Spring

Wow!

What a crazy spring.

We had snow coming down until the last week of May, then, overnight, it turned into sunny days of 70F.  The extra moisture has been great for our drought. Not so much for our garden. Our growing season is so short anyway I’m afraid the loss of a month or so will prevent all our crops from ripening. Ah, well. Not much we can do about it.

Our cold crops our doing okay.  Peas are growing, onions and garlic are great. Some other things are poking up, but the quick change to heat may not be great for some of those cooler loving plants. Our third round of tomatoes and peppers are finally staying alive. Seeing how this is only our second year of gardening up here, we just don’t know what to expect.

Guess it will be a fun surprise.

Today

Today was a big day for us. 

Today was adoption day.

We finalized the adoption of our baby girl and we couldn’t be happier. She’s been a foster child with us for over a year so, in a way, not much is changing, but it’s nice that she’s finally ours. Nice that she now shares our last name.

Today was a good day. 

Mountain Living

Apparently the delivery driver didn't want to drive up our road anymore. He left two large boxes on the side of the road in a snowdrift.

They were for our neighbor, not us, but it makes me grateful there isn't much traffic on this road.

snow

So, we got a little snow yesterday....

That's a car under there.

Farewell to 2018

It’s the last day of 2018. I’m not sad to see this year go. It’s been a difficult one on many levels. I am a little contemplative today as I think over what has been and what I want the next year to be. 

As far as our beginning homesteading efforts go, I am pleased over all. 

We made our garden. Planted lots of plants. 

 Bottled over 150 jars of food. We also did some non-garden projects.   

We put in stairs up our hill. 

Built a big picnic table by the fire pit. 

Put a bridge over our stream 

 work in progress

All with wood lumberjack milled from trees on our property.  

 And built an enclosure for our garbage cans.   

As winter hit,  we’ve been doing inside things.  Lumberjack has built several shelves and many Christmas presents (including a rocking horse, and a rocking llama) 

We also have chopped and gone through over a cord of wood with these cold temperatures. We are keeping warm though, and are very grateful for our wood burning stove.

I have learned how to knit, but am still working on spinning. 

We have made great progress towards adopting our foster baby and even make progress on our son's PTSD.  

It's been a busy year. 

We hope to keep working and continue to improve as we start a new year with new knowledge and goals. 

Here’s wishing you all a great 2019.