The craft show went well. I made $100 and I have a bunch of cards that I haven't sold yet. I opened an Etsy shop to sell the cards and my hair bows. Go check it out!!! I will give a family and friends discount!! It is Whitney's Cards & Gifts.
The zucchini is still overwhelming but I can only stink up the house for a little while making relish before I can't stand the smell anymore. I would never be able to work in a pickle factory. I am also making copious amounts of zucchini bread and I just found out about a zucchini cake that takes 4 cups of zucchini. We are having zucchini for dinner every night too. Too bad it doesn't freeze well.
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Monday, July 7, 2008
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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Sorry People
for not updating the blog sooner. We have been plugging along here very nicely. Nothing major to talk about and I think that is just why I haven't updated in a while.
My older daughter is taking horseback riding lessons now. She is actually learning on a pony. So do we still call it horseback riding lessons or ponyback riding lessons? Anyway, she looks very cute in her black helmet and her paddock boots. It is giving her more confidence and something to do that her siblings aren't doing too, yet. Yes there is that yet there. You saw it too. The younger daughter will be taking lessons too as soon as she turns 6 and that is in 6 weeks!! She is very excited but that birthday just can't come quick enough.
On a crafty note, I have been working on scrapbooking our Disney trip. I think we took way too many pictures but you tell me what you think. On average we took between 135-200 pictures a day and we were there for 7 days. I developed over 800 pictures and so far have only weeded out about 40 and I am on the start of day 4. I just can't seem to leave out any cute smile. And since they are my kids' cute smiles and it is my album I am putting them all in there. God help the person who says, "can I look at your pictures from Disney?" LOL I will be bringing out three huge albums and plopping them on their lap.
Okay for all of you faithful readers, you are probably wondering about my garden. Well we have two rows of potatoes in the big garden and they are doing quite well. They have been there for about a month now and have nice little green leaves coming out. Thankfully the deer leave them alone. We are so distraught at the fact that all our hard work will go to the deer that we have been thinking up ways short of shooting the whole clan to keep them out of the garden, hence the garden hasn't really started yet. I did plant some peas a while back and they are about a foot tall but they are in our little garden here at the house and the deer don't know of this lovely place. I also planted a fe cabbage plants but they turned out to be broccoli and they all bolted (grew really tall really fast and have little yellow flowers on them). I sware the label on them said cabbage. Oh well.
Check back again soon as I will post some great pictures of ponyback riding and the garden.
Toodles!
My older daughter is taking horseback riding lessons now. She is actually learning on a pony. So do we still call it horseback riding lessons or ponyback riding lessons? Anyway, she looks very cute in her black helmet and her paddock boots. It is giving her more confidence and something to do that her siblings aren't doing too, yet. Yes there is that yet there. You saw it too. The younger daughter will be taking lessons too as soon as she turns 6 and that is in 6 weeks!! She is very excited but that birthday just can't come quick enough.
On a crafty note, I have been working on scrapbooking our Disney trip. I think we took way too many pictures but you tell me what you think. On average we took between 135-200 pictures a day and we were there for 7 days. I developed over 800 pictures and so far have only weeded out about 40 and I am on the start of day 4. I just can't seem to leave out any cute smile. And since they are my kids' cute smiles and it is my album I am putting them all in there. God help the person who says, "can I look at your pictures from Disney?" LOL I will be bringing out three huge albums and plopping them on their lap.
Okay for all of you faithful readers, you are probably wondering about my garden. Well we have two rows of potatoes in the big garden and they are doing quite well. They have been there for about a month now and have nice little green leaves coming out. Thankfully the deer leave them alone. We are so distraught at the fact that all our hard work will go to the deer that we have been thinking up ways short of shooting the whole clan to keep them out of the garden, hence the garden hasn't really started yet. I did plant some peas a while back and they are about a foot tall but they are in our little garden here at the house and the deer don't know of this lovely place. I also planted a fe cabbage plants but they turned out to be broccoli and they all bolted (grew really tall really fast and have little yellow flowers on them). I sware the label on them said cabbage. Oh well.
