So, I guess I have neglected my blog since it has been 5 years since I have made a post. :/
I am still trying to get through school. Working toward my nutrition degree. I will have 16 classes left starting in the Fall this year. WhooHoo! I will make it eventually.  My daughters are growing faster than ever. My oldest is now 16 and driving, my youngest is 13. Teenagers are a handful. So, to say the least life goes on and time never stops. We did get us a new puppy on Mother's Day this year. She was 6 weeks old. She is a Great Pyrenees..she's small now, but she's going to be huge! I haven't done much gardening in the last couple years, but I plan to start back up this summer.  Oh, and my twin sister also got married this past March!

Thursday Fun!!

Thursday afternoon.....Veggies are FINALLY starting to show some progress in our front yard garden, which consists of 21 rows 100' long. Its awesome, but I know we are going to be terribly busy in just a short month or so.  Irrigation is a big issue at the moment...but thanks to the small swimming pond we dug, we were able to use a pump and a hose to suck the water out to irrigate the garden until it rains..LOL. Very ingenious idea on Daniel's part. :) So we walked up and down the rows....there were a few beans ready.  Then because we can't hold our anticipation, decided to dig around some potato plants.  We gathered enough stuff for dinner sides. I had to add some frozen corn and fried up some pork chops for the perfect dinner!!  Here are some pics! I can't wait until we are picking blueberries and stuff! I hope to lose that 25 lbs again this summer. I had lost weight gardening, just to break my ankle and gain it all back in 2 weeks. Sucky. But, today is another day!!

Front Yard garden: Notice: irrigation system..lol

My girls picking beans!

Beans and Potatoes from my garden!

 Here are a few books on gardening that may interest you:

FRESH HERBS!

I love my herb box!! Ok, so about two months ago, I was just having one of those days....you know what I'm talking about. So I decided to take a walk and check out my planter boxes.  To my surprise every thing had been butchered by the weed eater. :( Now my day just got worse! I had started that one rosemary from seed, and it was taking forever to grow, now it was chopped to the ground. Come to find out, it was the best thing for my herbs.  They are doing better than ever! I guess I finally realized you can grow all those things, but they also must be harvested and put to good use. I have all kinds of things this year...oregano, mint, rosemary, basil, chives, salad, sage, and cilantro. I plan on making some salsa when my tomatoes get ready! Mint is good to put in tea, or in a foot spa is awesome! If you've ever tried to grow mint...make room, because it spreads like crazy! Same with oregano! The oregano is going to be out of this world when I make spagetti, oooh, or garlic bread.

Always on a Diet

Along with my gardening, my new year's resolution is to cut back on some of my sugar intake. I haven't had anything sweet in a really long time. It seems anyway. lol. I am on a pretty regular schedule of playing racquetball once a week for now. I plan on incorporating some yoga in a couple days a week to go with my exercise schedule. let's hope that I can make the time until it gets warm enough for outside activities. I just get so bored with routine exercise.

Been a while....

About to get back to my gardening after a super hot/rainy summer...and now it's getting too cold to be outside. This past weekend my husband built me a customized greenhouse, it just so happened to be just my size. I will be filling it with seed flats so that my crops will be ready to sell on ebay and fill my planter boxes for our household veggies. I can't wait unitl February when we'll plant our Red Potatoes. Those little things are so yummy!

My garden

Ok, so I've decided that gardening is good for me. It's getting me back to my roots! First of all, I love the sunshine, I'm getting Vitamin D, as well as a good tan. It's a good way to increase family bonding and a fun way to exercise. Gardening is an overall way to increase anyone's quality of life.
I think I've become addicted to the outdoors. Watering is a must....If you know me, then you will know I tend to kill every plant that I've ever tried to grow...unless it only needs sunshine and little maintenance. Well, believe it or not I finally grew a green thumb! Although after shelling peas almost every day I had a stained purple thumb..lol.

I started with a few planter boxes, which I now have 11 of them all over the back yard. Two of which have a trellis to hold up the climbing vegetables.
starting my seed flats

I'll have more pics up later as soon as I upload them!