The New Garden

I have been wanting a garden for quite some time now. We had one the year before last but it was unsuccessful. Not in a good place for one thing and lots of weeding to do and I just couldn't do it with my back being so bad. We didn't have one last year because of my back so this year we are going to try and do the container gardening. Looking forward to have some of my own home grown vegetables and I am doing Weight Watchers so this will come in handy for this diet. So this is how my husband made my little spot by the house for me to put my containers. 

He laid down this mesh stuff. He told me the name of it but I forgot what it is called. This will keep the weeds from growing up between the containers.

I couldn't resist this one. Hummm! Then he put the border around it by screwing the post together and then leveling them. 

Then he put pea gravel over the mesh tarp and filled it up level with the post.

He then put some of my containers on top of the pea gravel. This looks great and it will be very easy for me to plant my veggies and keep up with them.

 

Times sure does fly!

Wow, Where does the time go. So much has happened on the farm lately. We haven't hardly had time to breathe. We done horse shows, had two new babies, I had my back procedure done. My daughter got herself a new puppy and so did we. Mine isn't a puppy anymore. I went through some photos and will post some tomorrow so ya'll can see what we have been up too. Oh, and I almost forgot one of the best time we have had here. Farmgirls on the Loose in Texas. It was a blast!

2011 Mon Amir Colt

2011 Mon Amir Colt

2011 Colt by Mon Amir

2011 Mon Amir Colt

New Curtains for the bedroom

I was in the fabric store the other day and came across this really cute fabric. It was one that just popped out at me as I was walking by. So I decided I would like them for my bedroom windows. My mom helped me sew them and we got them done in just a couple of hours. I think they turned out really cute. I am going to get new shades to put behind them. I am going to try and make them look like suede so will post photos when I am done with that. Here is what the curtains look like. What do you think?

Eggs!

So my chickens have been hiding their eggs from me for a bit. When I was sick yesterday my friend Mary and her husband Jack came over to feed the evening feeding for me. Jack was putting up the chickens in the coop and came across a big pile of eggs. There was 25 eggs. Can you believe they were all still okay. Thank goodness because we were running out of eggs for breakfast. I came across this little egg this evening by our big stack of hay in our old barn. I can image which chicken layed it because they are all older hens. Look how little it looks next to the normal size egg.

Ruby

I can't believe that in November it will be a year since Ruby was born. Wow, how the time just flies by. She was our first baby to be born that time of the year. Usually are babies come around Feb. or March but not Ruby. It was actually kinda nice to have her born around that time(Nov.) here in Texas. Here are a few photos of her from then and now. Isn't she just beautiful. I wish I could keep her but I can't keep them all.

Cakes!

So I tried my hand at making cakes with fondant. They came put pretty well. My first attempt was a round cake with pink roses and then I made a square one with daisy. Tell me what you think of them.

New Boarders on the farm!

Well, we got our first boarders on the farm. Two Quarter horses that are actually a mother and her daughter. They are here for training for under saddle. Can't wait to get them started for their training. Will post photos of the later.