Or this will happen:
While with Grandma Martse and Papa Dennis, L lost her first tooth! These darn kids are just growing way too fast!!
Peace!
Bella
Bella has been missing for almost 3 days now. She normally comes in at night but for some reason didn’t want to on Thursday. The next morning I knew something was wrong when she didn’t come running for breakfast. She is fixed, so I know she isn’t out prowling. She usually goes to the neighbors directly behind us or next to us and then hangs around close by. But we haven’t seen anything since that night. We’ve put up flyers, walked door to door and gave out pictures of her, and emailed all the neighbors we had addresses for the same pictures and information. We are just hoping she comes home soon. If anyone who lives near us and doesn’t know about this sees her, please let us know. We really appreciate it!
Bella, if you are out there, we miss you and so does your sister. Emo has been so sad, just sitting on the porch staring into the cedar grove next to us where Bella plays.
Come home girl.
Peace.
Can’t Beat This!
Happy kids!! A is our friend who comes to play everyday and X is, well my little baby who is growing too fast. They were very happy this morning and I just couldn’t help but snap a shot!
Speaking of A, her family owns the most awesome coffee shop here in Austin by the lake. The Java Dive is an organic coffee shop that serves up alot more than just coffee. They have full breakfast and lunch specials, the most amazing pastry case I think I’ve ever seen (oh the glory of an organic chocolate confection!), an organic market section that is much needed out here, gluten free food, homemade ice cream and bulk fair trade coffee beans plus a whole lot more! Totally family friendly with activities for the kids all ready to go. My little X LOVES the new train table. Hah! Sounds like a plug huh? That’s because I truly believe in this place and what they are trying to provide for the community. I love Roni and Romy so much and their little A has become another one of my own. I encourage anyone in town already and those of you who will be visiting to give the place a try because you won’t be sorry!
And lastly, I’d like to thank my poultry friends for the generous offerings I’ve been receiving lately. We’ve been averaging about 9 eggs a day with some days seeing a full dozen or more! Thank you ladies!
Peace!
The Gardening Bug Is Hitting Again
So it’s that time of year…spring is just around the corner and the gardening bug is biting hard. This weekend we finally were able to get some plants and dirt for our big pots which were a gift last year. In the first one we planted herbs – lavendar, sage, thyme, sorrel, comfrey; mustard greens; nasturtiums; and some dichondra to trail down the sides.
The second pot is more of a shade perennial planter. In it we planted more nasturtiums; ornamental kale; pansies; and a couple others which I can’t remember the names of! Bad me! Haha…
Today the girls and I are going to get our seeds started. We are a week or so late, but it’s okay. They will catch up. We also got our organic top soil for our big garden. Everything came from The Natural Gardener, which is our favorite nursery of all time. Seriously, this place rocks! The seeds we are starting are tomatoes, several peppers including habanero, lettuce, zuchinni squash, sunflowers, beans and peas.
Saturday the girls and I spent the day at our dear friends’ Phil and Debi’s, who actually sold us the house and live just a couple houses down the street. The boys went to explore barbeque places south of here, and the girls and I spent the day lunching, having our hair cut and just being girls. It’s been forever since I’ve had a proper cut and was just heaven! I love my new hair…now to get rid of the grey! shhhh! Sunday was spent gardening and at the nursery. Was a great weekend.
A few days ago I noticed this little fellow peeking out of the pile:
Yes folks, my potatoes have sprouted! There are several popping up now and I’m so excited about them. We love red potatoes, so that’s all I planted this year. Last year I had both red and white…the red did alot better so we are sticking with what works.
I also noticed yesterday that both our Texas Mountain Laurels have decided it is in fact spring and this is the evidence:
We also put up our Tibetan Prayer Flags across the driveway:
Onions and garlic are thriving so far.
Black Hollyhocks are coming up and our bags of yummy organic soil is ready to make rows:
Oh the fun is just beginning. Peace to all!!
6th Photo
So Amber, over at The Nutrients of Life, has tagged me to play a little game. It goes like this:
“Open the 6th picture folder on your computer, open the 6th photo and blog it. Write something about it. Then tag 6 more people to do the same.”
What fun! So here is mine. My darling little Xi from a year or so ago (my photos on this computer are more recent than the computer downstairs). She has the biggest eyes and was looking up at me with all her innocence. I had to snap a shot and it turned out to be one of my favorites!
Now for all of you:
Nicole
Amanda
Michelle
Marina
Carrie
Stephanie
Tag!! You’re it!! Peace!
Gardening
It’s warming up here. We have had a very odd winter though, with some days in the 30’s and the next day close to 80. As much as I wish we had more winter, I have to start realizing that Spring is on her way. There are signs all over my garden, things budding, things growing, chickens laying and restless children. The animals are all well, and apparently so are most of my plants. I have onions and garlic popping up, a volunteer pumpkin or two are peaking out of the compost as well. Strawberries are in the ground, however I’m going to want more. I also got some parsley and sage in the ground. Next step is preparing and spreading topsoil for our back garden and then getting seeds in the ground and in starts. That will most likely happen tomorrow if we are lucky.