Check back again soon as I will post some great pictures of ponyback riding and the garden.
Toodles!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Procrastination...
My kids are gone this afternoon roller skating with grandparents and I had hoped to get some laundry done.
That is the heap that has gotten down to the laundry room. Yes, that is a 55 gallon trashcan full of laundry too. There are overflowing baskets in each of the kids' rooms and a big heaping mound in my bathroom that has yet to come down. We got lucky about a year ago and got a second dryer which helps tremendously with the speed of doing the laundry. But to just make myself start... A friend of mine once asked me if we were the cleanest family or the dirtiest family. Right now, we are the dirtiest!
So what do I do as soon as the kids leave? I start canning! Good girls can when the kids are away!! Or, at least I want to think. So the laundry sits but look what I made...
Squash relish! YUM!! This is the same recipe that 2 Lambs Farm posted about a week ago. She didn't chop up her squash and she made hers with yellow squash. I made mine the same way as she did with her recipe, except I substituted zucchini squash for the yellow squash and I chopped mine up in the food processor just before putting them in the jars. WOW! It tastes soooo good. Just like pickle relish and the veggies are crunchy. Her recipe made 5 1/2 jars!
That is the heap that has gotten down to the laundry room. Yes, that is a 55 gallon trashcan full of laundry too. There are overflowing baskets in each of the kids' rooms and a big heaping mound in my bathroom that has yet to come down. We got lucky about a year ago and got a second dryer which helps tremendously with the speed of doing the laundry. But to just make myself start... A friend of mine once asked me if we were the cleanest family or the dirtiest family. Right now, we are the dirtiest!
So what do I do as soon as the kids leave? I start canning! Good girls can when the kids are away!! Or, at least I want to think. So the laundry sits but look what I made...
Squash relish! YUM!! This is the same recipe that 2 Lambs Farm posted about a week ago. She didn't chop up her squash and she made hers with yellow squash. I made mine the same way as she did with her recipe, except I substituted zucchini squash for the yellow squash and I chopped mine up in the food processor just before putting them in the jars. WOW! It tastes soooo good. Just like pickle relish and the veggies are crunchy. Her recipe made 5 1/2 jars!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Canning
Okay, so I wonder why they call it canning when you put the food in jars.
I made enough spaghetti sauce to fill one large jar and I put the rest in the fridge. There was only enough left to fill a third of another large jar. So we will have that for dinner one night this week.
This is how much patty pan squash we picked just yesterday.
This is the squash and the zucchini cut up in bags to go in the freezer. The patty pan in front is what I still have to cut up left from yesterdays harvest.
This is what I still have in the fridge that I have yet to do something with. This is harvest from this past week. My vegetable drawers are 10 inches deep.
I have cut some much zucchini and patty pan squash that my fingers are permanently covered with squash juice. It made sort of a layer of stuff on my fingers that I can't get off with regular washing. Weird.
I made enough spaghetti sauce to fill one large jar and I put the rest in the fridge. There was only enough left to fill a third of another large jar. So we will have that for dinner one night this week.
This is how much patty pan squash we picked just yesterday.
This is the squash and the zucchini cut up in bags to go in the freezer. The patty pan in front is what I still have to cut up left from yesterdays harvest.
This is what I still have in the fridge that I have yet to do something with. This is harvest from this past week. My vegetable drawers are 10 inches deep.
I have cut some much zucchini and patty pan squash that my fingers are permanently covered with squash juice. It made sort of a layer of stuff on my fingers that I can't get off with regular washing. Weird.
Putting Up Day
Today we are putting up tomatoes, zucchini, and patty pan squash. I am freezing the squash and zucchini and I am right now stewing the tomatoes for spaghettin sauce. I usually freeze the sauce but today I think I am going to can it. I think it will work better that way and won't take up any room in my freezer that way.
