Ernie Hatmaker

View this post on Instagram Heidi’s proud of the hole she dug. - - - - #dogs #dog #puppy #saturday #parrot #pets #friends #cute #cutedog #greatpyrenees #pyrenees #dogsofinstagram #dogstagram #dogs_of_world #dogslife🐶 A post shared by Heidi And Friends (@heidithepyr) on Jun 30, 2019 at 2:29pm PDT

There were a few storms-- some tornadic-- with very high winds, and it beat up some of my less-established container plants pretty worse than I previously assumed. I've been playing catch-up, and I've spent hours outside in the humidity nursing them back to health or meticulously pruning them to get them back to some facsimile of good health. Some of my plants were turning yellow two days after their leaves and branches were tattered and mangled (one of my tomato plants was knotted around itself!) I have come to think of these living things as partly my babies and partly extensions of myself. I couldn't just let them fight on their own when they did nothing to cause this. It wasn't bugs, fertilizer overdose, or even fungus that attacked them. It was a storm system--TWO storm systems-- that caused them to basically go into shock.  The tops of them were strong and pretty and green. The root systems were strong. There were still pretty blossoms on the plants... but th

View this post on Instagram Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations. #Jeremiah1v5 — This is not a game. This is what we do... This is who we are! Yesterday, the students and interns of @valorcollege stood in front of the Women's Clinic of Columbus, directly across from the only surgical abortion clinic in Columbus, praying for LIFE. Stand up, speak up, or sit down! — #SilentSiege #ChooseLife #LIFE #WHCLife #WomensClinicOfColumbus #ValorLife #ProudPastor #ProLife #LifeMatters A post shared by Rod Parsley (@rodparsley) on Jun 22, 2019 at 6:16am PDT

For my birthday a few days ago, I made the 4 hour (one way) trip to the Arkansas farm. Is that garden really worth the 8 hour round trip just to get a few pics and videos?  I really believe it is. I do container gardening where I am in Tennessee, but that isn't really enough for me. Well, neither is one garden plot. My dream is to have at least a 3 acre garden. Yes.  THREE  acres! But my family can only be two places at once (ha ha), so the container gardening and the smaller plot garden will have to do for now.   Take a look below! To see more pics of Heidi and some of her buddies, click here!

I spray my plants that have root trails on their stems with a low-grade fertilizer twice a week. I also have slow-release fertilizer or worm castings in the soil. I firmly believe that every day we eat, the plants should eat.

This is super easy to make, and if you're an aspiring vegetarian or vegan, this may be something for you! When I make it for the kids, they like a tablespoon of brown sugar to throw off the heat I put in it. (I make three bags in a wok when I make it for them, because I can eat an entire bag by myself!)

I have seen tremendous growth in my porch container garden.

I switched planners, you guys! I was using an Amazon "Classic" planner, which was very simple and had three prioritization blocks per day. I needed more categories and something that was already decorated without me having to break out too many markers and stickers. See my Youtube Flipthrough of The Happy Planner here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJX7hj1u_W8