What a Week...

My gosh I'm glad it's Sunday - it was quite a week. A few of the highlights:

1.  I finished expanding the garden bed out back and we spread a truckload of mulch
2.  Sleet, thunder, lightening, and snow all happened simultaneously
3.  Our plumbing backed up and flooded the laundry room
4.  School was closed for two snow days
5.  I got the car stuck in our neighborhood and we had to push it back to the house and into the garage
6.  We went to see Keller Williams play at George's
7.  I read two whole books
8.  Great turnout and a fun time at the Fayetteville Seed Exchange
9.  The crocus (croci?) are blooming

A few photos of the backyard (before the last week's snow), because it's way more exciting than a flooded laundry room:

 Before and after mulch - I was expanding this area to plant a cherry tree until I learned we basically have a utility super highway running through the back yard with gas, cable, phone, and electric lines all where I wanted to plant. The pink paint was my proposed line - everything else is marking underground utilities - yikes!   I'm going to have to find a new spot for a tree, but at least now this area is prepped and mulched and I'll probably plant tomatoes there later this year.

 Planted these sugar snap peas two weeks ago knowing it was a little early.  Despite being under snow most of last week, I'm hopeful they'll sprout this week.

Charlie makes sure I take plenty of breaks when working in the yard :)

I'm Back!

Holy moly it's been a long time since I've written a blog post - almost 3 years!  I just finished reading Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.  Although it was probably the worst book I couldn't stop reading, it did inspire me to start blogging again.  I wouldn't necessarily recommend reading it - unless you're into random ramblings with lots of curse words - or perhaps, like me, you want to be inspired to blog again.  Because, really, if that lady can publish a whole book based on her blog I can surely write posts more than once very three years.

It's going to take a little time to get back into this.  For crying out loud it just took me half an hour to remember my password and get logged back into this dang site!

After reading through my old posts, though, I think it will be good to start writing again.  Initially I started this blog to document and share my experiences on the farm I was interning at the time and then it evolved into just documenting and sharing experiences period.  My posts were not always well written (I can pretty much promise they won't be now either) and often highlight fairly insignificant happenings (like this one which pretty much just rambled on about how dirty I was most of the time -funny but quite random), but despite all this, I really enjoyed looking back at the photos and reading the posts.  I'm not sure I would remember everything that I wrote about at the time so I'm glad I have a record of it - like my "bucket list" from 2011 that I otherwise would have (mostly) forgotten about.

So here we are again - while this first post is basically about nothing, it serves as my recommitment to documenting the milestones and otherwise forgotten moments as a I wander through life (and, if my other posts are any indication, a record of what's growing in my garden at the time).

I'll post again soon with a real life update, but for now, thanks for re-joining the adventure!