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2) quietly satisfied and happy (adjective).Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.comBlogger377125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-20476850436885257872013-03-15T13:59:00.002-06:002013-03-15T13:59:46.412-06:00March 15 Friday Farming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Crocus!</div>
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It's beautiful (though windy) out today. It's supposed to be 34 and snow on Sunday.Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-43330075342592875552013-02-27T14:06:00.002-07:002013-02-27T14:06:38.071-07:00Spring 2013?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
What does a girl say when she's taken an unannounced 6 month break from blogging? I was busy? I had a really stressful fall? My grandparents died? My boss abruptly departed? I had a baby?</div>
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Ha. I had a baby! In November! And she's fabulous, as indicated by the current state of things around here:</div>
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Tummy time is a bitch. </div>
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I start back to work full time on Monday and I'm really dreading it. Hanging out with these two has been a lot of fun. </div>
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In the meantime, it's apparently spring in these parts. Or, at least, near our south-facing front porch it is. The porch absorbs the sun's heat through the day and radiates it at night, creating a nice micro-climate. </div>
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The daylilly has some green in it. </div>
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These are crocus.<br />
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That is either hyacinth or alium. I'm not sure.<br />
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Even the daffodils in the east-facing drive way bed are popping up!<br />
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I'm looking forward to digging my fingers back into the dirt this spring. I have a whole litany of things I want to work on (sorry Dusty!). We're also helping my parents with landscaping at the lake and my sister with landscaping for the house she just bought (yesterday!). I'm using today's naptime to go through my box of seeds and decide what to plant in the garden this year.<br />
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It's not March yet, and I know there will be winter storms for at least another 8 weeks. But it's fun to dream!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-81725953489707033632012-08-13T19:27:00.001-06:002012-08-13T19:27:49.077-06:00August 10 Friday Farming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
What is it about August that always ends up being so... frantic? On July 1 I have nothing on my calendar for August. By mid-August, I'm struggling with insomnia and panic about getting everything done. This is ridiculous. </div>
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Anyway. Friday farming for last week.... Despite the hot weather, things are pretty lush around our here. We're also paying out the whoo-ha for water. If I were to relandscape, I'd definitely consider a more water-wise layout. But given the sprinkler system, we're pretty locked in to what we've got...</div>
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We have mushrooms growing in some parts of our yard, and dry spots 10 feet away. What gives?<br />
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Our Branden Elm tree. I love the shape of the branches and leaves.<br />
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Along the driveway.<br />
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I've started fall spinach and lettuce in pots.<br />
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The bee balm is looking pretty raggedy, but if I cut it back there will be no flowers along here. Nuts.<br />
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The mint continues to thrive.<br />
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The corner looks okay. The snapdragons need to be snapped back again.<br />
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The black eyed Susan has thrown up blooms.<br />
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And the jalepeno peppers are producing.<br />
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The basil seems to <i>finally</i> be coming along.<br />
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Bell peppers are producing.<br />
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The burning bush plant has gone white on top, which seems weird.<br />
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It's also getting red leaves at the bottom. It seems early to me, given our hot hot hot weather...<br />
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I think this is the last of the daylillies.<br />
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The lone front-porch pot.<br />
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The hanging baskets are doing okay. I wouldn't say they are thriving, and I still can't quite figure out how to make them go.<br />
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To the right of the stairs.<br />
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To the left of the stairs. Yeah, those pea pots never amounted to much, did they?<br />
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Eggplant blossom.<br />
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Dog!<br />
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More jalepeno.<br />
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Power box bed from the sidewalk.<br />
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And from the street. I do love this perspective.<br />
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The Autumn Joy sedum is taking off.<br />
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As are the sweet peas. I really need to figure out a better trellis for these things.<br />
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Daylilly.<br />
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Nicely camouflaged power boxes.<br />
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And from the side of the house. The daisies need to be trimmed of their dead blooms.<br />
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Hollyhock! These make me ridiculously happy.<br />
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A little profile action.<br />
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Oh my...<br />
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The farm.<br />
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Our tomato plants are monsters this year. They might end up being taller than I am!<br />
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Brandywine or Black Krim tomato?<br />
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Whole bunches of them...<br />
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You guys, I'm having a killer year of onion harvest. Which is surprising, since I planted these onions for the 2011 growing season...<br />
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Roma tomatoes.<br />
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Cherry tomatoes.<br />
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Carrots.<br />
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The tomato jungle. I think it's like 'Nam in there.<br />
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Spaghetti squash.<br />
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More hidden tomatoes. I think these are brandywine?<br />
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I... have no idea.<br />
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The squash invasion...<br />
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Look, a cucumber!<br />
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Zucchinis!<br />
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The pumpkin is making a mad dash across the fence and towards the school.<br />
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A pumpkin!<br />
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Spaghetti squash or pumpkin?<br />
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The farm.<br />
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Fern gully. I've been getting stuck in the hammock lately.<br />
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Blooming phlox.<br />
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Pholox blossom.<br />
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Overall, things are going well. I need to move a few things (phlox) and re-think some areas (to the left of the driveway), but our yard is especially lush this year. I'm craving more trees, probably due to the hot weather and lack of shade. I'll think about it over the winter and plot and plan my spring projects!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-29969904152343347262012-08-05T10:20:00.001-06:002012-08-05T10:20:05.522-06:00August 3 Friday Farming<br />
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Tragedy occurred when we were out at the lake. We put all the hanging baskets and planters in the flower beds, and rig our sprinkler system to water them. One of the water spigots fell out of the basket and in 7 days the plants were DONE. So now we have one beautiful planter and an empty one. Is it too late to plant fall annuals? What should I plant?</div>
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The remaining pot is gorgeous though!<br />
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The sugar snap peas did okay in pots in the front. Not terribly well, but also didn't get eaten by gophers. I'm not sure what the answer is for where to plant peas. In the mean time, this fall I want to move the pots and dwarf plant evergreens where the pots are.<br />
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Daylillies!<br />
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Gladiolus planted right in front of the daylillies. Oops, tactical error.<br />
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The top leaves of the burning bush are starting to turn white, which happens before they turn red in the fall.<br />
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Jalepeno peppers.<br />
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Black eyed Susans.<br />
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Looking down the driveway. I still am bothered by the lack of color on the right. The daisies are dying out. I think I want to sneak an Autumn Joy Sedum and purple coneflower into the beds.<br />
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Since I'm pregnant this summer, the mint plant has grown out of control as I'm not using the leaves for mojitos.<br />
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The bee balm is on it's last legs. It's starting to look a little ratty. You can see that I've planted fall lettuce, spinach and other crops in pots.<br />
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One of the Autumn Joy seedums that's having such a hard time getting going.<br />
