Monday, December 28, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
forty five below
Edmonton was the coldest place on the planet last night colder than Antartica colder than Siberia. It was minus 37 here and the gardening catalogues are starting to arrive MacFayden's cover is all vegies and sunflowers I drooled and still I am drooling.
I am definitely trying to reign in my enthusiasm but I have at least 12 cuttings off my geraniums and that new one is coming nicely. I want to plant I think probably at least a half a dozen artichokes, and about a dozen fennel and at least a couple of packages of perrenials and herbs and if I could find a package or two of stocks or daturas maybe something that I can use for cut flowers or maybe....I will try to reign in my enthusiasm. I love the winter but I spend a lot of it dreaming of spring.
There are dreams of expanding my garden and rearranging the rhubarb and bringing native medicinals and edibles into the yard in the marble raised bed in the front yard.
With another couple of yards of dirt delievered in the spring enough for another raised bed for the garden at least 10 or 12 bales of straw for mulch and pathways, and a half a yard of sand to add to the beds that we have and a half a yard of stone for the pathway along the garage. I want to grow white tomatoes again. I want my cucumbers to grow this year and so I will start them in March I think. Sunflowers for seeds, beans varieties to eat, dry and pickle, corn for both dry and eating fresh, pumpkins and squash, roots for storage, onions and garlic for braiding and chickens for eggs. Peppers, and lettuce, spinach and fennel, herbs and flowers, corn salad and bloody dock, I need to settle down and curb my enthusiasm so that I can plan this out and plant beautiful things in raised beds that will be used for teas, and tissanes, food for the table and flowers for my spirit.
The garden catalogues are starting to arrive hurray.
cheers
I am definitely trying to reign in my enthusiasm but I have at least 12 cuttings off my geraniums and that new one is coming nicely. I want to plant I think probably at least a half a dozen artichokes, and about a dozen fennel and at least a couple of packages of perrenials and herbs and if I could find a package or two of stocks or daturas maybe something that I can use for cut flowers or maybe....I will try to reign in my enthusiasm. I love the winter but I spend a lot of it dreaming of spring.
There are dreams of expanding my garden and rearranging the rhubarb and bringing native medicinals and edibles into the yard in the marble raised bed in the front yard.
With another couple of yards of dirt delievered in the spring enough for another raised bed for the garden at least 10 or 12 bales of straw for mulch and pathways, and a half a yard of sand to add to the beds that we have and a half a yard of stone for the pathway along the garage. I want to grow white tomatoes again. I want my cucumbers to grow this year and so I will start them in March I think. Sunflowers for seeds, beans varieties to eat, dry and pickle, corn for both dry and eating fresh, pumpkins and squash, roots for storage, onions and garlic for braiding and chickens for eggs. Peppers, and lettuce, spinach and fennel, herbs and flowers, corn salad and bloody dock, I need to settle down and curb my enthusiasm so that I can plan this out and plant beautiful things in raised beds that will be used for teas, and tissanes, food for the table and flowers for my spirit.
The garden catalogues are starting to arrive hurray.
cheers
Saturday, December 12, 2009
It is 32 degrees below zero
It is thirty two degrees below zero tonight and will be bitterly cold for the next few days. I will have to go get Josh from Chase's house tomorrow and then I think we just might have a day. I love thirty below days when it is this close to Christmas, Yule, Hannakah, Kwanza, Saturnalia, and all the other close of the year the birth of the sun, the festivals of lights. Light and life, warmth and tribe, gather and celebrate life and the rebirth of light.
I am sitting here looking at the tree that we put up today, the fire has now died down in the hearth and it is time to crawl into bed under the feather quilt but as I sit here enjoying the quiet of the evening. The season has begun if I don't decorate another thing it looks pretty good, there are berries and shiny things for the dining room. There are more icicles for everywhere, especially around the fireplace. I only have about an hour or so left upstairs and then I can move downstairs.
I hope that tree that my mom sent is complete and the wreath in fairly decent shape for the back door. I will need to pick up a few more strings of lights to have enough for it and I can use it as the downstairs tree. Red, and crafted ornaments with rustic bits and pieces and I would love to have it all cleaned up and sorted out in time for Christmas.
Useable space oh my goodness do I dare dream....everything having a place and everything in it's place. Less stress more time easier to clean up this could be fabulous. I love winter, time to think about getting this ready for spring, de cluttered and ready for garage sale and rearranging. There is too much stuff that needs to find a different home, that needs to be gone through again and thinned out as much as humanly possible. I need to really take stock of what to keep and what to get rid of and what to pass on if anyone needs it. But at the same time I need to spend some time with the beastie boys doing those wintertime things that are so important to us. Baking, candy making, roasted foods, and comfort foods, teas, and deserts, coffees and old movies is what I have to mix in with the cleaning over the next few days. I really am enjoying this stress free Christmas I know what I am doing for presents for the boys and we're not doing the big family thing so I don't have all those extras to buy.
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