some classes, I read, read, read everything I can AND understand about how to use social media for business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Does it all apply to farming? Honestly, at first, I didn't think it did apply to our small farm. But since using each new avenue of information-Twitter, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paula.carli.5" target="_blank">Facebook,</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/windmillfarm/pins/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, Blogging, Youtube, Website, initially they weren't. As I got better about it, as I posted more, as I used more options to enhance visibility, I think it does help.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I don't use Twitter, just because I really think I am too old to want to let my "friends" know what I am thinking and doing every minute of the day. Nor do I have the time to bother about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I do make time for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paula.carli.5" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and have fallen in love, with Instagram. And of course, I have blogged about our Windmill Farm and our life here for almost 7 years now!!! I wish I had thousands of fans reading it, but I just plug away and don't take sponsors or take the advise of other well know bloggers as to what to do to get your blog known.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An added feature I have used on Facebook is the "boost" feature. I think I have mentioned this before. If I have a special class coming up with an instructor I am bringing in to do the class; or a special class of my own that I would like a good attendance, I use this <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paula.carli.5" target="_blank">Facebook</a> ability to widen your audience. There is a cost associated with it but it is based on how many days you want it to run; and what number of people you wish to target. Each time I have used it, the visibility of my page has increased and I do pick up a few new people to attend my classes.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I do all my updating and posting of photos on the social media in the morning before we go out and actually do our farming business. During the day, I try and keep my phone with me to snap some pictures of what we are doing. And lately, I have been using my video feature by taking these mini clips of our property. I have had some good, positive response to them to keep them up!!! It is hard to let loose of your private, personal life. But since Frank and I seem to work our gardens, our projects all the time and that has become our main focus, why not!!!! So my dogs and I cruise around in the Gator and take mini movies and are posting them to Instagram and both Windmill Farm and Paula Carli pages on Facebook. (I tried posting videos here, to blogger, but haven't been able to figure it out yet! Maybe next time)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I love Pinterest and still check out new pins about every other day. I use it a lot when getting ready for my classes, by checking out other tutorials of those specific topics, to see what other people are doing. I make new boards up for my various projects, such as upholstery; crochet projects; gardening; macrame; etc. Pinterest has beautiful photos, but within the last year, I have found something disappointing about it. It has a feature where you can go directly to the site that had the original photos. Since now all social media is world wide open, the link can take you to ADVERTISING!!! Even my main feed in Pinterest has provacative photos selling stuff. Or Flicker account which is just a bunch of pictures. As an example, there is a photo of a particular potted plant I like. I want to know more about it so I click on that feature to go to source and it ends up on just a photo board, no information, nothing. Or goes to an advertising board. Bummer. Like all hackers and horrible people, they use these social media to promote their ugly business!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> has sorta, kinda, become my passion and I sorta, kinda am finding myself a little addicted to watching some farming, gardening videos on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> and looking at such beautiful pictures of flowers, gardens, decorating, food and-knitting and crocheting projects. Since I have so many interests, it is hard to confine myself to just a few topics. Then there is a section on Instagram mini videos of unusual pets-videos about people who have pet pigs, pet fox; horses that do funny things, ferrets, the pictures are posted from around the world so it opens up a whole interesting viewing arena. It is funny about addictions, you have to control them. My worst is food. Sorry, I am not a 95 lbs person, I should be for all the work I do. But I am not, so I am constantly struggling with that addiction. I don't smoke or drink. We only have the TV going after dark, normally during and after dinner. <b>BUT, </b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, since on my phone, can be watched in quick, short bits of any new pictures or mini videos posted. It is accessible all day long and it is fun!! I really feel myself being inspired after watching it, to plant different things, to try harder in my gardens; but mostly, I am entertained. So I thought if<b> I </b>am interested in this, I need to start thinking about using it for our farming business!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I have been posting these mini farm videos out in Instagram, in hopes to find others who may be interested in seeing what we, Windmill Farm are doing here in Gridley; to be inspired and possibly, to take a glimpse now and then during their day, to check out what we are doing. To keep up with our projects; to see what Annie and Bella are doing; the chickens, whatever!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are like us and sometimes poo poo all these new Internet ventures out there, take a little step outside your comfort zone and do look into these new social media avenues to expand your business! I am having a blast capturing glimpses of our day, here at Windmill Farm and sharing them "out there" in the never, never land of the Internet. Go figure! Check out our Instagram, Facebook pages for all my new videos. And <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/windmillfarm/pins/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/paula.carli.5" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/windmillfarmofgridley/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> for photos of the farm too.</span><br />