Yesterday we picked 10 lbs of zucchini, about 12 lbs of potatoes, and about 15 lbs of patty pan squash. We picked a mess of roma tomatoes but only really enough to make one big batch of spaghetti sauce. It will feed us three times.
I will take pictures of the harvest when I get it canned.
Yesterday we picked 10 lbs of zucchini, about 12 lbs of potatoes, and about 15 lbs of patty pan squash. We picked a mess of roma tomatoes but only really enough to make one big batch of spaghetti sauce. It will feed us three times.
I will take pictures of the harvest when I get it canned.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Our Backyard
Here are some pictures of the backyard that I promised not long ago. I am sorry to make you all wait so long.
Here is the new and extended veggie garden. The original plot is around the corner of the porch. I planted peas along the back that will climb the lattice work and bush beans in the front. You can see the little sprouts of squash. The begonias are right next to the steps to the porch.
This next picture is the new flower bed in the front corner of the backyard. It gets only a little sun in the very late afternoon only in the summer. The rest of the day and year it is shaded. We plan to put an azalea in the back corner and use more ferns and shade loving hastas in here. Right now the bench is for visual interest.
The next picture is of the new sod and the new flower bed under a big Pin Oak Tree. It still has some work left and we plan on extending it all the way to the fence on the left of the picture where the trashcan is, doubling it in size. In here we will plant more azaleas, hastas, and some other shade/sun plants. Like the rocks? The close up is of the corner right by the entrance to the backyard.
This next photo is a great look at how the grass is with and without the sod. We will be bringing in some topsoil in the late summer and spread it to raise the backyard up to where the sod is and then reseed the sections that are not sodded. Actually where the sod is there wasn't much more than dirt there.
This is such a great improvement in our backyard. I am so proud of it and excited to finish it. We still plan to bring in some rocks to put where the oil tank, trashcans and AC unit is. Oh there is so much to do but this is such a pleasant place already!!
Sunday, May 27, 2007
An Expanded Garden
Okay, I know you will be dieing for some pictures but you will just have to wait. It is now dark outside and I will take some pictures tomorrow when it is sunny again. Plus I will have finished some more stuff by then and it will be really great. Now on with the story!!
Our mission today was to get our porch cleaned off from the winter items which got thrown out on the porch for storage. The porch was in sad condition. First the screened door just literally fell apart last fall. it was a cheap wood door and the pressure of all the slamming over the years had loosened all the joints and it fell apart one day. So we have been subject to all the elements plus varmints who want to come on the porch and check out the recycling bin, or the bag of trash tossed out for the time being because someone was too lazy to walk it all the way out to the trash cans (approximately 20 more steps). So we took every thing off the porch, checked out the wood decking floor under the carpet we put down a couple of years ago. All looked great and dry so we vacuumed, vacuumed again, and then shampooed the rug. We then tossed everything we don't want anymore (mainly trash stuffs), scrubbed all the furniture, the ledge going all around the porch and then the posts, trash cans (5 of them), coolers (we found 4 out there!!), and other things that had the green haze of pine pollen on it. Then we started putting things back. Needless to say, it looks great!! Still no door but that will come this week.
Then my husband said, "I have been watching the sun track in the back yard and the space right in front of the porch gets a bunch of sun all day long. Do you want to move the grill and the cushion storage container and make another little vegetable garden right along the front of the porch?"
I didn't have to think for long, as I have been wanting a little more room right here at the house for some more veggies. "yes, yes, yes!" I say.
So we moved the grill and the cinder blocks that it was sitting on. We put the cushion storage box on the porch to also double as more sitting space and we moved some left over wood blocks to make the border. K had brought in some compost from a job he had done and dumped it in our backyard, so we moved the beautiful dark brown compost soil to the new garden bed. I can't wait to start planting in it tomorrow.
Allie and I planted some begonias in another flower bed and I spread mulch around the pine tree which now sits in the middle of the sod we laid last week. We have about 10 more begonia plants and we have a flat of impatiens to plant also. They too will go in tomorrow.
