I can not believe its been over a week since my last post. Lots of things have been happening on the Urban Homestead. Where do I start.........
We got a car! Monday was spent getting everything set up to pick up the car my hubby picked out. We had to drive a little over an hour to get it which isnt terrible but that had me driving back in our other car, in the dark. on the interstate with nothing but big tractor trailers all around. Not fun!
Tuesday one of the kiddos had a doctors appointment, nothing serious just a regular thing and I had to get insurance stuff taken care of. It was a weird day that nothing worked out easy. I am sure you know what I mean.
Wednesday was getting caught up on things that I had put on the back burner because of the previous two days and then I started not feeling well. I did fix a big Valentines Day dinner for my hubby and my boy.
Thursday I felt terrible. No temperature but chills and fatigue. It was the boys turn to have an appointment. I did start feeling better and my hubby took me out to dinner. I would also like to add that it like rained every stinking day and we got over 3 inches total. My yard is a mess and the dogs were stir crazy with being inside so much and I was stir crazy dealing with the crazy dogs and feeding all the outside animals was a challenge to not slip and fall. The Farmers Almanac was spot on when they said we would have a very wet winter in Kentucky.
Friday things got better. I had to go to the dmv for the title stuff with the totaled car. No one was in line. It was so nice. In and out so fast. I ran errands with my oldest daughter who is married and doesnt live at home and we had fun and got some cute clothes.
Saturday Mr Ladybug had to work and he drove the new car. The kiddos went to school to work and study and I was home alone, with the exception of the crazy dogs, and didnt have to drop off anyone or pick them up and it was awesome! I mopped floors because of all the rain but you cant tell because it rained all day Saturday too but I didnt even care.
Sunday we ran to Lowes, Half Priced Books where I got the rest of the Little House on The Prairie tv show seasons I didnt have, ran by a tile store but they were closed and had lunch at our oldest daughters and her hubbies.
I had been spending about 18 hours a week in the car and that was reduced a little last week and I think we will see even less time in it this week. Yay!
I loved doing the two week grocery run. I really think the extra planning helped me not feel too overwhelmed this past week. I was able to find some good sale on a few things and am pretty stocked up on meat. So my budget should be fine. I have not had the time I would like to work on the apps that I earn my free gift cards on but that is not part of my budget just bonus mad money and I should get back on track with that this week.
Lets get to the important stuff, the garden. Its time to grab potatoes if you havent and let them start sprouting or the correct term is chitting but if I say that too fast it sounds bad. We have had ours our for a few weeks and they look great. As you can see the two doggie noses in the picture. One is a beagle nose and they other a german shepherd nose, They are quite pleased with the progress and were sad I paid attention so no one ran off with a potato.
We went to a seed starting class last Saturday and started bok choy and broccoli, they are the picture on the right corner. The one below it is my peas planted in toilet paper rolls I cut in half. Peas do not like to be transplanted and have their roots disturbed. This way in a week or two we can just dig a hole and pop them in the ground and are hoping to get at least a two week earlier crop. The bottom left are green onion seeds I saved from last year and the top left are three or four different kinds of cabbages. My Ladybug is very excited to try fermenting sauer kraut this year.
In the picture below you can see our lettuce, radish sprouts and the onions I clip on for cooking. We I need to thin the lettuce and so excited to have more things to eat that we grow ourselves so early in the season. If you have not started planing any of the things we have you still have plenty of time. We have also started cauliflower and Mr Ladybug has some experimental seeds I can not remember what they are.
You should be able to start your onion sets outside on March 1. I will call around and see if any of the seed places have any out yet. Since we have started ours from seed we will probably not get any unless we see some that we dont have. March 7th is when you can plant peas and spinach outside. This is all so exciting. With our temps being around the 70 degree mark today and tomorrow we will be doing some garden bed prep tonight and I hope to hang some laundry outside as well.
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