My New Toy

Isn't it cute? It is a "Harmony Cowboy" guitar. It has a small body and a thicker sound board than any of our other guitars. For Dr. H's birthday, he got me this little baby. I'm a lucky girl!

Just Kidding

Yesterday was a gorgeous blue-skied beauty of a day full of sunshine and singing birds and the springy smell of BBQ and cut lawns. Dr. H and I worked in the yard prepping our garden site and imagining the bounty it would soon produce. We finished up the day satisfyingly sore and tired and treated ourselves to a homemade dinner with friends.
And then there was today. Grumpy, tired and all to cold I reluctantly pulled myself out of bed. I opened the curtains expecting to be cheered by the sunshine that had been promised me by the weather forecaster only to see overcast skies and... What the heck... Snow!? Mother nature played a trick on the good people of Spokane today. A cold, gloomy, unwanted trick. You got me again fickle weather. But I will have the last laugh. You dealt me snow, so i'm going to make a snowman!

What the What

It is snowing. Boo! I have a rototiller on hold for me for tomorrow morning. Well, snow be damned I'm prepping my garden!

A Spring in My Step

Hello Spring Break! I'm enjoying my cold and drizzly week off by getting my butt off the couch and out into the garden. This weekend Andi and John (fellow chicken Co-op members) came over and let us help install John's beautiful chicken coop. It is super fancy. Dr H is very happy to have the stinky Dixie Chicks finally living outside.







I spent my first official day of spring break working on creating a cold frame to get an early start on some of my more tender veggies. A cold frame is basically a mini greenhouse.
We have also purchased some steer manure for my garden, and are now the proud owners of a wheelbarrow. (Call me crazy, but I think there is something so grown up about owning your own wheelbarrow. ) Next up on the the agenda is renting a rototiller (!) and getting down and dirty in my kitchen garden. I want to put my potato, onion and garlic sets in the ground by the end of this week, and hope to have some pea and kale seeds in the ground and ready to grow. Yay Spring!