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Fern Gully.<br />
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Blooming "twist and shout" hydrangea. I'd still like another hydrangea across the driveway, under the trees.<br />
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Under the hammock.<br />
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This poor little plant is a phlox. And it's totally overgrown by irises. I need to move it somewhere else, after it's bloomed this fall.<br />
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There is a second phlox near the steps to the deck, also overgrown with irises.<br />
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The back yard. The hollyhock make me stupidly happy.<br />
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And I'll be damned, that hosta blooms?<br />
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Hollyhock blooms.<br />
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We need to plant something around the north side of the garage. Maybe hostas since it's a nicely shaded area?<br />
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In the garden my hot wax peppers are growing well.<br />
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Due to our hot weather, pretty much everything is growing well. Our friend Joe nailed it when he said "next year I'm planting the tomatoes on the south side of the house as shade trees!" No joke, these things are belly-button high on me. And I really expect them to keep growing until early October.<br />
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I planted squash at the end of the bed. The squash is trellising through the chicken wire and totally just exploding right now. It's kind of fun!<br />
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I think this is a pumpkin!<br />
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I can't tell if this is a spaghetti squash or a pumpkin.<br />
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Cherry tomatoes. RIPEN UP DUDES!<br />
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Brandywine tomato.<br />
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Zucchini. I already have three zucchini bread loafs in the freezer and a dozen zucchini bread muffins.<br />
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I mean seriously, check this shit out.<br />
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Back around the other side of the house... The fountain grass is exploding.<br />
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The power box bed looks pretty good.<br />
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Daylillies.<br />
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Sweet peas!<br />
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From the street.<br />
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To the left of the steps. Yeah.. the hanging baskets are pretty scraggly again. Not sure what to do about that.<br />
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These irises are ridiculous. Who needs/ wants irises?<br />
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Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-52240350423991294522012-07-29T19:45:00.003-06:002012-07-29T19:46:14.509-06:00Coming this fall, to Bozeman, MTDJ made a little movie...<br />
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... yep. I'm having a baby. In November. In under 100 days (holyshitbreathethroughapaperbag).<br />
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We've been pretty quiet about it for a variety of reasons, but the last, a long-anticipated visit from DJ's high school friend, was this weekend. DJ has been waiting since late February to point to me in front of his friend and friend's wife and say "look what I did!"<br />
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I am married to a 12 year old. But he's pretty funny and talented too.<br />
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I'm not certain how much of this blog will shift to baby-related stuff. Hell, that'd mean I'd actually have to write stuff here, huh? This spring and summer have been so very busy that I just... I don't know that I have time!<br />
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In the meantime, I'll get the Friday farming pictures up shortly :)<br />
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<i>I had this as a draft in my folder; I'm not entirely certain why it didn't publish last week. Nuts. </i></div>
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Once again, I've had the photos for this post uploaded since Friday morning, but am taking until Tuesday night to actually type the words. Yowzer, this summer is flying by. </div>
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Here's the view from the front porch. </div>
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And again, from the street. </div>
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From the other side.<br />
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The power box bed. You'll notice the area to the left, which DJ sprayed out the other week. I could not keep the grass out, so we've laid down a defensive perimeter of Round-Up.<br />
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The Autumn Joy Sedum is throwing up blossom heads.<br />
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The first of the sweet-pea blossoms.<br />
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Looking towards the street.<br />
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And down the porch.<br />
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To the left of the steps.<br />
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Daylillies!<br />
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To the right of the steps.<br />
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More daylillies!<br />
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The gladiolus are sending up blossom stems.<br />
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Black eyed Susans are blooming. It seems kind of... early, doesn't it?<br />
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Along the driveway.<br />
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Corner of the house.<br />
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Snapdragons!<br />
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Herb bed. Those garlic are about 5 days away from being harvested.<br />
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The lupine and delphinium are still blown to pieces.<br />
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And this little Autumn Joy Sedum is just not going to take off this year. I'm not sure what to do.<br />
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Raspberry bushes.<br />
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OMG you guys, fresh raspberries? AWESOME.<br />
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Fern gully.<br />
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Twist and shout hydrangea.<br />
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Annabelle hydrangea.<br />
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Daylilly!<br />
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The driveway area.<br />
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Clematis in the back yard.<br />
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Blue delphinium.<br />
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My hollyhock is finally blooming!<br />
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Another Autumn Joy Sedum that is just not thriving.<br />
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And finally, the farm.<br />
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We have a lot of tomato blossoms right now.<br />
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And random squash.. I'm really not certain what I planted where when it comes to squash this year.<br />
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I'm guessing this is a spaghetti squash?<br />
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Cherry tomatoes.<br />
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Jalapeno peppers!<br />
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Carrots.<br />
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Zukes!<br />
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And lastly, the harvest for the week. Garlic, raspberries and lettuce.<br />
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I've been pretty good about taking the photos on Thursday night or Friday morning. And I've been pretty good about uploading them to Blogger on Friday. </div>
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Our front porch is pretty lush right now. </div>
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Along the driveway is doing well.<br />
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The daisies are just starting to bloom and the gladiolus are poking up.<br />
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Holy moly you guys. Raspberries. Blowing my mind. So many raspberries. I have a bowl of them with yogurt every day. I kind of want to try making sorbet.<br />
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To the left of the driveway.<br />
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The herb bed. Lavender, oregano, chives, mint and garlic (which is about to be harvested).<br />
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Bee balm! For the first time, it really looks good. It makes me happy.<br />
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Such an interesting looking flower.<br />
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You can see that the lupine and the delphinium still haven't recovered from the wind. And that all the soil pep has blown out of this bed again. I told Dusty the other night that I'm going to slowly fill this bed in with big rocks. And next year I'm going to put these two plants into loops to provide support.<br />
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Fern gully.<br />
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Blooming twist and shout hydrangeas.<br />
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Dog and husband.<br />
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More lavender.<br />
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Daylilly (with dog hair).<br />
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Happy dog!<br />
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Trellising clematis.<br />
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Delphinium.<br />
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Hollyhock is growing.<br />
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The farm is coming in okay.<br />
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The squash in this corner is going to be squished.<br />
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Gopher hole!<br />
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I have no idea. Pumpkin? Or... spaghetti squash? But I thought I didn't plant spaghetti squash this year?<br />
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So the gophers ate the tops off of all of the carrots. Bastards. Meh, the carrots will be fine.<br />
