Mmmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmmm.....

My house smells so good right now.......baked Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, Sugar Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies and a Homemade Apple Pie! Yummy...

Fall is here...

It's definately fall here now.....temps in the 30's overnight and 50's during the day......we even had a few snow flurries this morning.

Planning on pulling out the vegetable garden tomorrow. It did very very well this year...I just love the square foot gardening concept...this year was one of the best years yet.

We canned 'Apple Pie In A Jar' already with the apples we bought at the local orchard.

Tomatoes are next! Will be making Tomato Juice!

Brrrrrr....ish...

Ooooo it's a bit chilly this morning.......feels good though.....nice change! Of course, tell that to my wardrobe ! Dakota is lovin' it......geee must be the huskey in him...lol.

Friday night fun in the kitchen....

Lindsay decided to have some fun with the camera while we were making creamy cucumbers and taking care of all the rest of the stuff we got out of the garden tonight......

There's more goofy pictures in the album....

Waaaaahooooo we're gonna have grass again!!!!!!!!!

Yeah small change in plans tonight....I was going to ride since it's such a beautiful night tonight.....but when I got home from work, Mike (brother-in-law) was here rototillering (hehe...ya I know not even a word, but you know what I mean) it's been all summer that we've had nothing but dirt down the middle of our yard, had to have dirt brought in to level things out, there was always a huge puddle everytime it rained, anyways.....we had a war with the neighbor so that's why it hadn't gotten done in forever......sooooo needless to say I was very happy to see Mike here tilling away.....I ran and got grass seed and got er done......I'm sooo happy to see straw in my yard now instead of dirt!

Yes the pictures are backwards but I didn't feel like messing with it all tonight! To bad!

Yeah small change in plans tonight....I was going to ride since it's such a beautiful night tonight.....but when I got home from work, Mike (brother-in-law) was here rototillering (hehe...ya I know not even a word, but you know what I mean) it's been all summer that we've had nothing but dirt down the middle of our yard, had to have dirt brought in to level things out, there was always a huge puddle everytime it rained, anyways.....we had a war with the neighbor so that's why it hadn't gotten done in forever......sooooo needless to say I was very happy to see Mike here tilling away.....I ran and got grass seed and got er done......I'm sooo happy to see straw in my yard now instead of dirt!

Got lots of stuff out of the veggie garden tonight.......

I made creamy cucumbers and blanched and froze a bunch of green beans....and lets see what else....oh yeah I didn't get very many peas so I just quick made a cold salad with noodles, peas, cheese and ham.....yum lunch tomorrow. I love gardening......everything tastes so good!

Oh I made a yummy treat too......I can't remember what it's called but it's cool whip mixed with vanilla pudding mix, green apples (cut up) and Snickers candy bars cut up.....Mmmmmm Mmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmm......

Things are a growin'....

Tomatoes are doing very well....

I still only have one 'pea' plant coming up.....not sure what's wrong with that situation....but cucumbers, peppers and green beans are doing great....

Carrots, lettuce and herbs are also doing good... I lost 2 lettuce plants but nothing else....

Mother's Day Rose bush update...

Before pictures...May 30th, 2009

Update...

Been moving a lot of dirt around and trimming a lot of dead and/or old brush around the yard.....neighbor dumped off a few loads of dirt and now we get to move it around where we need it....grrrrrrr...

Have also been doing a lot of moving and replanting of the perenials I have. Bought a few new things to plant this year too.....the coolest little things are called Candy Corn Climbers.....so cute and look so real...

Well I will say I am getting pretty buff doing all this lately....hehe......it's a great workout...

Kids are good, horse is good, dog is good....cya!

All the other areas of the yard...

This top picture is our newest project this year...
The back corner of the yard.

My Mother's Day gift is growing very well....

Red Rose Bush...

The 2009 garden is in...

Square foot gardening is so organized and pretty....

I did three 4 x 4 boxes with tomatoes, peppers, green beans, peas, cucumbers, carrots, lettuce and herbs.

Mother's Day was awesome....thank you to my wonderful chitlins! Love you guys!

Small signs of new life in the year 2009...

Chives were the first to come to life.

Trying to remember what these even are...lol....oops.

Iris's are multiplying as they do every year.

Sooooo Exciting...

I know...little things get me all excited. :)

The ground was finally dry enough to walk on today, so I went around and examined the damage winter had done to all my gardens.

I brushed off a few leaves and pulled a couple weeds.........I also found the first signs of life there under the leaves.

I was very happy to see that Spring has actually sprung around here!

Planning to do some more cleaning up over the weekend...forcast looks good!

Building A Raised Flower/Vegetable Bed...

Ree over at The Pioneer Woman has a wonderful post on exactly how to build a raised flower/vegetable bed. Raised beds are much more fun and much better for drainage. Check it out! Very detailed and looks very easy and inexpensive too! <---That's the way to go now-a-days.

Gardening Coming Soon...

I'm very excited about the garden this year. Planning on doing something totally new with it. It's called Square Foot Gardening! I'm planning to have three boxes, all 4' x 4'.

What is SFG:
Square Foot Gardening is a uniquely simplified method of gardening that produces 100% of the harvest in only 20% of the space -- AND -- without all the hard work and drudgery of single row gardening.

I also plan to grow strawberries this year too....again something new for me! I am going to build two strawberry pyramids that will each be 31 inches in total. Each pyramid will hold approximately 50 plants, so I will have 100 plants in total. Here is a picture of the pyramid I am going to build. Yummy Strawberries! Mmmmm Mmmmm Mmmmm

I can't wait until next month so I can start working on all of this new stuff....soooo exciting!