Archive for the ‘Garden’ Category

Take a hike….

So Spring is almost here – the early flowering trees are starting to bud… If you own land, now is the time to take a hike. I have done this for the past couple of years. I have neon green plastic “tape” and hot pink. I walk our land and I tie a flag around the trunks of...
March 9th, 2009 | Garden | Read More

I hope I dont kill them all…..

Seeds, that is, not the kids I got my box from Johnny’s Seeds yesterday. The Hubs has been amazing sketching out the plan – measuring the area and then drawing it on graph paper. I will post a pic when I get the scanner working….. Anyway, I have never ordered seeds before online....
February 6th, 2009 | Garden | Read More

No Resolutions…..Is stating "No Resolutions" a Resolution?

I dont do resolutions – mostly I just rock along and do or dont do something depending on how I feel. Its not that I lack willpower or strong character – I am just a “half full” kind of gal and like the way I am…. I did give up all carbonated drinks last February and it...
December 31st, 2008 | Garden, Own a gun you WUSSIES, Plan, prepared | Read More

Suck it up and Toughen up….

This is what I told myself today driving home from Branson…. I am reading in the car, thinking about what I am reading and looking out the window. Pasture after pasture is flying by….Then there is this one black “spot” that catches my eye. Funny that things moved slowly then...
December 30th, 2008 | Animals, Garden | Read More

Call me a Foodie, Locavore, Food Snob…I just like good eats!!!

We have all heard the words – 100 mile diet (only eating things grown or raised within 100 miles of where you live), Locavore, Foodie, Slow Food, Farmers Markets…..Every single one absolutely a FABULOUS resource in eating seasonally, locally, sustainably…. But when push comes to shove,...
December 5th, 2008 | Food storage, Garden, prepared | Read More

EXCELLENT POST FROM A FELLOW BLOGGER

Yall – As you know, I have FAVE bloggers that I regularly follow. I am providing a link to Prisoner of the White Lines on the Freeway tonight. He has excellent insight as to the importance of agriculture in future. This is appropriate NOW because NOW is when you plan for your SPRING garden… Not...
December 1st, 2008 | FAVE BLOGGERS, Garden, Texans RULE | Read More