Garden Update

Week 4

Things are coming along.

How many tomatoes can you find??

Our Corn..it's coming along

Leaf bunching the start of a cauliflower head

And here is the Orange tree with it's new buddy. K wanted to plant a seed as well. Well that seed didn't seem like it was going to sprout. Well last week it finally did. Only took the 2nd seed 3 weeks to figure out what it wanted to do. Next week The trees will say good-bye to each other as I need to get the 2nd tree it's own pot now. The neat thing is that both seeds came from the same orange and yet they are growing differently. Should be fun to watch over the years.

Garden Update

Another update. Things are growing and growing and growing. K is have a blast learning about where food comes from. We just planted some carrot seeds in the far back corner so watch out for carrot sprouts in the next update.

And we have fruit...We hope to get more but if not 3 works for us.

And here is our orange tree..look over to the new sprout that K wanted to plant. Going to have to pull out another container and move it over so it'll have it's own seeding pot. Our Orange is 3 wks old. seedling is days old. sprouted yesterday

*Seedlings are doing well. Getting ready for transplant into bigger pots for the next 3 weeks of indoor growing time. in 2 weeks we will start the Harding them off to go outside full time. Wish me luck for a nice crop of tomatoes,cucumbers (lost most from them from a dropped lid)

and Peppers

I'm reading...

I am reading this. Not because K is bad because I want to learn more as a parent. I firmly believe that a parent should always want to learn so that we can approve on our parenting skills. One thing I know for sure is that with a growing child that no 2 days are the same. With knowing that I want to keep learning for K and our future children and future grandchildren etc..

Sometimes we call it a night

Sometimes things just don't get picked up at the end of the night.

(I haven't taught our pooch to put away her toys yet)

Getting REAL with Love times two

Garden update

Look how things are growing.....

The cucumbers have been moved to larger pots..

4 more weeks for the cucumbers, peppers & tomatoes (below) and they will start the move into the garden.

The orange tree is growing..1 full week sprouted

Things are growing. Onions now have a 3rd leaf growing, everything else is just getting bigger

My point of view..touchy subject read with an open mind

Isaac and I were talking money tonight and we started talking about the difference of living paycheck to paycheck and we both agree that it's a choice of lifestyle. In both situations there are choices that YOU have to make for your money. Your money is just that YOUR money and you have to tell your money where you want it to go. Do you really need those sports channels? is it a want? so many people these days aren't connected to the difference of WANT and NEEDS. I know the past 5 years have been a huge learning experience for us but the last 2 years were a true wake up call when hubs job was threatened. It was the 1st time when we we're thankful for our choices that we made the 3 years prior. We didn't have a ton saved and lots of prayer but we had enough to keep us from not drowning. We had to start all over again but even when we had unemployment we set aside something. Yeah maybe it was $10 a week but it was a start. I am happy to say that we are past what we had back at the start in savings that helped us make it through our 1.5 years worth of FURLOUGHS. We are because we Choose to live paycheck to paycheck with our savings being 1 of our bills..........................................



There is a difference between living paycheck to paycheck... Let me explain there is a HAVE to and then there is a CHOICE to.

Now these are my thoughts and only my thoughts................OK Hubs as well.................

Living paycheck to paycheck because you have to = your bills are MAXED out or your living a lavish lifestyle for your income. Now don't get me wrong there are times when things pop up and we have to live paycheck to paycheck (illness/unemployment) because we have to but there better come some downgrades in some of the WANTS so you can lower your bills to income ratio.

Living paycheck to paycheck by choice = Basically living with a budget that includes setting money into a savings fund for emergency but never touching the emergency unless it is truly an emergency. And No going out to dinner or buying those cute shoes are NOT an emergency.

But do make sure to include an spending allowance even for the adults. Hubs and I are not ashamed to admit that we both have allowances

Garden Update

Just another update on the garden

Week 3 for seedlings

And here is our New growth..What do you think it is???
Yup your right it's an Orange tree sprout

Here is the garden right after I got the 1st of the plants in. More have since gone in; you'll see in the next updated photo

Getting ready for the garden

Check out our seedlings

Week 1

Week 2

Well the garden bug hit me last year but it was late in the season to really plant much. So this year I had a little more planning but I still got my seeds started a couple weeks later then I wanted to. You see FLORIDA got insanely cold this winter and so I waited until we had at least 2 weeks of warm weather before I got the seeds started. So what's the problem your planting inside to start. Well our heaters in this house are not the greatest so we had a ton of bundling going on for months until the cold vanished. Well it finally did and now we have our little seedlings.

Yes I start my seeds in egg flat cartons. I find it easy to start them and then I can just tear off each pod and plant them. I will pot plant these in about 2 more weeks (4 weeks) and give them some more room and makes it easier to hard them off for planting outside. WISH me luck that we'll get something from all this work.






in this bunch we have Cucumber, Peppers and Tomatoes

Look who lost a tooth

His FIRST tooth that is.

Chill'n out showing off his NEW smile in my sunglasses

Showing off his cash from the tooth fairy.

K your growing up so fast but each and every day you make mama and daddy so proud of who you are. We love you KK.

Dog + short fence = TALL FENCE INSTALL

Well since Bella can jump the fence we thought now would be a good time to get that fence up for safety for K and also Bells at the same time keep the two of them out of our garden. More on the garden later.

This was going to be a weekend project but due to a rain storm that lasted FOREVER (hours) we had 1 day to get the post set before the storm and then it was wait time until we could move on. Finally Monday once hubs got home from work he got busy with K finishing the fence. Enjoy!

*Fence was in the plans before this just hadn't gotten around to it yet. As the side yard was turning into our garden space <-- Watch out for garden updates