Busy Times!

It's spring in the mid-west and you know what that means!?!  Warm, sunny weather, and being very busy!  My husband and I have a serious love - hate relationship with spring.  We love that it's beautiful and it's warm and our children can go outside and play and not drive me crazy in the house, BUT we are always so busy at the beginning of spring.

For the last few years he and I have been trying to become more self sufficient, no more depending on mass grown under ripened veggies and fruit.   Plus, there's no better feeling than to bite into something you know JUST came out of the ground.  Oh look at me I'm digressing!  Anyway, we have decided that we were going to grow our own food, well as much as we can.  Easy "ish" things, ya know, potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, onions, corn, and even maybe a greek pepper.  Yeah, we're also learning how to pickle and can things too!  This means that where I usually am busy with my part time job, my full time mom job and a soon to be busy jewelry artist, I now become a gardener!  Not that I mind though.  I love to plant and listen to all the animals outside, it just means that other things get neglected, such as my blog and other things I know that shouldn't.  It's all for the better though!!

There's so many benefits to the spring too.  Tulips, my favorite flower, have been popping up in my front yard in beautiful purples, reds, oranges, and I even planted black ones this year.  I'll have to post pics if they come up!!   All other sorts of flowers have been out and blooming too.  It just seems that the spring is when nature really comes alive!  I mean yeah the smart thing to say is "Duh, it's warm and sunny, so definitely flowers will grow!"  But seriously.  I've never seen nature more beautiful than in the warm weather of the spring!  It's one of my favorite inspirational times of the year!     Here I go again talking about inspiration being in nature, but where else can you find colors in their natural state the way they were created and meant to be?! 

So as I post this today, we have planted all of our seedlings in pots to transplant when they are big enough and have planted our green onions in the ground.  I still need to get my potatoes and radishes in the ground!  I guess that means that I'm done with this post, otherwise I'm not gonna have any potatoes and that I couldn't have!! 

Next time you're in the park or just driving down a country road, take a good look at what's around you.  You just might be inspired!!