Fourth of July update

Well, we were hoping to have the baby this weekend, but it hasn't happened so far. I think the baby is making us wait now, since we made it wait by being on bed rest. But the great news, I'm off bed rest and off the medicine to stop contractions. This are progressing, but slowly now. I can have as much patience as needed, as long as I'm able to move and be off bed rest. So we spent the weekend tinkering in the garden. The weather has been great and my wonderful husband has kept all of the garden growing while I was on bed rest for the past month. Now I'm able to get outside and do what I enjoy doing. Although I'm a bit slower and heavier then normal.

Watering my strawberries in the raised strawberry bed.

Garlic and onions. You can see the tips of the garlic turning brown, they are almost ready to pull up and cure.


Here are our 6 week old chicks, these are a top hat breed.

Top hats with a few americaunas on the left

This one still needs a good name.

Watering the other strawberry bed with the meat chickens under it in white.

The new herb bed that was put in this spring. In the background you can see the temporary/movable fencing we purchased this year for the chickens so they don't get into all the gardens. They will only have to be confined to this area until the gardens are finished producing, then they get free range of the yard again.

Happy Fourth of July!!

The garden you were given

Everyone has a garden, some people just choose to plant grass all over it.

Don't wait until you have the perfect piece of land to cultivate and grow food. Plant food in your garden and it will bless you and your family, and possibly others who live at your place after you.

Inspiration !!!!

So I've been so inspired as of lately to talk to people about the importance of creating their own "paradise" so to speak for their family.

I think I want to start a movement called "Back to the Garden". I'm sure there's already one out there, but oh well.

Think of it......living like God intended us to live.....in nature, surrounded by plants and our family. What's more important at the end of our lives then that? And think if everyone started planting a garden, putting in fruit trees, berry bushes, etc, to feed their family. Think about how connected the family would be through all the working together, and the memories they would make planting, tending, watering, playing together, etc.

One important step of course would be for the parents goal to be to leave the property/home in the family always. Even if that meant having multiple generations living on the same property or in the same home. And the other part would be for the adult children to not sell the home when the parents pass away, etc. That would have to take a large shift in our society to not be so selfish, but it's possible.

If we all had our little "paradise" in our backyard, whether is was a tenth of an acre, an acre, ten acres, or 360 acres, the entire family would benefit. They would benefit nutritionally, emotionally, physically, and socially. And we would have a better connection to God, who created all the wonderful things the earth has to offer, the earth itself, and also to our family and community.

So why isn't this happening in and around our world more often? I often ponder questions like this. Sometime we as humans make life so difficult for ourselves. It should really be quite simple.

I wish I grew up with that type of connection, all I can do now is create a paradise with and for my family, so I can leave a legacy for my children and their future children.

More to come I'm sure...................................................................