Whatever

Today its 9 degrees outside and the sun is out and its snowing ever so gently.  With the sun falling on the snowflakes outside, it looks like we're inside a snowglobe...Aye!  I've been researching about "How to start a garden" on the internet for the last several days.  I've gathered lots of information and made hundreds of notes.   I've been talking about it with hubby and he thinks I'm gettin out of hand.  We have a really big yard, the only drawback is that we also have several giant pecan trees, mulberry trees, pink dogwood, elm, chinese elm and redbud trees too.  Therefore I don't have alot of sunshine once the trees start to bloom.  Our pecan trees are pretty old, I'd say at least 150 yrs. old.  I wonder how people find out how old their trees are without killing them?  I would like to know exactly how old they are.  We have one tree that puts out perfect nuts and one that puts out deformed nuts.  I guess the nuts are okay to eat, but even the squirrels don't get the deformed ones.

I've been reading some of the other blogs, that people read all the time....those blogs have several hundreds if not thousands of followers.  I don't know how they come up with so much to talk about.  I think maybe I'm boring or something, because I don't think I'll be posting everyday like the other bloggers do..some even post several times a day. 

Do people really want to know all that personal information.  Sometimes you can just get too much info.  I'm a visual person, so when someone is talking or writing, I visualize it in my head.  Sometimes, I just don't want to know.  If I don't post on here for a couple of days, it's just because i don't have anything to say.  I guess I don't have to worry about it anyways, because I don't think I'm getting any followers anyways.  Oh well.............

Snow Again

The blizzard of 09, Christmas Eve, TinyBit wanted to make a snowangel.  Poppa wanted to get some pictures of the snow coming down, so they both went out for just a few seconds.  Why is it that kids never get really cold in the snow?  Or is it just because I'm old, my old bones just can't take it anymore?  When I was a kid, I don't really remember being, hot or cold or uncomfortable in any season.  We loved to make snowmen and have snowball fights with our cousins.

We also got to make snow icecream!  and eat icicles, yuck!  they weren't all that tasty, but we licked them anyways.  Nowadays, I wouldn't eat snow icecream if I had too.  And for sure no icicles.  Who knows whats in the air up there anymore.

But the snow falling quietly on a Christmas Eve night is one of the finer things in life.  I'm sure TinyBit or the other grandkids will never forget it.

This evening we're expecting another snow storm.  I'm hoping it won't be as bad as the last one.  I don't mind the snow at all, it's the ice I don't like.  Too dangerous.

Tonite, as the snow is falling, I'm going to be planning my new garden for this year.  I've never had my own garden before, so this year, we're gonna make it a family project and plant a garden and tend to it daily.  Poppa and me are gonna turn our tiny cellar into a root cellar.  I'm gonna draw up plans for shelves with baskets for potatoes, onions and apples and shelves for canned foods.  I may be getting too ambitious, but I want to make pickled okra, pickled beets, dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, jams and jellies, canned tomatoes and I don't know what else yet.  It's a work in progress.  I'll be posting about it in the near future.  It's something my grandkids need to learn, with the cost of groceries nowadays, we've gotta do something.  Might as well go back to the old ways.  My daughter wants to live in a teepee in the backyard.   I've been doing some research on it and it might be a good idea.  Our ancestors long time ago,lived in em, so why not?  It might be keen.  I often thought that if somethin happened to my hubby and I lost my home, I might be livin in a teepee myself someday.  Aye!  They really look keen though, and I wouldn't have an "O" though, that's the only thing that keeps me from seriously thinkin about it.  Stay safe and warm everybody.