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Posted by puddintane on May 30, 2009

Its started to get warm here! been in the 80’s the last couple of days. I was happy with 70’s ugg this is climbing to almost to hot. Well to help SAVE all that water i was dumping on the new garden bed ..i swear it would not stay in the ground! How can seeds sprout if theirs not watteerrr!!! so what do i do :) muhahaha grab some plastic and cover it all! Just like i do with my sprouts inside, make a little greenhouse wannabe thingy and walla, the water stays in :)

ground cover greenhouse?
ground cover greenhouse?

I was tired of trying to water it 3 times a day, with my tiny tiny little watering can ( there is no hose / hook up apparently anymore :( and 8 trips was to many! So as i was checking on my baby stevia plants inside which i have inside a plastic bag to, you know..keep in the water /slaps head with hand… It hit me.

Cover the bed with plastic! As you see that’s just what i did :) two days later the cucumbers and radishes started to sprout and i figured i couldn’t leave the plastic on them. ( its raised in the middle there with sticks stuck in the ground ) I was happy to see them sprouting and i think this helped get the water absorbed deeper into the ground .. hell i don’t know i am just talking out my ass lol like i know anything about gardening! I am learning tho. Soooooooo, here is the garden plot with the new sprouts and the kids sunflowers growing crazy………………Hmmm never mind , i oveasly didn’t take a full picture of the bed WTH! but i do have a shot of the cucumbers coming up :) because im to lazy to go back out,get another pic and upload it :)

cucumbersSo I really really hope that these ones actually live unlike the 6 other plants before them. Those were all started inside, did wonderful, were put outside…and they died ? Ugg i don’t know! I will find out if they thrive this way. Maybe they just do not like to be moved, and not one i can start indoors and move out. Or its just one that i cant keep alive ( like my strawberry /sob ).

All the radishes are sprouting and a few of the beets are sprouting also… no sign of the peppers yet :( I am sure they will pop there heads up, we dropped enough seeds in there that SOMETHING has to take!

Now to the patio and all the greenness back there!

lettuce

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we have been chopping it down and eating it! :) its super good, BUT as i was watering this morning and looking over all my plants i realized a few things. One, this plant has a hugely long stock with nothing on it tell the top! They are the ones that i had thinned a few of the larger leafs to eat as it was growing.. they didn’t grow back but the stock keep growing LOL so its like a frig-en tree with leaves at the top! I found it funny :)


Then as i was cleaning the icky wilted dead leaves off the bottom I took a look at the stumps left from the whole bundles of lettuce I had CUT down …there are tiny new leaves growing from it! Will they keep growing and give me new lettuce leaves to eat?Hmmmm i sure hope so!

OHHHHH and they had some visitors < O,o >

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I pulled 6 caterpillars out of the lettuce trays.. Umm ok i really do like caterpillars, i think they are cute as hell but… hmmm in the lettuce makes me a little worried! I will be looking at my lettuce much closer for sure now! So I picked them out and put then in a pot that was off to the side ( the broken mystery plant ) and threw some of the discarded lettuce leaves in there… I don’t know what to do with them, I cant kill them :(

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And then the radishes, they are all doing so good! We have been eating the first crop and watching the second one grow..and the third in the garden bed :) but … this one is hugely tall! lol the radish itself is still pretty small but ..WOW.

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The peas are FINALLY growing tall! Its about time if you ask me :) The carrot tops are looking really good to… wish i could see in the soil tho to see how the carrots them self’s are doing.

The beans are continuing to grow! I threw in some new seeds to replace the couple that didnt make it threw the move outside and the first couple rains…. hmm another one i didnt take a pic of.. ugg

the Peppers are still doing good, not really getting any bigger yet tho :( …and this pic wont download LOL not my day for pictures ppl!

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This pot ( YES the pic works!) has a couple of beans ( because they sprouted and i cant kill anything ) a couple of carrots that had to be thinned out of the main container and…. a mystery plant in the left corner… what is that? I do not know but it can stay and grow :) This is the hoshposh bucket after all. I think i just like the color green :) let it all grow!

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now on to my FAVORIT FAVORIT FAVORIT plants of them all…. my tomaotes!!!!!

the cherry tomato ones are really pumpen them flowers out! Oh its teasing me!

This morning i found the first unopened flowers on the big plants! WOOOT more more more!!!!

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They are bushen out nice :) i did finally put a stick in two of them and tie them up.. the one against the wall is not stacked yet,  I am looking for a big enough stick for it.

I have been picking the new growth off that is starting between the main branches and the stock. I love it green and bushy but lets save all that good growing energy for your tomatoes ok? :)

Well that’s it for now i guess .  In the house i have growing my Stevie plants.. 5 are growing but man they are still just little green sprouts, hmm they take FOREVER to grow! I also received my Valerian and chamomile seeds the other day and planted 9 or each, some of the Valerian sprouted over night! … those were the tiniest tiniest seeds ever!!! no wonder they said 200 per pack! i have no idea how many actually got dropped into each starter pot.

Thats it for now, time to surf the web!

god bless!

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New cat!

Posted by puddintane on May 30, 2009

Well my oldest sons dad had to find a new home for his 2 1/2 yr old black cat. Sasquatch ( he has 7 TOES! on each front paw. wow) and after much talk we decided we would take him in hehe woot finally a cat ! We know hes good with kids because he has lived with Keith! He is short haired so will not be hard to clean up after and LOVES ATTENTION…… Well so we have been told. We got him Thursday and hes been hiding out under one of the beds since then. Poor baby, i fill bad for him :( hes lost his house and his owner and is just not happy about it. He doesn’t act scared he acts very indifferent. He sits under that bed and looks at you like… ya right, I’m just fine here thank you.

