Emily enjoying the rain
One section of our garden
Rain barrel
I feel like I have been running a marathon lately. Between farmer's market, softball, home repairs, and everything else I have no time for anything. As you can see from the last time I blogged it has been a while. I have the day off from farmer's market since it is raining, AGAIN. I thought I would catch up on this thing.
I have been getting very little sleep lately because of all the baking. I am driving myself hard this year as we have a bunch of home repairs to do so we need the income. We are having a guy come in this week, between the rains, to put siding on our dormers and replace the 2 windows up there. He is also replacing the whatever you call it on the peaks of the house. Oh, and if you come over, do NOT pull in the driveway. It is sloped and crumbled to the point it will scrape the bottom of your car. We can't decide if we should patch it or have a new driveway put in. Either way it will have to wait until July to be done.
Let see. I have harvested radishes, snow peas, and lettuce from the garden. Everything seems to be growing fairly slow for me. It is probably the weather. I did discovered another benefit from growing raised beds, they only hold so much water then spits out the rest. Our poor neighbor had a raging torrent of rain running through the back side of his garden, I wish him luck but it doesn't look good.
Our water tank has been full to overflowing for days now. I could have lined the entire back of our house with rain barrels and not had enough to hold the water. Fortunately we only have the usual streams running through our basement, unlike the unfortunate neighbors down the way who have the excess water, amongst other things, spewing out of their basement toilet.
On a lighter note, I did get a kick out of Alex, age 13 a couple of nights ago. Keeping in mind we have lived in the same house for 3 1/2 years now. Mike and I were watching TV when we heard a couple of loud knocks on the bathroom door. Naturally I thought it was Gino wanting in the bathroom since his sister was in it. Then Alex calls from inside the bathroom in an angry voice, "Someone locked me in the bathroom." What was my response you ask "there isn't a lock on the bathroom door" I utter through the hysterical laughter of Mike and myself. She was trying to push the door open instead of pulling.
The latest news is that mom has decided to sell her house and the 15 or so acres. She finally realized it was too much for a widow in her 70s that had a stroke to handle. Humm..... really mom, you think so. She will be moving into her rental house here in Knoxville. She had it on the market but it didn't sell so I guess God wants her to have it instead. This will be a good thing but quite an adjustment for all. I will miss the wild berries, fruit trees, grapes, open spaces, woods, creek, quiet stillness and dark nights. I remember dark nights before I moved to town. There is nothing like a cool summer night laying in your bed with fresh crisp sheets covering you up. The sheers in your bedroom floating with the breeze as the wind grabs them floating them toward you. In the distance you can hear frogs croaking and the cicadas chirping. You can look out the window and see lighting bugs, so many it looks like the stars have fallen and joined you. The moon is bright and the stars illuminate the sky. I will miss all of this but I hope someday to have a place like this of my own. A place where Mike and I can have our own memories.
I must go now, though the rain is a bit much at least I get my Birthday free to get some things done. This must be God's gift to me.
