Planting Beets

March 7, 2025 This morning, Nox went with me as I headed out to plant beets in the garden beds. I planted these beets: Detroit Golden, Detroit Dark Red and Chioggia. Chioggia is a “candy striped beet.” It has red and white alternating rings with a bright red skin. I noticed the field pansies are […]

Planting Strawberry Crowns and Onion Plants

March 7, 2025 Yesterday, I started feeling like “my old bony self” again around 3:00 PM. I do believe having a nap helped. Nox was a sweetheart and snuggled up against me while I napped. Bruce let me know we had two packages, one from Misfits and another box that looked like plants. After putting […]

Planting Seeds Today

March 4, 2025 With my raised garden beds full of dirt and a beautiful day, I headed out to start planting cool season seeds. I’ve given the raised bed rows letters (A and D, as B and C don’t have beds yet.) and I numbered the beds from north to south. Row A is the […]

More Dirt from Bama Dirt

March 3, 2025 This morning, I got a text from Bama Dirt asking if we were ready for our second load of dirt. I texted back, “Yes”. The driver texted to ask if I wanted it in the same spot. The answer was, “Yes”. We had moved the tarp closer to the last three short […]

Bama Dirt Delivery

March 2, 2025 On Friday (February 28), Bama Dirt called and asked if we were ready for a delivery. The answer was yes! They had to mix the dirt before they could bring it, so it took a bit for them to arrive after the call. After looking at the dirt, we decided to buy […]

Buying Dirt and Registering RV in Alabama

February 11, 2025 On Sunday (February 9), we drove to Lowe’s and bought a cubic yard of topsoil. We had it loaded into the truck bed by a Lowe’s employee. When we arrived at the house, Bruce drove the truck next to the last tall bed. We filled one tall bed with the dirt. The […]

Visit to RV and Uncovering Drainage Ditch

February 1, 2025 This morning, Nox and I went to the RV. Nox was happy to be back at the RV. She hopped up onto the couch after I put her blanket down. I plugged the water hose in and kept my fingers crossed that we didn’t have any problems after the bitter cold (8 […]

Finished Preparing Garden Beds for Dirt

January 25, 2025 On Thursday, (January 23), Bruce called Bama Dirt to find out when we would get our order. They apologized for not reaching out to us. They are waiting for the dirt to dry out and the compost to become less hot. Yesterday (Friday, January 24), after breakfast, I decided the weather had […]

Dealing with the Shed Roofs, Plus Some Other Things

January 18, 2025 Yesterday, I took Nox out and took some pictures of the work we finished the day before. To see the results of the removal of logs and branches from the ditch in the back pasture, here are the before and after pictures. One large dead bush is left in the ditch. Bruce […]

Finishing Assembly of the Tall Garden Beds

January 16, 2025 I did want to share this picture I took on Saturday night (January 11). The moon was between Jupiter and Mars. Mars is circled in red at the bottom of the picture and Jupiter is circled in red at the top of the picture. On Monday (January 13), the ground was sopping […]