A tour of the garden and probably other updates

As I was guilted for not blogging lately...

After signing into my account, I realized it had been 2 months since last blogging.  Whoops.  Other than busyness, my only excuse is that I run my internet through my phone, and it's impossibly slow.  Already it's taken me about 10 minutes to get to my blogging screen.

So, without further ado....let's take a walk through the garden!

Front:

Front of garden.  Hello cow skulls!

For some reason I don't have a full front view of the garden on my phone.  My bad.  On either side of the front gate there are long beds surrounded by stone.  In the front beds we have blueberries, rhubarb, multiple herbs, strawberries, and some random bulb flowers like tulips and gladioli.  This picture is actually old, as yesterday we painted 2 grain feeders and affixed them halfway up the trellis so my sweet peas could grow out of them and up the rails.  The sweet peas I have planted in the ground aren't big enough yet to start climbing.

Garden beds:

Inside the garden are 6 raised beds of varying sizes:

Front bed:  zucchini on the left, cucumber in the bottom right, and the start of one type of carrots in the top right.
Back bed:  cauliflower, artichokes, 2nd type of carrots on the right.  

Pole beans!

Fava beans in the front (the taller ones we started in the greenhouse several weeks ago, the ones in front we planted about a week before we left for vacation).  In the back is corn.

Pumpkins!  In the front, smaller sugar pumpkins.  In the back, traditional jack-o-lantern sized pumpkins.

Edamame in the front (the taller stuff is like the fava beans - we planted in greenhouse awhile ago), and butternut squash in the back.

 Greenhouse:

This is just a sample of things in the greenhouse.  Just yesterday I planted 2 small flats of flowers to hopefully plant around the yard and in pots.  And for some reason I have no pics on my phone of the front of the greenhouse, which is my favorite thing to look at.

Two tubs of pickling cucumbers.  Yup.  Can't wait for pickles!  Also, it's amazing the difference between the cucumbers grown outside and the ones in the greenhouse.  The greenhouse ones are a lot bigger.

Tomatoes and one pepper plant (on the right).

A small sampling of more pepper plants.  There's over 15 tubs of multiple kinds of peppers planted.

And that is it for now.  I should probably take more and better pictures.

Here's a good picture to leave you with.....

Be a fountain, not a drain.
~ Rex Hudler

Almost to real spring

Mapping out the garden

If you're a baker who doesn't want to make cakes for gay people (you know, like the Bible says:  "Thou shalt not bake gay cakes"), if your hatred of gay people is that much greater than your love of making cakes - then clearly being a baker is sort of a side-project to your bigotry.
~ Sutekh, Komonews commentator

The tractor

I'm learning to drive a tractor!  Way more complicated than you would think.  What happened to just hitting gas and brake (and a clutch)?!?

Tractor!  (and reluctant smile)

The view from behind me.  haha. 

You probably couldn't tell from all the blurriness, but I was trying to drive...

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

Fire

I found someone who likes fire as much as I do!

I had a truly wonderful weekend.  Hope all of you had the same.

You are the poem I never knew how to write
and this life is the story
I always wanted to tell.
 ~ Tyler Knott Gregson

Another day

Windmills lost in the fog outside of Ellensburg, WA

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." 
~ Ernest Hemingway

Today my head and heart are at war...

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed...
~ Rihanna

The latest

The latest recipe:  Scotch Eggs (no link or pic.  Google it!)

The latest fun:  Hanging out with my friend Kara for the night and making wine

The latest holiday:

Valentines day!

 The latest presents: 

Someone knows me!

 My latest view:



Early morning light in the forest

The latest thing to make me smile:

When a 4 year old gives you temporary tattoos - you can't say no!  (if you can't see it's a rainbow and a peace sign)

 My latest FAIL:

The latest snow:

Last week.  2 inches.  Melted in a day.

The latest animal I'm trying to be friends with:

Daisy

"For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice. To make an end is to make a beginning."
~ T.S. Eliot