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I have sad news to report. Wally the Watermelon didn't make it. I'm not sure if it was lack of water or too much fertilizer applied directly to the leaves. Bye bye Wally.<br />
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The tomatoes are thriving in the hot weather of late.<br />
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Tomatoes! I think these are cherry tomatoes.<br />
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Farming.<br />
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Back around front, here is the view of the power box bed from the house.<br />
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Something weird is going on with this daylilly. It has a bunch of stems with blooms on it, but the blooms are snapped off leaving this. What gives?<br />
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More bee balm (ignore the weeds please).<br />
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The front of the house.<br />
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I kind of want to plant a flowering tree to the right of the sidewalk, to balance the one tree we have out front. But... it's pretty close to the water line. And it would totally mess with the existing landscaping.<br />
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To the left of the steps.<br />
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Daylilly!<br />
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On the front porch.<br />
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To the right of the steps, as you face the house. Weird how the aster is totally different this year...<br />
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To the left of the stps, as you face the house. See the garlic?<br />
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You've probably noticed by now that Harlow is excellent at photo-bombing photos. She has recently acquired another skill: getting stuck under the bed during the night. She'd sneak under there as a puppy, but then we got a new, slightly lower, bed, and she couldn't fit as easily. She hasn't lost any weight, just learned to slide on her belly more, I guess. About once a week we wake up wondering where the dog has gone...<br />
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We've had a rash of warm weather, in the 80's but fairly cool at night. Unfortunately, we've also had wind, which spurred wild fires to the west of us.<br />
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But the heat seems to have done the plants well. I'm pretty certain that Wally grew this week.<br />
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All of my tomato plants have blossoms on them.<br />
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Check out the bumper crop of rogue cilantro. It's the weirdest thing. I have cilantro and a few random onions that over-wintered...<br />
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Tomaters in cages.<br />
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The squash are starting to leaf out as well.<br />
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And the back deck, with a side view of the trellised clematis.<br />
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Because of the heat I've been watering for about 20 minutes extra in the garden every other morning. It seems to keep things moist. I'm spreading grass clippings in the garden again to retain moisture. The compost bin is doing a great job breaking down things.<br />
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Anyway, back to the garage bed. The lupine are done as is the lilac. The holly hock is growing.<br />
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Hollyhock!<br />
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Curious plants, aren't they?<br />
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Another dianthus, which survived last week's wind storm.<br />
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Clematis buds, out of focus.<br />
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Lillies.<br />
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The kitchen bed is doing well. I'm still amazed by how prolifically the irises multiplied from las year to this year.<br />
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Check out my potted broccoli! I didn't know broccoli got so big!<br />
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I have no idea how close it is to forming broccoli heads...<br />
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The lavender at the base of the irises is blooming.<br />
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Kitchen bed.<br />
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The daylillies have shot up bud pods (I don't know what the real term is).<br />
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Although the Annabelle hydrangea looks a little raggedy, it seems close to blooming.<br />
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The twist and should hydrangea is also close to blooming.<br />
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The remnants of the romaine lettuce. We had big salads for dinner last week.<br />
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Fern gully.<br />
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The driveway bed.<br />
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Man teh lupine and dianthus took a beating in last week's wind storm.<br />
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The bee balm is holding on. DJ kindly changed the sprinkler head here, so I'm hoping to avoid the powdery mildew this year.<br />
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I have no idea how close they are to blooming.<br />
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The herb beds. Garlic behind, with thyme, oregano, chives and mint from left to right. Check out the scapes on the garlic!<br />
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Raspberry bush, which is sending up shoots left and right.<br />
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So close to being ripe I can almost taste them!<br />
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Daisies in the driveway.<br />
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The corner of the house.<br />
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My snapdragons.<br />
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The front yard bed.<br />
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My daylillies are throwing up additional stems to bloom from.<br />
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Peas! The gophers didn't get them this year!<br />
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Front entrance.<br />
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Hanging baskets.<br />
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I can't wait for these to keep filling out and spilling over the pot.<br />
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To the left of the steps.<br />
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From the other angle. Check out the garlic scapes!<br />
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The daylillies to the left of the steps are sending up blooms.<br />
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Peppers on the left and eggplant on the right.<br />
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Power box bed.<br />
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Bee balm.<br />
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Autumn Joy sedum.<br />
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Russian Sage.<br />
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I think I need to slide those daisies over. They crowd the fountain grass.<br />
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So there she is. Doing well, I think.Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-20910937872913857302012-06-23T12:43:00.001-06:002012-06-23T12:43:28.801-06:00June 22 Friday FarmingAgain on a Saturday. It was incredibly windy yesterday and any photos I shot would have been too blurry. It's calmer this morning, but It's going to be a warm one.<br />
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The front view:<br />
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I think I've mentioned my dissatisfaction with this little triangle between our driveway and the neighbors. I popped a few gladiolus bulbs in there this spring. We'll see how they do.<br />
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Along the drive strip.<br />
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Raspberries! I really hope these come in at a time when we're home, instead of at the lake.<br />
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Front corner.<br />
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Snapdragons on the corner.<br />
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Peppers in pots.<br />
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More peppers in pots.<br />
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Last fall I attempted to transplant a bunch of this aster to the right side of the driveway. For whatever reason, it definitely didn't take. And in the mean time the aster is all wonky. It looks like a 13 year old boy's facial hair. Some here, some there, not really enough anywhere. Oh well. I'll lop the top half off on Sunday to encourage more blooms this fall.<br />
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All kinds of stuff.<br />
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The daylilly is having a hard time competing with the irises.<br />
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I have some peas on my plants!<br />
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Daylilly buds.<br />
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Pepper on the left, eggplant on the right.<br />
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I always think the bulb things that irises form are weird.<br />
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The daisies are close to blooming.<br />
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I also need to trim back the bloomed-over salvia.<br />
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Check out my romaine lettuce! We had salad for dinner last week.<br />
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I love sneaking edibles into a landscape; check out my garlic here.<br />
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The hanging baskets are starting to drape over.<br />
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You can barely see the power boxes. Well, except for the one to the right. Here's the deal with this bed... it's actually supposed to have another 3' or so, to the edge of the sidewalk. But the grass from the lot next door creeps over. So DJ sprayed it out last week and I'll work on getting new plants in there this fall.<br />
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Again, daisies about to bloom.<br />
