Wow!

It is April 1st where has this year gone? I do not know about you but here in the good old Pacific Northwest we have not had any break frim soggy cold weather. How on earth am I suppse to prep a garden or even spring clean if it is so yucky and cold. So I started planning the garden. We have lots of prep work to do cause we are garden sharing. We live in an apartment and my parents have some big unused area that we are converting. It use to be a garden years ago but the grow boxes fell apart and life just got in the way.

Well I started planning and bought seeds. I also laid out what starts we will need and now to plan the box layout and get cracking. We are planting banana squash, corn, beans, beets, pie pumpkin, carving pumpkins, butternut squash, green peppers, lettuce, snow peas, tomatoes, and some other squash we are still thinking about. I think we are going to try some like Indian growing. You place a root or bush plant in a 3 area with climbing beans and corn. That way your beans climb the corn and you have less work.

A hint for great peppers: place 1 or 2 match books in your hole, cover with dirt then use a start. The extra sulfur makes for happy peppers!

Garden tip: always rotate your crops. This will help avoid blight and other issues. A 90degrew rotation each year will do. If you have problems do a full 180degree rotation, or complete swap of all areas. Also till under your dead plants for a good boost to the soil.

More gardening fun to come so stay tuned. And if you can not have your own garden offer to garden share. You do a portion of the work, get some of the crop and enjoy fresh veggies!

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Trying something new

So in my attempt to be a better writer and reader I have recently installed the Blogger app on my phone. And I have successfully published a post from it (not this one). I am hoping that this will allow me more opportunity to write when I think of things and Well I am getting on my hubby to set up my computer. It is finally fixed and home but just sitting in a pile in my room.

Well to help encourage me to write and to see if anyone actually gives a hoot I am stealing an idea from a friend of mine.I am holding a Contest. However I am doing a two fold contest. One is for comments and the other is for Ideas.

Comment Contest: anyone who posts a comment during the month of April will be in a drawing for a $25 gift card from a TBD location. You can post once per blog post. So If I post on all my blogs you can comment on them all.

Idea Contest: Any one who submits Ideas via email to me will be entered into a drawing for another $25 gift card. Ideas can be on anything you want me to write about, or any questions you have. It can also be a book recommendation or a craft idea. If I use your idea in a post you get double entries.

So enjoy the month of April and I will do my best to stay on top of posts.

A freebie entry is available for any comments made on March 31, 2010 (today) to any of my past posts.

Good Luck

Deep Thoughts...

So it is interesting the things you learn from Disney movies.

Tonight we were watching Brother Bear, and I must say it impresses me that Disney did a movie with such a deep thought provoking meaning. I am amazed they even touched an Eskimo legend in the first place, but they did such a great job. I mean the whole point of the movie is to open yourself to the things around you and see things how others might. That is a pretty big lesson that far too many children are not taught. Our society has worked very hard for women and minorities to have their voice and yet not everyone is treated equal.

What are we teaching our kids? are we teaching them to love as Christ did and accept others not matter what. We don't have to agree with them or approve of their choices but we do have to love them. That is what Christ taught. Whether you are Christian or not the lesson should be the same. Accept others no matter the choices they make.  And be willing to look at things from their point of view. You don't ever have to agree you just need to be open minded enough to listen. Too often our children and even ourselves are caught in the traps of believes or view points.

Maybe we all need to sit down and watch Brother Bear until the message sinks in. Maybe that will help. Until we are willing to open our minds and our hearts, how will our children ever learn.