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Libbie
outstepping
157 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
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 Posted - Apr 10 2008 : 06:13:09 AM
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So, yesterday, I spent a few hours on the wilderness that I call Interstate-15 traveling to another wild place - a HOTEL - for some training sessions for our Town Council members. WOW. I'd forgotten howsmall my little town really is when compared with a "city" that's not too big, really, but just seems that way.
This morning, I woke up to a wake-up call instead of my rooster "Prince," or my little one's wonderful little "MAMA!!!!!" I can smell the hotel breakfast instead of my own cooking and I can't hear any birds. I've been gone for only less than 24 hours, and I miss the farm and the outdoors. This is lovely red-rock country where I am, but I'll be inside all day, listening to legal issues that our town might face, and how I, as an elected official, might help to handle them. It's interesting stuff, and necessary, for sure, but I have to say, where I'll be dreaming I am is hiking on sandstone with my boys, breathing fresh air and feeling the scratchy rock on my hands...
Have a wonderful day, you all!!! I'll "talk to you later this evening..."
XOXO, Libbie
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Apr 12 2008 : 07:56:22 AM
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Hi Libbie!
Did you get to go home for the weekend?
Isn't it amazing how things can really be put into perspective? I love my small hometown and going just a few hours away to the "big city" can be shocking sometimes. It starts to feel cramped and crowded. I am definitely a country/mountain girl! Give me a cabin in the woods over an apartment anytime!
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Libbie
outstepping
157 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 09:18:28 AM
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I hear ya'! I'm home now, and I'm not going back!!! Okay - I'm not going back until I need to for another training, I guess. I had a good time, but waking up today to birds, lambs, little ones saying, "OUTSIDE, mama, PLEASE OUTSIDE?!?!?!?"... It was just perfect.
I'm so glad to "meet" you, Elizaray! Where'bouts do you live - is it spring there yet?
XOXO, Libbie
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Apr 13 2008 : 5:27:44 PM
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I live in the Pacific Northwest. It is half-spring right now. Some days are spring and some days are winter- complete with Snow! Today it was late-spring with highs around 80! It's beautiful out!
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Libbie
outstepping
157 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - Apr 20 2008 : 2:18:09 PM
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Elizaray - I keep revisiting that statement of yours, "late-spring with highs around 80!" and I'm DREAMING of being wherever that's happening today! I love, love, love spring, and we have it here, but the past few days it's been about blown out of the valley by winds. I don't have much experience in the Pacific Northwest, but what I DO have says that it's just gorgeous up there. Lucky are we who live where we love, eh?
XOXO, Libbie
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Apr 28 2008 : 10:35:47 PM
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Uh yes, well this spring has the "spirit of Puck", me thinks. One day it is beautiful- open up the windows and is-it-too-early-to-turn-on-the-air-conditioner? And the next morning it is snowing. Some mornings I go out and have to break the ice in the dog dish (about a gallon bucket). FINALLY I have seen the first tulips- Along side a building that reflects heat and is a souther exposure. We are almost 2 months behind last year's growing season already. But I think Spring has finally decided to stay and is catching up for lost time with a vengeance. Leaves are erupting like crazy and the temps are steadily climbing!
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Libbie
outstepping
157 Posts
Anne E.
Elsinore
Utah
USA
157 Posts |
Posted - Apr 29 2008 : 06:58:56 AM
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The "spirit of Puck," is right! Spring keeps trying to stay here, and the lilacs have little bud-blossoms on them, but then we'll get a day of dark, windy cold and I start yet another fire in the fireplace! I think today's going to be nice, though. When I was outisde this morning doing animal chores, the air just had that feeling of "it's going to be lovely" today.
Today I have tons of garden work to do - planting some root crops and all. It really IS so late of a spring here, I've doubts about how the garden will be, but I'm still willing to give it a try, inasmuch as at the market yesterday I saw a CAULIFLOWER for just under FOUR DOLLARS!!!! FOR ONE CAULIFLOWER. Organic milk here has hit the SEVEN DOLLAR per GALLON mark here, too. I am so glad that I'll be breeding our cow this autumn and we'll have some "real" milk in the spring. It really costs less to keep and feed a cow than to buy organic milk. CRAZY. Okay, off the food rant. It's just market day for me, too...
Any of you doing garden work today? If so, what y'all planting?
XOXO, Libbie
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Apr 29 2008 : 07:43:45 AM
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Well I planted a few little tomato plants that are still huddling indoors right now. I am hoping to put them outside soon, but we'll see. They can't go in the ground this year as they will just barely be producing fruit about the time we move. I also have a few other experimental things but basically I am doing an indoor/patio container garden this year.
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Apr 29 2008 : 7:17:03 PM
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Yea!! I'm glad to hear you're sowing & growing a few goodies, Elizaray - I know it's vital to your spirit!! Did I ever tell you about the year that my hub & I rented this lovely old, crooked farmhouse in Missouri & planted a BIG, amazing garden? Yes, well, we ended up accepting jobs with the Forest Service back in Washington, so just as our veggies started sprouting up, we had to load our U-haul trailer and drive away, leaving our bounty to the next tenants....sure hope they got some enjoyment out of it!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Apr 30 2008 : 11:56:44 AM
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Oh! I had something similar to that happen to me once! We had a beautiful duplex that we loved right on the outskirts of town with lovely old growth trees and friendly neighbors. I had a huge garden that I had lovingly hand turned,planted and tended. Then our lease ended and the landlord decided that she didn't want to have dogs in her duplexes anymore. :( So off we went as my corn was just starting to put our ears and my carrots just about ready to harvest. :(
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
680 Posts |
Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 06:10:05 AM
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Let's pray that doesn't happen here! I have put up a greenhouse (I learned how in the latest MaryJanesFarm Magazine! How cool is that!) and I have plants in the ground!
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Jen
Expedition Leader
1384 Posts
Jennifer
Calico Rock
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 09:09:08 AM
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You didn't waste a minute, Elizaray! What a woman! We've moved on the cusp of gardening time before, and I've just gotten too bogged down in the transition to plant anew as I should have. I admire your...fruitfulness!
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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Elizaray
outspoken
680 Posts
Elizaray
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 11:03:35 AM
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I just don't feel complete without a garden. And a local garden supply store lost it's lease so they are selling off all their plants (Hurray for me! Sad for them!) at way cheap prices. I got 2 bell peppers, 2 banana peppers, 4 cauliflower, 2 egg plants, and 2 butter nut squashes plus a marigold...oh and an Ivy all for $11!! Can you believe it?
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