Springtime!

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. ~Henry David Thoreau

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and a large Garden. ~Abraham Cowley, The Garden, 1666

Some of you know that I long for the country life.  I want a big garden and chickens and fruit trees and a milk cow.  For now, though, I will settle for my crops in pots and my "herd" of worms!  

Crops in Pots

I am growing my garden in containers on the front porch!  Right now, I have strawberries in hanging baskets, an assortment of herbs (in pots and in the ground), peas, pole beans and lettuce and my  tomatoes are on their way (from Seed Savers).  I have a shady back yard and have never been able to have a garden there.  I decided that enough is enough!  My front porch and yard are south-facing and wonderfully sunny!  I'll post some photos soon!

Vermicomposting

Worms eat my garbage!  I have a worm compost bin.  I have a herd of Red Wiggler worms in a Rubbermaid bin.  They take care of our family kitchen waste.  When they finish with it, I am left with the most wonderful compost for mixing in to my soil and for fertilizing plants.  For more information, check out this site (it is a UNL site... just for you Sweetie)!

Eden Loves Lady Bugs

Another little sample of Eden's cuteness!

Catfishing On The James

I thought you all may like to check out Brandon's fishing movie. He had a good time putting this together!

Eden's Super Why Dance

Eden is dancing to the theme song of the PBS show Super Why. So funny!!

Camping at Mutton Top Cabin- January 2008

Fun around the dinner table! We cooked on the wood cook stove all weekend and

we ate VERY well!

Camping with toddlers!

Blake helped out by chopping wood for us!

We had a beautiful bonfire.

Eden.

Evelyn.

The view from Mutton Top cabin.

Eden and Evelyn.

Inside Mutton Top cabin.

The dirty little girl! I couldn't keep her clean!

Faithful followers of Wits End all over the country are up in arms!  I am being pressured to do a better job of posting regularly. 

I feel the need to issue a public apology for my neglect of the blog.  I have not been just sitting around, though!  Let me tell you all a little bit about my recent activities...

Eden's Garden, my childbirth education business, is now up an running.  I am teaching my second couple in private classes and my group classes are scheduled to begin March 1st!  I have secured a beautiful location at The Wellness Village at Starling and will be teaching under the umbrella of Birth and Baby Kneads.  Here is my classroom!

I am also mothering a very active toddler (who is napping at the moment)!  Eden is now 15 months old and is a little tornado!  She is keeping in touch with her mid-western roots!  She has grown up so much in the past couple of months.  I can hardly believe that she is the same little baby I brought home from the hospital!  She walks, runs, climbs (on EVERYTHING), talks incessantly (though we can only understand some of it), and uses about 20 ASL (American Sign Language) signs.  She loves to dance and sing and her favorite music is anything by Earth Wind and Fire!  

I will post again with some pics from our last camping trip (back in January) and some cute pics of the little one!

Christmas!

On Christmas Eve, we went to the Blake's house for food and presents.  We had a great time, but the old story didn't hold true...  a mouse WAS stirring!

Eden got a Xylophone!  She has so much fun playing beautiful music on it.

Eden loved smelling Grand-mamma's perfume!

A couple of weeks before Christmas, our friends from Hampton came up to go see the "real" Santa Claus.  Eden and Noah waited patiently to meet him, and then...

Eden lost it!  Oh well, there's always next year!