Spring Gardening Time

Well it is cool but Spring and time to get ready for Summer. I started tomatoes, peppers and eggplant from seed this year and it is time to re-pot the seedlings into bigger quarters.

Peppers, Tomatoes and Eggplant. These are only a few of the seedlings

 needing transplanting.

Rather than buying the expensive pots for transplanting seedlings I choose to look outside the "box" and see what other choices I had that wouldn't cost a lot and would serve the purpose. Guess what, a dollar sleeve of 66 9oz plastic cups work great! Add a bag of $3 potting soil and I'm ready, set, go!

Next I lined up my seedlings, cut holes for drainage in the cups.

Notice the marker! RULE #1 ALWAYS MARK WHAT IS IN THE POTS.

I cut 4 slits in the bottom of the cups, kinda hard to see here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice the nice roots!

Into the new pot and top off with fresh potting soil.

Put them into their "fancy" new home! 

Looking good after 4 days, strong stems and green leaves.

These will be ready to plant in the garden when the weather warms up.

 

 

 

Orchids!!!

Today I went with my Aunt to see an orchid show! WOW were they gorgeous.  So I though I would share some of the pictures-

Pretty Shoe Insoles craft tutorial by Grosgrain

I love this idea and wanted to share it. Great for when your insoles look shabby or you want to add padding.

http://grosgrainfabulous.blogspot.com/2011/01/shoe-sugar-month-day-16-insole-heaven.html

Fun times at Aunt Viki's

The boys spent the night and all day Friday with us and did we have fun! Along with the usual riding the 4-wheelers, shooting the BB guns, watching netflix, violin practice, there was painting.......

And then there was the eating.....

MLC " I'm ready to eat!"

Homemade Strawberry Marshmallows

I made regular marshmallows a while back and they were really easy but oh too sweet! After surfing the net I came across a thread talking about different flavors of marshmallows-strawberry flavor with REAL strawberry puree was something I wanted to try. I love making/cooking with real ingredients so I know what I'm feeding the family is better than store bought. Mind you not always 'good' for you but not full of ingredients I can't pronounce or know are bad.

I didn't take pictures of the whole process but hit the wow stuff!

My Little Helper

whipped to the max

The kinda pretty strawberry marshmallows!

I followed this recipe with the following change: Use 1/2 -3/4 cup strawberry puree with the gelatin.

 http://mennonitegirlscancook.blogspot.com/2010/12/marshmallows.html

 

Ode to Scarlett

Scarlett 2000-2011

Our dear Scarlett left us today, she will be missed. You had attitude and definitely stood your ground. You were loved and loved us back. You'll be missed.

Me and my buddy-MLC

Recently I had a chance to spend the day with MLC, we went shopping and found this cute Policeman outfit- $2 at the Humane Society's Second Chance thrift store. MLC states " this is my favorite store".

"Breaker, Breaker, any one out there?"

 

 

 

 We then came home and made some ginger cookie dough and guess who licked the spatula?!

Yummy!

Look I have a ginger cookie mustache and beard! 

 

 

 

 All and we had a great day!