I want to thank Marina over at A Small Tribe for the sweet words and kind heart of her’s. She gave me another award and her words just fill me with happiness. Thank you my friend!
For now, here’s a short trip through the front garden. Peace!
An Award!
I was given the Lemonade Award by my dear friend Nicole over at Frontier Dreams. It’s my first award and very exciting for me. Thank you so much Ni for the beautiful words and the recognition. I love ya girl!
The Lemonade Award is passed to bloggers for showing great Attitude and/or Gratitude and now it’s my turn to pass it to ten other blogs.
And here are my nominations,in no particular order:
-Marina at A Small Tribe – Marina is such a source of inspiration for me. She’s beyond generous and such an amazing soul. I just love her and am so grateful for the friendship that has been blossoming between us. A “Lost” buddy with Nicole, and also my friend.
– Michelle at You Just Gotta Keep Knittin’ – Not only has this woman been one of my best friends for over 3 years now, but she’s been my cheerleading section, a shoulder for me, a rock in my life and is one of the most gifted people I know. I am constantly amazed by her talents and how huge her heart is.
– Amber at Planet Silas and The Knit Book – Introduced to me by Michelle, this woman is an amazing knitter and beautiful mama. She also has a heart of gold!
-Amber at The Nutrients of Life – One of the down-under mama blogs I read and who has always been so kind with her words on mine. Her husband is an amazing photographer and she’s a beautiful young mama raising 2 of the most gorgeous little kids. I love her words, always full of love.
-Jodi at Che and Fidel – What a wonderful blog about this Australian moms adventures with her little man. He is just so gorgeous and her photos are so dreamy. She is also a very talented writer as well as just beautiful both inside and out.
-Carol at High Heel Happy – Not only is this dear, wonderful, beautiful, talented and amazing woman my sister, but she’s also my friend. Such a joy to my world!
-Amanda at Off The Hook – Oh my goodness, I can’t tell you how much this woman has helped me with her words and consistency. She is always there for me and her adventures in knitting and her world are truly worth reading.
-Amanda at Soule Mama – If you haven’t read her blog, and I don’t know too many who haven’t, you really need to! Not only are the photos amazing, but her words are really inspiring. I have her book too and it’s really great! So much creativity and inspiration!
–Jumble Berry Jam – I love her sense of humor and reading about her journey in life.
-Megan at The Byron Life – Another mama from Australia. I just love reading about her world and the creativity she exposes her readers to. Her children are just as talented.
The rules of this award for recipients:
1. Put the logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate at least 10 blogs which show great Attitude and/or Gratitude!
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.
Please take some time to check out all the wonderful blogs. They are all worth every moment! Peace!!
Up Jeans
So our darling X wanted “up jeans.” I couldn’t figure out what she was talking about. I thought she wanted to wear her jeans that pulled up rather than snapped or buttoned. For weeks I believed this is what she meant and wasn’t sure why there was a moment of hesitation from her before she’d put them on. Then, one morning, I finally figured out what they are and the happiness in that child’s eyes was confirmation. Up jeans are cut-offs! So we took her old Levi’s that were finally getting too short and cut them off. These are now almost all she wants to wear. She’s my little hippie farmgirl through and through. Haha!
Yay for Up Jeans! Peace!
Planting Time Is Almost Here! (And A Finished Project)
So garlic and onions are in the ground! Today I will do potatoes and pick up our seeds at the feed store for more veggie goodness. We are really hoping for a better year this year in terms of rain (and everything else if we are going to be honest here). Last year we had 100 degree weather starting in May and it didn’t end until well into November. Needless to say the gardens were not very productive or happy, neither was our water bill! So maybe I can request that everyone do a quick, happy rain dance for this year? haha! We’ll see if that appeases the gods any. We are also busy amending our soil with what we have here and it is turning out well so far! We are going to add organic topsoil to the lasagna bed, but the nutrients are just exploding out of what we’ve put down already. It’s very exciting and we are hoping to have a better garden this year. Upside down are the way we are doing our tomatoes this year too. We really liked how well they turned out last year, so are going to do alot more this year and save the garden space for other veggies.
The animals are doing good. We’ve added ferrets to the brood as well. They were gifted to the girls from some good friends of our’s. We have 3 of them, Calamity, Pookie and Moose. They are so funny to play with and are the friendliest little creatures. The girls love them!
I’ve been knitting and knitting and knitting. Finally conquered my fear of socks and am now on a mission to find the perfect yarn for my darling little red-head who hates anything that might be even remotely itchy. 100% cotton for her…and not just any cotton, so the quest begins. L is much more laid back for that and already picked out her yarn from my stash. So her socks will go on the needles this week, I hope.
Some new pictures and lots of peace going out to you all!
Icy mornings the past few days.
Really hoping Kubra is with kids, hard to tell now although she is looking rounder in the belly, but we won’t be certain until late February or early March.
My new sconces (thank you Nicole for the gift card!)
My first socks! For me! Yay!
All I Can Say Is….
YES!! FINALLY!! Ding dong the witch is dead, which ole’ witch? the wicked witch!!!
aww…much better:
Peace!