Category Archives: things I do

nesting

I have been spending a lot to time decorating my house the last month. I think it has started to become an obsession, but since it improves my living space, I’m not going to seek treatment.

New year, new garden

This year’s garden is amazing! All the soil additives and treatments have paid off amazingly! This is the purple bok choy, beet leaves, and peas that I harvested this morning for an Asian salad later today. The lettuce is still going strong, being shaded by the rutabaga and beet leaves. The potatoes are flowering, andContinue reading “New year, new garden”

Weekend realities

I realized over the weekend that I need to prepare for being unemployed. I have been hoping beyond hope that I’d be hired long before the deadline, but now, I am not so sure.

The herbs are abundant this year! Just a small amount taken from the rosemary bushes planted last year. The ones we planted were as big as this bundle and they weren’t heavily pruned to get this!

An Update

It’s been a hot minute since I last posted. Life/work has been somewhat wild, and I have been fighting health issues and escapist desires.

Harvested the deer potates today. (These are the ones the deer tend to kill off early by eathing all the leaves off. 🙄) For the fact they had a shortened grow time, this is a really good haul! Almost 2 lbs of potatoes, a lot of them perfect for boiling and roasting then making into potato salad! I’ll be planting sunflowers in their space. I also have the potato bags to harvest, but they are still going so I’ll wait till a week after the last leaf dies to harvest those.

Evaluating Feeling

So, me and the potential guy have been talking for a week. I can say that what charm was there is in the wearing off period, and I am now becoming either more critical of things, or I am becoming more realistic. I’m not sure which one, which is why I’m blogging about this. LOL