After snow and cold on Monday, I planted about half my bedding plants outside in the garden on a sunny 67 degree Tuesday. Crazy, I know, but it really happened. Gotta love spring. I didn’t have time to finish, so I took the rest inside. Once a week or so I babysit a little 15 […]
Liberty Bell Knitted Dish Cloth
Here’s another fancy dish rag I’ve knitted up in all my spare time. (Okay, it wasn’t recently–there hasn’t been any spare time recently.) The Liberty Bell Knitted Dish Cloth. This one hasn’t made it to the table yet–Maybe I’m just weird, but it seems a bit disrespectful to be wiping the table with this symbol […]
High Mortality Rate Among the Fruit Trees This Spring
We’ve got some baby fruit trees we’ve had in the mini orchard for three years now. Last year we did a good pruning and staked some of the branches to get the trees to grow a little more balanced. The apricot tree that had always looked a little sickly really thrived last year after the […]
New Car, New Car Kit
We recently added a second vehicle to our family. This is a good thing. I’m seeing some substantial fuel savings over driving the suburban everywhere we go. This car has been in the plans for a few weeks, so I started gathering gear for a vehicle emergency kit before we even bought it. Who wants […]
Garden’s Up–Cute Baby Plant Pictures
Here’s some garden fun. Baby plants! Almost as cute as baby animals, but not quite. I can hear you all ooo-ing and aaaahh-ing already. Radishes. The section planted with Hometown Seeds’ radishes are doing better than mine as far as germination rate, which I suspected would happen since I don’t think my seeds matured enough, […]
Rotating the Car Kit and Update on the Survival Bars
A couple of weeks ago, we took a little drive up the mountain and hiked around in the snow and mud and long story short (I know that rarely happens here) we needed to use the toilet paper from the car kit. Now, last summer we had a roll in the console AND a roll […]
Saturday Progress and the Ham/Bean Soup I Grew
Saturday came with some really nice weather, so we headed out to accomplish some things in the yard. The kids and I shoveled a bunch of manure from the edge of the neighbor’s horse corrals and wheelbarrowed it over to the garden beds. If you’re going this route, try to get the old stuff that’s […]
Got Seeds in the Dirt
Finally the snow has melted and the garden dirt is workable, so yesterday I planted some of the cold crop seeds out there. I put in two varieties of peas. One of them strictly from the seeds I collected last year. We’ll see how they do. I’m actually relatively confident they’ll be fine because as […]
The Beginnings of the Garden–Onions are Sprouting
I put a bunch of seeds in peat pots last week and the onions are up already. It’s always amazing to watch plants grow. We’ve had some warmer weather lately which has melted all the snow off the garden and left me with a bunch of mud. We’ll get cold weather plants in as soon […]
The Knitted Fish Dish Rag
I knitted this. Even I’m amazed. It’s so cute it’s a shame to wash the table off with it, but we do anyway. < Here’s the pattern, because I know you want one of your own, and it would only take me about three months to get it made for you, and besides, you know […]