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-43306410487205396752017-08-08T11:17:00.005-07:002017-08-08T11:17:54.510-07:00Using Wood Shavings In Garden vs Straw<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I love a neat and tidy garden. It isn't always the case with me, but I try to keep the weeds pulled and mulch around the base of my vegetables and flowers. I have found that if I put straw under my cucumber plants, the cucumbers grow straight and have less blemishes on them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After weeding and raking up all the weeds, it is a very satisfying to spread out the straw around the base of the tomatoes or flowers knowing the job is done. (Unfortunately, when I let the chickens in the gardens, they love to scatter it all over the place looking for bugs). Part of my working tools in the back of my Gator is always a broom. To sweep back the straw around the bottom of the plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I have noticed, that some of my STRAW still has seeds it it which causes the following year to produce more weeds. A couple of years ago, many articles were written to re-cycle grass when mowing out into your gardens for mulch and weed control. I did that, but boy was that a mistake!!! Do NOT use grass. Put it in your mulch pile, not in your gardens. I never had so many weeds as when I used the lawn grass in my gardens. It was as if I seeded my gardens with lawn seed!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This year I decided to try something different. I purchase animal shaving for the chicken house. The price of the shavings was comparable to the straw and I thought, no seeds!!! And the smell is wonderful; and good for mixing with the soil at the end of the year; AND a good moisture control around the base of the plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I purchased 6 bales of wood shavings and 2 bales of straw and I am experimenting around my gardens. I still used the straw under my cucumbers and around the base of the beans. But around the base of my tomatoes, peppers and half of the dahlias, I am using the wood shavings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">So far, the weed control is about the same; but the wood shavings are not producing NEW weeds due to seeds. The straw is helping with keeping weeds down, BUT it is also creating some new types of weeds from the seeds left in the straw.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At first, I thought the wood shavings might break down too fast and be a waste of money, but so far, they are holding up and continue to provide good bedding. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I wondered if the shavings did keep moisture into the soil and so far, it appears to me that it does. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I pulled away the dry shavings from the base of the plant and found that the soil was still moist.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All in all I think I will continue to use the bedding shavings. I am liking it very much, especially around my flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having the flower beds look as nice as the flowers do, is important to me. I do have classes here at the farm, where we might go out and cut flowers to do an arrangement class. I do have potential flower customers who are looking for wedding or event flowers, go out into our rows to look at blooming flowers and the better the rows looks, the more clients I may get too!!</span><br />
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-51370474413048205392017-07-30T10:31:00.001-07:002017-07-30T10:39:24.477-07:00BUYING ANTIQUES TWICE<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Before I was a farmer, I was a business woman. I wore suits, high heel shoes; loads of different and coordinating jewelry; had my nails and hair done on a regular basis. Oh and I wore nylons every day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This required shopping for my business attire fairly regularly at the malls. Gosh do people still spend the day shopping at a mall? Why does that seem so much a waste of time to me now?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you ever purchased the same or similar shoes before? Well I have, I would go into a store and think I really like that shoe. And forget I already have a pair, maybe in a different color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well I have done the same thing with antiques. This I find very, very strange. I am a lifetime buyer of antiques and selling antiques. My Mother did, my sister is in the same boat. Fads go in and out of antiques, just like in clothes. Sometimes we would fix up an old Victorian house and I would furnish it with appropriate antiques. Out goes the Victorian when we built a new house in the country, so I tried to make it antique comfortable country since we had kids and dogs and lots of dirt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Buying something twice first showed up in antiques, after my Mother died. We had a huge sale because, well, she was a pretty crazy antique collector too!!!She bought, but she didn't sell. We paid two ladies to do the estate sale because there was just so much stuff, outbuildings, barn, basement, house, garage. We were able or allowed to keep whatever we wanted, but by then, what we each kept really didn't make one itty bitty dent in the amount of stuff to be sold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For a while, I would see my Mother's stuff float in and out of local antique shops since most of the buyers were local people. But then I started to see some of her items in nearby towns, sometimes in my friend's house!!! Now that was weird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A couple years later, I was shopping at a friend's antique shop and found a cute antique straw hat. I collect straw hats and use them on the wall for "art". