Simple Woman Daybook, May 31,2011


FOR TODAY
Outside my window…a garden plot tilled, ready to be planted, partially planted, and because of the recent rain, little weeds sticking their heads up

I am thinking…this is my first entry and it’s kinda fun

I am thankful for…yellow flowers

From the learning rooms…oldest is girl43, boy 39, girl 32, boy 32, my baby girl  26, praying they continue to learn to follow God with their whole hearts.

From the kitchen…vegetable soup with spaghetti sauce as a base

I am wearing…jean skirt and t-shirt

I am creating…a baby quilt (pic below of progress)

I am going…to Bible Study in about 15 minutes

I am reading…The Widow’s Season by Laura Brodie

I am hoping…good reports from the Farmer’s medical tests

I am hearing…an airplane over head, and children’s voice as they gather for Bible Story Time.

Around the house…General stuff and watching day care child, Little Miss A

One of my favorite things…watch the sky as the clouds roll in

A few plans for the rest of the week:  more blocks put together for quilt, continue to trust in my Father for the unknowns in our future.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing…

A work in progress. . .

This post idea  is from “the simple woman’s day book, where every day is a blank page” http://thesimplewomansdaybook.blogspot.com/

Published in: on May 31, 2011 at 7:03 pm  Comments (2)  

Cozy Acre Garden 2011

Here are the beginnings of 2011 garden on Cozy Acres:
Last year’s plot being worked:

New plot ripped,plowed, rototilled:


Grape cutting nursery, from cuttings from grapes at Lincoln Avenue:


seedlings added, sprouts up in one week!



Carrots and mixed salad greens:

The shade nursery:

Are you ready?


Marigolds for the row ends

On your mark, get set, GROW!

Watering system, emitters at plant=no weeds

View from the deck:

May the Lord bless the work of the Farmer!

1 Corinthians 3
6. . . but God gave the increase.
7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
8. . . and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

Published in: on May 11, 2011 at 6:47 pm  Leave a Comment  

Cozy Acre Garden and tying tomatoes

http://thepioneerwoman.com/homeandgarden/2011/05/growing

For Ree, the pioneer woman

Last year the farmer retired and we had two gardens, one at home and one at the property  where we attend church. I’ll show pictures of both.
At the church garden before and working the soil:


Watering system and using grass clippings for mulch

Tomatoes

Squash and cucumbers, yellow lemon and Armenian He used field fencing to train vines on, it worked really well, no more crawling to find cukes

Tomatoes all staked up

The home garden has been working for 12 years, it was a beauty to behold. i can say that since I did very little work in it.
The beginnings (gazebo in back is my chicken pen)

Tomatoes

Cucumbers on welded wire


Tied tomatoes




Sweet 100’s

Ace Tomatoes

Romas

A good harvest

Our garden stand at home, I was knitting; ( we had a stand at the church property also, but no picture), selling was my job.

I hope these pictures showed what I was trying to say. We have found that this method of tying is the best and easiest.

Happy and productive gardening to each of you who happen to stop by Cozy Acres.   Leslie

Published in: on May 11, 2011 at 5:56 pm  Leave a Comment  

Spring on Cozy Acres

After two nights of the Farmer and I kicking off the winter weight comforter, I brought out a lighter weight blanket for our bed.

Someone laughed.

That night the delta breezes of Sacramento came blowing into the valley.  The Farmer came to bed and immediately turned on the heated mattress pad.

Someone is laughing.

A little while later, I heard ” Is there another blanket, I’m shivering?”

I got up and pulled the winter blanket out of the bath tub. (Only if you are a full-timer RVer while you understand that showers and bathtubs are used for many things besides showering and bathing.) The comforter was laid over the lighter weight blanket.

Someone snickered.

After the Farmer and I warmed up, he slept comfy and warm, I, on the other hand, tossed the comforter and enjoyed the lighter blanket.

Psalms 121:4  Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. (. . .but He might chuckle)

Published in: on May 7, 2011 at 7:47 pm  Leave a Comment  
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