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The front corner of this bed as it "presents" to the street leaves a little to be desired right now. The sweet peas take a while to get going, and then by the end of the summer they flop over.<br />
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Check it out, I didn't kill the Russian Sage in between the power boxes. In fact, I wonder if by cropping it back I encouraged it to spread laterally this year?<br />
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Dog!<br />
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Along the garage wall.<br />
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Lillies.<br />
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Clematis.<br />
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Delphinium.<br />
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This has been one of my favorite views this spring/ early summer. I usually don't like pink, which is why it's pretty absent in our landscaping. But this pink lupine and light purple irises at the same time make me happy.<br />
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I love how some of the lupine is a darker pink and some lighter.<br />
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Veggie garden is getting going a bit more. I was less ambitious this year. After last year's total onion crop failure, they didn't make the cut. It's all tomatoes, zucchini, pumpkin, cucumbers and a watermelon.<br />
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Stick!<br />
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And, of course, some rogue cilantro that came back from last year. Weird.<br />
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The tomatoes that I started from seed have blossoms on them.<br />
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Carrots!<br />
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Meet Wally, the watermelon.<br />
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Tomato blossoms.<br />
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Giant sunflower.<br />
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The kitchen porch. Notice that we stained the deck last weekend. It looks great!<br />
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I forgot to water the broccoli.<br />
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This is some phlox, stuck behind the irises. It's totally stunted and I need to move it somewhere else.<br />
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The irises have died off.<br />
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Fern gully.<br />
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So I mentioned the wind at the end of this week. For some reason any direction of wind whips against this side of the house, destroying the plants.<br />
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This poor delphinium was about to bloom.<br />
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I found an old laundry hamper cage in the garage about 24 hours into the windstorm, and tried to stake the delphinium. We'll see how she recovers.<br />
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Bee balm, irises, mint and chives.<br />
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How are things in your garden!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-1793254775577122452012-06-15T20:46:00.002-06:002012-06-15T20:47:00.882-06:00June 15 Friday Farming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Well, here we are at June 15 already. Man, that's nuts isn't it. Check out our welcoming porch! We put plants in the hanging baskets and in the pots a few weeks ago, and they're starting to get going. </div>
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The irises in the front yard are starting to die out. I finally got around to trellising the peas.<br />
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The snapdragons in the front corner are about to bloom. You can see the chives in the background leaning out into the drive aisle.<br />
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And then my photo taking-was interrupted by hooligans.<br />
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(I think there was some nose-to-scrotum) action with this).<br />
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Anyway, here we have thyme and oregano, with garlic behind.<br />
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Mint!<br />
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Bee balm. I'm hoping to get a bloom from them this year.<br />
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Irises down the side and in the rear are doing well.<br />
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Check out my crop of raspberries. Man, I can't wait for these things to come in!<br />
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Overall, not bad. The area to the left of the drive aisle needs a bit of work. There should be something blooming, right?<br />
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The lupine is dying out.<br />
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I'm not sure what's going on, but it's all droopy and sloppy and whatnot.<br />
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But apparently delicious for bumble bees!<br />
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Fern Gully is absolutely rocking it compared to this time last year.<br />
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This giant-leafed hosta seemingly popped out of no where.<br />
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It has cool leaf texture.<br />
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Hydrangea.<br />
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Nice spot for a book.<br />
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Broccoli!<br />
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Back out front, more snapdragon love.<br />
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Jalapeno peppers.<br />
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My spinach is going to seed.<br />
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Trellised sugar snap peas.<br />
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To the left of the steps too.<br />
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Eggplant. We'll see how it does.<br />
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The whole she-bang.<br />
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Some romaine lettuce. Through a combination of less gophers (we're not sure why, but they seem less abundant in the field behind us this year) and putting the greens in pots where the gophers have a hard time getting to therm, I've actually been able to eat SALADS.<br />
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The power box bed.<br />
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With some sun flare. You can see that I finally trellised the sweet peas too.<br />
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More bee balm.<br />
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Irises.<br />
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Russian sage, down there between the boxes.<br />
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Autumn Joy sedum. I really need to pull grass from this bed.<br />
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So Dusty picked himself up a project a few weeks ago at the nursery. Meet "Wally;" the watermelon. Wally is being babied until Dusty feels comfortable transitioning him outside. I'm hopeful.<br />
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The garage bed, which is always a bit more unruly.<br />
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My lilly split! There is usually just one.<br />
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Hollyhock growing.<br />
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More lupine, in pink.<br />
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Splitter lupine?<br />
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A bit washed out, but I was trying to shoot into the sun. The lilacs are finally blooming.<br />
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And finally, the veggie garden.<br />
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Which pretty desperately needs to be weeded.<br />
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Tomatoes need to be staked this weekend.<br />
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And lastly, the compost bin!<br />
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How are things in your garden?<br />
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Anyway, here we go with a June 1 Friday Farming update. </div>
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Curb appeal:</div>
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See that little triangle to the right of the driveway? I'm making it my mission to give it some life over the next few years. This spring I popped a few gladiolus bulbs in there, and they are starting to come up.<br />
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The driveway. For some reason my plants to the right of the driveway just don't seem to thrive.<br />
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Except for the raspberry bush, which is absolutely exploding this spring.<br />
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It's even sending up shoots to the sides. We might dig these shoots up and try to transplant them to the lake (don't tell my dad).<br />
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To the left of the driveway is doing well.<br />
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Especially the lupine, it's HUGE this year!<br />
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I'm hoping to get blooms from the bee balm this year, and avoid the powdery mildew from the last few years.<br />
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My garlic, thyme, oregano and chives are doing well. I may actually cut the herbs back this week and run a bunch of them through the food dehydrator to dry off.<br />
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To the right of the porch. I need to clean up the debris from my spring bulbs. The snapdragons on the corner seem to be doing well.<br />
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I transplanted the jalepenos outside.<br />
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The spinach is doing well. I need to plant another round of it in another pot.<br />
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I transplanted a bell pepper plant.<br />
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The irises are absolutely HUGE this year. Check out our little midge burning bush; it's growing so slowly!<br />
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Again, the irises dominate.<br />
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Cilantro!<br />
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I really need to trellis the sweet peas.<br />
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They're trying to use the irises as a trellis...<br />
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The power box bed is lookgin good.<br />
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Here are the last of my starts. The larger tomatoes have actually left the house already, and were given to our friend Joe for his garden.<br />