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I was paying for it, Jean asked me if I knew where this hat came from? I didn't know. She said, "your Mother's estate sale"! Jean had liked it and had it at her house for a while, enjoying it someplace. A day before, she had brought new items into her shop to sell and one of them was the straw hat. The hat belonged to my mother. Then sometime later I went to our local, Gridley sale and brought home an old tin container I was going to use for buttons. We are talking maybe 10-12 years later. I put the buttons in it and on to the shelf it went with the rest of the "stuff". My daughter came to visit me and we were doing some sewing projects. She brought back the tin of buttons and said: "I didn't know you kept Grandma's button box". I told her I didn't, had just purchased it. But as it turned out, it did belong to my mother and I, ended up buying it back. I knew it looked familiar, I knew it was calling me to take it home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The last item is a strange item. I collect porcelain, wood, ceramic, any old hands. I believe the porcelain may be French, but I originally thought years ago that they might have been to hold gloves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> But I always have used them to hold my rings and jewelry, in groupings. </span><br />
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Remember, I was a working gal forever, and every outfit required matching jewelry items-earrings, watches (because keeping tract of your time was important); bracelets, pins. Matching, matching. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And as I took them off, they went on these figurenes. <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NX6ynBTCs4/WX4V8LRk4FI/AAAAAAAAGic/OkZLZAGPQGwk8gF1s_pxVhOXQtwvQ-y8QCEwYBhgL/s1600/Windmill%2BFarm%2BAntique%2BHands%2B028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--NX6ynBTCs4/WX4V8LRk4FI/AAAAAAAAGic/OkZLZAGPQGwk8gF1s_pxVhOXQtwvQ-y8QCEwYBhgL/s400/Windmill%2BFarm%2BAntique%2BHands%2B028.jpg" width="300" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I got interested in antique hands. I had purchased like 30 years ago, a wooden hand, never saw one before. One time, someone told me the object was used for weaving, another said it was used for grabbing hot wash being washed in a bucket. It was very bleached out and no stain on it, like it could have been washed. Well, it fell out of favor with me and ended up in a yard sale, like 25 years ago.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fast forward to last year in Gridley. I went to the monthly, tent antique sale here in town. I saw a few items I liked, without thinking, put them at the counter and they were in the bag to go home with me. When I opened every thing up again to inspect closer and to hang or put away, I thought what an unusual object. I found the perfect place for it, in my laundry room, don't ask me why. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each visit to the laundry room, to do wash, it just kept catching my eye. Until I thought, I am going to look at some old photos I happen to have of my bathroom a long time ago. Guess what was there? Yep, that hand, that washer hand; whatever it was-it is back into my house. <b><i>Spooky</i></b>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I guess some things are meant to make a full circle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wonder where those items were before they came back to me?</span><br />
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Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-60659931796730679092017-07-23T11:53:00.003-07:002017-07-24T13:46:05.512-07:00Some Favorite Items I Use All The Time<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">This is a share post, of what I like in farming/gardening things. I am not affiliated with any of the vendors. Actually, if I may rant a bit, I am getting tired of my favorite bloggers getting sponsors and now all these pop up, flashing advertisers are showing up on their blogs. I keep clicking them to close as I am reading their post, but they keep coming back. It is very annoying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a few products I just love. I have a Gator that Frank bought me a few years ago, it is used, but boy, what a treat it is to use every day. If you have property and need something to haul; to pick and transport to another location; to bring gardening items to a particular place, like fertilizers; rakes; straw, even people, these are fabulous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We got our first Gator for mainly Frank in Grass Valley because we lived in a property manager's house where he worked and he needed to go back and forth to the owner's rentals and house (was on 2000 acres). I used it occasionally, but it was mainly for Frank. </span><br />
