sun, glorious sun...

Today the sun made it's way out from the clouds, and we made our way out of the house. All except one of us that is. Asa decided to stay inside. He was working on some very important ghost sculptures, which I do have to say were impressive. This blue sky scene can completely change my outlook on life. really. I go from a "in the trenches" mentality, to a "I can change the world" outlook, just by stepping outside and letting the sun shine on my face for a minute or two. It's a beautiful thing.
A friend recently posted on her blog about what a let down it was to visit another blog only to find out that it hasn't been updated since the last time you looked. This inspired me to post, even though I don't feel I am a very exciting blogger. I still haven't figured out the cool blogging tricks, like linking words to other blogs, like I would do with this other person's blog I was talking about if I only knew how to. But, like everything else, I will muddle through and slowly (seriously) but surely I will learn through trial and error how to link. And, speaking of trial and error. We are starting a garden of my dreams up here at the Homestead this year. We have some help from some University folks who are wanting to do internships here with us. Friday we will be meeting to draw up plans to build a cold frame to get our seeds going! This is fairly new to me. I grew up on a farm, but like many farm kids, sort of took it for granted. I weeded our gardens, and helped my dad catch run away cows, but for the most part I paid more attention to friends, boyfriends, my bangs, and other teenaged angsty stuff. But deep down, in my roots I have the farming and gardening blood coursing through my veins. I just ignored it for awhile. So yeah, trial and error, we have had our fair share up here in our previous years attempts at gardening. We have had to contend with plagues of grasshoppers, birds that love to eat starter plants, and the very time consuming task of hand pumping water into watering cans and hand watering the huge garden plot a couple of times a day. So, this year I decided to recruit some experts, and some workers! Best of all, they also want to help out with our kids gardening programs that will start this summer. I expect this years garden will be fruitful, and a huge learning experience. And, it will give me lots of great blogging material!