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!

A horse and a list

hi! I promised you that I would introduce you to my horse, so here we go:

This is Dyvel, the big, fat, grey Dyvel.

And when he's up he looks a bit like this, with me riding him.

This picture was taken around the first week of march. And I haven't ridden him since then until this Monday. He had a problem walking so I let him recover, gave him natural product to help him and got on his back for the first time 2 days ago. Let me tell you something: my horse is not an easy horse.

When I first met him, it took me 2 months to be able to ride him for over 15 minutes without having him trying to kick me off. It took me another 4 months before I was able to ride outside and another month to be able to take him away from the stable. And by "away" I mean where he couldn't see it, which means about 500 ft away, in the woods...After that, he started to trust me a lot more an we did lots of trails during the whole summer. But Dyvel is Dyvel, super nervous, afraid of anything and everything, so it's never easy and relaxing with him. We had some really nice trails but they were not so frequent. Do I need to tell you that getting back on him after over a month was almost a mess? And since I am such a cowboy, like some people like to say, I wanted to go on a trail right away so I rode him outside. It took us over an hour to do less than 1 km, including getting back to the barn. I feel like i'm starting over all the work I've done with him and it discourages me. I still feel that he trust me, he didn't try to kick me off, he was just so nervous that he could have made me fall off if he'd panicked, but that all the desensizitation I've done I will have to do it again. Oh well! I love my horse so I will do it, of course, but it's not easy.

I got a book a few years ago. "The book of my lists" which is a free traduction of the french title, is, as you could easily find out, a book with lists in it. It simply gives you ideas of lists you can do. Since I never got to fill it, I will do it here. And maybe you could do your own and share it with me? I'll start with

the list of the things i would like to discover someday

• The winning loterie numbers
• The perfect house
• The secret of my grand'ma's tapioca
• A pirate treasure
• A really important archives that nobody new about (i'm an archivist, so finding THE one is my dream)

What about you?

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It's a great big beautiful saturday!

Remember that song from tomorrow land at Disney World? Well anyway, it's a beautiful ans sunny day, pretty windy but still beautiful. So I'm feeling like doing a colored theme post. Let's go with green! OK?

green hoops

comfy bedroom

green house

horses

shoes

beautiful hair

petticoat

fancy dress and converse

bracelet

So, that's about it for today. Have a nice saturday! What do you plan to do today?