I bet some of you thought I was crazy always talking about my invisible garden. So I decided to provide some pictures today. Please forgive the quality- these are all taken with my cell phone.
Morning glory growing in the pumpkin vines
The garden in all its glory.
Baby bell pepper
Yellow Zucchini
Just a couple of baby tomatoes from on of the thirty or so tomato plants in my garden.
Jealous yet?
Its supposed to start snowing on Saturday- 100% chance they said and we’re under a winter storm warning as of Saturday morning with the likely of 2 inches per hour. Hey you up there Mr. Weather Dude! Its March! In fact, its almost freaking April- thats too much accumulation of snow on top of my lilies and hyacinths and irises that were actually showing signs of being strong enough to bloom for the first time. Now I’m going to have to figure out how to get them insulated and keep em warm. Grrr!
On a lighter note, tomorrow Jarell and I are going to thumb our noses at the weather and head to the KC Home and Gardens show. I am ecstatic and will be taking the camera. I might even take pictures if I can quit slobbering long enough. I will also be meeting up with a lady who bought 20 bucks worth of 50 cent garden seedlings from me on Craigslist- thats my spending money for the show. *grins*
Anywho now that I’ve done my complaining I’ll leave you with a couple of pictures from our anniversary. This donkey had just got done biting my foot when I took this picture. Does she look like she’s rebuking me?
The sweet horse Saiton (who I call Satan) was licking J14’s hand the whole time we were in the pasture and I managed to get this shot just as her tongue came out.
My dad working on his motorcycle
Its a cool lovely spring morning today as I sit here in the early a.m. I woke up at 10 til 7 feeling rested and happy but confused about being awake so early. It must be those green smoothies. Yes, I am still doing that. Haven’t noticed any measurable weight loss, but I feel better and my clothes are getting looser too so I’m calling it a win thus far.
I’ve been working outside a lot this last couple of weeks- whenever the weather is even close to being nice so I haven’t been on the computer much. My garden got a makeover from the rototiller on Tuesday and yesterday my little brother and I put in a trellis for my vining veggies. 
I’m seriously feeling gardentastic this week. What you may or may not be able to see is that this trellis is made in an ‘N’ shape and its made from recycled chicken wire that I found in a junk pile on our property. I think it came out pretty good and I only smashed myself once with the hammer. I took this picture this morning at sunrise in my pj’s and I think it captures the feel of the new beginning of spring quite nicely. So now I’m off to plant sugar snaps and water my hundreds of tomato seedlings. Anybody want some? I’m going to have a lot too many so if you’re in my area of Missery send me an email and I’ll share a few.
Well today was a nice day of laziness and shopping. We hung out in our pj’s most of the morning and afternoon. The temp hit the triple digits so we stayed in for the most part. Jarell cooked breakfast which is always a nice treat. We went to one of my favorite antiques stores this afternoon and he surprised me with some spending money for whatever I want which is even better than breakfast. I got some old advertising tear sheets that made me grin. Got some stuffing for my sewing projects. Came home and harvested some poor tomatoes that had split open due to all this nasty heat. Watched some tv, had a good dinner, basically a very nice day. Went downstairs once the sun went down to take some food out to the dogs, opened the door and there were all the dogs, escaped from their fence for the 5th time in 2 days (despite us blocking the hole they got out of yesterday) and a half dead baby bunny that ran in the opened door away from danger. I hurried up and fed the dogs and ran back inside (and no their not that underfed that they have to eat the wildlife, this was a hunting lesson from mommy to babies). There huddled in a little ball was the baseball sized lump was a torn and tattered baby bunny. I hollered at Jarell and he came down, grabbed an old pair of jeans for something to pick the little bit up with and put it in a big tupperware storage container. I stood by babbling and crying over the poor little thing while my darling dearest rationalized that the little guy wouldn’t want to eat when he’s this freaked out. I screamed a little when I realized that one of its back legs was snapped in half. Oh god I’m freakin out. I know without medical help its unlikely that it will survive, but I want to help it out if I can. Any suggestions folks? I’m all torn up about the poor baby. If it hadn’t been alive, I wouldn’t have minded, because thats what happens in nature, but oh when the poor little one has suffered and been played with because its a teaching experience for the puppies….. thats more than I can handle. Urg….
These babies are from the garden
Well I’ll be darned. I never really gave much thought to how many posts I would have by this time or when I would reach the first triple digit, but the next time I post, I will have done just that. I am not as good about every day postings as I was at the beginning, but I like to tell myself that its a matter of quality rather than quantity….. riiight. Anyway, I want to do something special for the next post, whenever that might be, to celebrate that number. Not sure what I shall do just yet, but I’m thinking a giveaway and maybe a challenge. Keeping this post short and sweet because my thoughts are tumbling all over each other. The picture is of this weeks garden bounty. Now what the heck am I gonna do with it? I have this urge to make something other than zucchini bread with it, but I’m drawing a blank on what to do. Casserole? That somehow doesn’t sound appealing. I have sauteed it before and I serve it with my herbed chicken, but I’m the only one that eats the squash that way and I want something for Jarell to enjoy as well. He’s like a big kid sometimes always picking out the “nasty vegetables” as he puts it whereas I am more like a rabbit– yay veggies! and fruits!! Oh my. My mom told me once that men get jealous when you have kids because all of a sudden you’re not mothering them anymore and I said I didn’t mother Jarell. And then I went on to talk about how I had been trying to get him to eat healthier more veggies in particular and she said, “And thats not mothering him?” We had to laugh about that.
