starting garden

Last week was a whirlwind that left me not wanting to blog.  Today is Monday and the start of a new week.  This weekend was a ton of fun, and productive.  My parents and brother came down and I cooked a really yummy dinner on Saturday night.  They got to meet Mira and the two kitties had lots of attention.  They are both very squishable, Mira in particular b/c she is quite the fat little thing.  Yesterday I made oodles of french toast for breakfast.  It was soooo good and we had tons.  I had french toast for breakfast, dinner, and then breakfast this morning.  I really like cooking, mom got me a new cook book and I think my next adventure in cooking will be to try the steak tacos! 

This weekend was also quite productive.  I got up early Saturday and planted the seeds I wanted to try and start myself.  Here’s a pic of what I’m growing by seed.  Who knows how well I’ll do, I’ve never done it by seed before.  I have a few other things I want to grow from seed, carrots and some herbs, but I’ve read its best to plant the seed directly where you want it.  So they’ll wait till it warms up a bit.  I’ll probably also buy a few other veggies from the garden center, but we’ll see what we get from this little crop.  The flowers I have in the mix will go in the front yard.  As soon as it warms up a bit we’re going to rip out some overgrown shrubs that line the front of the house.  We face north so this is a very shady area, so I plan to put in a fern garden.  We have a ton of hosta I can transplant to the area, I want to get some ferns, and then keep my eyes out for some woodland plants.  Trillium, and foam flowers are very pretty and would do well there.

Here is also a picture of what it looks like right after planting the seeds.  If all goes well and things grow, I’ll show progress pics here. 

Mom and I also worked on some photography.  A deadline is approaching this week and so we took a ton of pictures.  One of them ought to work and then once this is checked off my list it’ll feel great!  I have a bunch of small flowers that need to be finished up, instead I spent all afternoon yesterday working on a project flower.  I’m enjoying these more and more.  You’d have thought I’d have gotten more done, but construction was taking longer than expected.  And I was having a hard time making decisions.  My burst of creativity resulted in plans for two other project flowers.  I have a feeling I’ll be working on these until one of my butt kicking friends whips me in shape to work on the smaller ones! 

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