Lemon Trees

Good Morning!!! its a beautiful and comfortably cool July 4th morning, so I'm. sitting on the front deck having some coffee. Mishka is hanging out here with me. She's watching the woods and the road under the bottom deck rails. We never seem to know what exciting things we will see here in our own little slice of the world...anything from deer, turkeys, bicyclists who have veered off the bike path, to the neighbors walking their adorable little dog named Jordan. Sam and Jasper don't always enjoy hanging out here with us girls. I think they prefer the comfort of inside. I thought I would go ahead and take some pictures of my lemon trees to share with you all, since it's been about a year since my last photos of them. The one has always looked much better than the other. I honestly didn't think the smaller of the two was going to make it when I brought them home. They had been left outside in heavy rains, and their dirt was basically soup. I got them drained, and after a bit of research learned that I couldn't transplant them until they were able to get completely dry, and showed signs of survival. I waited about 2 months to replant them. Once I was ready those poor things were completely root bound. But they survived and I've had them for more than a year.

Moving along

I'm sitting on the deck drinking coffee and listening to the sounds of nature, the goats and roosters down the road, and the sounds of the holiday traffic on the interstate. We aren't close to the interstate at all, but when traffic is heavy, there's no escaping it. We will be going to closing here in a couple of weeks on this house. It will officially be ours, which feels oddly intense. I mean, we've owned houses before, but this just feels different. I've been researching new platforms for selling handmade items on. I've found a couple that I like, but I'm still researching. I'll post my decisions once I finish looking into them all. I decided that I want to start selling some baby quilts and rag dolls, and things like that. (I've started making rag dolls and they are the cutest thing ever! I actually have an order for one) I just don't want to keep dealing with Etsy, I can't get the numbers into my shop to make paying for listings worth it. I don't remember if I told you in my last blog, but Mishka is now on seizure medicine. They said that because of the age it started at (3) it's genetic. They did run a bunch of bloodwork, and tests, and took urine samples, but nothing came up. I still have the lemon trees, and they seem to be growing rather well. I don't think I'll need to repot them this summer, but next summer for sure. They haven't flowered out for me, so that means I won't be getting lemons this year. According to the research I've done it will be when they hit 6 or 7 years old before I see fruit. That means I have 5-6 more years before we see anything. That's about everything from here for now. Hopefully I will have more to share soon.

Hello again

Once again, I've been a bit neglectful. I really do miss writing my blog on a regular basis. Things are still getting sorted and settled and figured out, and of course new things continue to pop up. Mishka my youngest Siberian Husky has started having seizures. she's on medication, and has only had 1 break through seizure so far. I'm hoping that they stay far and few in between. I keep a daily log book, writing down her medication and anything else that seems significant. She has an appointment at the end of the month for a follow up. We have finally been able to get through paperwork started to buy this house. I will be glad when that's sorted out. It kind of leaves you with an odd sensation living in what feels like limbo. My sewing room is starting to have the feel that I want. It's taken some work, and some rearranging, but it feels rather nice. I've been managing to get quite a bit of quilting and sewing done. My sewing room is easily twice the size of my old one. We haven't done a veggie garden or taken the steps to get a rabbitry up and going yet. We've had quite a lot of clearing out to do before we could even think about starting anything like that. We'll get there though. Well now that you're all caught up for now, I'll stop rambling!!! I hope once again to become more active.

Settling in

Hello out there, I know I've been insanely sporadic these last few years with my posts. I wish I could apologize, but you can't really apologize for life. Frank and I are finally finding our feet here without his parents. We had quite a bit of grief to work through, between losing them and our hound Bella all in less than a year. We made it through all of the major first Holidays. We had a house full of family and love. Truly the fact that Frank's sisters and their families have stuck close has helped the healing. I now have a fully functional sewing room. I'm hoping to up my quilting game. I've been working on making some quilts to donate to Project Linus. So far I have 2 baby quilt tops made, and am over half done making the blocks for a teenage size quilt top. I'm not setting a number on how many tops I want to get made, but I'm going to work on them until July. Then I'll get my supplies to get them quilted and bound, and donated. This summer our garden will mostly be containers. We want to do a bigger garden, but that will wait until next summer. We have plans to set up a rabbitry here, and get that going again. I'm not sure if we will get back into chickens, but we are thinking about quail. Having a small farm is a nice dream I think.