I'm sorry...so sorry...

For the extended hiatus from blogging...life sometimes smacks you upside the back of the head (think of SA Gibbs on NCIS)...

We've had four birthdays, a wedding anniversary, a death in the family, a washing machine failure/repair, a septic system we thought was going to need $1100 worth of repairs (only needed $50), the usual stresses and strains, putting in garden bed after garden bed (we've got about 3400+ sq ft of garden, maybe more), new chicks (more coming)....

Yeah. And on top of all of that, EL Husbando's job has reverted to its much less liked, shift hours and that has meant much familial upheaval hereabouts.

In any case, I am sorry for the long break between posts, but I hope to remedy that. :-)

At the moment, the children and I are playing a waiting game with the weather. It rained hard Sunday and Monday, and so the yard and garden are neither one good places for us right now. As I mentioned above, in my "mea culpa" above, we have put in a garden again this year. So far, we're a bit more than halfway planted...the rest is going to beans and maybe another row of potatoes...but nothing exciting.

We have tomatoes, peppers (Sweet, bell, and hot), corn, beans (two kinds thus far), pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, spinach, lettuce, onions, carrots, potatoes...We're planning on putting in some more beans, squash and zucchini, another small row of potatoes, and some more cucumbers, pumpkins, and watermelons in succession plantings. Maybe even an annual herb bed...but we'll see...

Right now, of course, we're waiting on the ground to dry enough to walk on, much less work! We do walk around it and take peaks to see what is working and what isn't, but for now, all we can do is look.

We got 37 meat birds in mid-April, and so now they are right about a month old. Our broody hen hatched out a single baby again this time, who has already been named Pepperoni (the children call it Peeperoni, in tribute to its older sister, Peep, who is about to become a full fledged hen any time now).

We've also got some turkey poults and more ducklings on order for the middle of June...whew...

It should be an interesting summer, to say the least!

Inside the house, not much has been done, what with all of the goings-on (and nice weather) outside. However, I've hatched a couple of smaller projects which will be good for days like this one, when I need "something" to do that doesn't require me being outside. Blech.

My computer died late in March, and I've just now gotten on to El Husbando's and decided to make a blog post to fill you all in on things here...

Hopefully, I will be able to be a more regular correspondant than I have been of late....do pray we can fix the computer soon...I'd much prefer to be using an integrated mouse instead of the free standing one with this pc...makes my shoulder hurt rather badly...

Thanks for hanging in there..back soon!