We had some good progress today tho. The kids came in and woke me up ;/ ugg and the cat came out from under the bed and started talking to us LOL and let everyone pet him … or it may have been that it was breakfast time and i have started  giving him soft food ( which he has not had before ). He just loves it! so we all got to see kitty wial he ate, he got some loven in… then went back under the bed LOL. Well its better then before so ill take it!

If been looking it up and it can take a couple of weeks for a cat to get ajusted, Just like people. New house, new owners new…kids.. who like to jump around the cat very excitedly .. he does good with it he just watches the girl closely and is in no hurry to run up to her.

Ill post a picture … if i can get him out when i have my camera :)   Hes a good cat, taking all the changes really well, he hasn’t hissed at anyone or batted anyone away. He just hides tell he wants food or petting. hmmm like David…. LOL

god bless!

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Kids and ducks..and fish!

Posted by puddintane on May 24, 2009

We took the kids out to the to park yesturday to feed the ducks… lets say the were very well feed after the kids were done with them. What shocked me was the baby fish coming up to eat the bread! lol there would be 5 tiny fish attacking it from underneath untell a big duck would come take it! David said he seen a HUGE catfish poke its wiskers out .. i missed it :( booo . well heres some pics for you mom.

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umm ummm good!

Posted by puddintane on May 24, 2009

Well we had a very good salad of our own grown lettuce and radishes! oh they were good! … ok welll there were other “none grown at home” foods in it LOL like ohh cheese and olives :) The radishes were really good!

no i did not take a pic of the salad! I did just take more lettuce for the fridge tho and will be having another ummy salad with dinner tonight! Most of the radishes are just about ready, they can get a little bigger tho :) so we will just take another 4 and let the others keep on a growen. The baby radishes are all sprouted and going strong.. i cant wait for the front ones in the garden bed to start sprouting also!

The lettuce patch out front is doing really good, i think i put it in the best spot i could have. they are in shade almost all day but the last few hours… the Romain in the back.. it doesn’t like all the sun! it wilts up in it but always springs back in the morning.. maybe ill just move then out front too.. Well thats my salad advanture of the day! have fun and go grow something!

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Giving Magic Jack a go.

Posted by puddintane on May 22, 2009

So he went and ordered a Magic Jack, it connects to your computers usb, then plug your phone jack into it and make calls off your phone threw your Internet! Its 20 dollars a year lol so money wise this is sooooo tempting but i had put it off for a few reasons, but that was taken out of my hands last week and now its set up. So far its working well. we can call out and get calls and the connections are just fine. I only worry about emergency calls because it only works if the computer is on! this was my big hold up. I was told tho that a cell phone as long as its charged can call 911 even if its activated… And its true! I looked up a lot of places to make sure and now have my old old pay as you go one plugged in upstairs just for that reason.

So far i like it, and will love not having a phone bill every month! We already shut off the direct tv we never watched it except for cartoon channels and PBS is so much better for them to watch anyways :)   They have not minded to much and the side benefit its gets them off the tv more and playing!

Ok time to go out and work on the new garden bed! I will take some pic’s and share it with ..well who ever stumbles acrost here :)

god bless

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New to sewing and napkins!

Posted by puddintane on May 20, 2009

Napkin

Napkin

WEll they are easy enough to make but to do it right it was time consuming lol. fold press fold press fold press.. unfold cut fold press! it was good practice tho. very easy and basic.  I am trying to teach myself to sew and… trying to start on cloths was not a good idea!

http://sewing.about.com/od/homedecprojects/ss/clothnapkin.htm

Here is the place i used, If your learning :) this is a good one to start with. It gets me to use proper seam allowance and pressing and single seam! The kids love to use them so its perfect! I probable should have used a different fabric but this is all i had!

I keep looking for new easy “useable” “practable” patterns. most are stuff we would not use so i cant see making them.

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more garden update! what are we having for dinner?? RADISHES!

Posted by puddintane on May 20, 2009

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Click for updates on the garden!!!

Posted by puddintane on May 20, 2009

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YouTube – NEW CAT VIDEO!! An Engineer’s Guide to Cat Yodeling (with Cat Polka)

Posted by puddintane on May 15, 2009

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beanies anyone?

Posted by puddintane on May 15, 2009

LOL ok ok hahaha if i stop laughing at myself here. I stumbled across this site

http://www.threadbanger.com/post/7965/how-to-make-a-beanie-poncho-and-mittens-from-a-sweater

and damn if it could not look easier ! soooo what did i do? pulled out the crap material i had bought to practice sewing on and BAM out comes a … sheet beanie! HAHAHA i only post the pic because i don’t fill its a horrid one lol and its to funny. Now it is easy and could be easily scaled up or down.. i think with the right looking material it would be ok :) but this is my OMG moment of the day…oh and i threw it on my son and made him join in on my fun… he is 12 today! for his birthday i am attempting to embarrass him on the web! LOL DON’T SEND ME AN EMAIL ON IT MOM! lol its hard enough to get him to let me take a pic anyways :)

We are having a ps3, pizza, ice-cream over night party for him and his friend :) oh man lol at least its only one other boy. Even tho he already got his gifts hehe grandma sent a new ds light and made him open it wial she was on yahoo chat with him… but then that meant we had to give him are gift lol a game of course! hes been hooked on it. good choice mom :) love you! .. ohhh and hes bringing the school hamster home ./sigh.. i hope he brings extra food this time!

well have a good friday all :) and im going to continue in my sewing misadvantures :) some day i keep telling myself if i keep trying the stuff will look good!

god bless ;)

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