It's not that exciting

I should probably be making dinner right now, but I decided I'd do something else first.  This, specifically.  I seem to be coming out of the dregs.  Slowly, but surely.  And it feels pretty good. Things are sometimes still a little scary or sad, but on the whole, I feel much more like me.  Like I'm getting my rhythm back.  So in that vein, I thought I'd post about what I'd been doing around the old homestead like I used to do back in the day when I started this silly thing.

Garden update:  As I mentioned before, most  of my veg beds had pretty much died of neglect.  I was bemoaning their fate and the cost in time and money of having to rebuild before I could do any gardening to a good friend and she suggested just tearing them all out and going old school and just digging the whole damn thing up.  I thought that a grand idea and drafted my husband.  We got the beds smashed up, which was pretty fun, and then cut up (not so fun) and then all transported to the dumpster (not fun at all).  All that is pretty amazing, considering we usually start a project and ....yeah, it just ends right about there.  So, then the digging began.  By the hubs, of course, because he's awesome like that.  It's about a third dug, and I've started planting on the outskirts of the tilled areas.  I've got onions and peas in back there.  Around the east side of the house, I've got 3 potato bins set up and planted with red potatoes and then snap peas on top.  And I've got a bunch of volunteer lettuce growing in the "path" areas that I'm just gonna let grow.  I have 2 new peach trees, courtesy of some very good friends.  They are part of the fruit tree family that was planted last year.  A cherry, a plum and a pomegranate.  And some grape vines. And blackberries and raspberries.  That's what survived my neglect last year, and I'm pretty shocked anything did.

That's about all I have to report right now.  I am thinking that I would like to try a CSA again this year.  I haven't recruited anyone yet.  I've been so behind on everything, I thought I'd just offer it up as I had surplus.

Hoping this blog can keep me honest and accountable.  Homesteading, pioneering, off the grid-ing...whatever you call it, it's what I want to do more than pretty much anything else.  Practicing my old school home arts makes me just about as happy as a girl could be.  I can't let life steal my joy again.
 

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