Spring… seems to be an elusive season thus far. Snow, freezing rain, and wind. What the heck!?!? Two weekends ago we went all out and were getting stuff done in the yard and then the last two weeks we have had snow and highs in the forties. I was so looking forward to getting the yard ready for planting and it seems as though I will be having to do that in the week to come… we are supposed to get in the high fifties in the next week. Today I sat down with the Lowe’s weekly ad like it was Christmas time. I had my list of what to buy, my circles on what I want, my graph paper for planning and my phone out for making calls.
We bought our house for the land, it is a quarter acre lot in town… less than a mile from the school we wanted our boys to go to, three miles from our church, five miles from our grocery store, three miles from the highway… a great location with some land! Our home was a fix and flip find. Before we moved in there was a “lovely” individual that lived here who loved throwing parties and glass beer bottles were the highlight to throw from the top deck. Last year we spent the Spring, Summer and Fall taking glass and trash out of the back yard. To our surprise we found some pretty good bones of what at once time must have been a beautiful yard.
This year my plans have been to take the beauty that has been overgrown and ignored and love it back. I have been a pinteresting fool. I love the ideas of gardening, beautifying the yard and having chickens. The idea is great and wonderful, I get excited about it all and then there are times that I begin to question my sanity in trying to be Suzy homemaker and Gina greenthumb. Can I do it? Being type A I know that I don’t like to do things half way… all or nothing. Feeling like I have four garden beds, possibly six depending on how I want to do things, is slightly overwhelming. That is a lot of work, a lot of weeding, watering and tending. Also the other thing that is getting me is chickens. Do we get them again? I loved having them but on top of gardening and trying to really get a good or decent crop is it too much? This week the chicks that I want to get will be at our local feed store. Hubby wants to just get all the same of what we had last year I would love to get three different breeds… one of each kind… Rhode Island Red, Black Australorp, and Araucana. What does a girl do? Focus on garden? Get chickens?
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