Long time gone....

Well a lot of my plants died after this long and brutal winter. I lost 3 lavendar plants, a tree, sage, anis, lemon balm and a rose bush. Why couldn't the mint die. Nope it has to be something more imporant to me.

You can't see the forest for the trees...

Well, the elm in the back yard is dying.

 The Picture on the left was taken in the beginning of July, the picture on the right was taken on August 19. I am sad that such a huge tree is dying but, happy because I now will not have to move my garden next year like I was planning. So Good bye grand old elm, Hello yummy vegetables...

Gardens and Thanksgiving

So all the gardens have been put to bed for the winter. The only thing left to do is to dump the pots of potatoes, but I can not do it by myself. I wanted to do it this last weekend but I was having issues with my shoulder so that was off.

Thanksgiving
 Well I am just glad that I made it thru Thanksgiving. I served the 1st Thanksgiving at my house for my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and niece. It went as well as it could with my mother-in-law in my house. The outright lies that she was telling was just a little to much and the interruptions, I could have done with out.

2nd Thanksgiving was at my Mother's house and it was a mad house. Everyone one was assigned a dish to bring and I was the only one who actually made theirs at home and brought it to mom's house was me. Everyone else tried to make it at my mom's. Like I said a total Mad House and to top it all off my brother-in-law had a fit about something and my sister and he left without saying goodbye.

I am Thankful for my husband and my home, but I want to be thankful for so much more. It does not feel like Christmas is coming, after my brother-in-law said he did not want to exchange gifts from the adults because Christmas is for children. I don't exchange gifts because I want to get something I do it for the feeling I get, the look on that special person's face, I do it because I love to give.

Gardens

Well the gardens are looking real good. I recently purchased flowers for my hanging baskets and I just love them they are a bright pink and I chose some sweet potato vines in a light green for a little something extra.

I have 3 baby tomato's.

Beets, Onions, Lettus, Carrots, 2 Row of Beans

I just love gardening, it may not look like a lot but it makes me happy!

 Can't forget the potatoes!

Spring has Sprung

My garden is looking better and better everyday. I am in constant fear that we will get a cold snap that will kill all of my plants and it looks like my fear will come true tonight. We are suppose to get a hard freeze tonight. I am having a hard time with this. At least my apple trees have not started budding and hopefully it won't hurt them. I plan on covering all of the herbs and flowers that I am worried about. I knew it was too good to be true. I think we need some kind of action plan, like what we had in school. You know stop drop and roll. What could ours be hmmm. Duck cover and pray.... Have a Happy Easter everyone and a pleasant Passover to all of my Jewish friends.

Rain

Rain, Rain go away come again another day. Well at least it's not snowing, even though we are suppose to get some of the white stuff this weekend. I am praying that it does not happen, because there are some daffodil's that are just starting to come up in the flower beds. Yellow is my favorite color, so I just seem to love any flower that is yellow. The seeds that we planted in the house have just stared to come up. I am getting really excited. Pretty soon we can start planting more.

Seeds

I have finally gotten around to planting my seeds for my garden this year. We have planted 4 heirloom types of Tomato's (pink ox heart, Amish paste, Belgium giants and fuzzy peach), 1 Hot Pepper type, 1 Bell Pepper type (yellow), lavender, and Rosemary. At the end of the month we will plant some of the flowers we plan on planting along with the rest of the vegetables, except the seeds to be planted directly into the ground. I am so excited for spring to be here.

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Well it's March here in Wisconsin and we have a nice fluffy layer of snow on the ground again. Yesterday I was sitting at home rotating between ogling seed catalogs and unpacking the piles of boxes in my new home, when we were hit with a snow storm. Well it did not start out that way, it started by raining for a couple of hours then the water froze on the trees, making them look like glass sculptures and with the wind whipping around the branches it sounded like some one was dropping beads on the roof. Then it started to snow, and here I was already to start my garden (not outside of course but inside). Well the snow put a damper on my mood, so all the egg cartons are sitting in the living room window already to be planted and I am not in the mood to put even one seed in. I think I have a Love/Hate relationship with snow. I love the snow at the beginning of the season, but I hate it when I get the spring itch to start planting. Oh well I guess I will never learn.