Yesterday we put up our gazebo in the middle of the backyard (pictures to come), and we ate dinner under it last night. It has been sitting under our porch for the past two years and hadn't done anything with it. Now that it is up we wonder why we didn't do this sooner. We put rope lights all around the top and it glows in the darkness. It is really pretty.
Our mission today was to get our porch cleaned off from the winter items which got thrown out on the porch for storage. The porch was in sad condition. First the screened door just literally fell apart last fall. it was a cheap wood door and the pressure of all the slamming over the years had loosened all the joints and it fell apart one day. So we have been subject to all the elements plus varmints who want to come on the porch and check out the recycling bin, or the bag of trash tossed out for the time being because someone was too lazy to walk it all the way out to the trash cans (approximately 20 more steps). So we took every thing off the porch, checked out the wood decking floor under the carpet we put down a couple of years ago. All looked great and dry so we vacuumed, vacuumed again, and then shampooed the rug. We then tossed everything we don't want anymore (mainly trash stuffs), scrubbed all the furniture, the ledge going all around the porch and then the posts, trash cans (5 of them), coolers (we found 4 out there!!), and other things that had the green haze of pine pollen on it. Then we started putting things back. Needless to say, it looks great!! Still no door but that will come this week.
Then my husband said, "I have been watching the sun track in the back yard and the space right in front of the porch gets a bunch of sun all day long. Do you want to move the grill and the cushion storage container and make another little vegetable garden right along the front of the porch?"
I didn't have to think for long, as I have been wanting a little more room right here at the house for some more veggies. "yes, yes, yes!" I say.
So we moved the grill and the cinder blocks that it was sitting on. We put the cushion storage box on the porch to also double as more sitting space and we moved some left over wood blocks to make the border. K had brought in some compost from a job he had done and dumped it in our backyard, so we moved the beautiful dark brown compost soil to the new garden bed. I can't wait to start planting in it tomorrow.
Allie and I planted some begonias in another flower bed and I spread mulch around the pine tree which now sits in the middle of the sod we laid last week. We have about 10 more begonia plants and we have a flat of impatiens to plant also. They too will go in tomorrow.
Yesterday we put up our gazebo in the middle of the backyard (pictures to come), and we ate dinner under it last night. It has been sitting under our porch for the past two years and hadn't done anything with it. Now that it is up we wonder why we didn't do this sooner. We put rope lights all around the top and it glows in the darkness. It is really pretty.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Virginia Cooperative Extension Office
With a name like that you never know what kind of extension you are going to get. However, this is a good one and I am assuming that all states have something like this if they don't have one called by the same name. (no not "Virginia" it would be the name of your state my sillies)
I have been doing a bunch of research on how to plant effectively a specific sized space, how and when to harvest specific plants and what plants are good for our area. The Virginia Cooperative Extension Office is an "e
xtension" of our state horticulture and agriculture programs attached to the universities. Specifically here in Virginia they are Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. They have a website and within it there is tons of information on all kinds of things that you would want to know about having a garden (vegatable or flower) in the state and sometimes specifically in the area in which I live. So I am out there on Friday afternoon (don't tell I was at work doing this) and I start printing off articles on broccoli, cabbage, corn, greenhouses, hot beds, and pests. Saturday evening I am reading and I am amazed with the amount of great info that I got. Not only does it give me the details on how to plant and when to harvest, it gives me info on how to store it as well as how much to grow or harvest per person for a year's worth of vegetable. For example, you should harvest 15 lbs per person of cabbage. Now I like my cabbage but 15 lbs? that is a lot of cabbage. The say to make it in sauerkraut to can or to store it in a root cellar or dark place at 32 degrees for up to 5 months. Can you see my refridgerator piled high with cabbage. For our family that would be 60 lbs!! I am counting a 15 lb share per adult and then two 15 lb share for all three kids. That is a ton of cabbage. Then when you start adding up broccoli (8 lbs/person), cauliflower(8 lbs/person), and green beans(you get the idea), peas, corn, tomatoes. Man our whole utility room would be full of freezers, refridgerators, and shelves. But then again I suppose that is how our forefather pioneers did it. Wonder what the neighbors would think if my husband started digging a root cellar???
