Anyway, despite the Colder Than A Welldigger's Butt weather right now,
Happy Spring!
Our garden is coming up surprisingly well, considering our yard is basically either quicksand or super-hard clay. But below is a pic!! I tried to type in labels on everything, but it's probably hard to see.
We're trying to grow blackberries. I also have a small raspberry bush (it's basically a stick with 9 leaves right now). Being from the mountains originally, we got spoiled on wild blackberries, raspberries & blueberries growing up. They grow wild at the edges of forests there, and you can usually find them at cemeteries, right by the trees. I don't know why people think this is creepy. Blackberries are blackberries, right? Even if they're slightly morbid. They don't taste particularly emo and depressed.
So in case you can't see, here are the labels of the garden rows from left to right:
- Okra
- Cucumbers
- Sugar Snap Peas
- Tomatoes
- Radishes & Salad Mix (same row)
- Squash
At the left back, by the fence, are the blackberries. There are more tomatoes in the raised bed at the rear right. And those are some tough tomatoes - they're from last year, so they survived below freezing temps and are still producing!
Since we can start our gardens so early here (mid February this year), we're already harvesting. Here's our first radish!
It looks perfect, and was so juicy! I ate it with veggie dip.
Noel had our first actual salad of the year, made out of the mesclun mix seeds that Mom sent (it has spinach, arugula, radicchio, etc.) and has a radish cut up on top. He was surprised at how strong the flavors of the salad mix are. I guess once you're used to the tired veggies we normally buy at the grocery stores, anything this fresh is bound to taste more...robust. He thought it was very tasty! And the salad is still producing, so we'll get lots more.
So that's our garden update.
In other news, we purged through some of our old paperwork this weekend. Um....is there any reason why we were saving tax forms from (wait for it) 1998!? Also, we found approximately 438 different appliance manuals. Going through them, we realized we only had 2 of the actual appliances still in our possession, and one of the was an iron, which I'm pretty sure I know how to work already. So. We had a bonfire.
Does anyone else have trouble managing the crazy amount of papers that everybody acquires nowadays? We keep trying out one filing system after another. And none of them actually seem to work. Well, guess we'll keep trying. Or just keep purging owner's manuals every 9 years. :-P
Although even though going through paperwork isn't the most exciting thing in the world, we did get lots of help. Of the feline variety. They are so helpful when it comes to searching the bottom of drawers to find old paperclips, and for keeping the Shred Pile warm by wallowing on it.
I call this photo: Sunny Samson.
It's surprisingly difficult to photograph any of these cats - as soon as I pull out the camera, they decide they must immediately clean their rear parts. A Kodak Moment, indeed.
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