Conference Weekend...

182nd General Conference

This is one of my favorite weekends in during the year.  It's one we plan on staying in and watching t.v all day long.  Not doing chores all Saturday.  I try to plan on easy things like folding laundry, or going through boxes and organizing paperwork.  Something that takes little or no thinking.  That way I leave my brain open to hear and take in the words being spoken by those assigned to speak to us.  

I will make sure I have all the sessions on tevo so we can listen to them more than once over the next few weeks.  If I get called away, I won't feel that I get left out or short changed from any messages.  I do plan on planting carrots and peas tomorrow during breaks.  I even have a pair of jeans set aside just for the 'garden'... the holey ones... that are ok to get dirty.  

We did our shopping on Thursday so we would have it done prior to Saturday.  We also got the items needed to get our bedroom and office back in shape before Monday.  I moved our bedroom around.  It was cramping my style and I needed a change.  I moved the bed under the window... can't have it there for the winter.  But summer it will rock.  

I will update any goodies from Conference that 'click'.  

Keeping things moving forward.

Gardens??

No sooner do I get the grow box in and the ground ready to go and it's Utah.  Cold and overcast... Greenhouse or not, it's cold.  I have the squash and cucumbers started and they are cold and slow.

I'm pretty sure that it takes sunshine and warmth to make things grow.  I have been watering the starts and checking on them for 5 days and still nothing.  SIGH!!!

So... I am hoping and praying that we get a few days of sun to go along with our 50-60 plus degrees of weather, or I will have to bring all the starts in the house where we are 70 and no sunshine.

It is what it is I know, but it would help just to see the seed breaking through the soil line.  That way I would feel like I'm doing ok.  I want to plant the peas and carrots in the soil, but that is hard to do until I see the starts in the peat pots coming up just a tad.

Patience isn't my strength.  Gardens whether they be vegetables or flowers require some patience, and mine are pretty thin at this point in time.  Sigh... As I take a deep breath... and roll my shoulders, stretch my legs and arms and give it another day...

Will keep updating when I have more info or a pix or two to show improvements to the garden.

Right now... I get to play the waiting game.

Spring... Spring... Spring...

If I keep repeating this mantra it might make it so.  I am just in need of some real sunshine and warmth.  Utah is so good at going from winter to summer and back to winter again.  Yes, we have spring and fall... but don't have a nap or blink, because you will miss it.

I sound like a broken record... and a little down in the dumps, Spring does that to me some days.  I would love to wave my magic wand and have my house cleaned and painted fresh and new linens... Ready for Easter and all new and clean and pretty... oops... I just woke up and there is no magic wand.   So I'd better get back to cleaning my bedroom.

John helped me move the bed.  Es helped me move a few other things.  And I did the rest.  Right now the bed is piled high as well as the office next door with 'things'... I haven't even started the "cleaning" part or the dusting part.  YIKES!!!

I will update when I'm done....

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it says we can plants peas about a month before the last frost...
and Sterling usually says the last frost is the middle of May...
So... the middle of April...
but if we are willing to cover them a bit if we note frost...
we might harvest peas  ... Oh yum...
red potatoes in cream sauce with fresh peas....

Grandma Zina....  sigh...

I did red tators, but didn't harvest them until July... or so.

Well... Louise... What ya think???

We can double up and do peas and then fall peas... I have some fencing that could go up your fence and staple... or use some netting...

to make it pretty some sweet peas... too

Spring??? Garden???

I am never sure about the weather in this state... this past week it's been in the high 50's...   I'm ready to plant my garden.  The funny part about this we are so far away from the actual date of spring that to do anything would be killer.

So... This is what I'm going to do... Start things indoors.  Most plants take a minimum of 50 days from seeds...

Making a list of wants:  Tomato, sliced and roma, bell peppers, bush beans, cucumbers, crook necked squash and zucchini squash, maybe a cherry tomato too... I'm thinking maybe a little butter lettuce or spinach... I only have 1 grow box that is 4 x 8 but I can put some pots inside of the green house that we bought at Sam's Club.

The beans are best sown directly into the ground... I'm thinking some carrots, too. Soooooooo  What do I need to do to start these things in the 'green house'???   What ya think??  Any ideas on the subject? Or hints?  Or energy?  hahaha