Flat Tanya Goodwin

 

After months of neglect (so sorry) I have finally unearthed the flats and vow to complete this trip, hopefully it will be worth it for the poor women who sent them!

So, welcome (officially) to our home!  I love this house, it reminds me of a little cottage.  Lately we have been working on a numbers of things.  One of which is my little garden.  Pathetic as it may be, I have actually put in a great deal of time into trying to grow some of our food.  As you can see though, the amount gained is hardly worth all of the effort.  However, I'm not too discouraged and plan to keep planting some cool weather veggies in hopes  that I may get some before frost!  I'm also in the midst of saving seeds for next year.  I wish I could send you some, but I think it is illegal.

 Here there are yellow Summer Squash, Winter Squash, round Cucumber, zucchini.  And behind them are my beans and peas.

 This is the tomatoes, the peppers (almost non existent) two types of lettuce and Cilantro.

One of my families focus' have been on preparedness.  So we have been stocking up on essentials and learning some new skills in case we were to need them.  I'll share some with you when i send the package out.

 The hot and humid spring we had, got us thinking about how nice and cool our basement is.  So we finally made the decision to finish it so we can spend more time down there as a family.

 I love doing little crazy and crafty things with the kids.  Planting some grass seeds inside has been something we've done in different ways since the kids were babies.  They love it.  They get to trim off the "hair" when it gets too long.  It can usually be cut every three days, wish I had hair like that!

 I have looked into having a worm farm before and have been too worried about the smell.  Well, the kids and I were at the park one day and digging when I found a worm.  I showed the kids and immediately they wanted to "take him home."  So we dug up more, and brought them home in a sand bucket.  We started a mini worm farm out of a jar.  When it was started, there were very clear layers of sand and dirt, now you can see how the worms have eaten their way down, and have "mixed" the layers.  There has been no smell at all and there are about 25 worms in there.  This has encouraged me to start a larger one.  Haven't done it yet.. but it's on the list!

 One of my favorite things about our yard is the Hydrangea bush and the Hydrangea tree.  Last year we were diligent about adding coffee ground and soot from our fire place to the roots, and had some amazing pink flowers.  This year we were lazy so most were this purply-blue color.  Still beautiful.