Anyway, if you are at all interested in gardening google your state name and "extension office" and see if you have one. You could check out Virginia's website too.
Oh, by the way, the info that I read and advice from my smart sister said to pluck off the top of the broccoli that has flowered and it should sprout more shoots from the sides. Hopefully, I will get some broccoli, otherwise I am replanting for a fall harvest!! Broccoli saved!!
I have been doing a bunch of research on how to plant effectively a specific sized space, how and when to harvest specific plants and what plants are good for our area. The Virginia Cooperative Extension Office is an "e
xtension" of our state horticulture and agriculture programs attached to the universities. Specifically here in Virginia they are Virginia Tech and Virginia State University. They have a website and within it there is tons of information on all kinds of things that you would want to know about having a garden (vegatable or flower) in the state and sometimes specifically in the area in which I live. So I am out there on Friday afternoon (don't tell I was at work doing this) and I start printing off articles on broccoli, cabbage, corn, greenhouses, hot beds, and pests. Saturday evening I am reading and I am amazed with the amount of great info that I got. Not only does it give me the details on how to plant and when to harvest, it gives me info on how to store it as well as how much to grow or harvest per person for a year's worth of vegetable. For example, you should harvest 15 lbs per person of cabbage. Now I like my cabbage but 15 lbs? that is a lot of cabbage. The say to make it in sauerkraut to can or to store it in a root cellar or dark place at 32 degrees for up to 5 months. Can you see my refridgerator piled high with cabbage. For our family that would be 60 lbs!! I am counting a 15 lb share per adult and then two 15 lb share for all three kids. That is a ton of cabbage. Then when you start adding up broccoli (8 lbs/person), cauliflower(8 lbs/person), and green beans(you get the idea), peas, corn, tomatoes. Man our whole utility room would be full of freezers, refridgerators, and shelves. But then again I suppose that is how our forefather pioneers did it. Wonder what the neighbors would think if my husband started digging a root cellar???Anyway, if you are at all interested in gardening google your state name and "extension office" and see if you have one. You could check out Virginia's website too.
Oh, by the way, the info that I read and advice from my smart sister said to pluck off the top of the broccoli that has flowered and it should sprout more shoots from the sides. Hopefully, I will get some broccoli, otherwise I am replanting for a fall harvest!! Broccoli saved!!
Oh Sod beautiful Sod...
We are so lucky. My husband's brother decided to build a playyard for his son and he tore up about 1100 sq feet of sod out of his backyard with a sod cutter. He called us and asked us if we wanted it and without hesitation we said yes. Now this was on Sunday around noon just after we had decided that I would be doing laundry and my hubby would be going to work in the big garden down the street. So we scrapped our plans for some beautiful grass. Luckily, his brother and father offered to help lay it.Let me say, it is BEAUTIFUL!! Dark green, thick grass just in the middle of our back yard where we couldn't get grass to grow to save our lives. Now we don't have brown dirt we have lovely, green grass!! I will take a picture of it soon and show.
It makes me want to finish the flower beds out there that we have planned and get some shrubs and flowers planted. Maybe tomorrow I can run out and grab a few impatiens and bigonias to plant. Maybe even a hosta or two. Oh the plans, oh the plans...
Friday, May 18, 2007
Broccoli
I found out today that broccoli doesn't do well once it gets hot. Our broccoli plants were started in a hot greenhouse and then planted in the big garden. Caroline and I were so excited that we saw the 
first florettes beginning to form on some of the plants. Yesterday when I was out there spraying for the cabbage Looper,(the picture here. Click on it and it will get bigger. It is not as cute as you think) I noticed that the first florettes that we had seen were now flowering with little yellow flowers. I found out today that they are going to seed and no more broccoli will form. So this weekend out they will come.
