Thursday, April 24, 2014

What I’ve been up to lately…

Oh wow, the past few weeks seem to have whizzed by SO quickly!  I meant to post several times but I have not worked on a single house project since the headboard I finished quite a while ago.  Nope, instead I have been focusing on this:

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And when the weather permits, this:

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(new flower bed in front of the house…in progress)

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(signs of life!!  can’t wait to see those blooms!)

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(hubby tilled a big veggie garden and I’m super excited to start planting…once we get a fence around it…pesky deer and rabbits!)

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(I have been working on this particular area for a couple weeks now…it used to be covered with brambles, wild grape vine, and brush…but slowly but surely I have been clearing it.  There is more to be done, and I know it doesn’t look like anything, but trust me when I say it is waaaaaay better than it was!!  We have ordered three apple trees and a cherry tree to plant here.  So excited to start our “orchard”!!)

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(our kitty Butterscotch…I don’t think I’ve ever talked about her before, but she is such a sweetie!)

and…

we got chickens!! 

Sorry, no photo yet (I tried, but it was getting too dark in the coop to get a good one) and we are really enjoying them!

So no, I have not dropped off the face of the earth.  : )  We are just mostly soaking up the great outdoors.  I hope to be back posting regularly again now—I have certainly missed it!

4 comments:

  1. That giant vegetable garden! And CHICKENS! I'm so excited for you - I love love LOVE watching the progress of other gardens :) You'll have to keep me updated!

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    1. Yes, I’ll have to get some pictures of the chickens soon. The kids are LOVING finding the eggs...we’ve had arguments over who gets to find the eggs every day. Ha!
      I feel at this time of the year that I could turn the blog into a gardening-only blog--no time for indoor projects!

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  2. Glad to know your still around :) I am so jealous of your HUGE garden! I wish I had space for a garden that size, but then again, I'd have to weed it and I'm not too good at weeding gardens! And Chickens, how exciting!

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    1. Oh I know, I’m trying not to think ahead to weeding : ) Just the fresh tomatoes and what not--eyes on the prize! I’m going to try to mulch as much as I can with straw as soon as possible so I don’t have to weed it all. We’ll see how that works!

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