A little Hope

Getting ready for seed

Its Spring, really you wouldn't know it stepping outside. Seems winter cold just wants to stay. Today at least the wind has stopped howling. Yet you step outside to that beautiful blue sky and the breeze of winter wraps around your body.

So steps take you to the greenhouse and you step in and breathe dirt humidity and the chance of spring. Taking a little seed from a packet, moving it into a mixture of dirt, and water knowing it will slowly grow and be wanting to go in the ground yielding a summer dinner, in the warm sun on a deck.  It is a journey for sure getting your hands in the dirt, as you have enjoyed your winter and you are longing to see color, and enjoy warmth around your body. Not only does a greenhouse give you hope of days ahead, it fulfills a a place deep inside of Hope, hope its a hard beautiful thing easy to let go but even more fulfilling to to take in the steps and hard work to fulfill your hope. A yearning many don't get to take into a life. With days being filled of everyday work, cleaning running kids, doing for others. It seems our world has lost a little of that precious gift of Hope. It should be instilled in our children our friends people we care about. Without Hope you lose a little piece of life. You lose a notion to Strive for things that are out of your reach, you lose memories of a life that should be shared and passed down. 

Garden on the farm waiting to be planted



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So on this day if spring hasn't quite reached you yet, and you are yearning for spring, and peeking to the days of summer ahead, I urge you even if ts a cup of dirt and one seed. Plant that seed, let it give you a little hope.

It doesn't have to be a seed of plants or veggies, a seed of something you have wanted to achieve, Plant it today and watch it grow daily a little hope each day will turn your life a little each day, and it plants a seed in your soul to grow.


~~~Have a Beautiful day......Annette

Last winter day?

    Good March 4th Morning, as I look at the snow on the ground and the wind on my face this morning, I couldn't help but thinking that at the end of this week it will be gone, and we will be feeling spring in the air. I loved the winter this year, but I am ready for spring, and getting my hands in the dirt, seed packets are all around my work area, hubby and I making last plans on the last seed order, and this Saturday I should be putting the first of the Lettuce in the ground, how good does that sound?  

Fresh salads  soon to come and no more store bought and spending the time trying to find lettuce that isn't browning making sure it is non GMO etc, grown right from our land mmmm. Then come the tomatoes, peas, cucumbers oh yummy! 

I am gonna be trying this new seed planting 4-6 weeks before last hard frost but of course also plant the way I know. I will share with ya the results. Also doing a cucumber tower over the lettuce, so much experimenting this year I can't wait. 

Is there anything new you are trying this year? Something new that isn't your norm? How about new seeds? My newest seed for me to try this year will be the Japaneses Cucumber, and some new Herbs. Hubby is gonna invest in Stevia this year, can't wait to try out some recipes with that. 

So I am ending this winter day blog post with thoughts of spring and planting and looking forward to summer harvest. 

Have a beautiful day!

.............PS Ya I know there is more snow in my soon future, but I can block that for now, and enjoy this little glimpse of spring the end of this week and weekend.