A shout out to everyone to read a new blog that I have discovered. The link is on the side where blogs of note are. It is the Crossroads of Nowhere. Click on it and have a read and a giggle. We have all had strange summer jobs but some of the jobs that this person has had cracks me up. Scan down and read them all. Too too funny!!!
first florettes beginning to form on some of the plants. Yesterday when I was out there spraying for the cabbage Looper,(the picture here. Click on it and it will get bigger. It is not as cute as you think) I noticed that the first florettes that we had seen were now flowering with little yellow flowers. I found out today that they are going to seed and no more broccoli will form. So this weekend out they will come.A shout out to everyone to read a new blog that I have discovered. The link is on the side where blogs of note are. It is the Crossroads of Nowhere. Click on it and have a read and a giggle. We have all had strange summer jobs but some of the jobs that this person has had cracks me up. Scan down and read them all. Too too funny!!!
Saturday, May 12, 2007
My New Passion
Today I woke up and decided that the cabbage plants in my little garden by the house had to go. It was just getting big and there were no heads coming up. It was only producing leaves. Lovely leaves but no good stuff so out it came. I planted in its stead two zucchini plants and two squash plants. I did some weeding and I took some pictures for you. I have a space for some carrots that have yet to be planted.
I then took the girls strawberry picking. It is a bit of a ride to get to the berry farm but well worth it. We arrived and everyone else apparently had the same thoughts as me because they were ALL there. We got closer to the ticket window and I realized that this is the Strawberry Festival at the berry farm today. The girls were good and didn't bug me about riding rides and such. We went to pick strawberries and that is what we were going to do. We picked some good berries, about 15 lbs. When we got home I made some strawberry jam, masserated some for shortcake tonight and we have a bunch left. I will make some more jam tomorrow and freeze some for later too.
I love this time of year. It is warm but not too hot and the veggies are growing, the flowers are blooming and the strawberries are ripe! Plus it is Mother's Day tomorrow!!
I then took the girls strawberry picking. It is a bit of a ride to get to the berry farm but well worth it. We arrived and everyone else apparently had the same thoughts as me because they were ALL there. We got closer to the ticket window and I realized that this is the Strawberry Festival at the berry farm today. The girls were good and didn't bug me about riding rides and such. We went to pick strawberries and that is what we were going to do. We picked some good berries, about 15 lbs. When we got home I made some strawberry jam, masserated some for shortcake tonight and we have a bunch left. I will make some more jam tomorrow and freeze some for later too.
I love this time of year. It is warm but not too hot and the veggies are growing, the flowers are blooming and the strawberries are ripe! Plus it is Mother's Day tomorrow!!
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Thursday
I can't quite put my finger on my 'funk'. I have recently been thinking that it is because it is getting warmer and I am not wanting to be at work anymore. I am totally unmotivated to teach right now. All I want to do is be outside and digging in the dirt. I take my daily walk around the house (outside of course) in the afternoons when I get home from work and as my youngest says, "check the plants". She usually walks with me and she tells me about her day and we pick the weeds that have grown up in the flowerbeds and check on the daily growth of our lettuce, cabbage, and newly planted tomato plants. It makes me happy but I have realized that I am being a bit OCD about the weeds.
I ventured over to the larger garden this evening with my youngest in tow. She and I had just spent $30 for a bunch of marigolds "for the deer". She thinks that they will like the flowers and will want to eat them instead of our vegetables. I tried to explain to her that the deer don't like marigolds and they will not only stay away from both the flowers and our vegetables. Or at least that is the theory. We will see if they work. So we walked around the garden there and checked on how much the deer had eaten. The lettuce that they ate down to the stem is coming back nicely, the potatoes are HUGE (the plants that is), the onions are coming along. The cabbage has the worm in it and we need to spray. The purple cabbage is coming along too. Some though were nibbled on by the deer. Two of the broccoli plants have little heads on them and we both got very excited when we saw that. My little one LOVES broccoli! The tomatoes are coming back but we definitely lost a few to the deer. We couldn't find the peas and only saw two bush beans. The peppers are not much bigger than when we planted them. We have some squash seedlings coming up and the second plot is ready to be planted with squash, cucumbers, corn and others stuff. I will try to take a few pictures so you all can see my newfound joy.
