Farmette

So, it's my birthday. Hmm, not sure how I feel about that, but it doesn't matter, it comes around every year with our without our permission. Birthdays were a lot more fun a couple decades ago, but I'm sure happy to be here, and enjoy my family, friends and life in general.

I'm pretty happy, I have lettuce, beets, spinach, peas and onions sprouting in the garden. Today I planted another round of them, plus some swiss chard and flowers. I thought it was a great way to spend my birthday. I also took the old Ford truck today. I'm driving the 4-wheel drive, 4 on the floor truck, down to pick up chicken feed and straw. Oh yeah, feeling like a farmer. Never mind that I live in the middle of town, it's a little town, and I have a little farm. So I'm not a farmer, I'm a Farmette!

Happy Spring!

Well, almost nothing is growing yet in my garden, and I'm getting quite annoyed! We planted almost 2 weeks ago, but then the temperature dropped back into the 70's. I know, still nice and warm, but it gets pretty cold at night still. I planted potatoes over the weekend, and they like cool weather, so hopefully that will start greening things up a bit. The lettuce, carrots, spinach aren't coming up, so I guess I have to replant them, darn it.

I've been working away at the Haines book, I'm going to post a couple of the family stories on this site in a day or so. I'm adding pictures of the family member where they are available, that was my sister Debbie's idea, makes it a lot more interesting.

Nic is working in Casa Grande this week for Fabtec, so David and I are left to our own devices. We had Dakota all day Saturday, and she wanted to go to dinner with us too! We went to the local NRA banquet, and she had so much fun. There was a Plinko game and Roullete wheel, she had a blast playing those. Dakota is so well behaved, it was quite fun to have her.