Well I feel the urge to run outside and have a look at the garden to see what has shown up overnight. The other day I had a pumpkin the size of a raquetball and the next morning it was the size of a softball! It was amazing and there was a tomato last night that seems to almost be ripe soooo I gotta go folks.
Well Miss Toi has a couple of lovely lovely green bean pictures on her blog and I am, needless to say, green with envy. The only solution to my way of thinking is to show a picture of something harvested from my garden. Aside from weeds edible or otherwise, that category is currently limited to lettuce. Lots and lots of lettuce. So here for your viewing pleasure (drum roll please)
THE LETTUCE!!!
As you may be able to tell, it is very organic lettuce. This picture and others are available for viewing at my Arcsoft album if you’re interested.
I don’t know exactly what happened to my brain while we were away at the lake, but ever since I got back I’ve been behaving strangely. I’ve been going outside in the heat and working and playing and in general acting as if I were someone else. You all may not think this is odd behavior, but you have to understand that Melissa and heat do not get along well. When I was little I got heat stroke and since then, I have not done well with high temperatures and I usually avoid them at all cost. But this summer has been really gently and not that hot. Even so I will be the first to admit that me choosing to be out in the sweltering heat bent over pulling weeds from my garden is out of character. Add all that weirdness to my lessened time spent on the computer makes me think the summer bug has bit me bad. But I guess thats alright. I have a nice tank top tan and a great big garden that should soon bear fruit. It has already given me wonderful gourmet lettuce and the peas, tomatoes, and squash are all blossoming. Hooray! I will take a picture when I get all the weeds removed… maybe…. or maybe I’ll use a mostly preweed picture cuz I doubt I’ll get all the weeds gone enough for my perfectionist side.
Its funny but the only Capricorn trait I have ever been able to recognize in myself is my obsession at times with perfection. I once had a teacher liken me to his pet bulldog. Affectionately because I was every teacher’s pet, but nevertheless, a not so flattering comparison. My mom said I am a 1 personality which made more sense than the sign I was born under. Oh well, thats neither here nor there. Heres that stock photo of the garden. Note the neighbor’s big ass barn in the background looking all quaint and countrified.
I think a picture of his not so quaint cows is in order as well.
Finally after all this, I told Diana that I would help her spread the word. Literally the word absquatulate. It has a definition that is similar to that of abscond and personally I think abscond is easier to spell and say without milk flying out of your nose, but think of the possible other meanings for absquatulate…. just think ladies. I’ll leave you to that.
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And God said, let there be……… rain May 22, 2008
Tags: comments, free stuff, garden, puppies, rain, swimming
And there was rain! And it was good for the first 2 hours or so. But at around 10:30 or 11 all heaven broke loose and the rain came fallin down like somebody up there dumped a big bucket out. My garden? Well watered and now a small lake actually. But its all good cuz the ground has just enough real dirt in it to slightly counteract the massive amounts of good ole Missouri clay mixed in and the water went down in a couple of hours. Not so the dog’s yard out back where the puppies are taking their first swimming lessons with Mama Tinkerbell. I just heard one squeal and I can only assume he or she was running around the pool and we all know thats a big no-no. Somebody might slip. In all seriousness, the puppies do have a waterproof dog house to get into and the ground is on a downhill slope so they’re not really swimming in case any of the members of the ASPCA or PETA are out there listening. I’d show you pictures, but then you’d see how REDNECK our yard is complete with a tire holding down the rubber mats on the roof of the dog house where it was damaged by a big blow we had back at the end of April.
Anyway, on to other news. I promised myself I would only be on the computer for 20 minutes tops so now over an hour later I am getting a little agravated with myself. I finished 2 mermaids yesterday and a project for the brown paper bag swap. One mermaid made from cloth went into my Etsy shop and the other of paper is undecided about her future. Would people pay for that kind of stuff? I may have pictures later but am not making any promises.
Lurkers unite and come forward! I do a happy dance every time someone leaves me a comment and would really love to hear from the people who read me. I am always so humbled because every single one of you who has commented thus far is part of my growing group of favorites. Your blogs make me smile and I just about bounce out of my chair with happiness when I see your name on a comment. So I’m going to beg for comments today. Tell me you were here. Do some graffiti and scribble on the walls a bit. Let me know what I’m doing right (if anything) and tell me where I should improve. I promise to send someone something cool if you do. (Shameless? I think not! I do this for the readers as much as myself)
Au revoir cheries!