I have know this was coming for a little while now, the hubby enjoyed becoming best friends with denial. The house we are currently living in is being foreclosed on. So we are moving on and yes for those of you who remember it was just this Spring we moved in, 5 months ago. I knew it was going to happen, someone had come to the house and had asked us if we were renters and did we have a lease. There were also two drive by's of a car who paused briefly enough for a picture of the front of the house. That combined by the fact that we live in a town hard hit by the economy I knew it was just around the corner.
So what did I do, start looking and altering plans. I looked for a new home for our chickens and a new home for us. I also didn't put in a fall garden, scared that all my hard work would go to waste. Well the front yard looks bare and sad with no garden and the backyard is quite. We found a great couple that took Marge and Ruby even though they turned out to be Mark and Robert. That's right roosters, I had no idea. They didn't fight, got along great with Whiskey, didn't crow and let me pet them and pick them up. I guessed we would have figured it out. It turns out the couple who came to get them knew exactly where we had gotten them, a farmer now known for selling all roosters as sex link hens. He had actually sold them their first birds, 23 of them in total to bad 22 were roosters!!!! They were so kind to take them one for them and one for a neighbor. We found a great family who needed a coop, I told the hubby he should start a side business as a chicken coop builder, he said he was going to pass.
We were so lucky to find a house that had just been put up for rent that is exactly what we need. We will now be living down in Oak Island where the hubby works. I will miss this little town of Southport and our amazing neighbors. We loved being able to walk around everyday. On the other hand we will now be a LOT closer to the beach, as in walking distance so that will be nice. The hubby signs the new lease today and we move in soon, two weeks.
I know there are a lot of families going through something very similar and it is just so sad. You end up loosing so much, there are programs out there. Cash for Keys is one of them, unfortunately you have to wait until you are forced out by the bank to really get any help. For us that wasn't an option, we weren't going to wait until the bank said get out and then rush to see if we could find a place to live just so we could get reimbursed for some of our losses.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
I'm BACK.
For those of you check in, sorry for the long absence. This pregnancy has been a bit more challenging than my other two. I am usually one of those lucky pregnant women who hit the second trimester and feel amazing. By now I am usually driving the hubby crazy with all my cleaning, organizing and project lists. But this time around I am lucky if I get some food on the table for everyone twice a day. The good news is each day I seem to feel a little better than the last.
We are managing to get our homeschool/unschooling life organized. We got a bunch of new art supplies, we have been good about making frequent trips to the library and following Sailor's request we are holding school at home. We have been following the Oak Meadow Kindergarten program. She also loves to do show and tell and have recess but I will be back with more on all of that later this week.
For now thank you for being patient as our Summer here ran a little long.
We are managing to get our homeschool/unschooling life organized. We got a bunch of new art supplies, we have been good about making frequent trips to the library and following Sailor's request we are holding school at home. We have been following the Oak Meadow Kindergarten program. She also loves to do show and tell and have recess but I will be back with more on all of that later this week.
For now thank you for being patient as our Summer here ran a little long.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Lack of Blogging
I am sorry I have been so absent lately. I had promised myself I would be here at least twice a week and lately I have been lucky to get one post in every couple of weeks. But I must say I have two really good reasons for not blogging lately.
The first:
I just LOVE this and found it through Kelly over at Our Lincoln Log, I am truly a prisoner of summer in all aspects of my life right now which you would know if you came to my house. I am on a sort of mommy strike at the moment. Leaving my wonderful husband to pick up the pieces or at least the laundry. You can click on the button to come and take the POS pledge.
Reason #2:
This one is even better though. I or I guess I should say We are expecting baby #3!!!! That's right I am pregnant again and we are sooo excited. We had decided to leave it up to the fertility gods to see if we would have baby #3. Truth be told I was really worried it wouldn't happen with Hudson still nursing during the day and night. But Artemis must have been looking down on us because I am 8 weeks and due around March 18, 2010. We have already met with the local homebirth midwife. Their is only one in our area, thank goodness she is amazing and we fell in love with her when we met her for the first time. North Carolina has horrible laws regarding midwifery and we are lucky to have anyone willing to practice here. Hopefully though the Big Push and NC Friends of Midwives will be able to change all that. As for me this has been my easiest first trimester as of yet but I am lacking all motivation and I mean to do ANYTHING. My poor kids, lucky for all of us the grandparents will be in town on Wednesday to help out for a week. In the mean time I will be hiding in my air conditioned house most likely in my PJ's allowing the kids to watch as much TV as they want and praying the hubby will cook diner, clean up this mess, put the kids to bed and tell me how beautiful I look even though I don't have the energy to even take a shower. I love him so much. I promise by fall and the arrival of my second trimester I will be here on a much more regular schedule. Until then enjoy the dog days of Summer.
The first:
I just LOVE this and found it through Kelly over at Our Lincoln Log, I am truly a prisoner of summer in all aspects of my life right now which you would know if you came to my house. I am on a sort of mommy strike at the moment. Leaving my wonderful husband to pick up the pieces or at least the laundry. You can click on the button to come and take the POS pledge.
