Annual Trip

Next weekend is our annual trip down to Stark Bros. Nursery in Louisiana, MO. We will be buying one tree and some perennials. I have also been contemplating looking into getting a hydrangea bush. They intrigue me. Depending on the pH of the soil, hydrangeas can be pink or blue. And I really do love the clusters of flowers they produce. I am just not sure where I would put another bush. I do need to think about what sorts of plants I want to get this year. I just love this trip! It is always a blast!

Paying It Off

We are slowly chipping away at our debt. I am hoping to get another debt paid off this week. By August, we should have the 2 credit cards that we put into debt consolidation paid off along with one other credit card. Sadly that will still leave us with 2 credit cards to pay off. However, we should be able to knock another one out by the end of the year. That last card should be paid off by this time next year. Of course, this is all dependent on things going along the way that I plan them to. You know how that works!

Gardening at Long Last

The gardening has finally started! Yesterday was the first day that the garden was mostly dry enough to get the tiller in it. We managed to plant 4 huge rows of potatoes and a long row of onions before more rain moved in. It felt good to dig in the dirt even if today my back and shoulders feel like I had a serious Kettlebell workout yesterday. Its just good to be able to be outside stretching muscles that have been in hibernation all winter long. There is enough of the garden tilled up that I can still plant a few more rows, probably radishes and beets. Hopefully the weather will continue to warm up so we can get the rest of the garden in.

Kittens

It happens every single spring. Within a few week period, all of our female barn cats suddenly look like they have taken a bunch of Fenphedra and lost weight overnight. You would think we were running some sort of posh diet spa for cats, you know? In reality, it means that they have all had kittens. And so it is no different this spring. We currently have 2 litters of kittens with one more on the way. This year, though, I am bottle raising some of the kittens. Well, its really down to just one kitten as of yesterday. The litter was abandoned shortly after they were born. There were only 2 survivors left when we found them. I don't even know if they got any colostrum. So I wasn't too hopeful to start with and one died yesterday. So I am just down to one little boy kitten that I am feeding. Time will tell if he survives.