I ventured over to the larger garden this evening with my youngest in tow. She and I had just spent $30 for a bunch of marigolds "for the deer". She thinks that they will like the flowers and will want to eat them instead of our vegetables. I tried to explain to her that the deer don't like marigolds and they will not only stay away from both the flowers and our vegetables. Or at least that is the theory. We will see if they work. So we walked around the garden there and checked on how much the deer had eaten. The lettuce that they ate down to the stem is coming back nicely, the potatoes are HUGE (the plants that is), the onions are coming along. The cabbage has the worm in it and we need to spray. The purple cabbage is coming along too. Some though were nibbled on by the deer. Two of the broccoli plants have little heads on them and we both got very excited when we saw that. My little one LOVES broccoli! The tomatoes are coming back but we definitely lost a few to the deer. We couldn't find the peas and only saw two bush beans. The peppers are not much bigger than when we planted them. We have some squash seedlings coming up and the second plot is ready to be planted with squash, cucumbers, corn and others stuff. I will try to take a few pictures so you all can see my newfound joy.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
My Successes
I have realized that I need to count my little successes to feel even a bit better about the huge list of things to do compared to what actually gets accomplished.
So this weekend I:
1. actually got to my friend's house and completed 13 pages scrapbooking. That was Friday evening and today I realized that I had already made Caroline's 2nd birthday book. So now we have two of the same event, damn.
2. planted 3 tomato plants in my little garden next to the house. We found out that we lost a bunch of broccoli and tomato plants as well as all our lettuce in our larger garden down the street. Deer came and ate them all.
3. have done approximately 7 loads of laundry in the past two days. I still have a bunch to do AND I haven't done my clothes in two weeks!
4. watched two soccer games, one for each of the girls. I sat in the rain...
5. cleaned out the front closet and part of the living room. I still have the kitchen, rest of the living room, dining room and family room oh and the bathroom to do before Tuesday evening for Bunko. (it is at my house this month)
So with that list I hope everyone knows why, just why most of the time I feel like I am moving ever so slightly backwards.
So this weekend I:
1. actually got to my friend's house and completed 13 pages scrapbooking. That was Friday evening and today I realized that I had already made Caroline's 2nd birthday book. So now we have two of the same event, damn.
2. planted 3 tomato plants in my little garden next to the house. We found out that we lost a bunch of broccoli and tomato plants as well as all our lettuce in our larger garden down the street. Deer came and ate them all.
3. have done approximately 7 loads of laundry in the past two days. I still have a bunch to do AND I haven't done my clothes in two weeks!
4. watched two soccer games, one for each of the girls. I sat in the rain...
5. cleaned out the front closet and part of the living room. I still have the kitchen, rest of the living room, dining room and family room oh and the bathroom to do before Tuesday evening for Bunko. (it is at my house this month)
So with that list I hope everyone knows why, just why most of the time I feel like I am moving ever so slightly backwards.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Men and their toys!
So here it is. Last summer, in June, we went to an antique tractor and farm festival on an historic plantation about an hour from here: Chippokes State Park. While we were there we saw many great antique farm implements and tractors galore. We even watched a tractor pull and the kids took part in a toy tractor "petal pull". Alexandra won first place in her category. Back to my story. While we are there Kenneth falls in love with the old tractors. We spend two beautiful but hot days there and since then he has been trying to find a reason to buy a tractor. He started with all kinds of excuses, mostly rediculous. But he finally wore me down this January. So he looked on ebay and found this one at a reasonable price and he bought it. He went to Pennsylvania and picked it up last week. He is so excited about this tractor. And I am happy for him. We plan to have a BIG garden which I am sure you will hear a lot about in the coming months. But, wow, the bigger the boy the bigger their toys!
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