Hoping that everyone had a Happy St. Patrick's Day!! I spent the day skiing at Keystone, Arn went golfing at King's Deer here in our neighborhood, and Grandma went to Stan and Bea's for a great dinner of corned beef, cabbage, and green beer. I did wear green under my ski jacket. We finally are in the midst of a winter snowstorm. Arn and I have been out to shovel the drive twice so far. A pot of soup is on the stove and we are warm and toasty inside by the fire. It's supposed to get up to 6o after a couple of days. Meredith and 3 friends just stopped by on their way to the Grand Canyon (they are doing Havasupai again this yr.) I'll try to post one of her pics when she gets back. Tyler is going to New Orleans for a couple of days for his spring break get a way. We are still working on using up our ski passes before the end of the season so we'll probably ski again next week. Again, hope you had a 'lucky' day this past week!!
The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. - Bob Marley
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. ~Sophia Loren
Opportunity is missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
The previously mentioned patty pan squash that were produced were about the size of a quarter! and only had a half dozen.
Garden Updates 2009
1. Started a composting box. 2. Adding triple mix dirt to garden and flower beds. 3. Still trying to get rid of voles. 4. Trying to plant things that voles won't eat. 5. Buy veggies at Farmer's market due to short growing season. 6. My seeds have come up - yeah! 7. Found some pattypan squash seeds that I need to get in the ground (childhood fav) 8. Harvested lettuce, using fresh mint, chives. 9.Hail Damage, hope everything survives. 10.The pattypan squash seeds sprouted, neversurvived due to major rain and hail. 11.Sunflowers are blooming!!! 12. My green beans are getting baby beans but the voles have discovered this too and my row of beans is slowly dissappearing from below. 13. Well, my row of beans has almost completely dissappeared. Now the voles are starting to work on the row of sunflowers (which did quite well). Today I found a sunflower stalk sticking out of a vole hole..... it was too long for the vole to get the whole thing into his hole. 14. Did harvest 2 jalopenos and 1 onion. Something has been eating my peppers too. 15. 10/10/09 Temp. 18 degrees. Everything is covered in frost. Goodbye garden. Will try to harvest some flower seeds. Brought a lot of seeds from Mom's flowers in Ohio. Hollyhock, zinnia, black eyed susan, morning glory. Will see if they grow next yr. Will also give some to Val to see how they do in North Dakota.
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