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  • All my polar fleecing and mulching did its job! Nothing got bitten by the frost. Even the banana tree seemed to be unscathed. It opened another bract and there is another bunch of about 20 baby bananas peeking out. I…

  • Garden Geekiness... I can't help it. I am so excited about my garden I am almost giddy. My $10 off of $10 (coupon is in the catalog) almost free seeds from Thompson and Morgan came in yesterday. Flower seeds mostly.…

  • So much to blog about...so little time. David has been off, the weather has been beautiful. We've been busy. Today was the first day we stayed home since his mini-vacation started. He worked on my dryer (which i…

  • Warm Death on a Cracker Ugh. I feel miserable. There I was.... thinking...wow. The kids really got hammered by this bug. I feel ok. Maybe I'll luck out? Hah. Pass me the Nyquil. I tried out the poop wagon t…

  • I got a phone call this morning from the feed store that they had received a shipment of Americaunas. So we headed to town and picked up twenty five baby chicks.... Aren't they pretty? The baby tomatoes. I tra…

  • Yesterday the church bus was packed to the brim with groceries and two matresses. I went to Sam's and bought in bulk. Ten pounds of speghetti noodles. Cases of Ro-tel tomatoes. I love the pound of cocoa powder. And …

  • Happy Valentine's Day...oops! It's already over! It was just a busy day today. Whew. We have been kind lucky this cold/flu season. Nobody has been sick. And the the other day I did something I never ever do. I t…

  • Something wicked this way comes

    Today we picked up David's riding lawn mower. We have been saving for it for a while...even had a jar in the kitchen that if one of the girls yelled their recent favorite angry phrase ("shut up") they had to contribute …

  • Twenty-Five Rows!!!!!! I got it all tilled. Rows are made. (Well. Almost. I have a patch in the middle where the green beans will go and it was heavily mulched all winter. It just wasn't dry enough to finish ther…

  • OK....the header is updated for Valentine's Day. Gotta love photoshop Edit: It's very Pink Floyd isn't it? I keep hearing, "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year. Running over the sa…

  • No time. It's crazy busy. Look! I haven't even taken down the goldfish's Christmas decor! (Though you know...it's sad. I kept a Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer wreath on the front door for almost two years. Our fron…

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