Seedlings up
I forgot to mention that seedlings have been up for nearly a week. Becca's have been up for longer.
9/9 spinach seedlings up
6/6 lettuce seedlings up
1/2 bright lights chard up (these are red, so pretty)
0/16 radish seedlings up (I planted these only four days ago)
Yesterday it sleeted or hailed a little on our garden before I could run out there and cover it with the kiddie pool. I dragged Becca's pot inside. Only one spinach seedling seems to be damaged, but I have hopes it will survive.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
First planting
Our first garden seeds are in the ground. Becca and I put them in this afternoon.
Square foot: 2 Black seeded simpson lettuce and 2 red salad bowl lettuce
Square foot: 2 Bright lights chard and 2 winter density bibb/romaine lettuce
Square foot: 9 tyee spinach
Becca also has a pot of her own. She chose to plant the simpson lettuce in hers. Becca helped me pinch a few seeds into each hole and cover them up.
Our first garden seeds are in the ground. Becca and I put them in this afternoon.
Square foot: 2 Black seeded simpson lettuce and 2 red salad bowl lettuce
Square foot: 2 Bright lights chard and 2 winter density bibb/romaine lettuce
Square foot: 9 tyee spinach
Becca also has a pot of her own. She chose to plant the simpson lettuce in hers. Becca helped me pinch a few seeds into each hole and cover them up.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Books
Read:
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (library)
Anne of Avonlea (library)
I love these books. Green Gables was a little better than Avonlea, but I still liked Avonlea too. I can't wait to finish the series. I think I saw the tv series when I was younger, but never read the books.
Reading:
Raising Your Children for Christ by Andrew Murray (own)
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (library)
Green Pharmacy by James A. Duke, PhD. (library--more of a reference)
Read:
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery (library)
Anne of Avonlea (library)
I love these books. Green Gables was a little better than Avonlea, but I still liked Avonlea too. I can't wait to finish the series. I think I saw the tv series when I was younger, but never read the books.
Reading:
Raising Your Children for Christ by Andrew Murray (own)
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto (library)
Green Pharmacy by James A. Duke, PhD. (library--more of a reference)
Thursday, April 02, 2009
April goals and projects review
I'm mostly doing this for myself, but I'm putting it up here anyway. Skip it if you don't care or if reading about all this overwhelms you (it overwhelms me :) ).
Goals:
#1. Be in the Word: I'm not doing so great on this. It's pretty sporadic. Since I am trying to make myself sit down for an hour in the afternoon during the girls' rest time to read or rest, I'm hoping to use part of that time to read scripture. I did start reading Raising Your Children for Christ by Andrew Murray again, so that is my scripture right now since he has lots of it in the book.
#2. Physically active at least 30 minutes a day: This has gotten better since it's gotten nicer. We have lots of options at least: biking to the park, walking, hooping, gardening. I'm trying to get the girls outside at least once a day on the nice weather days.
#3. Reading good books to the girls: Even if I neglected to remember to read books to them, they would remind me. :) I love having children who love books as much as I do. I'd really like to start another chapter book with Becca this month.
#4. Art once a week: So I've been neglecting the art thing for a couple of reasons. First is that we are outside a whole lot more, so that is taking the place of art projects. The other is that Ally wants to participate so much more and so it's much more messy. And she hates having paint on her hands, so it's much more busy. Becca does lots of drawing and writing on her own. I'm hoping to find a nice wooden enclosed cabinet at a garage sale to hold all their art supplies.
I don't feel bad about neglecting the art, since we are doing the outside thing so much. There will be time in the heat of the summer when I don't want to go outside in the late afternoon and we can do art. We did do a shaving cream art project which went pretty well.
#5. Getting up on time: This went well for awhile. I love getting up on time. I'd like to get up even earlier and do a little yoga or something, but I've got to get back into getting up on time first.
#6. Staying in touch with family and friends: I feel like we've had some good contact with people lately. I'd like to call each of my grandmothers once a week. The Skype calls on Saturday and Sunday with our parents are going well when we are home.
#7. Prayer: It's just so hard as a mom and wife to focus long enough to pray. I suppose lots of people could say that, but this has really been the hardest time of my life for prayer. I have lots of spontaneous prayer moments when I get an email or hear of a prayer request from a friend or family. I'm hoping making myself rest and read in the afternoon will provide some concentrated time to fellowship with my heavenly Father in prayer.
#8. Serving my husband: Don't know how I'm doing here. I'm trying to give him a good birthday week this week. We had some friends over on Tuesday night, yesterday we gave him a CD and a Cliff bar snack, today I bought him some of his favorite Burt's Bees Peppermint lip balm, and Saturday will be breakfast in bed. I'll have to ask him how I'm doing and what I can do better.
