the day after

is warm apparently with rain
i am so very glad that christmas is over.
i have so much to do, as this will be the first weekend in over a month that bernie is home
tomorrow we will go to carol's, which we were supposed to have done yesterday (canceled as we had ice warnings... and we do take ice warnings seriously here)

today i have to go to the post office, pet store, food store, and a few other things, not much though

we caught another two mice, some barn cats i got.....
we're using traps
and setting two traps a night and getting two mice a night
put 'more mouse traps' on the list too for today
even with bait and traps and CATS......i got a feeling we're over run

now that it's after the dread holiday.......... i can go back to my drafting table without guilt and start drawing again....and making dolls and ornaments and all that

we did use the halloween tree as a sort of 'holiday tree'
i liked it
i saw an all white tree in town with silver, pearl and clear ornaments on it....and white lights
i loved it

now it's seed catalog season, and starting the garden with optimism season, i like THIS season
i am not really crazy about 'digging in the dirt with ticks' season....... nor 'too much produce and fruit flies' season
but i do like looking over the perfect pictures in the seed catalogs and dreaming
and ordering
and those seedman get me every single time......between the perfect pictures and the glowing (and absolutely optimistic and encouraging) descriptions....i hand over my money every time.....i got half a refridge full of seeds!
and out of that half a fridge.....i grow about 250-400 seeds a year.........hahahaha
oh man
mostly heirlooms, but this year we are getting some hybrids for some notoriously difficult in this area to grow........... like eggplants

i am going to try starting eggplants in quart sized pots and growing them a bit coolish until set out....i am also thinking of doing something like that for peppers only growing THEM with bottom heat in the cool basement...... i am aiming for decent root growth, and EARLY yields
they always seem to take forever outside
i may tent them too out there
as i need good yields of peppers and eggplant this year.....
beans and brussels sprouts would be nice too

and i am going to refresh the dirt in the deck planters as well...... that's where i put the snow peas, and the lettuces and mixed greens such as mache and spinach
i find better harvests with those sort of crops on the deck for some really odd reason

i got a lot of work in the garden ahead of me this year.... bernie didn't listen when we were cleaning pens, and now it's frozen and or wet
so i have to scrape the beds and attempt to redo them myself

he doesn't know it yet but i am going to invest in some good tools for my sized body
not the old crap that i been forced to use
and a HOE THAT IS ACTUALLY SHARP!
imagine that!

ok so now i am going to get an leftover egg roll and another cup of coffee
and then get a fast shower to go to town