Went to Sprinkels today to pick up some cupcakes for my birthday. I had to take pictures of them first they looked so good. If your wondering the strawberry is delish!
also picked up lemon blueberry and
Red Velvet. So good!
I think I have forgiven the folks over at Warner Bros. for what they did to me last year, but I'm sure the movie is well worth the wait. I'll have to remember to bring a box of tissues with me to this one I'll most likely be balling like a baby by the end of it.
who else is going to see it?
it was a busy weekend for us around here. saturday the youngest niece had her first communion, apparently when she found out about it she asked if she had to wear the wedding dress. and yes, she did have to wear the wedding dress.
and then sunday the family headed over to truluck's for dinner to celebrate mother's day. we had this yummy chocolate box for desert.
lotsof picture taking involved need to go through and edit the rest of them and get the ones my sister took.
i've added a new photo album with pictures of the garden if you would like to follow along. went outside today and saw some more tomatoes coming in on each plant. hope everyone had a good weekend and a great mother's day.
ok, i've been trying to write this post since the 18th of april, maybe this time i can finish it.
this is going to be a long photo heavy post so go get a cup of tea and something to eat, i'll be here when you get back.
so far so good with the vegetable garden, I took all of these pictures on the 15th of april.
as you can see lot's of green going on last month. the front bed has three types of lettuce, radishes in between each row. the middle row is marigolds and then four types of tomatoes with carrots mixed in. the white fabric you see is a floating row cover, i used them a lot. when ever we have a heavy rain or a windy rain i make sure the beds are covered to protect them. i also think it's a good way to protect the seedlings, last year i planted lettuce but every time they would poke their head above the ground something would come along and make a nice midnight snack out of them. i think the row cover has pretty much stopped that problem. The second bed is watermelon, two types of cucumbers, sunflowers, eggplant, nasturtium, and two types of bush beans.
the first bed:
lettuce and radishes:
the red lettuce in the back was a special request picked up at the garden center. it's been doing really well and i looks like it's time to start mixing it in with the salad. what you see from left to right:
Radishes: Not sure the type they were given to me by a friend
Radishes
Radishes
the bare spots, in the front, are where i've pulled up the radishes and also where i had my problem with fire ants. they set up house in this area and didn't want to leave. one day i got so angry i just started digging in the dirt trying to figure out how much area they covered. it was a lot. they have since moved on but i still have a problem with them. just not in this bed anymore. I planted this part of the bed in three parts, so the bare parts in the back will soon have some seedlings coming up. the white marker in the back is where i'm planting a different type of radish. one thing i've found out is that i don't like radishes so once i'm done with this seed packet i'll plant carrots there.
the second part of the bed is tomatoes and carrots.
burbank tomato, in the front
I picked up a roma tomato plant up at the garden center to round things out.
and carrots are mixed in with the tomatoes.
the second bed:
in this bed we have..
moon and stars watermelon which at the time i took these pictures was not comming up. I think I planted them a little to early and the soil wasn't warm enough for them to come up.
two types of cucumber, sweet marketmore and northern pickling which I don't see a link for anymore.
with sunflowers in between the two rows.
eggplant is next. i picked up two plants from the garden center one is a regular eggplant and the other is a fairy tale eggplant. I also planted some india paint eggplant which started out ok but now seems kind of stuck in it's growth.
and two types of bush beans, blue lake 274
also have some nasturtiums, a fiesta blend and a mahogany, planted on either side of the beans.
that's a lot of plants and a lot of planting.
and as of the first of this month the garden looks like this...
all of the tomato plants are showing flowers and today i spotted my first tomato growing. Be back soon with some more updates.
because I don't have enough time for a real post
That's all I got for now!
there are always so many things to discover at Flickr, lately it's been pictures of doors. i'm sure that says some unconscious thing about me and looking at pictures of doors, but i don't have time to get into that right now. so just sit back and enjoy some of my favorite pictures of doors.
1. Orange as any orange on a tree, 2. Green Door, Tyrrellspass, 3. Worn Door - Pittsburgh, 4. Door and Window - Memphis, TN, 5. blue door, 6. Behind the Green Door..., 7. Lucky No 7, 8. yellow door, 9. bomarzo. brown door, 10. Purple Door, 11. Yellow Door, 12. purple door Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
-Joseph Campbell
We have two community gardens where I live. I stopped by a few weeks ago to see what was going on and took a few pictures.
this is the full view of the gardens, behind it is one of the elementary school. When I took this picture they hadn't started the spring planting so a lot of what you see is fall and winter crops. Lots of cabbage, brussel sprouts, lettuce, and onions. Need to stop by and see what they have going on now.
I like to go here to get a little inspiration on what to plant and how to set up my beds. I also need to take a look over at the 2nd community garden and get some pictures. That one is a little further from my house so I don't pass it as much.
Enjoy the pictuers and be back soon with a garden update.
this video is making the rounds, i found it over at suziebezzieland. this is a seriously fascinating video i keep watching it over and over again. enjoy.
in other news, it's getting really cold here and i just keep thinking about my poor tomato seedlings. i have a floating row cover over the bed and since it's about twice as long as the bed i doubled it up over the plants, i hope it's enough.
May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!
~Irish Blessing
and this one just made me laugh:
May those that love us, love us.
And those that don't love us,
May God turn their hearts.
And if He doesn't turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we will know them by their limping.
~Irish Blessing
You can find more here, Irish Blessings.
The first bed is planted and everything looks like it's doing good. Right now I'm working on the second bed which is pretty much in the planning stages since last weeks three days of rain put a stop to building it and planting anything. Now I'm just waiting for the ground to dry a little bit before I start digging again.
I'm really excited about the second bed. I'm planning on planting cucumbers, eggplant, beans and watermelon for the summer and then some pumpkin for the fall. I think I'll still have a little bit of room left so I'm thinking about bringing the zucchini back for a repeat performance. The first bed has three types of lettuce, radishes, carrots, and tomatoes.
As usual I have to keep reminding myself I'm not trying to feed a small army and have to keep myself from adding more things to grow. It's only a household of two and if everything grows like it should, cross your fingers, we will have plenty to eat. So here's hoping!
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