Rain! Rain! Rain!

Well, I think we are quite close to getting out of the drought we were in for so long here. It has rained pretty much for a week! We needed it so bad though, I hope the folks in southern OK and most of TX got some. They need it worse than even we did. Well since it has been raining so much, I don't have much to report on the progress of the garden. Mostly bc there has been none! LOL Well, I guess that is not completely true. My wonderful husband has moved the leftover hay we were fortunate to have over by the barn creating a "wall" around my spot! It was a brilliant idea! I have a courtyard of sorts to turn into a veg wonderland!

I have also just returned form a visit to the homestead (aka my parents house). It was lovely getting to visit and play cards and just relax. Spring break has been so wonderful and it could not have come at a better time. I needed it so bad. I am sooooo ready to be out of school. I hated college, what in my small stupid blonde mind possessed me to go back to school in any form? I like taking xrays, but I hate school. Just a few more months and then a national reg test and I will be free!!! Oh, I guess I am then expected to enslave myself to an employer then? Nahhhhh!!! I'll just get pregnant instead! LOL

Well, gotta go! I think we might be going to a horse sale just to get a feel for what is available out there. We are getting a horse. And I think my non horse informed husband is just as excited as I am LOL! Enjoy your day :)

Spring has sprung!

Well, we have been sick here at the farm. :( I had to go through antibiotics and steroids (and figured out I have an allergy to the antibiotic...another reason I went to the Dr. as a last resort and my instincts were right lol) DH is almost over it and we were able to work outside and get some garden stuff done! I am trying to clean up the spot by the barn to put a nice little container garden in. We are dealing with three generations of junk in our yard folks. I mean junk. We have hauled and piled and scraped and repurposed and sold so much crap and there is still stuff here. LOL. I am posting some pictures of our progress and some of the enormous polk root we had to remove from behind the barn (notice the scrap pile behind me...still a work in progress). I also started my seeds indoors in the last few weeks: Cherokee purple tomatoes, mortgage lifter tomatoes, watermelons, oregano, chamomile, basil strawberries, onions and garlic. I was also inspired by the latest issue of Mother Earth News magazine has inspired me to shoot for tons of delicious organic food from my own yard for basically pennies! It is so exciting spring is practically here! We have many many calves hitting the ground and I am so very close to talking DH into letting me have some chickens and ducks :) AND he finally agreed working cattle in the pasture would be much easier with horses! Yes! Well, I did my spring cleaning outside and I have way too many dishes and mounds of laundry to do and a shopping list for Sunflower market and Sams Club to make! Yay! Have a blessed day and maybe go start a little garden of your own! :)

These are before shots of the spot the day I started work on it. There is trash and barrels of junk :/