Snow Day 2012

We finally got a snow day here in our little corner of the Garden State.It was far too cold outside for me to enjoy playing, so I made donuts and hot apple cider

Farmer Dad took our Princess outside to play while he shoveled the driveway.

We stayed in for the rest of the day,watching movies on Netflix and eating
 Croque Monsieur and homemade New England Clam Chowder.

Snuggled under blankets keeping warm, taking turns picking our favorite movies.
How did you spend your snow day? Didn't have snow? How was the weather in your little corner of the world? I must admit, I had a pile of seed catalogs tucked next to me to flip thru as we hung out.
I am excited for spring..big dreams of big changes here..how about you?

Happy New Year

It feels like it has been snowing all 2011.

It has been cold,cold,cold.

The hope of Spring is in the air ...

the seeds have begun to arrive.

Did you order anything new this year?

We have melted

There is no more pretty white snow here in

our corner of the Garden State.

Bits of green are coming up everywhere, although I could not

find a snowdrop anywhere. Farmer Dad and I took a long walk

out about the yard on Sunday after his Birthday Celebration

on Saturday. Did you hear the guys jamming out in our basement

where you live? I took Princess and vacated the premises for a few hours.

I came home to quiet and the house was still clean.

Men do grow up! Who knew? ;-)

We also spent some time trying to figure out what seeds we may need to order

for this year.There is a lot of activity on the fruit trees and my forsythia is wakingMy beloved Fig tree is growing up towards the sun and looking happy.

A bit of snow was followed by freezing rain

So instead of being able to make snowmen, and build igloos,
we could only scamper and skibble about over the bit of ice and
snow. We managed to have a bit of fun.
It was nice to get outside on this lovely sunny day.
It was 27 degrees, and the weather people say that is the
warmest we will see here for a while. Princess and I will be inside checking out
more seed companies and looking at This Old House Magazine which
I borrowed from our library. They spotlight a woman in Oregon and her
chickens and such and I want her chicken coop! I am green with envy over
her water cisterns as well. I had several people ask me here and at Blotanical
about which seed companies I prefer. We usually order from Johnny's
and Baker, although we keep our eyes open to new things we would like to
grow. We try to keep it organic and heirloom, and we're happy to say these
two companies help keep it that way.Who's your fave?