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I've still got a tiny flat trying to start zinnias, larkspur and another round of marigolds. Oh, and regular and purple basil. With as much as I love bruschetta, I might need to start even more basil.<br />
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Let's see, I also transplanted the eggplant.<br />
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The garlic here is really doing well.<br />
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Garage bed. The clematis is the same height it was at the end of last summer, and has two main vines going up. Progress!<br />
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At the bottom of the clematis are two lillies. Check out the bloom buds on them!<br />
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More lupine.<br />
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Our lilac is about to bloom, I think.<br />
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And the farm. Note the large compost bin we bought in the background.<br />
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Zucchini? Pumpkin? one of the two...<br />
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I don't think these cucumber transplants are going to thrive...<br />
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Tomatoes and zinnias. We need to figure out how to trellis the tomatoes this summer. Last year's flimsy little trellises just didn't cut the mustard.<br />
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Giant sunflowers.<br />
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Zucchini?<br />
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See the carrots poking through?<br />
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You may have noticed that we brought the chicken wire back this year. We don't expect it to keep gophers out, but rather, to keep neighborhood cats and dogs (including ours) from trampling things. The gophers have been surprisingly absent this spring too. Not sure what that's all about. Either way, I've only planted things in the garden that the gophers have not been interested in eating in the past.<br />
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The kitchen beds.<br />
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Broccoli co-planted with lobelia.<br />
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Hydrangea.<br />
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Fern gully.<br />
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So, there she is for June 1. How are things on your end?Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-69821945252585350402012-05-22T07:00:00.000-06:002012-05-22T07:00:08.207-06:00Return trip to the Palouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
My grandma Joyce Mae Druffel Heitstuman passed away on May 6. The call came from my mom about two hours after we pulled into the driveway on our return from Pullman for Gretchen's graduation. She'd <a href="http://www.courtneyscontent.blogspot.com/2011/03/bell-curve.html">ill for a while</a>, and though she'd rallied in the past from a similar medical situation, she wasn't up for it this time. I'm quite certain that I'll miss her the rest of my life. </div>
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Due to some crazy logistics, I ended up flying back to Spokane on Wednesday, hanging out with my sister, and then going down to Colton on Friday. Where, in true Colton fashion, I was soon drafted into moving farm machinery with my dad. They'd had a wet spring and couldn't get into the fields until the second weekend in May. It was a frantic race to get so many things done. </div>
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My cousin Blake had to instruct dad on hooking things up. </div>
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What, you've never moved farm equipment during your bereavement leave?<br />
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My chore at my grandmothers house was to fluff her garden beds in advance of the post-funeral open house. Remember my post from yesterday saying I needed to expand my color range? Yeah... my grandmother seemed to get it right. Check out her raised beds:<br />
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One interesting thing about my Whitman County family: they don't mulch their garden beds. I don't know why? I suspect it has to do with spending the money on mulch? That they'd rather have to hoe the garden than spread mulch? Or have to water daily since water evaporates more quickly? Either way, it's a mystery to me. </div>
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In addition to spring bloomers, she had an interesting variety of sedums and succulents worked in.<br />
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Though the weather was beautifully spring-like the four days I was there, it did get cold at night. So cold, in fact, that my dad and uncle raced out of the house at 10pm to drain the water from a piece of seeding equipment in fear of a freeze. Good thing they did; it got down to 23 degrees. Down to 20 out at my grandma Jan's farm. Check out the difference between these two plants; the one against the foundation made it and the more exposed version didn't.<br />
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In a really funny twist of fate, my childhood friend Sarah is dating a wonderful guy whose dad is from Colton. Jeff's dad graduated with one of my dad's brothers. It's a small world. Since they'd have a place to stay, and since Sarah knew my grandparents well too, they came over for the service. It was very sweet of them. Sarah got to see my dad's mom, Grandma Jan.<br />
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There are more stories to tell, of course. I'm still processing it in a major way. I'll miss my grandmother, but I'm relieved that she's out of pain. It was nice to have a chance to visit with friends and family, and nice to be in Whitman County on such a beautiful spring weekend.<br />
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The irises in our front yard, especially along the front porch, have exploded this year. The darker purple are from the lake and the lighter a gift from my friend Shannon when she split hers.<br />
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I'd never really known much about irises, other than these were free from my parent's lake place. Free is good. And I LOVE them!<br />
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They are HUGE; bigger than the bushes we have planted along the porch.<br />
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I think all of the plants along the south-facing porch benefit from how the cement retains heat through the night. These plants are far and away ahead of others further from the porch. The lilac bush in the back yard hasn't even bloomed yet.<br />
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Potted sugar snap peas.<br />
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The daylilly has looked like this for a few weeks now; buds, but not moving towards blooming. Maybe it realized that daylillies aren't supposed to bloom until late July and it is only mid-May?<br />
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Raspberry bush.<br />
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I think I ate 3 raspberries last summer. This year there are so many blossoms that I think we'll be eating them for a while!<br />
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Driveway beds.<br />
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The lupine is about to flower.<br />
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We'll see if I can coax blossoms out of the bee balm this year.<br />
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Kitchen beds.<br />
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I love how this fern uncurls every year. I want to plant more of them!<br />
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Sticks are delicious.<br />
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Out back the veggie garden is progressing. I ran out of room inside for starting tomatoes, and decided to chance it with putting mine outside. I've got Roma, Cherry, Brandywine, Early Girl and Black Krim in the ground so far. We'll see how they do. I also planted a couple mounds of zucchini and pumkins, as well as a carrot patch.<br />
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I also added marigolds and giant sunflowers.<br />
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The clematis is slowly climbing its trellis. I think I might get more out of the hollyhock this year too.<br />
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A biew like this out of the back yard is pretty hard to beat.<br />
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And finally, I put the broccoli in a pot with some lobelia. Hopefully the gophers won't be able to get into the pot...<br />
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After Memorial Day weekend we'll fill the rest of the pots and hanging baskets around our house.<br />
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A couple of realizations: pretty much everything blooming at our house right now is purple. I apparently don't like pink. Or yellow. Or orange. Or... any other color. I need to work a bit more variety into the landscape.<br />
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We also really need to re-stain our back deck and touch up some white trim around the house.Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-65356386713207853822012-05-08T19:56:00.001-06:002012-05-08T19:56:40.173-06:00May 4 Friday Farming (05/08)So yeah... things got a little away from me last weekend. We went to Harrison on Wednesday night en-route to Pullman for Gretchen's graduation. Arrived back on Sunday. Finally getting a chance to load last week's farming pictures!<br />
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The best part about gardening? Free bedside flowers (please ignore the dust):<br />
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The marigolds have blossoms on them!<br />
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More tomatoes.<br />
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Outside, the pink, yellow and red tulips are coming in.<br />
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The whole bed is filling out a little.<br />
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Including my Autumn Joy Sedum.<br />
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Same with the porch beds. I am amazed at how much the irises have filled in.<br />
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As you can see, the alium and the irises are about to bloom.<br />
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Romaine lettuce starts.<br />
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Salvia close to blooming.<br />
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Irises.<br />
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More irises.<br />
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To the right of the door.<br />
