One done, five to go...

Moriah finished 3 subjects in school yesterday!!!!  She had finished her math book a couple months ago and shortly after that her Explode the Code (reading/phonics program), and yesterday she finished spelling, grammar and handwriting!  It is exciting!  Gideon and Rebekah only have math left and only about 9 lessons each so they are next.  This time of the year is always exciting.  The end is near!  Spring is here!  It's been too cold and windy to work out in the garden but very soon we'll be working out there and free from school so we can get an early start! 

October Baby - In Theaters Now

 Jordan, Emily and I went to this movie last night.  We wanted to support our dollars toward a movie with some real meaning and be entertained and send a message that this is what people want in a movie.  It was a powerful pro-life message.  It was rated PG-13 and because of that the previews were not to be viewed by your teenage daughters but my girls didn't have to be told to turn away.   We enjoyed it and hope it does well in the box office.

October Baby - In Theaters Now

Happy Easter...

 Laners can walk all over now.  It was really fun to watch him!

 We were trying to get him to smile for us.  He looked so serious!

 The children under the blossoming apricot tree!  Lena can't leave the kitty alone!

Kevin and I.  My camera takes in too much light.  I can't figure out how to change that! 

Another market day...

 New Vendor at the Market!  Natural Crossroads Farms!  They had yummy looking caramel rolls and other good things for sale.  Emmy made some home made lefse! 

 The girls and I were working on the appearance of our table.  Jordan helped me come up with some labels and ways to display the jams and jellies.  We made a lot of bread and we took home a bit too much but the family is enjoying trying out some of the new ones I made this time, like, cinnamon twists, sweet potato bread, glazed poppy seed bread and a new cranberry nut.  I made a Swiss Cheese with minced garlic that sold out (all 3 loaves :)  The favorite this time was the Canadian Brown (an oatmeal molasses bread made with 100% whole wheat).  I made so many other new bread that I only made 3 of this kind and it was asked for time and again.  I know what to do next market.  The next market if the first Thursday of May.  4-7 p.m. in the Town Center Square.

 Emmy and Penny were in orange.  It looked like a picture moment to capture them!

Jessica makes different treats for the market!  She made cupcakes, cookies and some of those  bird nests with jelly beans in them.  Rebekah bought a bag and has been enjoying eating them. 

 My neighbors Jim and Darlene were there selling embroidered goods.  I'm sure she takes orders!  Beautiful work with her embroidery machine.  We had a good visit. 

 Signs of Spring!  Asparagus popping up in the garden! 

I wanted to try some strawberries in the high tunnel so I picked out Seascape, a day neutral variety.  If the information holds true, I can pick the blossoms off until July and we will have a good Fall crop of strawberries.  I'm interested in finding out how early they will  produce next year with some of the warm weather I have in the tunnel in March in April.  It's an experiment of sorts until we know what grows well in our area in the high tunnel.

Right now, lettuce is doing very well.  We need to get out and do some weeding.  A  hard part of the tunnel is working in it.  I don't have that much ambition to start gardening earlier than usual and all the stuff that comes with it; weeding, watering, pests, wind damage, etc.  We had to cover the tomato plants last night in the tunnel because they look like they got touched by the cold nights.  It looks like we are in for some colder weather next week so I have to be vigilant to get out there and check. 

Planting time?...

 

Gideon coming in with a bunch of eggs.  When we got home from the convention, the chickens were really laying.  We got 27 eggs the Monday after!!!  Since then we get from 19-24 each day! They get used up!

 Feeding time!  If the coop door gets left open at night we wake up to chickens everywhere.  Walk toward the coop and they will follow you.  They know it's feeding time! 

 I got tomatoes in the mail last week.  Here we are about to plant them.

 Beans came up in the tunnel while we were gone.

 Lettuce.  I wonder how long until we can eat it?

 Here is a nice looking zucchini plant!

 The girls were great help getting the tomatoes and peppers in the ground yesterday.

 We planted a string in the ground with the tomato plant.  Kevin is going to put posts in there and we will tie the strings up to conduit on top of the posts and keep tying the tomatoes up.

I have 9 pepper plants.  Seed Savers.org have beautiful plants and they came in such nice shape.  They let you pick the ship date so we could get them earlier than usual since we could plant them inside now! 

Not much...

Not much to write about lately.  We've been busy that's a given.  We just got home from home fellowship and when we travel so late at night I can't sleep so I'm working on my Azure order and other computer things I do when no one is around!  I like being up when no one else is sometimes.  We ordered tomato plants from Seed Savers.org and they came this week so maybe I'll be planting them in the high tunnel today!  It's back up to 110 degrees in there again and my spinach, lettuce, beans, beets and zucchini all came up!!!  I can't wait to be eating fresh picked veggies again.  I'll post pics later of those tomato plants.  They were so nice, much better than what I'm trying to grow in my little pots.