WOW Everyone should look at this!!

This is the crib my father-in-law made for little Grace!! He made everything himself!! I can't believe how gorgeous it is!! And I get to pick it up soon!!!! I know Grace will LOVE her crib! I hope all you guys do too. Please let me know what you think, because I think he would love hearing about what other people think!

Bad News

Well, we've got some bad news...our corn went capoot...I hope I spelled that right...anyways. So for some reason, the corn didn't fertilize itself right, and so all of the corn that shows signs of being ready to be picked weren't even fertilized. So we've lost all our corn...darn. We are thinking the sprinklers knocked off all the powder too early, and so there was no chance for it to get to the corn when it needed too. We had just a few corns that were good...but today we picked about 5 that were ready and all were the same. So that's a bummer.. Next year, we might just nix the corn and do something that is more expensive at the stores. At Winco we were able to buy corn for 10 cents a piece...so we might just do that :)

Garden Update

Oh, I was just scanning the pictures of the garden that I have down there...and...that is SOOOO 3 weeks or so ago!!! All the corn is taller than my husband now, and powdering! And everything is just growing before my eyes!!! So don't think that's what it looks like, because it ABSOLUTELY doesn't !!!

I will put more pictures up soon...some day...when I can get off work and not want to go to bed... (I get off at 5)

Oh So Sad...babysitter needed...

Well, I just got inside from checking out my...our...garden, and I am sad to say that there are TONS of things growing...INCLUDING TOMATOES!!! I am sad about that because we leave in a week and 2 days for Montana, and my precious tomatoes and corn and peas and beans and assortments of squash will be needing picked and loved on, and I won't be here to do it...I am so happy to see that almost every tomato plant has at least one tomato, with the most being 5. But I'm sad about that too because Brad says they will most likely be ripe or past prime when we are gone...anyone wanna babysit? Someone who would be willing to shuck corn that's ready, bag it and freeze it. And then blanch ready tomatoes and skin and freeze those as well. Our freezer will fit everything...oh so sad that I won't be here!! I'm hoping the veggies will slow down so that they will be ripe a week after we get back!!! So if there's anyone willing to volunteer. There's also a small dog and cat that you throw food to one time a day :) Well, let me know if there's any volunteers! I would really appreciate it!! That way I know my plants are in good hands!! I mean...our plants... :)

Wow...canning is GREAT!!!

So, today my husband and I canned a bunch of stuff, and I have to say, it might be a lot of work, but the end result is WONDERFUL!! Today we canned the rest of our 13 bags of grapefruits, and with that we made 14 quarts of grapefruit juice and 4 of the 1/2 gallon jars of grapefruit juice. Then we did 3 quarts of green beans...we had 4 but one broke in the pressure cooker. And we also did 3 quarts of peas in the pod. So we did great today!! I enjoyed it!! We've already burned through 2 juicers...wow, either they are cheap or we worked them to death! Anyways, it was great to be able to do that. And all the food was out of the garden, which is even nicer because we feel like we are really living off the land. There are still tons of peas left, but they weren't ready yet. And we will have squash to can too...because our plants are all just taking off!! And we also counted cans today in our food storage, and we have 115 closed cans for food storage :) Yeah!! And 9 open cans... which are consisting of 3 open chopped onion...oops... So yeah, very productive day! My first time using the pressure canner, so that was interesting for me! Now I will know how to do it if I get the canning bug but the husband is at work!

Our beautiful garden

Here is the wonderful garden so far!! I am loving this whole gardening idea!! Oh, the joy of watching food grow, as well as your pockets with all the money you save from gardening! I am so glad that my husband enjoys gardening! And that he got me into it!