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Daylilly buds. This throws me a little; they shouldn't bloom until like mid-July...<br />
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Spinach!<br />
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Corner muscari and daffodil, with snapdragons coming in under them.<br />
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Driveway bed. From bottom to top: garlic, oregano, out of control chives, irises, bee balm, lupine.<br />
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Bee balm.<br />
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Lupine.<br />
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Dianthus.<br />
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The raspberry sticks are coming along.<br />
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not too shabby, overall. Pretty much everything is crowded near the foundation, which is okay for now. The shrubs will fill in eventually and have more of an impact. I would like to do something more in our boulevard or along the sidewalk someday.<br />
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More tulips, a mix of light pink and yellow.<br />
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Fern gully is slowly coming alive.<br />
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Hosta.<br />
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I'm just going to say it with every post; I didn't kill the hydrangea!<br />
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Along the kitchen beds.<br />
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The back bed. This is the kind of shabby garden area. Also, nice dog pee spots, huh?<br />
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Clematis.<br />
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Lilac.<br />
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Forsythia sticks. We'll see if they actually grow into the ground.<br />
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The garden bed.<br />
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No sign of asparagus again. I'm not so sure the asparagus experiment is going to work...<br />
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May 15 is the last frost day, and then we're planting into the ground!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-20298024093962564462012-04-28T11:23:00.000-06:002012-04-28T11:23:23.273-06:00April 27 Friday Farming (on Saturday)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Unless we want to talk about spring bulbs surviving Winter Storm Warnings.<br />
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And dogs with snow on their noses.<br />
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Another 2 days of sunshine and I'd have a lovely bouquet of tulips.<br />
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Muscari.<br />
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Aspen trees and leaves.<br />
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The farm started out on the porch this week, to enjoy the 70 degree weather. And now they're back inside indefinitely. I need to split the tomatoes from their 4-in-a-pot configuration and give them more space.<br />
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Hopefully the weather will be better next week!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-49569443978574419542012-04-22T16:41:00.000-06:002012-04-22T16:41:00.078-06:00Crazy Dog<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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We are right on the cusp of my favorite time of year. It's like the week before Christmas right now, but with nice weather as the payoff!</div>
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I mean really, could our back yard have a nicer view?</div>
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The garden area needs to be roto-tilled before we get going.<br />
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We'll probably remove the boards and re-terrace the area.<br />
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Things are starting to really green up!<br />
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Lilacs have buds on them.<br />
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The Hollyhock is popping up.<br />
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Clematis is sending up two sprouts.<br />
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The driveway bed is starting to look lush. </div>
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Dusty's Fern Gully is slow to take off every year.<br />
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But things are popping up.<br />
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I didn't kill the hydrangea!<br />
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Muscari, Irises, and the lot.<br />
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The tulips and alium under the aspens are up and growing.<br />
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The crocus is starting to die out.<br />
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Back in the driveway bed, the lupine is really taking off. </div>
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Bee balm, with muscari in front, is also doing well. I need to figure out how to keep it from getting the powdery mildew it had last year.<br />
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Muscari.<br />
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Helper Dog!<br />
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Hyacinth.<br />
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Dead basil (I don't think it's coming back), garlic, chives.<br />
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The corner bed, with hyacinth, muscari, and snapdragons under the muscari. And irises, of course.<br />
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Across the way, the raspberries are really coming in this year. We need to stake them.<br />
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Out front, we have a nice landcape bed and a random assortment of "sticks" (construction debris from the house next door) brought over by Harlow.<br />
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A midge daffodil!<br />
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Stonecrop.<br />
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Spinach in a pot.<br />
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Sugar snap peas in a pot by the front steps. Funny story; I thought I planted the peas in pots on each side of the steps. I'd swear I did. And yet, they're only sprouting in this pot. Digging in the other pot reveals nothing but dirt. Wonder if I forgot to plant the other pot?<br />
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More muscari.<br />
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Tulips!<br />
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Dog!<br />
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It's fun to see this garden bed before the grasses take off and swallow it whole.<br />
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Daisy.<br />
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Daylilly and more crocus.<br />
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There is a lot to get done this weekend:</div>
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<li>Weed the grass out of the flower beds</li>
<li>Stake the raspberries</li>
<li>Transfer the tomato starts to bigger pots</li>
<li>Flip the compost pile</li>
<li>Roto-till?</li>
<li>Re-seed the sugar snap peas</li>
<li>Plant the sweet-peas</li>
<li>Continue working on getting rocks up against the black tar wall in Fern Gully</li>
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And, of course, it's supposed to be in the 70's this weekend!</div>
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<br />Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-49214627182777123032012-04-13T10:06:00.000-06:002012-04-13T10:06:43.463-06:00April 13 Friday FarmingHappy Friday the 13th!<br />
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DJ and I sprung for a new camera last weekend. Nikon D3100, plus a telephoto lens. We're excited, though obviously still have a lot to learn. Thus far we have 87 photographs of the dog.<br />
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I took the new camera out for a spin around the house this morning. I'm still getting used to things, and will surely improve, but <i>daaaang,</i> this camera takes nice photographs!<br />
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We had a really mild winter this year. In fact, I'm not certain that the ground really ever froze solid. I know I turned the compost pile a few times over the winter. I don't think it helped much, but it indicates temperatures generally above a hard freeze. The spring has been similarly mild and sunny.<br />
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The front porch beds are coming in nicely.<br />
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It bums me out that the blooms on the hyacinth get smaller every year. Any idea how I could help them be their fluffy selves? Or should I be re-planting these every year?<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As is the Salvia. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj77bClAZSb4nSy9DCkXg6V0DkYEaeJSWti8yLkrF8LNfdiwxu-NCn_mpkdqjUiyzx76TUfE6Fn902vks2H1RdOeS28uO8PYF32RYJMqZNEm-ny7aZzksS0a5vyVw-Up9v20myqazuy2UE/s1600/04.13.2012+028.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj77bClAZSb4nSy9DCkXg6V0DkYEaeJSWti8yLkrF8LNfdiwxu-NCn_mpkdqjUiyzx76TUfE6Fn902vks2H1RdOeS28uO8PYF32RYJMqZNEm-ny7aZzksS0a5vyVw-Up9v20myqazuy2UE/s640/04.13.2012+028.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
This is a fun picture. It shows you how much I love bulbs and perennials. In the front are daffodils, which might bloom as soon as next week. Next back is the daylilly, which I expect to bloom in late July- August. Behind that are irises, which have just exploded this year. They should bloom mid-June to mid-July. Behind that are allium, which should bloom in May or so. Nice little succession of having color by the front steps!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The driveway bed is one of the places I'm hoping to see vast improvement this year. You'll notice that I've stacked rocks against the ugly black tar area along the foundation. Muuuch better. A LOT of work, but much better. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCW-0ZHENkgl8M3lR5V_IUX1dkkWSkRRYU2AsSbtQUK8p39dAGHDNGDNKX5japytdgk4JY7iaqDMFAZy2vQNWqu6uZMUqRlR6fl4rVQCyuFy_ZTLm2tklFa0MjPGnO_DDaNMa-ZgcGF8/s1600/04.13.2012+007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCW-0ZHENkgl8M3lR5V_IUX1dkkWSkRRYU2AsSbtQUK8p39dAGHDNGDNKX5japytdgk4JY7iaqDMFAZy2vQNWqu6uZMUqRlR6fl4rVQCyuFy_ZTLm2tklFa0MjPGnO_DDaNMa-ZgcGF8/s640/04.13.2012+007.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div> The garlic is up. By comparing to last year, it appears the garlic is almost a month ahead of it's 2011 growing season!<br />
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The oregano came back.<br />
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As is the mint.<br />
