Oh man. Oh.  man! Things got just a little crazy around here.  How is it that summer is half way through already?? The garden has taken on a life of its own, and that life is taking up a LOT of time.  Plus, well, our camera completely died, making it harder to get pictures up. As mentioned in the last garden post, I'm just including a slideshow of the garden from the beginning to now.  There are just too many pictures. We have been picking cucumbers and bush beans, and last night we put up 12 or 13 1/2 pints of dill relish, and put about 15 quart freezer bags of green beans away.  Right now, we have two baskets full of beans to deal with.  Wow. Tomatoes are on the vine, just not ripening, plenty of peas, pole beans, and boy howdy, if all our squash & pumpkin come in, we could rival Libby. The zucchini is coming up nicely, but the Cabbage, Broccoli, and Cauliflower are not.  Which, I'm not surprised at since we put it in so late. Miraculously, the … [Read more...]

I'm sure at some point, I may have mentioned how... controlled I was in my younger years.  I didn't party, was serious to a fault, and had everything planned out with multiple contingency plans.  I actually was probably a bear to be around, if I do say so myself. Thankfully, once I had kids, or rather, when I found out I was pregnant with my first, I began to realize how little control one has over things that happen.  You can have the best laid plans, but at the end of the day, you really aren't in that much control.  Granted, we all have choices that we make, and we can either reap the reward, or pay the consequence, but when it comes to just... how life goes, you really have to figure that you don't have it all figured out. Sure, it is important to set goals, and work toward them - you don't want to be lazy, or settle with mediocrity.  Ever. I've been looking for work since last fall.  Things are tough, and I could see some things that were going to change, so I … [Read more...]