Crochet Me Crazy

Seems that I end up making my blog post when it's time to go to bed...last night I ran out of steam so I didn't get to post pictures of the baby!

Mrs. Stables had to go out of town and she has a 3 day old kid that needs caring for so I brought this little guy home to spend the night.


I just got finished giving him his morning bottle and he's out in the yard keeping Gracie company now...



I also remember to take my camera to the garden last night when I went up to water....



Corn


Arugula is yummy! I picked some Oak Leaf Lettuce and Arugula for our salad last night...

Just been doing the usual routines since my last post. Animals, horses, working in the garden and running kids around.

Here's some pictures of the progress on the garden...




It's going to look amazing when we are done with it. The black stuff is weed barrier. After we get all the weed barrier down, there will be mulch over it.

We are using the "Square Foot Gardening" method.



I started on a rag rug I am making out of old sheets.



This is the method I am using for cutting up the sheets...

This Vintage Chica: October 2006

This is the method I prefer for cutting up T-shirts and pillow cases.

How to Crochet a Rug out of T-Shirts - CraftStylish

Today felt a little like old times. Jeff was off and we spent the WHOLE day working on the garden. We got a whole lot done today! We're a long way from being done with the whole garden but we've at least got the beds ready and full of dirt. We finished filling the beds with dirt and compost today and laid down the huge 12 feet wide sheets of weed barrier that is going between the rows.



I didn't get a picture from later in the day after the weed barrier was down. Mulch will be covering the weed barrier in between the rows. We also have some big tractor tires we are filling with dirt to plant in. Mrs. Grain has the whole thing invisioned and it's going to be beautiful. I'm doing a really bad job of chronicalling the garden progress with pictures. I'll have to get back down there with the camera tomorrow to show what all we finished today. Then, Alison went horseback riding with the Mr. & Mrs. Grain and Jeff and I came back to the house and cooked dinner. Jeff grilled some yummy hamburgers and I made potato salad and baked beans. It was a beautiful day today. We just got finished watching the movie, Hidalgo, that we checked out from the library (a horse movie, of course) -- lol. Now, I'm about to hit the hay.

I haven't crocheted in over a week now. I should get something going but I don't know what. I'll wait for some inspiration...right now, I'm in no hurry. We plan to make a trip to San Antonio at the beginning of April so I'll probably line out some projects before then and buy the yarn. I'm not sure I should start on that Blue Star afghan with life being as it is now. That would probably be a better winter project. I think I'll pick out something that's a little more easy going for now.

Things have settled down with my son for the time being but I've been so stinking busy. We have been working to get the garden ready. Most of the planter boxes are built. We leveled the ground and put the boxes in. We sifted through the dirt we had dug up with the bobcat to get all the weeds out of it. Alison and I have been spending a lot of time at the stables getting ready for Spring Break which starts on Saturday. Alison has been getting all the horses and grooming them and trimming their manes. I've been having trouble having time to get dinner cooked most nights! Tomorrow, is a trip to the grocery store. Next week will be even busier and it will be a primer for us for what the summer will be like. I'm going to be trying to work at the stables as well as get our work done out here. I guess we'll get it done...it can't be worse than last summer when we were working 7 days at the stables and getting our 24 hours a week of volunteer time in at the park. The park hours were a lot more flexible though. We could get those whenever we wanted. I'll try to check back in here soon!

What a perfectly boring day yesterday was! We got up and went to church, ate lunch, dropped Alison's friend, Phoebe, off at her mom's shop and then headed home with Michael's friend, Morgan. The boys did leather in the RV all day and Alison cleaned her room. Jeff slept ALL day in the $6 chair. We had the day off. I didn't do too much of anything. Went and layed on Alison's bed and watched her sort through clothes for awhile. We fed the horses peppermints through her bedroom window in the RV. I loved on my deer and checked Facebook and my blog like it was the empty refrigerator. I did a few rows on my afghan and made another hexagon. Hmmm....nothing too exciting.

Now, today was a different story! We spent today digging in the dirt! We are so excited to start working on the garden! Jeff dug up the dirt and smoothed it out with the Bob Cat.


I should have taken a "before" picture. There were tons of thistles in there. We have lots more work to do but we made a great start today!

I'm so excited...it looks like I'm actually going to get some tomatoes this year! We tried tomatoes last year but our blooms kept falling off and we never really got much. This year our okra and tomatoes are growing nicely!



Okra





Peppers