Our first full-fledged barn cats have been born!

We feel a bit as if we are slowly making a picture book come to life in our daily lives.  You know the ubiquitous barn cat that is always seen in every children's book about farms?  The ever present barn cat provides that warm fuzzy feeling of contentment when seeing her grooming herself on straw bales and she also provides an invaluable service of keeping the mice and moles in check.

We have hit a new epoc in our lives of living in the country as we now have our first official, authentic, full-fledged barn cats that have arrived... and actually were born in the barn!

This is Clover, Molly's cat.

I am loving my Canon Rebel T3i!!

Making memories is important to me.

I agree with the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words.  Making memories with pictures has been priceless to this mother.  I am just so thoroughly enamored with our new camera that I can't help sharing how happy we are with it and what we love about it and how excited we are to keep learning and upgrading.

Transplanting the peppers!

Oh, happy day!

 

We are ready to transplant!

 

We put everything on the table we thought we'd need.  Jacob was working with me today since he wanted to do his own peppers.  He is growing the Jalapeno peppers and dreaming of homemade salsa.

 

Preparing to transplant the peppers

 

Our pepper babies are moving up in the world!

Up another shelf, that is. 

Sow what?!

I am enjoying watching my own style of recycling bearing some happy greenery.

 

I have watered them a few times, but mostly we just admire them and get excited as each new variety decides to play along and germinates while we just stand by and watch.   I am hoping I have at least one pepper plant that I can do a comparison with in the garden with the pepper plants we started indoors with the heat mat and under lights.  My enquiring mind wants to know!

Pepper plants...sproutlings!

Things are getting awfully exciting around here with the world around us rubbing sleepiness from it's eyes and awakening to spring.

Winter sowing update...signs of life!

We noticed one exciting day, March the 28th to be exact, that we had signs of life in our fun, little pop bottle winter sowing experiment!  How wonderful!  Part of me was truly surprised that it was working.

 

We both had some new seedlings coming up.  Emily had Double Zinnias awakening 

 

Starting our pepper seeds indoors

Steve and I finally got our pepper seeds started!