And spring fever is coming upon me… I love this time of year nearly as much as fall!  Nothing looks very nice right now, but that will change soon!

The beds we put in last year are planted:

The fruit trees are mulched… sorry can’t get them all in the picture and still be able to see the mulch I worked so hard shoveling!

The garlic is peeking through:

And the soil looks much improved this year!  These are my potato beds.  See the stray onion left over from last year… that didn’t grow?  It’s growing now!

Today we have some company coming out to give us an estimate on bringing out a 12,000lb forklift and 2 man to man it.  Jim has started bringing equipment into his shop.  And ya’ll thought my QUILTING TOYS were expensive!

I get tired so easily anymore!  Saturday, Jim and I mucked out a pickup load (hey, in our defense we have a 2 ton pickup with an extra long bed!) of very wet and heavy horse manure/straw, then came home and by myself, I emptied it.  I used it and had just enough to mulch around all the trees in our little orchard.  That should give them some nice “food” this Spring!

Our fifty seedling trees arrived from the conservation department on Friday, and so we planted half of the pines on Saturday, and the other half today.  The pin oaks were not not specimens at all and we decided to not even bother with them, we only needed a few, and figured at least a handful of them would be nice, but that wasn’t the case.  The pines however, were lovely!

If we’re still here in 10 years, this place will look awesome!

If….

LOL

Yesterday was incredibly gorgeous, like the first day of Spring!  Sunny, bright blue skies, and about 62 degrees.  It just doesn’t get any better than that!  While I was waiting for my next adventure in life to arrive, I ground wheat, baked bread, whipped up a peach cobbler, and headed outside to trim back the asparagus and weed the garden beds.

Then I had to go around and inspect all the fruit trees, which look fantastic!  This will be their second year, and I hope they really take off!  I can’t tell how the blueberries are doing yet, all the little pine trees look great too.  Speaking of which, I have 25 more arriving any time now, plus 25 oaks.  In 10 years our front will be wooded!

Today is going to be nice again I think.  It’s time to start thinking about planting potatoes and lettuce, this year we can get them in the ground!  Last year, our beds weren’t ready in time.  I’m going to have to start making those awful decisions… play in the garden, or quilt!

I tossed a couple of chickens onto the smoker this morning, I’m running low on frozen broth and flecked chicken.  We had baby greens last night for dinner, topped with hard boiled eggs and smoked chicken, yummy!  Once the garden starts producing, I could live on fresh veggies and smoked chicken!