Greetings Earthlings, I come in peace. I seek more of these fantastically ugly, yet miraculously comfortable garden shoes which are elegantly stamped with the letters C-R-O-C.
I really need to stop writing so eeeearrly in the mornings, but guess what, lovers? You are all so smart! Yesterday we raised the (struggling, gasping for breath, on their death beds, & writing their last wills and testaments) seedlings up on random boxes and blocks of wood, and LO! They did perk up! And waxed more green and alive looking!
You can’t really tell, but they are raising their little chlorophylled hands and singing weak hallelujahs in your general direction(s).
To celebrate their tentative return from the dead, E. built some potato boxes, and then we both hung pea and bean trellis.
After that super fun party, I stopped to pet the dogs. Lucy’s asking me nicely to please not post her photo on my website because she is well aware that she could stand to lose a little weight, and for heaven’s sake, don’t you know the camera adds ten pounds?
Azzo is asking me if he can snif my bum when I’m done scratching his belly. I said no, but he did it anyway. I guess it serves me right for posting Lucy’s love handles even though she asked me not to.
Next, we ate overcooked chicken, rubbed sun soother lotion onto our necks and took silly, sunburnt photos in the bathroom mirror. Oh, wait. That last bit was just me.
I am going to WIN the farmer tan competition this year, so help me.
No, seriously, help me.
Ha ha.
Adios, amigos! (Miss K. is loving her “Spanishes,” and Mr B. is enjoying his Dora. Can you tell? Peligro! Peligro! BACKPACK!)
You are so amusing! I think you’re channelling the fug girls as well as Dora. (Have they tried Diego? My kids love Diego, and he’s a lot easier on the adult brain than his cousin.)
Oh yes. He was on a Diego kick for quite a while. I think he likes them both equally but during certain periods one show definitely ‘wins’ over the other.
Ok I’ve been following along a bit more closely, since you mentioned you were selling your house and moving… It makes it seem less lonely and awful when I read about your fingers drumming the table moments, or your von Trapp routine ;-) At least I feel like we aren’t the only ones going through this right now. (Logically I know we aren’t. But, ya know??)
I am so jealous that you went ahead and put in a garden. We’ve had a huge garden here every year, but this year we seeded it all with grass and now just have a huge yard… Because I was so sure our house would sell the minute it hit the market, and I didn’t want the disappointment of leaving behind a big beautiful garden! Ha.Ha. I know…
Rachel, really liking your blog, bookmarking! What did you use for bottom part of the sorters you painted? I can find the little wooden people but not the sorter part… ha ha, if that makes sense at all.
We have not had a showing in TWO WEEKS. I know the market is tough and our shop makes it a harder / more specialized sell, but oof. I can’t stand living in a museum, it’s driving me crazy. Well, actually today since everything fell apart yesterday, it’s less a museum and more of a certified disaster area, but (insert that phrase in French I can never spell that means ‘oh well’).
It was such a hard decision! I question it every day, though now with so few showings I feel like maybe we’ll at least get to enjoy part of the harvest!
I think they are called wooden flower pots (Some people call them wooden bean pots) If you have a Hobby Lobby anywhere near you, that’s where I found mine. Right next to the wooden peg people. HTH!
And we have been the same way…at first it was at least one or two showings every week, and them boom! Nothing! for two weeks. So hard not to get utterly disgusted with the whole idea, and just quit! But we really feel like this was something we were supposed to do right now, ya know. It’s just not easy!
Thank you!
GUESS WHAT? We just found out our MLS listing was accidentally taken down by the realtor, so it hasn’t even been UP for the last two weeks. Good gravy. He put it up again Saturday so here’s hoping we get some more traffic. We feel like we’re ‘supposed’ to move too, so I’m hoping the stars align :)
Title translation: Just what we wanted more garden! I think, yeah?
I’ve been reading the last thread with great interest. I’ve never had success with seed starting, are you going to try the soil blockers?
Glad your seed babies are greening up. I think they need to be transplanted after watching all the soil blocker stuff… you’re probably doing that today?
I’m really fascinated by the soil blockers. Kind of an expensive investment though, especially if we get the style that you can do on the floor (better for doing a large quantity).
Yes, but I didn’t do it yesterday. I need to get some larger containers. We have lots of yogurt containers (the big ones) saved up but not enough. I need around 70.
I trellis one year and hatted the beans we got so I went back to my tried and true bush beans. What varriety do you use for the beans?
We’ve always (even when I was a little girl) used Blue Lake Pole Beans – the ones that climb. I would hate picking beans from an unwieldy little bush. It’s nice to just stand and pick, you know?
woo hoo–just what you wanted, more things for the garden (wow, all my high school & college spanish DID come in handy ;) although it is funny sometimes to dream in Spanish)
Yay for not killing off all your plants! I usually figure out what I’ve done wrong after I’ve hit a point of no return and no amount of anything will save my plants. I discovered yesterday that my Mother in Law had left 3 tomato plants at my house while she was over and I had to call and tell her that I couldn’t promise that they’d still be alive and kicking when I saw her again (they live about an hour away from us, so it might be a week or two) but that I would try my best ha ha. Good luck with it all!!
Well I lost a lot! But yeah, they are so much happier under the lights! Kind of can’t wait until next spring to try everything again the right way. I’m sure I’ll make loads more mistakes though.
sorry, should have been more things FROM the garden, not FOR the garden there….and this is why I am not a translator ;)