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4th of July and changes ahead

by Amy on July 4, 2008 in Off Topic, The Growing Garden

Gonna fire up the grill this evening and make some typical summer holiday food, nothing special. I make a killer potato salad, I sure wish the taters in the garden were ready! I might try to pay attention to my “recipe” and write it down to share.

I tried to kill the garden again last night, and left the sprinkler on ALL NIGHT, like 10 hours and one half of the garden plus half the taters were under water this morning. Apparently my subconsious knew I did something wrong because I had a dream about the garden that work me up at 5:30 (normally up at and I layed there for a while then realized I did it again. Duh.

I have some semi bad news. My dad has almost decided to stay in the nursing home instead of coming home (short back story: I’ve been taking care of him for the past 6.5 years, he lost his foot in december and went to a rehab center/nursing home until he could walk with his prosthetic)…I guess the cute nurses and constant attention are no match for family and freedom! But that means I’m losing 75% of our income, because he pays me to take care of him. So we’ll have to move, because I cannot afford my wonderful house Chris is working with Voc Rehab to get a job, but it won’t be enough to cover the loss of income from my dad, and I don’t make enough with web design to barely pay for anything. So after the garden is mostly harvested, we’ll till it under, roll up our fencing, pack our bags and move on. But I don’t know where to. Close to Salem, but I don’t know where. I can’t do apartment living, I just can’t. We’ll live in a tent before an apartment. Maybe we can find a little mobile home on an acre out in the middle of nowhere and I can have my huge garden? We shall see. But Garden of Eatin will live on, because I enjoy growing food too darn much!

I’m it!

by Amy on June 23, 2008 in Blog, Off Topic

I’ve been tagged! By Compostings

Blogging tag games are a good thing – better than the traditional chain letter. Usually, in a chain letter, the sender threatens you with some kind of imagined “bad luck” or curse if you do not forward the chain letter. Those kinds of things are stupid. But blog tagging is a nice way to create traffic and awareness for your blog and for others and there is no hooey associated with it. Here are the rules:

Link to the person who tagged you.

Post the rules on the blog.

Write six random things about yourself.

Tag six people at the end of your post.

Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

Here are my six random things:

I dye my hair to keep it red – I had fiery red hair until I started having kids, with each one it goes more brown. I’m still a redhead at heart with a redhead complexion, so I dye. Chemicals and all.
I’m allergic to most my favorite foods – if I love it, it gives me a migraine, including strawberries (no, I can’t eat any of that jam I made! It’s for the kids so I can keep dyes and high fructose corn syrup away from them.)
I’d dump my husband in a second for Will Smith :drool
I don’t actually want to “be” a web designer. If I hadn’t had kids, I’d be an archeologist, probably specializing in Mayan and Egyptian cultures. Maybe if I ever get rich and get my student loans out of default and the kids are grown, I’ll do that. Yeah right!
I’m having a hard time thinking of 6 random things so I’m using this one as one :p
I can’t wait for the Stargate Worlds MMO to come out. Hoping I get into beta.

And here are the people I am tagging:

Double Danger

Gardening in Suburbia

Little Beach Homestead

Not So Crafty

Alberta Home Gardening

Oklahoma Grown Veg

Happy Midsummer/Summer Solstice/Litha

by Amy on June 21, 2008 in Off Topic

Though I’m more Buddhist than Pagan now, I still giving a passing nod to the seasons…gardening has me appreciating them a little more now Have a great summer!

Blech!

by Amy on June 6, 2008 in Off Topic

I apologize for the lack of bloggage, I got a nifty head cold and haven’t felt like doing anything. Thankfully it’s been raining a lot this week and I haven’t needed to water! I need to get out and build up more soil over the taters (not sure where the soil will come from though…..) and do some thinning and weeding. So not going to happen until I feel better!

Memories (lessons learned as a child)

by Amy on May 30, 2008 in Off Topic

My parents were awful parents. Really. Not “my parents wouldn’t let me have desert before dinner” awful, but “make me sleep surround by cat sh!t and never bathe me or even brush my hair” awful. I was spared the physical abuse my oldest 3 siblings got (I was #5), I think because they were just too old to chase after me when I screwed up (my dad was 50 when I was born and disabled, my mom 43)…but they loved to garden. My mom had a HUGE herb garden and my dad was always in our very large greenhouse doing something. I loved that greenhouse, especially the earthy smell. My most prominent memory was when my dad decided to mess around with a Gopher Plant. The sap is toxic but he ignores that kind of information…until he got the sap on his hands and rubbed his eyes. Ever see a grown man scream like a little girl? I ran as fast as I could into the house to get my mom and dad ended up spending almost a week in the hospital, and many more weeks at home with patches on both eyes. Being the ever loving wife my mom was, she just scolded him and made the older kids take care of him. So besides the non-gardening lesson of taking care of your ailing husband better then mom did, I learned that gopher plants are not worth it even if they keep the gophers away.