Nikitaland

Sunday was Mommy’s birthday, but she is not divulging how old she is.  (I guess when you get to a certain age, you don’t discuss your age anymore)  Her day started off with opening up birthday cards and a gift from Daddy and she had a surprise visit from Auntie who showered her with gifts (thanks Auntie) and a surprise birthday cake that Daddy snuck into the house.  (thanks Daddy, that was so thoughtful & delicious too)  After Auntie left, Mommy and Daddy had to hurry up & get ready as they were heading out to Hudson, OH to meet their very first blog friends, Dan & Mindy from Soulsby Farm.  The ride out to Hudson was only about 35 minutes, but our GPS system made it interesting because it kept telling us to make an “illegal u-turn” on Route 8.  When we…

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The Ugly Tomato Contest

You’ve grown them. You’ve saved them to show to friends. Or maybe you were somewhat put off and chucked into the woods to spare ridicule. Now, The Soulsby Farm gives you the “First Ever Ugly Tomato Contest” Submit your photo of the ugliest/mutated/ infected/conjoined/ tumor ridden monster and our panel will pick out favorites and post them for you to vote on. The winner  and runner-up will get some cool prizes and bragging rights.

To Enter:

1. Contest Open to Followers of the Soulsby Blog (if you haven’t haven’t signed up for the email subscription do it before you enter) and Soulsby Farm Facebook friends (like Us and enter) You don’t have to be both but we like our FB Page too.
2. You or a friend must have grown the tomato and taken the picture, so don’t be lame and search Google for ‘ugly tomato’ cause we’ll find you.
3. Email your photo to ugly.tomato@yahoo.com
4. All pictures must be received by August 31st, 2012
5. We’ll post the ugliest of the ugliest on September 2nd and voting will go for 2 Weeks Ending September 16th when we announce the winners.
6. Good Luck Everyone!

To sum it up, email us your ugly tomato photo to: ugly.tomato@yahoo.com and check back to see if you made the Top list to be voted upon.

 

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What’s Growing On?? on the farm

If the garden thermometer had a setting that read “hot as balls” that’s what it would have read the past 3 days. Scorching heat with the heat index hitting 107 degrees by 9:00am. The heat wave has consumed most of the Midwest but has past on today, you’re welcome New York and Philly.

Thank You to Farm n Wife for doing a quick piece on us. See it here.

Here’s a bunch of pics of how the garden is doing.

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