yeah, I like flowers too.
I haven’t devoted tooo much of my moby farm to the flowers and other lillies of the field… but I have to have a few pretties around. Actually I’m very happy because there are four or five large mature lilacs behind the moby, so I will be able to bring in fresh cut boughs of lilac and that is heaven to me.
And I transplanted my very well traveled hostas from Michigan with the help of my friend Jeff. I was going to leave them and he was like, nope, let’s dig them up. I had brought them from Perrysburg, Ohio to Redford, Michigan and now they are back home in Toledo again. They did pretty well last year, so I think now they will be happier and do a good job.
And my friend Jill, she brought over some black-eyed susies from her yard, that I had originally given her from my yard when we were neighbors! How cool is that? And she gifted me some of her pretty irises, which are coming up gangbusters… and some tiger lillies too that are sure working hard to get growing.
I bought two little lilac bushes of my own… and Jessy and I planted them up front of the moby. Right by my bedroom windows. I hope they will grow big and fast. But since they are about a foot high right now? I suspect is will be about oh, 3 or 4 years before they really start being bush like!
We put down a couple bags of mulch too… to kind of dress up the place and make it look like we care. We do, you know, but I will admit… I have gardens on the mind and food crops! So I guess it’s a good thing that my flowers are all perrenials… I probably won’t spend much on annuals much any more. Just a few of those pretty wave petunnias for my big front pots. That’s about it.
Pin ItI can’t help myself. I’ve been reading blogs all weekend. It all started with Jenna Woginrich’s Cold Antler Farm blog… well, I was reading her new book… Made from Scratch and then I thought, I wanted to read some of the archives and well, I ended up reading EVERYTHING in her blog! hahaha… yeah, that’s me.
And then since that hadn’t filled me up totally, I mean, it was the weekend and I had at least another 24 hours to sit around and dream and read… so I headed over to my favorite piggy homestead… Sugar Mountain Farm to find out what the family there was up to. Of course, this all just makes me want to do MORE AND MORE on my own…
It’s cold and raining here… and the Lumi died yesterday, again. One of these days I might have a car or van that is less than 15 years old, but I’m not sure when that will be! But sometimes I don’t mind so much when it’s acting cranky. We have a good stocked pantry, and we’re simple eaters, so even raman noodles is a meal for us. We have things to do, crafts and games and critters and of course music. We don’t have cable, or really watch much TV… but if the internet went out, then we’d be jonesing… well, we do make most of our living off the internet and our empire of websites and such, so that only makes sense that it’s important to us.
And of course, it keeps me in touch with all my farming blogs!!!
Gotta get busy next week though.. been kinda loafing this week, spending more time outside and all. My computer is a little lonely. But that’s okay, since it’s had me for like 5 years nearly every day for hours and hours on end. We just needed a little time apart, you know, to find ourselves and appreciate each other and all that stuff. That and my butt seems to be stuck in this chair way too much and I need to get this old body up and moving a little bit more. Ain’t getting any younger. Felt good to lift boards and dig holes and all that.
Can’t wait till the dirt comes in!
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