growing and learning | |
MAC-mini, gardens, plans and jobs....
01:33 PM, Wednesday, October 3, 2007
.. 3 comments
.. Link
oh good golly - it has been a while since I wrote - my computer has having fits - not returning from screen-saver mode, then randomly (right-in-the-middle-of-use) moving into screen saver mode. and finally never turning on. in homesteading news, I have strawberries planted in two 2'x4' SFG boxes, with a shallower frame on top covered with chicken wire to keep the cats and dog out of my beds. hopefully they will survive the transplanting and the winter. they are thinned from a local bed, so we should be good. I would really like to get another box or two done before Friday so I can thin my mom's raspberry bushes this weekend and plant them here on Monday so they are all ready come spring. I also want one normal 4x4 box ready for spring planting, which means it needs to be done in the next week or two as well. last year I didn't start my boxes till planting season was upon us, so nothing got planted. and I will need to figure out a grasshopper solution for next spring too...... I have some frozen meals in the freezer, and need to get more done. I am still operating without my recipes and meal plans, so I feel like I do not know what I could possible fix for dinners! which we are still liking in hte middle of hte day. dd1 is ready to switch out of 12mo clothes into 18, and that means I need to clean my closet again and pull out hte appropriate size and pack these ones away in a proper manner, instead of just tossed onto the floor in a "we-are-outgrown" pile with ds5's 4T clothes and dd3's 2T clothes. and speaking of ds5 - he is at that awful stage where the 4T's are too tight at his waist and the right length, but the 5Ts are waaayyy too long, and since he has no hips, he walks around like a gangster showing his underwear bands - unless they fall down altogether while sprinting or jumping or climbing. and if I give him a belt, it is pulled out and used for a lasso, a rope, a whip, a tool for reaching things out-of-reach, or any number of other not-holding-up-his-britches uses! dh wants to get a professional landscape guy out here to help us plan our yard and its uses. wanna see the list? sandbox trampoline orchard playset fencing around the grass/garden yard stone wall around the orchard greenhouse pool house expansion cement around firepit chicken house goat pen/barn low-maintenance ground cover winter dog shelter (no indoor pets for us) steps down to goat pen lighted flag pole cement or asphalt the drive and our dirt road basketball hoop shed garbage can shelters (the wind will knock over our cans and we have a nasty mess to clean up) now, so not get me wrong - this is not all to be done immediatly, but it is a list of things we want to do in the future, so we want to have a plan. dh is changing jobs again. LOL! we have been married 7 years, and technically he is working for company #7 starting on Tuesday. but lest you think him unreliable, our companies keep having name changes, for one thing, and for another, he has never interviewed for a job - he is offered the job, usually with a raise, through word-of-mouth. that makes us feel good about his abilities. but he will be starting with this new company, so he will be working from home still, for this company, but still working to make a go of our start-up company that we began in february. so 2 jobs from home. but at least he is from home, so we can see him at meals, and kids can have bedtime with him and there is no commute. and I have arranged 2 babysitters for the 2nd and 4th Fridays - once a month a date out of the house with a young woman from church to watch the kids, and once a month a date in the house alone while hte kids are at another neighbor's house. I feel like I have more time with this noon dinner. I love it! I am off to relax a bit before dance class - dd3 and ds5 are taking beginning dance - ballet and tap, and they love it! Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 69 of 210 } { Next Page } |
About Me My Profile Archives Friends My Photo Album Linksspinninggrandmahomestead articles unusual farmchick miles from babylon much forgiven The Maples Susan Godfrey's NT site CategoriesRecent Entriesshampoo bar soapthoughts on homeschooling whew - I think I am over the worst.... I am back, kind of, with stock info homeschool reading help? FriendsFaithfulAcresdhcfarm quiverfull Roberta67 NewHarvestHomestead quiverfullacres KellyKJV HSBFrontPorch HandsNHearts Trina tioga12 gokings13 jinyeah3 smmagers Boltbabe Homeschoolmummyx3 glenda MicheleC11 VTLinda lvg4him MyThreeDaughters Emily23 Brownsmichelle jenna ZookeeperCat Jonash2004 agodlyhomemaker Cindeerella erisarei jwells ourlilhomestead CandyFoote wtbsmom teapots66 melm Homesteadheart Hisirishgem Darcy mdonohue workinprogress Lmhodge Purewater HeMarriedMedusa blessingsbaound mvose1051 haflinger hxb kimmie blessedmomof10 CedarCityMom elliepea zoggypdx ahall003 naughtydebbers Sita KrisM Joymommy boellner lizbet evamommy ibuwolf happywife inthedeepwoods Chas bang1430 findingcontentment Agsd7 juliejuliejulie amogk MommaBear9 hostlerhome nicolepatrick87 daughterofGod solodeogloria Charity amomlikeyou connielj tinabacon9 darbyfamily MomToAll rkmyersrus gabbie427 bfitz Southernangel amaliayosa anoldfashionedgirl homesteadnpink mommaofmany addiema oldfashionedgirl feeforaine starfishmama GodsMaidenAuthor Sanctuary lovetwins mom2mckjklj knitmama faithfarm knitteralaska boonefam Handmaiden AnIntentionalPeasant NevadaGunn oldfashionedgirl2 gilsanla mesarah011 |