Garden before and after plus a huge tomato

May 2011

today

today

I was out in my garden today and I thought I would update the progress of my little annual patch I planted. As you can see in the May photo, not much is there. The flowers were struggling to grow in our cold spring. But summer is here now and the flower bed is bursting with color.

1 1/2 pound tomato

Next up is my HUGE tomato. This one is going onto my plate tonight. I will share this with Mr. Farmer in a caprese salad. I love this time of year. Our meals are so local... lettuce, pea pods, beans, cukes, tomatoes, herbs, berries, cherries. Tomorrow I am going to Castle Rock to pick up the butchered hog Mr. Farmer bought at the 4H livestock auction. Yeah! He also purchased chickens and a turkey. Mr. Farmer wants me to fix the turkey for a meal during the wheat harvest. Yummy! Turkey and all the fixin's.

Bedroom before and after

before

after

after

This is my oldest daughter's bedroom in our 1942 farmhouse. Wild isn't it! As a gift for her sweet sixteen, I painted her walls and bought new bedding. (Did you see that!... I bought bedding. A quilter buying bedding! Just about broke my heart.) After college, when she officially moved out, I couldn't wait to open up a paint can and get to work. The room was converting into a guest room/ quilt storage room. I painted it a beautiful green color and moved our bedroom furniture in place. I like the new room. I am debating painting the oak furniture. I love painted furniture and I am tired of the oak color of wood. Maybe this summer, after harvest.
   This same daughter likes to sleep in this room when she is home as the bed mattress is a new memory foam type and it is VERY comfortable. And you can see, I have have not completed the window treatments. I am not sure what I want.