Spring Clean-Up and a Birthday Girl




We've officially declared it spring around here - or at least the ground isn't going to freeze again season. The garage is cleaned out and the water is on, which makes it a much shorter trip with the hose to fill the waterer in the barn and the goats' pail. Val went into heat a few weeks ago, so it looks like Guy will be the daddy after all - we'll keep a wether and sell any does I guess.

Today Gi and I did some needle felting (I had brought all of my wool to craft night last night but opted for reading all of Avery's great craft magazines instead :) She made some beads for a button necklace she's currently sporting and I made a new plain wool pincushion since I gave my last one away. Then the girls and I cleaned up the front garden - the crocus are blooming and everything else is on its way up. I'm trying to be aggressive to take out any weeds and crabgrass that pop up - last year we hired help to take back that space and I'd like to maintain control. We put in a bunch more perennials since there was just so much bare ground there, and I'll move more in this year too. Perennial gardens are fine with me, low maintenance and pretty, and I'm not a fan of fussy flower gardens - it's already enough work keeping the market gardens going.

My first craft show of the season was a bit of a bust - what's normally a huge show had the lowest attendance I'd ever seen, but etsy is still chugging along. I lost the will to sew for a few weeks but I can't stay away from the sewing machine long - I found some great hand embroidered strawberry curtains at the antique store and cut them up tonight to make into a baby quilt. Carolina turned 1, and is running around the house like a maniac - definitely more of a mover and shaker then Georgia ever was. I can't blame her though - she has a big sister and two dogs to keep up with!

Once we get the chicken houses fixed up we'll till the first spring garden - I'd like to get the potatoes in over the next week or two, maybe the peas as well. The mesclun, radishes, and beets can wait a few weeks. Maybe plant a bed of kale too soon. We never ordered seeds - we don't need too many - but I need to get some more kale and mesclun, peas and radishes too. The busy season will be upon us soon - I'm treasuring these last few days of slow winter nights by the woodstove.

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Posted: Sat - March 14, 2009 at 08:24 PM        

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