Baby Dreams

//Week 51//

Gardening Week 3

I was out of town for a week and my lovely husband baby-sat the plantlings for me. He did an incredible job and I came home to this--

Every single one of the plants have sprouted, and those tiny babies from week 1? Wowiw-wow-wow!--

Zucchini-ville, here we come! Today I took all of these little guys out onto the porch for a couple hours to begin "hardening" them to the outside weather. After about a week of increasing the time they spend outside, I am going to transplant them to the garden. From there, the hardest work should be over and I will just keep waiting and watering. I am so excited and Forrest is getting into it, too! Today we went to the store and got 15 more bags of soil and filled the garden up a tad more, just to be sure there was enough. Next week's update should be a lovely first peek at the outside garden box. Stay tuned!

Moo's Week

Playing in the backyard with Moo the afternoon we flew in.

//Week49//

Baba enjoyed sitting in the yard with you. I think it was the only way he could keep you from getting scooped up by Moo.

//Week 50//

Gardening Week 1

I decided to make a post each week about my rookie year at true vegetable gardening: seeds to kitchen! I had been working for a while on finishing my huge, 16x8 foot garden box and filling it with dirt, and now that my seeds have come in the planting phase has begun. I planted seeds for Jalapenos,
Cocozelle Zucchini, Sweet Spanish Onion, Sugar Baby Watermelon, Cherokee Purple Tomato, and Brandywine Tomato.

The layout is:

 W W     CT CT     O O

W W     CT CT     O O

W W      BT BT     O O

Z  Z       BT BT      P P

Z  Z       BT BT      P P

Z  Z      BT BT      P P

I am keeping a lamp over them to give them light and also to keep them warm. From what I have researched, warmth is especially important for sprouting jalapenos. Once they have sprouted well, I will "harden" them by leaving the tray outdoors for a few hours a day, and then finally transplant them (cardboard egg-pod and all) into the big garden! The only other plan I have for the garden box is to plant a blackberry bush, but I will purchase that one already grown up. If I seem to have more room once these are planted I will sprout another set and have two harvests! Yum yum yum. Next Monday I will skip because I will be out of town but after that, weekly photos! 

*crosses fingers*

Granmunner

//48//

We went to visit Granmunner today. You had the loveliest time playing with her necklaces all afternoon and we even made a good effort to let you pet the cows, but the horses intervened because they wanted to pet you instead. They did. 

Sleep Machine Review

     As you (yes, you!) might know from my copious-but-never-annoying Facebook updates, I got an amazing beast of a juicer for my 27th birthday! Well, technically my real birthday is Friday, but my hub is a gift-lover and couldn't wait. Love him. A lot.

     Anyhoo-- Back from my daydream about le stud. What you might not know, is that one other gifty came in the mail this week as part of my birthday extravaganza!

The Ecotones Sound Sleep Machine!!

     Up til now we had been using a massive box fan (which I found in a closet when I married Forrest) to create white noise. It broke last week, leaving us severely handicapped. We had to make due with a teeny fan that barely made enough noise to cover a snore, let alone lull Augie to sleep. This little guy came in the mail yesterday, and I am in heaven...or waterfall, depending on the setting. It is amazing. Slightly pricey, but who can put a dollar amount on the ability to stay up making noise and watching TV in a small house without your baby waking up in the next room, right? Some of the settings will never get used, but I really enjoy "brown noise". It is the white noise setting, with the "richness" button pushed twice. It is a lovely, low hum. In reality, it is almost exactly like "waterfall".

Absolutely delicious.

A+

Almost Spring

//Week 47//

The weather is getting more mild and we are going to plant the big garden this week. We already have a few herbs in pots, since they can be taken in when there is a freeze.

In other news, you started walking this week! Yay, Augie!!