Books, Bedlam, and A Lively Hope

In and Around the Home this Week

...but mostly around the home this week.


Our fence posts are up, including posts for a new clothesline (not shown in this photo) and the garden area is being prepared. It's not visible, but that's my husband back there on the tractor after turning up the dirt. He's standing on the tractor and sawing off a limb of that mulberry tree. He's always sawing something.

We have "vacancy" signs posted at our bird houses, and are starting to see some interested guests. It will be nice to have a variety of birds rather than just the greedy starlings that nest in our eaves!

And finally, here are the tulips that the hungry mole forgot to eat. Believe me, he ate most of them.

Seedlings for a few items have been started and are germinating in their window containers, and my target date for putting things in the ground is somewhere around the first of next month. Towards the back of the property is where I'll put my wildflower garden, appropriately near the birdhouses. There is still a lot of preparation to be done in the coming weeks; feeding the soil, putting down compost, and spreading grass seed. We have an odd selection of ground covers, currently. Some clover (which I like) punctuated with tufts of weeds, wild onions, and grass-like clumps.

On the table: Fresh pineapple and strawberries, tacos, vegetable salad, banana bread, escarole, and tacos. (Not all at once.)

In the home: Starting laundry,  cleaning, running errands, menu planning and drawing up a shopping list, just everything!

On the nightstand: Ten different garden plans, Mulberry Park by Judy Duarte (cute story with a theme of forgiveness).

Thinking about: All that I am thankful for.

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04:08, Friday, April 11, 2008 .. Posted by gabbie427

Everything sounds wonderful for supper tonight! The place looks great!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

love the pictures!

09:16, Friday, April 11, 2008 .. Posted by missourimom

I love seeing pictures of people's land. That is a big garden!!! You are very ambitious!!

Leslie