The gardening adventures

SO, we finally finished digging the garden emplacement but we realised, last weekend, that it would cost over 200$ to get enough soil to fill it. Not that we don't have 200$ but we had other plans for this money. So we decided that the garden will wait until next summer. The thing is, I had some veggies already started so I had to plant them. I bought a couple bags of soil and plant them into some plastic bins we had laying around. At the moment, it seems to be ok but we'll see later on if it's working.

Of course, it's not always easy to work when you have this little clown running around you...

We were lucky enough to have some great temperature during the long weekend so I did a couple of horse rides and we had some good time outside.

Back to work tomorrow!

About squash, geese and hair....

I'm working on a new contract right now so I'm a bit busy. Which means it's possible that I blog a little less for about 2 months. But in only 3 days I've already found some really interesting stuff (I'm an archivist, I work with old papers, photos and stuff like that). I found my grand-father's name in the minutes of the Board  of directors of an old credit union. So now I know that he was a member of the board of directors of his job's credit union for about 20 years. And when I told my dad about it, he also told me that granpa was implied in a lot of other things like politics, church and such and that he was also on the board of directors of the credit union in his area. Since I was pretty young when he died, I was happy to learn more about him.

Last weekend, I cut my son's hair. They were way too long. I like long hair but he doesn't take care about it so he always looks like he just got out of bed. So I cut them. He didn't know they would be THAT short. But he liked it a lot after all. And I think he looks more mature, I really like it!

Yesterday I went for a ride with my horse and there was a bunch of geese in the field. You can't quite see it in the picture but they were really close to us. There's a small lake on the left (not shown in picture) so I guess that it's the perfect place for them.

Aaaaand those squash have showed their little nose this morning. I'm amazed by how fast it was. Yesterday, they were not there!!!

The gardening adventures: day 1

So we finally got to start the garden. Well no, we actually started to build it only. But let me tell you a little story first:

 Our house's previous owners once had a swimming pool. When they got rid of it, filling the hole didn't appear to be a good idea to them so they used it as an open sky incinerator. They also didn't think about telling us. So when we first wanted to fill the hole, we found out that said hole was deeper than we thought BECAUSE it was half full of junk. So, in order to fill it, we had to empty it first. Half of it was burnt/rotten leaves, the other half was....anything! We found, in no particular order: caned food, door knobs, random unidentified plastic, wood and metal pieces, keys and a complete rabbit cage. A big one. When we finally finished emptying it, we started to fill it with soil we took out of holes we were digging somewhere else. I won't tell you how wonderful this summer was, digging and filling holes. And we continued filling this hole for the last 3 years because it's a damn big hole! And it's still not full so guess where we're putting the soil we take out of the future garden?

 End of the hole story.

 So, yesterday I began with measuring the emplacement, to be sure it would be a perfect rectangle (if it wasn't, the boyfriend would wake up at night to freak out about it, true story). And then we started digging, with 3 dogs running around us all wet from crawling into the new river that grown in front of our house after the last 10 straight days of rain we had.

It was already getting pretty late, the diner was not ready, the sun was going down, so we stopped after only two trailer loads. We dug about 1/5 of it. Not a lot but at least, it's started.

And this is how the big hole looks like now.

I hope that we'll have some good temperature this weekend so we can end this and start to plant next week. Yeah, our soil is really sand-ish so we need to put good planting soil in the garden before we can grow anything.

I also got my passion fruit account set up so if you want to be featured on my site, I'd be happy to swap ads with you!

 

Gardening: building mode ON

My boyfriend is leaving on thursday night for New York and will be back only on sunday night. That will be a long weekend alone with much stuff to do! I want to do a garden this summer (it was a project when we bought the house....4 years ago) so I might start it this weekend if it's not too cold. See, our backyard is not really "growing things" friendly. It's a big pile of sand, like the whole village actually. St-Lambert-de-Lauzon is a huge sand pit! So I have a lot of work to do before being able to grow anything in there. Also, we're surrounded by the forest so I will have to secure it if I don't want to feed the little ones more than myself. Now I have to plan what I want before getting started and there's SO MANY possibilities that I absolutely don't what I want!


This is a great idea to work in your small garden without crashing everything.

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This one on top of the chicken coop is really a good idea to save space. But my backyard is large enough to have them both without pilling.

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This one is really cute but I think that I will need a fence higher that that.

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This is closer to what I need (sorry for the bad quality picture...)

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Ooooooooh! This could be cuter with a bright color painting but that's a neat and cheap idea! And we can have a ton of those pallets at my boyfriend's job. I think I found exactly what I will do.

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(I need to find cute dividers...imagine one you like here. By the way, as you can see, my blog is still a work in progress)

Now, remember that book I told you about? Well, why not fill up another list today?

The list of all whom I am

1.   I am a mother
2.   I am a girlfriend
3.   I am an animal lover and defender
4.   I am an archivist
5.   I am impatient to see the summer comming
6.   I am a single kid
7.   I am a not so good friend
8.   I am a loner
9.   I am a cocooner
10. I am a procrastinator
11. I am a french speaking person
12. I am not very patieny
13. I am happy in the woods
14. I am a dreamer
15. I am a HUGE fan of Duran Duran
16. I am really cheap. I mean REALLY. I hate wasting my money on things. But,
17. I am a compulsive buyer. But I only buy things on sale...
18. I am an adult with a child-ish mind
19. I am a nostalgic
20. I am happy of my new blog and followers!

Have a nice day!