Reason #2:
This one is even better though. I or I guess I should say We are expecting baby #3!!!! That's right I am pregnant again and we are sooo excited. We had decided to leave it up to the fertility gods to see if we would have baby #3. Truth be told I was really worried it wouldn't happen with Hudson still nursing during the day and night. But Artemis must have been looking down on us because I am 8 weeks and due around March 18, 2010. We have already met with the local homebirth midwife. Their is only one in our area, thank goodness she is amazing and we fell in love with her when we met her for the first time. North Carolina has horrible laws regarding midwifery and we are lucky to have anyone willing to practice here. Hopefully though the Big Push and NC Friends of Midwives will be able to change all that. As for me this has been my easiest first trimester as of yet but I am lacking all motivation and I mean to do ANYTHING. My poor kids, lucky for all of us the grandparents will be in town on Wednesday to help out for a week. In the mean time I will be hiding in my air conditioned house most likely in my PJ's allowing the kids to watch as much TV as they want and praying the hubby will cook diner, clean up this mess, put the kids to bed and tell me how beautiful I look even though I don't have the energy to even take a shower. I love him so much. I promise by fall and the arrival of my second trimester I will be here on a much more regular schedule. Until then enjoy the dog days of Summer.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 20, 2009
July Garden Update
Last time I did a garden update we had harvested 5.25 pounds of food, we are now up to 43.9 pounds!!! Thanks to some big juicy watermelons, some delicious cantaloupes and the amazing corn we ate for 3 days straight. We are still getting handfuls of tomato's and more cucumbers than we can keep up with.
Every time a sunflowers blooms it seems to be bigger than the last. They are about the size of Sailor's head as you can see.
The bees seem to enjoy them more than any of us. They are always there covered in pollen.
Our second planting of corn seems to be doing well. We will definitely be doing three Garden Patch Grow boxes of corn next year if this planting goes as well as our first one.
We have a few more watermelons on the vine almost ready to be picked, we also have 1 cantaloupe left. The best part is when I went out to weed and clean up the garden the other day I noticed 4 new baby watermelons starting to grow on new vines growing off the main stems. So it looks like we will get more watermelons come August, the kids could not be happier. Which surprises me seeing as they may turn into watermelons any day now but I guess you can't ever get tired of eating watermelons.
Here is our harvest from yesterday. The peppers have already been grilled and eaten and most of the tomato's went into a salad for lunch. I just love those pear tomato's. This was the only watermelon that grew in a kinda funky shape, all our others where pretty perfectly shaped, it looks like a gourd to me but still tasted delicious. The cucumber has to be sent to a neighbors house before I start seeing cucumbers in my dreams.
The only sad gardening news to report is the pumpkins, which were doing so well just a week or so ago. Well now they have some sort of blight or mildew that seems to be killing them off. I am still going to be hopeful though, I will just be so sad if we don't get any pumpkins. I also pulled our all our bush bean plants, I was sick of watching them suck up water with no beans in sight.
Every time a sunflowers blooms it seems to be bigger than the last. They are about the size of Sailor's head as you can see.
The bees seem to enjoy them more than any of us. They are always there covered in pollen.
Our second planting of corn seems to be doing well. We will definitely be doing three Garden Patch Grow boxes of corn next year if this planting goes as well as our first one.
We have a few more watermelons on the vine almost ready to be picked, we also have 1 cantaloupe left. The best part is when I went out to weed and clean up the garden the other day I noticed 4 new baby watermelons starting to grow on new vines growing off the main stems. So it looks like we will get more watermelons come August, the kids could not be happier. Which surprises me seeing as they may turn into watermelons any day now but I guess you can't ever get tired of eating watermelons.
Here is our harvest from yesterday. The peppers have already been grilled and eaten and most of the tomato's went into a salad for lunch. I just love those pear tomato's. This was the only watermelon that grew in a kinda funky shape, all our others where pretty perfectly shaped, it looks like a gourd to me but still tasted delicious. The cucumber has to be sent to a neighbors house before I start seeing cucumbers in my dreams.
The only sad gardening news to report is the pumpkins, which were doing so well just a week or so ago. Well now they have some sort of blight or mildew that seems to be killing them off. I am still going to be hopeful though, I will just be so sad if we don't get any pumpkins. I also pulled our all our bush bean plants, I was sick of watching them suck up water with no beans in sight.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Sunflowers & Pumkins
Well the sunflowers did make a grand appearance like fireworks for the 4Th of July. We even have a new raised bed of them to make sure that we are in sunflowers through the fall.
Here is my favorite, it is also currently our tallest. We have yet to measure it but it is taller than me and I am pretty tall.
The pumpkins vines are growing like crazy, I am glad that I separated them from the rest of the garden. With any luck and some good pumpkin weather we will be picking our own from the front yard this year. Hopefully with enough to spare for friends and neighbors.
As far as the rest of the garden; we are still swimming in tomato's and cucumbers. We got some decent peppers though a little on the small size. We are also being overrun by herbs, so if you are local will you please come pick some. We have 3 more watermelons ready to be picked and a few cantaloupes a few days away from perfection. My dad is in town and we are hopping to smuggle a cantaloupe to my mom via his plane ride back next week. The best news; a second planting of corn is starting to grow like crazy, so we should get in one more good harvest.
Here is my favorite, it is also currently our tallest. We have yet to measure it but it is taller than me and I am pretty tall.
The pumpkins vines are growing like crazy, I am glad that I separated them from the rest of the garden. With any luck and some good pumpkin weather we will be picking our own from the front yard this year. Hopefully with enough to spare for friends and neighbors.
As far as the rest of the garden; we are still swimming in tomato's and cucumbers. We got some decent peppers though a little on the small size. We are also being overrun by herbs, so if you are local will you please come pick some. We have 3 more watermelons ready to be picked and a few cantaloupes a few days away from perfection. My dad is in town and we are hopping to smuggle a cantaloupe to my mom via his plane ride back next week. The best news; a second planting of corn is starting to grow like crazy, so we should get in one more good harvest.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
4th of July
We had a great 4th here in Southport. There was a parade, an arts and crafts sale, music, car show, food and fireworks. We got to have a nice little BBQ with friends and eat lots of good food. Though I seemed to only remember the camera for the parade.
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