How My Garden Grows

May. 09 2012
Garden, Organic, Carrot

For everyone who poo-pooed me on planting early, all I can say this year is I GOT LUCKY! This is the best stand of carrots I've ever had thus far! I am dreaming of carrot soup, glazed carrots, carrot cake and so on and so forth! These raspberries were just planted last year, and are obviously prolific little buggers. Raspberry jam anyone? My garlic is growing great guns too, even if my girls beat the hell out of them early on! I really didn't think they would make it, but they look good so far! I am SO

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Just a Short Little Ditty About a Bird Her Beer

Apr. 26 2012

http://youtu.be/-dXJ6TXwMgQ   This is Henny Penny one of my oldest girls. While we were enjoying a beer she jumped up and helped herself to a few sips of Hubs drink. It didn't seem to go to her head, and we did not let her drive anywhere.

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Waking Up To Magic

Feb. 05 2012
Hoarfrost 3

Yesterday morning we woke to a world of beauty. Not that my world isn't always beautiful, but when I wake to hoarfrost my day is just special since it's one of my favorite things to see when I look out our windows in the morning.   I love to just walk around and absorb all of its beauty. All of a sudden Mother Nature has changed my whole world, like it's been touched by something so amazing... Just for me. I am always in awe and never disappointed. I get so excited and I feel like a kid in a

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Cat House

Mar. 07 2010

Sweet Pea is the first that I saved when I moved out to this farm. Hubs was on a fishing trip the week I found her, which was a good thing since he thought cats belonged in barns rather than houses. We had numerous ferrel cats that lived in the barn, but I couldn't ever get my hands any of them to do much with them. I was outside planting a couple rose bushes in front of the barn when I heard the mews of kittens. Here Pea and two others had fallen out of the hay loft. I'm guessing they were looking for their mom in

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