A Hodgepodge of Random Updates

My father once told my husband that if he married me he ought to be warned that his life will never be dull.  I can say with confidence that I do not invite mischief.  It just somehow seems to always find me.  Even here in the backwoods of the Ozarks.

Rambles and Brambles

We have heard rumors of a large, wild blackberry patch outside the boundaries of our property.  We have been enjoying the pickings off our 3 small blackberry patches but there has never been enough at one time to make pies or jam out of and not enough self-discipline to deny ourselves the instant gratification of popping a scrumptious, sun-warmed berry right into our mouths. 

Herr Riesentraube

Remember our winter sowing experiment?

Moving adventures!

I have come down with a case of bronchitis with laryngitis and since I'm on my 5th day without a voice, and assigned a day of rest to get over the hump, I thought I'd do a blog post to update a little bit. 

 

Here are a bunch of photos of our recent move.  We still aren't moved in yet since we've had to do cleaning, repairs and repainting and tonight will be the first night everyone will sleep on a real bed.  Soon I will give you the tour of our new home, but for now here are some glimpses of the glorious chaos minus the severe thunderstorms we loaded and unloaded during and the tornado that touched down within miles of us while we were trying to get the truck unloaded and back on time.

We bought the farm!

That's just so fun to say! 

 

 We've waited a long time to be in the position of buying a hobby farm with which to raise our family on.  We are still in that state of pleasant shock where it all seems too good to be true yet we've lived it unfolding and know it to be a reality.

 

My bottom watering routine

Brace yourselves!  This is going to be one very boring blog post!  Feel free to skip this post, unless you want to poke fun at my nerdiness.  Actually, if you go grab a snack by the time you get back, I should be done and then you will be spared my detailed ramblings.  See you in a few... 

 

I wanted to make a note for myself on how we were watering from the bottom because I kept forgetting and doing it in the wrong order and forgetting the simple way I did it the day before.  So I decided I would make a post about it so I can save myself a few headaches next time.

 

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. 

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.

Starting our pepper seeds indoors

Steve and I finally got our pepper seeds started! 

 

Dreaming big...getting ready to start seeds indoors

We are getting excited about starting our first garden in our new home.  The garden bed has been resting while we've been leafing through seed catalogs and dreaming of what we'd like to grow.  We found that it is just as important to not browse seed catalogs while hungry as it is to not grocery shop while hungry! 

We have tried twice to start seeds indoors and both times it didn't go well.  But we really like peppers and we use tomato products year round and would really like to be able to grow our own peppers and tomatoes and be able to grow some interesting and heirloom varieties.  So, we are going to try it again.