Did Your Dog Get Skunked? Use Hydorgen Peroxide!!!

Plain old hydrogen peroxide really does work to rid your dog of that nasty skunk smell.  Unfortunately I found out yesterday this does work.  Our spoiled rotten Irish Setter was skunked again, for the third time in her life.

It seems she is either territorial or just fascinated with skunks.  When she went to the farm to help feed the cattle yesterday morning, she returned in less than stellar condition.  She reeked. 

Well I have previously used the tomato juice bath, the white vinegar bath, and have not been pleased with the results.

I did have on hand 4 large bottles of peroxide, so we tried that. We poured all four on her and soaked her collar thoroughly.  Of course she had to stay outside for an hour and a half then she received a through warm bath with mild dish soap.  The peroxide neutralizes the effects of the skunk and even when I rinsed her down to apply shampoo the odor did not return.  After a through bath she smelled fresh as a daisy.

I do hope she has finally learned the difference between a skunk and a cat(she is buddies with our cats).

Winter Wood Supply Stacked, Covered, and Dry for Outside Boilers System.

My husband started working on our winter wood supply last March.  The way we were raised, you start on winter early in the spring.  You can never be too ready for winter.  It takes continually checking inventories, short term and long term planning.  I do help some with the wood, if it is warm, and he helps with my garden. 

We have an outside boiler system that is really super efficient.  We thought it would take at least ten years to see a pay back, but it payed for itself after 2 years.  We installed it the summer before energy costs soared.   The brand of this system is Hardy.  It is surrounded by a water jacket and the water is heated and pumped  underground through pipes to 2 buildings, our house, and supplements our household hot water usage.  We heat 3000 square feet with it. 

There are three stages to his plan, first immediate use, back up, and the next season wood supply.  Cutting, splitting, and stacking has to be done by July because of the extreme heat here and then start back to work on it the last of September. It is recycling trees.  There is always someone calling that has a downed tree to be cleaned up, a woods they have logged, or a fence row they have cleared out. We never just go out and cut down healthy trees. We utilize waste wood.

With the drought we have just gone through I hate to see how may trees may be dead next year.  Floods, drought, harsh weather is just Mother Natures way of correcting things.

As you can see by the pictures below our grass is just pretty green for December.  We have had some cold night and a couple of snow flurries but prolonged cold has not arrived.  Next week is supposed to change that and winter is supposed to set in.

Wood boiler




Wood under roof for immediate use

Back view of wood under roof

Back up supply covered

3 racks side view



Next wood to cut

Next wood to be cut

A Rainy Monday

I have never liked rainy Mondays until now!  After the heat and extreme drought here in Southern Indiana rainy Mondays are a blessing. 

It is too late for all the farm crops and gardens this year but it is definitely a big building block for next year.  So far we have received 1 inch of rain and maybe we will get more.

A rainy September Monday is the perfect time to catch up on inside jobs that have been put on the back burner all summer.  I have managed to get quit a few small items caught up today.  It is time to start transitioning back into a routine that will not include gardening everyday. 

Time to get garden tools cleaned up and stored.