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The chives, of course, are out of control. We're having baked potatoes this weekend, and then I need to find other chives recipes! I'm going to transplant a chunk of the chives and mint to the lake, so that we can have mojitos and fresh chives for baked potatoes through the summer.<br />
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Further back, the perennial flowers are coming through.<br />
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Lupine.<br />
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Dianthus.<br />
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Autumn Joy Sedum. I'm hoping this will take off this year. Last year, I planted cosmos in front of it, and the lack of sunlight really hurt the plant.<br />
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Across the driveway the raspberries are leafing out. Building a sort of support system with stakes and chicken wire is on the to-do list this weekend.<br />
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Over in the power box bed, things are coming up. Well, a lot of grass is coming up; weeding is on the to-do list this weekend too!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Crocus are blooming. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlFRO3LZsfHy1b-ehETVzurxfsmd4Q-LvmAot89oBc8RcronNX2kLAlPWNjd6cVCxYBPOqhsPhgumWrXaHQImojKaWjhWzpGByQAVYsuDmsN_nizwgrqqszi6RWSWG_k7lT-CA2uRUcQ/s1600/04.13.2012+004.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzlFRO3LZsfHy1b-ehETVzurxfsmd4Q-LvmAot89oBc8RcronNX2kLAlPWNjd6cVCxYBPOqhsPhgumWrXaHQImojKaWjhWzpGByQAVYsuDmsN_nizwgrqqszi6RWSWG_k7lT-CA2uRUcQ/s640/04.13.2012+004.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div> You'll note that I cut all the perennial grasses back a few weeks ago. I got a little overzealous with the clippers and lopped off the Russian Sage too. Right after the snip, I realized the mistake I'd made. I'd cut back most of the blooms! Dang it; I probably set the plant back years! I am still learning.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">More Autumn Joy Sedum. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSsKYwgZEzcjNsCbfnVwlZPYSeUHDYt_hzt6OvMVrqL1YjN2_YKDnv1FXSFkbqCHUUG7cHAPFpBfkKCMkqjLsyeUer9JBIt38UlByIx14mmJJI6eC1dATdtn2Xrh9FtVbSeQAjytH3r4/s1600/04.13.2012+027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhSsKYwgZEzcjNsCbfnVwlZPYSeUHDYt_hzt6OvMVrqL1YjN2_YKDnv1FXSFkbqCHUUG7cHAPFpBfkKCMkqjLsyeUer9JBIt38UlByIx14mmJJI6eC1dATdtn2Xrh9FtVbSeQAjytH3r4/s640/04.13.2012+027.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
In the back, along the kitchen beds, things are moving more slowly. First, you can see we haven't gotten the rain barrel out yet. You can also see that I haven't completed the rock-stacking project to camouflage the black tar on the foundation. And, since this area doesn't get a ton of sun in the day, things are sprouting at a slower pace.<br />
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I will always worry about the hydrangeas. I unwrapped them a few weeks ago, and though it hasn't been terribly cold while they've been exposed, they're also not showing any signs of life. I'm sure they'll be fine, once exposed to sufficient sunlight.<br />
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Across the driveway my tulips and alium are sprouted beneath the aspens.<br />
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Same with the crocus.<br />
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This garage bed is kind of rag-tag. A lot of bulbs, perennials, a clematis, none of it doing much yet. The lupine is up, as well as the tulips, but past that... not much.<br />
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And now for the real farming area; the garden. We talked about roto-tilling this weekend, but given the rain this week it's still too wet. We're also discussing reworking the terraces, dealing with the barbed-wire fence and figuring out how to delineate the garden area from the lawn.<br />
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We do have mystery plants out there though. Is this perhaps an onion that failed last year?<br />
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Inside, I'm enjoying the results of a grow lamp!<br />
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DJ wanted cucumbers; I've never grown them but have visions of trellising them over the back fence this summer.<br />
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Jalapenos have sprouted.<br />
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The beefsteak tomatoes are doing well.<br />
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As are the marigolds. Just to the bottom of the picture you can see the failed attempt to start cosmos inside. I'm not sure what happened, but that flat will probably be given over to growing more marigolds for companion planting.<br />
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I tried to start lobelia inside, with mixed results.<br />
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We have a couple varieties of tomatoes, including Cherry, Black Krim, Brandywine and Romas. I really liked the Juliet tomatoes last summer, and might pick up a flat of them at some point too. One thing is for certain; we need to figure out a better system to stake the tomatoes on. The little tomato cages from last summer were just insufficient!<br />
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</div>So, lots growing on (did ya catch that?). This weekend I need to weed beds and figure out where things will be planted in the garden. I'm having a hard time visualizing how to move things around to avoid planting tomatoes where the potatoes grew last year, or where the tomatoes grew last year. It's a complex dance, isn't it. I do know that we won't plant croockneck or spaghetti squash this year. We just don't eat it.<br />
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All kinds of fun things to think about!Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-37933946179690837622012-04-01T19:55:00.000-06:002012-04-01T19:55:15.351-06:00I'm alive. So is DJ.Man, what a busy spring we're having. Work is... work. Personal lives are humming along, sometimes over full. The class I'm teaching is going along swimmingly; I've enjoyed it so very much and I hope they offer me the opportunity to teach again. Fingers crossed!<br />
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In the mean time, we seem to be in the throes of an earlyish spring.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i>March 26</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYKUnvqnL-PZYXbPMleZeMgvV0ZnTLgzpk9Gjd-N0E_qrmDZoRUcuGe4JRlyT20PXeSfUsWa-C8Vh_sC0nOCHvBJCa4RfUPdhmnHeSFgtHZbsAyalQLXiDRYsAHBWcMu-ihqJ7cOV6Ms/s1600/03.26.2012+001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYKUnvqnL-PZYXbPMleZeMgvV0ZnTLgzpk9Gjd-N0E_qrmDZoRUcuGe4JRlyT20PXeSfUsWa-C8Vh_sC0nOCHvBJCa4RfUPdhmnHeSFgtHZbsAyalQLXiDRYsAHBWcMu-ihqJ7cOV6Ms/s400/03.26.2012+001.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
I've even started plants indoors, like a big kid. Five varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, marigolds and lobeilia and cosmos. Next weekend I think we'll rototill.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Sorry, terrible Blackberry photos.</i></div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-46583792197718725732012-03-08T07:42:00.000-07:002012-03-08T07:42:45.094-07:00Do you see what I see?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAX6MsbtOy-0zO5vzSl2TR262QXP8TaPY10HARopiY7efSBX0OurgG7No1YizWjS3ZwaYfNNwvRGt1LWROY97lud5v89EHgkbaHLpQkZVSOqXisFWMcscprv8sAzUJtCcnoO1LQWRMgWw/s1600/03.08.2012+001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAX6MsbtOy-0zO5vzSl2TR262QXP8TaPY10HARopiY7efSBX0OurgG7No1YizWjS3ZwaYfNNwvRGt1LWROY97lud5v89EHgkbaHLpQkZVSOqXisFWMcscprv8sAzUJtCcnoO1LQWRMgWw/s640/03.08.2012+001.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br />
I think its a tulip? Or maybe a hyacinth? Time will tell!<br />
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We've had a really mild winter here this year. I don't think we've had a true blizzard; never socked in, only used the snow blower once. I'm not sure what gives... which Nina is it?<br />
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Either way, it's March 8, and things are starting to move around here. It's supposed to hit 50 degrees today, and 59 by Sunday. Too bad I won't be around to enjoy it... I'll be in FLORIDA with my mom, before we meet my sister for a CARIBBEAN CRUISE! Yeah... I'm excited. Also: self conscious about how pasty pale I am.Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-54199777842855807092012-02-10T13:49:00.000-07:002012-02-10T13:49:50.233-07:00Everything I wantedToday is payday #2 for me! I finally received my first adjunct professor-ing paycheck, and it's a bit larger than I'd guessed to boot. I'd do a happy dance, but the moolah is being combined with our tax return to pay off our credit card. THAT calls for a happy dance, hopefully by this time next week we will be consumer debt free!<br />
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I'm in a good place right now. Working hard, definitely. Struggling to manage my time correctly and achieve everything I wanted, for sure. But still, doing well. Upbeat and happy with life. I came across something this week which is apt:<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><i>Damn it's a lot of work to have everything I ever wanted.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br />
</i></div><div style="text-align: left;">I laughed when I saw that line. Its certainly true! I've told DJ a few times that I'm really enjoying the right now as well as daydreaming about the future. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">We're headed over to Jackson Hot Springs near Dillon this weekend, in search of snow to cross-country ski on. Though it is actually snowing today, we've been snow-free for the vast majority of the winter. It's the weirdest thing. So we're GTFOOT (Getting The F Out Of Town) for a bit and exploring an area we don't know much about. Looking forward to it. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">And with that sunshine and unicorns update, I'm off for the weekend. Happy Friday :)</div>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-85822902175317383242012-02-04T07:58:00.000-07:002012-02-04T07:58:27.671-07:00Early February, Early Mornings<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Whooooooooowwww</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Its now, what, 4 weeks into this full time working/ part time teaching thing and I am... Tired.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here's the routine for a week: up at 6:15am every day, shower, to the office by 7:45am. Work through the day till 4:45pm, when I dash out the door to the gym. Exercise for an hour, then home for dinner. After dinner is devoted to working on class lectures and slides.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've found that I can't lecture without a slide show. Talking about history, especially historic built landscapes is such a visual thing. So lecture preps bounce back and forth between searching for the image I want and fact checking what I want to talk about.