Happy Easter!

My family came to visit for Easter. I'll give you all the details later with pictures. We've had a great time, busy busy busy! I hope everyone has a great Easter tomorrow!

Bella's Hair Do

Thanks for all the good wishes! I'm feeling better today. Back to our original plan of making SOAN support our family.

I've been trying to figure out what to do with Bella's hair. She looks like a boy if she doesn't have a bow in, and she will leave a bow in for about two minutes. I tried yesterday to fix it. It looked cute (with a bow still) for about two minutes. I'm going to try tomorrow without the bow and see what it looks like, or else I need to find some kind of clip bow that will actually stay in.

Disappointment

As you all know, Frank was laid off 5 months ago. He has been selling for my business since and it's been fine. Last week he got a phone call from a company that he had applied for right after he got laid off. He had 2 interviews, and I really tried to not get excited. Then he got called back for a third interview and we got really excited. He felt like the interview went REALLY well and the job was shoe-in. Well, today he got an email that they were "going to peruse someone" (peruse was the word they used, I don't think it was the right word). To say I was disappointed was an understatement.

Frank is such a harder work and such a good salesperson, I'm very proud of him that he got to the third interview. He found out from the recruiter that the reason they went with the other person was because they had medical sales experience.

It's put a big black cloud on my birthday weekend. . .

Growing garden

I'm SO excited!
My garden is growing. Not much is coming up yet, but there's definitely growth!

Fennel poking it's little leaves out
The lettuce and fennel box (which I might add, this is the bad soil mixed with just veggie mix)
Radishes poking out. Three of these weren't there yesterday! The celery in the background has some new growth as do the peas!I love all the different colors of the lettuce leaves!

more garden pictures

Here's the little tiny lettuce leaves. So cute!
Here's my little girl! She was having lots of fun helping me in the garden!
I couldn't post all the pictures in the last post, for some reason.

Green Thumb?

We finally got our act together and got a garden planted this year! I'm very excited about it. Last year we planted a few strawberry plants and a tomato and they did pretty well, for just being stuck in the ground. This year we decided to make boxes and not deal with our nasty soil.

Here is the view of the three boxes that we made. As you can see, we don't have a lot of space. We planted one box in rows and with regular gardening soil and no compost. Then Alesa introduced me to Square Food Gardening. I did some research on it and we did the other two boxes with those theories. I used 50% compost and 50% vegetable soil in one and 25% vegetable soil, 25% gardening soil and 50% compost in the other one. It's going to be an experiment to see which on turns out better.

Here's what the boxes look like before we planted anything in them.

Here are our tomatoes, snow peas, celery. We also planted radish, carrots, and beans (all seeds).

This is the original box we did. It has lettuce and fennel in it. I'm VERY excited, there are little leaves already showing. This morning there were only about 5, then this afternoon there were two complete rows of lettuce!! I could literally watch them grow!

Necessity is the Mother of Invention

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Necessity is the Mother of Invention

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