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Then when we moved here to Gridley, it was used all the time to help plant trees; to use when irrigating with ditches; to pick up branches and leaves, the list goes on. Frank's has a push button lift, like a dump truck which makes it wonderful to unload what you are hauling. The only issue (at least for me because it happens to me more than Frank) is I leave my rake, or clippers, or gardening tools under the pile to be dumped. I push the button and go on my merry way. So a day or so later, I am always looking for those items and have to go back to the compost area and move branches or leaves looking for my stuff!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a friend that sells new John Deere products and he called to tell Frank that someone was turning in a 6 year old Gator for a new one, but it was kept inside and well cared for, not abused and maybe he was interested in this one to replace his old one. We went and looked at it and the price was right, so Frank bought it for me. He said because he was tired of me using his all the time - a very special gift for me!!! <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love mine, Frank's is a 4x4 so is a bit taller to get in and out. Mine is a smaller engine, 2 wheel just PERFECT for me. Oh, only one thing, the dump part of the Gator is done by hand. You pull on a lever in the back, the back dumps and then you have to push on it to get it back into place. Only sometimes a minor inconvenience, but enough that if I ever got a new one, I would make sure the automatic dumper is part of the options.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favorites are: ARS 7" light pruners, good for everything I need to cut, snip or prune in the garden. Come in colors, my favorite is teal but I just purchased these 2 new ones that are beige. I like the colored ones better because I sometimes am cutting in the orchard or gardens and set them down. It helps to located them among the pulled weeds or cut limbs if they have a bright color on them!! I think what I like most about them is how they fit in a woman's hands and very easy to open and close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2nd clipper I love is the Joyce Chen Kitchen clippers. These are wonderful, lightweight, will cut wire, plastic, flower stems. I do have a pair in kitchen, but also have a couple in my flower/produce studio, they can cut something as fine as ribbon to a flower stem. (I am not a sponsor of either one of these products)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I originally ordered them on-line to use for my sewing needles. Believe me, the magnetic is very strong. I have dropped this dish and nothing came out of it. They come in 2 sizes, this one is the large one and I purchased another large one for Frank. He keeps it on his workbench when he takes apart small machinery. All the little screws and washers and nuts/bolts stay together instead of lost on the floor or with other stuff on his bench. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have had the worst heat this summer, unbelievable. I love watching the short clips on Instagram and occasionally people show their locations and it might be raining or they have sweaters on from all over the world. Well here, it has been in the 90-104 degree weather for almost 4 weeks now and we are just sick of it. I had to even cancel a few classes because no matter the time of day, evening or morning, it was way to hot to teach canning lessons or whatever!! Hopefully, we can at least get 80 degree weather soon. Come back soon to find out what is happening in my beautiful flower garden. Things are finally blooming!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What Is Your Best Part Of Summer? Is it planning for a special vacation? Not having to get the kids up early for school or having to run, run, run all the time with activities?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As a farmer, spring and summer are our busiest time of the year, we don't get a break whether it is a Saturday or a 104 degree day. Animals don't know what time of year it is, they are just thirsty or hungry each and every day and need tending. Fruit trees need watering, sometimes spraying, and when their fruit is ready, you better be ready or you will miss them!!! Vegetables and fruits need watering, weeding, picking, checking for insects no matter the time of day, day of the week, whether it is a holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">For Frank and I, we love each and every day we live here on our farm-in spite of what I just mentioned. But our very, very favorite time is when our family comes to visit us, especially our grandkids when they stay on their own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We get to have close, quality time with them and get to know what they are doing, what new things they are interested in; see how they are growing and changing. And they get to re-kindle that love and closeness with their grandparents-us, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">So this week, we played with the grandkids, even though it was so darn hot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Gator rides; picking and eating peaches while sitting underneath the trees sitting in the Gator. Pulling weeds in garden while talking; shooting up rubber band LED lighted rockets in the middle of the field at 10 at night. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> They have been know to help get kids up and moving and away from all their electronic devices and staying inside too much. So far, it has been fantastic, they are competing with each other; checking it all the time.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I even had a dentist appointment while they were hear and we all packed in the car and drove to Paradise to join me. Had nice conversations in the car and a little singing too!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">They counted chickens on the lawn; they helped me round up the chicks at night to put them in the chicken coop safe and sound. They ate some watermelon but saved some of it to feed to the chickens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We stayed up late watching the newer version of Cinderella; Collin loves to scare his Grandma to hear me scream!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Simple fun, wonderful memories. I hope you are having some family fun this summer-so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry for the delay. I have been tweaking some things in the garage and Frank hasn't had time to finish putting up my antique industrial lights yet. But wanted to show you how cool it looks, for a garage anyways. If you didn't read Part 1 of the garage makeover, check it out <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1897478299870474724#editor/target=post;postID=1887096720739289444;onPublishedMenu=overviewstats;onClosedMenu=overviewstats;postNum=1;src=postname" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reminder: This stuff all came out of there.