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've probably spent an average of 6-8 hours on every lecture. This is the first time the course is being taught, so I'm totally building it from scratch. And because I wasn't sure what I'd want to change after a few weeks, I didn't plan lectures or slideshows very far in advance. So its a lot of work.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I knew it would be a lot of work. Its work I enjoy, really, but it's been a bit of a relentless grind building this thing. Even something like a lovely surprise weekend from my sister can throw my whole "things to get done and when to do them" schedule off.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And every week I seem to fall into a pattern of totally nailing the Tuesday lecture, walking out feeling on top of the world, and then falling flat on my face for the Thursday lecture. Or vice-versa. Its unnerving and confidence-killing. Nothing to do but get back on the horse though. Especially since I'm getting paid to do this.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">DJ has been awesome, absolutely awesome about giving me time to work on class stuff. I've neglected housekeeping, demanded he turn off the light by 9:45pm so I could go to sleep (oh the irony!) and generally demanded that all things fit my schedule. He's made dinners, hung out with the dog and kept the house stocked with toilet paper.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And I have a wonderful sister and friends, did I mention that? I turned 29 on Tuesday. And Harlow turned 2. In advance of the birthday, Gretch drove over from Pullman and Ali drove down from Helena for a Chico Hot Springs afternoon and Livingston Saturday night. We stayed at the Murray Hotel (awesome historic hotel across the street from the train station), had dinner at the rib and Chop house and then did a Livingston bars lap. The most entertaining portion of the evening was walking into the Mint Bar and finding it FULL of hipsters. HIPSTERS. In LIVINGSTON. That.... Was unexpected. With their serious black oversize glasses and serious conversations.</span><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dusty made a delicious dinner of salmon, mashed potatoes, garlic bread and broccoli for my birthday. I received flowers, cards and phone calls. It was a nice, low key day. Which is my style for birthdays. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This weekend is packed with getting my poop in a group. Writing the handout for the paper my students have due at the end of the month, prepping this week's lectures, prepping some AOII stuff for the annual Corporation meeting at the end of the month. Budgets, agendas, membership, etc. I'm good at that end of the organizational spectrum, I hope. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And with that, I think I heard the coffee ding that it's ready. Time to get to work!</span>Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-5027027751757938372012-01-23T09:17:00.000-07:002012-01-23T09:17:26.730-07:00On becoming my mother<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My mom is a pretty neat lady. She's got her shit together, handles stress with more grace and generosity than I do, and is just generally a good person. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I still cringe at some of the things I teased her about growing up. Especially how cheap she could be. Friends who make fun of DJ and I for our "cold" (64 degrees) house should remember that I'm descended from the same woman who "heated" her house to 57 degrees in the winter because she didn't want to pay the heating bill. The same woman who had her house on the market for $500k+.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But I digress. I teased my mom mercilessly for her janitor-style key ring.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And now I have one too. Let's count the shit on my key ring, shall we?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ol><li>Car fob</li>
<li>Car key</li>
<li>Gym fob</li>
<li>Key fob for AOII</li>
<li>Key to office at MSU</li>
<li>Key to classroom at MSU</li>
<li>Key to office for the City</li>
<li>Key to room where my Board meets</li>
<li>Key to our house</li>
<li>Key to the lake house</li>
<li>Mailbox key for our house</li>
<li>Mailbox key for my parents house</li>
<li>Key for my parent's house in Bozeman (which they sold last month) (I think that's it)</li>
<li>Key to my bike lock</li>
<li>Some other mailbox-like key... I have no idea what its for.</li>
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Obviously the keys to my parents now-sold house can go. But how about the keys to the places I only go occasionally? Keep them on a separate key ring? Which I'm more likely to lose? Or leave at home on a day I really need my damn keys?<br />
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Is my key ring another indicator of being an adult, with adult responsibilities?<br />
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And how long before DJ starts making fun of me mercilessly?Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-4021548162889813562012-01-21T09:37:00.001-07:002012-01-21T09:39:56.884-07:00A slow Saturday morning...Wow, what a week. Especially for one only four days long. But I made it; we made it through.<br />
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My lectures for class this week were... a push. I can't discuss history without starting at the beginning, which meant the geology of the northern Rocky Mountains. Suddenly on Monday night I'm cramming about igneous and sedimentary rocks. It was a little nuts.<br />
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Nonetheless, I achieved what I set out to this week. Gave two decent lectures. Was up at 6:15am each morning, and in the office no later than 8am. Avoided "double dipping"; working on class lectures while at work for the City. Knocked out a couple of important projects at work.<br />
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By Friday DJ, and probably the doggie, felt a little abandoned. I barricaded myself into the office on Tuesday and Wednesday nights this week to prep lectures and basically ignored them. DJ has been a very supportive husband while I try to teach this class, which I appreciate so very much.<br />
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We celebrated the end of a trying week with a great dinner at Over the Tapas; goat cheese-filled croquettes, bacon wrapped steak, lamb sliders and a steak salad. OMG, we may have a contender for new favorite restaurant in Bozeman. The best part was leaving without feeling that we needed to unbutton our pants.<br />
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From Tapas we went to Lowes to pick out tile for the fireplace, a project which is <i>finally </i>happening next weekend. I'd still rather tear out our entire mantle and put in built-in bookshelves and a smaller mantle, but I'll compromise on just finishing the damn thing.<br />
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Upon arriving home, I poured a whiskey drink and got in bed with a book. DJ watched "Gold Rush" (yeaaaah, the quality of television ranges widely in our house). By 10:00pm the lights were out and I slept wonderfully until 6:30am, when my internal alarm when off. It was nice to snuggle in our warm, comfortable bed for an hour while thinking through gardening plans for 2012.<br />
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Now I'm in the office with a cup of coffee. DJ went downtown to meet friends for the Saturday morning coffee date, but I stayed home to enjoy a quiet house. I'm giving myself until noon, after which I'll start working on lectures for the next two weeks.<br />
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How was your week?Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1594809904151131058.post-76627622900023427352012-01-16T20:46:00.000-07:002012-01-16T20:46:52.425-07:00A busy three day weekendI spent pretty much all day today preparing my lecture notes and slides for class tomorrow. The kicker is, I still don't have keys to my office, keys to my classroom, or any certainty that I can turn on the projector in the classroom. I know I can turn on the computer, but I didn't test drive the overhead projector when I as in class last Thursday. Foolish of me, since I've now spent 10 hours or so prepping this lecture.<br />
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This week, especially tomorrow's lecture, will be a little tricky. It's a subject area I don't know well, so I've had to do a lot of re-learning over the last 18 hours. I think I'm good to go.<br />
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In an effort to wind down and sleep at night, I'm making myself stop working between 8 and 9pm tonight. I'd originally hoped to have all the lectures for the week completed by 8pm on Sunday (Monday, this weekend since we had today off for MLK), but chose to not miss out on the Moonlight weekend instead. C'est la vie; I can work on the lectures Tuesday and Wednesday night. And Thursday's subject area is much closer to my knowledge base, so it shouldn't be quite as much work.<br />
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I keep reminding myself of the advice a fellow adjunct in the History department gave me: "Contex, contex contex; why is this important, why are you teaching this to students?"<br />
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It's been a busy weekend. DJ's mom worked in Helena last week, and will work in Butte this week, so she stayed with us through the weekend. I worked until 5pm, then ran down to grab dinner with DJ and Michelle. After dinner friends picked me and my cross- country ski gear up so we could say in Moonlight for the weekend with our wonderful friends the Kuntz'es. We've nabbing a weekend at Moonlight Ski Resort since <a href="http://www.courtneyscontent.blogspot.com/2010/03/moonlight-weekend.html">2010</a>, and I think it's one of my favorite weekends of the year.<br />
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Saturday morning we fought hangovers and ventured out for some cross country skiing at Lone Mountain Ranch. It was wonderful to get outdoors in the sunshine, mountains and with wonderful friends. DJ and I need to do this a bit more often.<br />
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DJ and Michelle came up on Saturday afternoon while we skiied. It was fun to show her the amazing "mountain home," and have her get to spend some time in the mountains with us. DJ made great home made pizzas for dinner, served tapas style. Mmmm, that man of mine, he's one heck of a cook!<br />
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Saturday morning we wolfed down breakfast before heading down the mountain to Bozeman, a snowstorm, and lecutres and slides waiting to be compiled. I've been in the office of our house since about noon on Sunday compiling information to share with my students.<br />
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It looks to be another difficult week in terms of management of expectations and time. Hopefully I can keep getting up early, making it to work and being productive! At this rate, the spring will fly by.Courtneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13240245137875368097noreply@blogger.com0