Whew...now for projects.
#1. Ally's baby book: This is started! I am on the pages with her birth story and just have to put them together. I took a little break to do some sewing, but I'll get them out again soon.
#2. Catch up on photo albums: waiting until done with Ally's book.
#3. Wedding album: Nothing done.
#4. Garden: We have a compost bin! Well, a compost garbage can. :) I bought a Rubbermaid 32 gallon one, drilled holes in it, stuck it up on wood and put a couple of bungee cords on the top to hold the top on. We can roll it to mix it with the cords on. So far so good and less than $20 spent (thanks, Kate :) ).
We also got the garden built and the cage for the top. Tonight we made the Mel's mix (compost, vermiculite, and peat moss) and filled it up. Saturday we'll screw on the dividers (to make it look like a square foot garden) and plant Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Red Salad Bowl Lettuce, Winter Density Bibb/Romaine Lettuce, Bright Lights Chard, and Tyee Spinach.
I'm mostly doing this for myself, but I'm putting it up here anyway. Skip it if you don't care or if reading about all this overwhelms you (it overwhelms me :) ).
Goals:
#1. Be in the Word: I'm not doing so great on this. It's pretty sporadic. Since I am trying to make myself sit down for an hour in the afternoon during the girls' rest time to read or rest, I'm hoping to use part of that time to read scripture. I did start reading Raising Your Children for Christ by Andrew Murray again, so that is my scripture right now since he has lots of it in the book.
#2. Physically active at least 30 minutes a day: This has gotten better since it's gotten nicer. We have lots of options at least: biking to the park, walking, hooping, gardening. I'm trying to get the girls outside at least once a day on the nice weather days.
#3. Reading good books to the girls: Even if I neglected to remember to read books to them, they would remind me. :) I love having children who love books as much as I do. I'd really like to start another chapter book with Becca this month.
#4. Art once a week: So I've been neglecting the art thing for a couple of reasons. First is that we are outside a whole lot more, so that is taking the place of art projects. The other is that Ally wants to participate so much more and so it's much more messy. And she hates having paint on her hands, so it's much more busy. Becca does lots of drawing and writing on her own. I'm hoping to find a nice wooden enclosed cabinet at a garage sale to hold all their art supplies.
I don't feel bad about neglecting the art, since we are doing the outside thing so much. There will be time in the heat of the summer when I don't want to go outside in the late afternoon and we can do art. We did do a shaving cream art project which went pretty well.
#5. Getting up on time: This went well for awhile. I love getting up on time. I'd like to get up even earlier and do a little yoga or something, but I've got to get back into getting up on time first.
#6. Staying in touch with family and friends: I feel like we've had some good contact with people lately. I'd like to call each of my grandmothers once a week. The Skype calls on Saturday and Sunday with our parents are going well when we are home.
#7. Prayer: It's just so hard as a mom and wife to focus long enough to pray. I suppose lots of people could say that, but this has really been the hardest time of my life for prayer. I have lots of spontaneous prayer moments when I get an email or hear of a prayer request from a friend or family. I'm hoping making myself rest and read in the afternoon will provide some concentrated time to fellowship with my heavenly Father in prayer.
#8. Serving my husband: Don't know how I'm doing here. I'm trying to give him a good birthday week this week. We had some friends over on Tuesday night, yesterday we gave him a CD and a Cliff bar snack, today I bought him some of his favorite Burt's Bees Peppermint lip balm, and Saturday will be breakfast in bed. I'll have to ask him how I'm doing and what I can do better.
Whew...now for projects.
#1. Ally's baby book: This is started! I am on the pages with her birth story and just have to put them together. I took a little break to do some sewing, but I'll get them out again soon.
#2. Catch up on photo albums: waiting until done with Ally's book.
#3. Wedding album: Nothing done.
#4. Garden: We have a compost bin! Well, a compost garbage can. :) I bought a Rubbermaid 32 gallon one, drilled holes in it, stuck it up on wood and put a couple of bungee cords on the top to hold the top on. We can roll it to mix it with the cords on. So far so good and less than $20 spent (thanks, Kate :) ).
We also got the garden built and the cage for the top. Tonight we made the Mel's mix (compost, vermiculite, and peat moss) and filled it up. Saturday we'll screw on the dividers (to make it look like a square foot garden) and plant Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Red Salad Bowl Lettuce, Winter Density Bibb/Romaine Lettuce, Bright Lights Chard, and Tyee Spinach.
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