After I posted on Monday I started feeling icky and on Wednesday morning I got the stomach bug that the boys had had. It wasn’t pretty. My husband took the day off and took care of my children only bringing Alex up to nurse (yeah I was loosing liquids but still had to feed my giant baby). I spent the day in bed. Ached all over. Not doing well at all but for some reason not able to sleep. When I gave up on laying with my eyes closed feeling like poo I would turn the TV on for a few episodes of
Vikings
and
Warehouse 13
and then turn them off for a while and just lay there trying to sleep even though sleep did not come. But after all of this I woke up yesterday feeling renewed. I felt grateful and happy and ready to take on my day. Here are some of the images from my beautiful day yesterday.
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| Alex turned 7 months old yesterday. Weighing in at 29lbs and 30inches! |
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| Magni enjoying a snack of veggie straws on the back porch. |
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| Odinn playing with the baby chicks Sassy and Chipmunk while they had their first day outside. |
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| Sassy the Black Copper Maran 2 and a half week old chick. |
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| Chipmunk the 2 and a half week old Cream Legbar chick |
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| My Peach tree that didn’t make it through the winter. |
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| Tomatoes, Kale, Lettuce, Broccoli, and Collard Greens. |
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| My first harvest of the season. 1.7 oz of asparagus that I added to the veggie soup I made last night. |
I spent the day just catching up on chores and enjoying my boys’ time. Making mental notes of the things that need to be done around the mini farm in the back yard like digging up the dead peach tree. I don’t know what killed it but it only gave us one crop of fruit and that was last year and the animals ate them all before we could get to it so we never even enjoyed it. Sad to wait so many years for a tree to mature only to have not enjoyed it much at all.
The baby chickens have hit the punk rock stage of loosing their fluff and getting in feathers. It will be an interesting experience to introduce them to the big girls since I have never done such a thing but my sister in law gave me some good advice and we will see how it goes.
Now I sit at home and my poor husband has the stomach bug. I feel for him but I hope he feels as renewed as I did after it is over.
I plan on weighing everything I get in from the garden this year so far I’m at 1.7 oz. from the Asparagus and I plan on harvesting it into the early summer. That is the joy of permaculture. I was hoping the peach tree would be another easy harvest but alas no. I planted a grape plant and hope that in the summers to come we will get some grapes from it and we have the cherry bushes that have just finished their bloom.
If you are interested in learning more about permaculture (the art of keeping plants that come again and again to feed you) then you might be interested in this book.
