Back In the Saddle again!

I'm Baaaaack!  Can you hear the music....Aerosmith.....

Ok anyway....

Now that we've gotten thru the first of the year I can refocus on my kitchen, garden, and blogging!
Yea! 

Oh and did I happen to mention that I have lost 85 pounds since my last blog post.......  All on my own thank you very much.

Well I had planned this whole baking bread posts but the heating element went out on the oven-- SO
I'll just give you a run down.

We are putting a fairly large garden this year.  I wanted my herb bed to be ridiculously huge but decided to scale back since I'll be doing my soaps this year and have a couple festivals planned.

I have a membership to a seed savers club and get sent 5 packs of random seeds mailed each month.  I also had a $200 order in to Bakers Creek again this year.  They may be a tad higher on the packs but they are in my state and you cannot beat their shipping.

We have always been very happy with Bakerscreek and they are all open pollinated and GMO free.

We got the garden plowed a few times before our snow hit-  between 11 & 12 inches last week. Hubster works for MoDOT so we hardly saw him for nearly a week.  One of the nights he was gone I caught 2 guys seeking around the old farm house on the place - SCARED me to death.  grabbed my gun and hit the back door on a vengeance - scared the pee out of them I think.

 To put it pleasantly I had a very no nonsense approach with an extremely stern tone.......

 

Hubster headed out to get some wood

 

Big things planned - Milk cow calved today!  One of my Nubians should be kidding ANYtime - garden all planned out and seeds sprouting as we speak, Got a new camera and forked out the bucks for Photoshop 11 and 2 books to try and explain it all (we will see how that goes) If I could get my oven fixed this week it may actually be organized around here.

HAHAHA - who am I kidding I SCRUBBBBBED the house down Saturday and you cannot hardly tell today. Between home school, cooking, cleaning, and other everyday tasks its a mad house.  But its my mad house and I run the asylum - wouldn't have it any other way.


Oh and remember Seed giveaway is right around the corner!  Make sure you keep an eye out on our facebook page!