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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Funny side note. I had 3 of these metal shelving where all the junk sat on. We pulled them out and had them ready to go to the dump. I told Frank, let's clean them up and put them out front of the house as "free". They weren't horrid, just a bit rusty, old. We put them out with a sign on them that they were free. I noted the time. After the 4th car went by, less than 15 minutes, someone stopped with a truck and loaded up all 3 shelving units!!! Hot Dog, someone is happy; we are happy we didn't have to take them to the dump; good that the dump didn't end up with something, someone could use.</div>
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Gosh it was amazing how big the garage seemed with everything, well almost everything out of there. Just my huge and heavy antique cabinet and the freezer left.</div>
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Frank built me some cabinets, with doors out of the left over wall T&G wood and scraps. He is amazing. I painted everything. I even painted the inside of the garage doors with some Annie Sloan paint I had and also painted the front of the "man" door garage door a gloss black.</div>
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A few items I had in the garage that came from our old fishing cabin we sold several years ago; and just can't give them up. The long stick hanging horizontal, is actually a wooden measuring stick for tank levels, found on a farm with advertising on it.</div>
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Another interesting and fun story. I had other antique items I had in the garage that came from the cabin or just never fit into the house. I thought about selling them individually, but remembered a sweet friend Julie. She does those pop up antique sales and helped me once with a friend's estate sale. I gave her a call saying I had a nice stash of items she could use-free. She happened to be home that day and came right over. Loved the items and she appreciated it very much. Julie is a hard working, very nice person and I was happy to give her some merchandise she could sell; plus she was doing me a favor. As we loaded up her van, inside, she had been to a sale the day before and had an old metal bread or display rack. I loved it!!! So she gave it to me. See it above, empty and ready to use. I am thinking I may use it for craft supplies or ribbons. Thanks Julie!</div>
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I also had an old shelf; some string in a jar, etc. etc. This happened to make a great garage display that is useful too.</div>
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Isn't the wall of T& G look nice? I love this stuff. </div>
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This industrial and vintage rack came from our daughter, Celli. I have had it for a while because I couldn't find the perfect place for it out at my sorting/floral design studio or in the house. This spot is perfect, it is above the well tank. It is holding the information on the pump; pump extra parts (because if anyone on a well knows that the pump always goes out on a weekend, or at night or aholiday. No pump, no water in the house!!!) The automatic sprinkler information to re program them; garage door opener information. All handy. And look at that beautiful new electrical plug!!! They are all around the room, lots and lots of them and up higher, not on the floor where you have to go looking for them and have to bend over. Cool Frank!!!</div>
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Frank is still working on some antique drop lights, as I mentioned so will do an update later. Whenever I get to re-upholstering that antique wingback chair sitting in the corner, with all the necessary batting, fabric, tool, supplies-that last corner will be all neat and tiddy too.</div>
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It is a garage, so I have to keep in mind, it isn't the house, don't get weird about it getting dirty or messy. But for right now, we are actually enjoying it, so minimal, so neat. We go out there and have lunch in it sometimes and enjoy it; or park our Mom & Pop Gator's in it in the evening. And when I started painting that cute large, bird house Frank made (in addition it will be used to house some electrical components out front by the gate), everything was right in its' place, easy to find, easy to put away.</div>
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Here is the outside door at night, with my hanging Macrame plant holder I made when giving the macrame class a few months ago. Oh, I found that plant holder in the garage when I cleaned it out, and this old wreath. All came together perfectly!!!</div>
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PS-We went to the dump on Sunday which made the remodel official, the garbage was gone AND it just happened to be a re-cycling day so we were able to get rid of all those paint cans too. A clean slate all around.</div>
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Thanks for coming back to see our final project. Until next time on our Windmill Farm.</div>
