joyce

Yesterday was a good day.

Hope called in the morning, and I got a shower and got dressed and headed over to the parents' (and it takes five minutes now! Glee.) We headed into Burlington, wandered Old Navy for a bit, got her hair cut, ran some other errands, got lunch (wings and homemade potato chips, noms), wandered a bit more, then headed home for some Scrabble and Yahtzee. Then I headed home home, where Jeff and I built a compost bin. Val made dinner - beef and noodles - and we went to bed early, where I tucked up underneath my new electric blanket (so warm) and read a whole bunch of Coop.

It was a great day. And Faith will be home tonight or early tomorrow morning. Yay! :)

One of the first things up on the list is gardening. :)

I want to try no-till gardening. That means that over this winter, I need to work on getting a good amount of compost built up.

I also need to figure out what we want to grow, when they need to get started, and whether we'll want to start from seeds or seedlings. Off the top of my head, I figure we'll want (eventually, we might not start with all this)...

- tomatoes
- onions
- garlic
- potatoes
- green peppers
- red peppers
- cucumbers
- eggplant
- zucchini
- yellow squash
- strawberries (I'd like to try everbearing or day neutral)
- raspberries
- blackberries
- blueberries
- spinach
- collards
- lettuce

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- asparagus
- green beans
- baby watermelon
- cabbage, cauliflower, and broccoli

Anyone have suggestions for what's easiest to get started with?

Also, we think we want chickens. Which is going to take a lot of research.