</span>Windmill Farmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17660607112965782537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1897478299870474724.post-18870967207392894442017-05-29T11:04:00.003-07:002017-06-03T12:30:58.350-07:00Re-Modeling and Cleaning Out the Garage-Another DIY Project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nothing is pre-planned with us. We don't decide to just clean out the garage when the temperature is 102 degrees for 3 days. It just happens. It just happened, one project was done, so Frank had some time available, so this is what happened. I forgot to take a photo of how horrible the garage looked in the very beginning, but I guess everyone has a messy, horrible garage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have classes throughout the year and sometimes I have them inside the house, such as knitting, crocheting, cooking, rug making, things like that. My husband and daughter said to me, why don't I just fix up the garage and have the classes out there? Lots of room, gosh knows we never use it for A CAR!!! Can make lots of messes in there, etc. etc. Not a bad idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I did need to go through stuff anyways, so I decided to just take a few days and CLEAN OUT THE GARAGE. <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Make </span></b>"anything", suggested he re-wire the garage so I have enough plugs, extra lighting and he wanted to re-do the wiring anyways, he didn't like how it was done. As Frank re-wired, I started moving everything to the center of the room so he could get around the room. That is what he suggested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After I half way started going through stuff, <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Build</span></b> "anything", said, "Why don't we just buy a few sheets of some wall covering and we could at least close up a couple walls of the bare 2/x/4 construction." Off to Lowe's we went and we found some really nice, real wood T&G wall boards. <b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Build</span></b> "anything" said to do 2 of the side walls, we would need 10 sheets. Yes, it was 94 degrees that day, us seniors loaded up 10- 4' x 8' sheets into a cart, paid for it and then loaded it into our truck and then when we got home, unloaded it. We nearly killed ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Frank said he needed more room to be able to put the boards up. Once again, I moved the STUFF that was in the center of the room, outside in front of the garage and near the patio. It was like a floodgate of items, all except the Christmas decorations up in the rafters; the freezer; my old 1820's cabinet I have never been able to part with mainly because it is so heavy, you can't move it. Oh and 4 metal shelves that had paint, metal, spray cans; the list goes on and on of items (and possibly rats or mice) lurking in and around them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With my neck and back killing me, Frank lovingly installed the new boards-up to the metal racks. Stating, the metal shelving has to go in order for him to complete his task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was very liberating though, I have to say. 10 years worth of garage items that needed to be inspected and decided what to do with them. And 10 years worth of various paint cans. That actually was very interesting because out of 28 gallon cans, I was able to take the paint codes off the tops, and about 20 cans were dried up to nothing-ness to be taken to the recycling place. Of the 8 cans left, 2 were new Venetian plaster I had originally purchased to do the hall bath; 3 I use all the time as they are the baseboard, trim in the house; 2 are outside house paint we recently purchased to touch up some outside areas of the house and 1 can is the paint that matches 4 rooms in the house-which I need to have matched because the paint code is worn off on the lid. Is this all boring to you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 2 walls are done and my yard looks like I am going to have a sale. (Frank knows how to work me, if he says the whole project at once, I would probably say no we can't afford it, can't do it.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Build </span></b>"anything" says, you know for only 7 more sheets you can have your whole garage done, all the walls covered in nice T&G panels. Off we go back to Lowe's, same routine, load, unload, load, unload. Now there isn't anything along the walls, the metal racks are empty and moved outside. That day it was 98 degrees and I had 2 fans going in the garage while we both had soaking wet teeshirts on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I asked the stupid question, after all the walls were finished, "Don't they need to be painted?" Since Frank did all this wiring and panels for me, I am actually the official painter in the family, and I could at least paint. Which I did, 1 whole 90 degree day. But I was smart, I found a 5 gallon full of a nice mint green paint which I have absolutely no idea where it came from, but it turned out to be great paint and I had enough.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">Mr. Build</span></b> "anything" says, "what are you going to do with all this stuff now that all those metal racks are moved out? (GOOD QUESTION) I could build you some nice wooden shelving and make them any size you want and have the outside covered with cabinet doors. All I would need is 2 more sheets of the T&G boards and a couple 2x4s". Another day, off we go back to Lowe's, load, unload, then unload into his shop to cut them up into wooden cabinets with doors. We have officially purchased 19 sheets of T&G wooden and very heavy sheets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday, Frank built me the shelves and I started putting things away. This time, I am planning on being organized. Spray paints in tubs; cleaning supplies in tubs; small Chalk Paint supplies in tubs, etc. etc. Even my new canning jars in their boxes had 2 shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But what about all this stuff still outside??? My upholstery supplies; the wing back chair I am planning on upholstering; doors; chairs; old drawer pulls, dog leases, need I go on? All I did was put away the stuff on one shelf that had previously been on the metal racks?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned for part 2-putting it all away-where is it going to go?</span></div>
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