I'm Getting Old and want to Grow Things!

"I’m an old Southern woman and we’re supposed to wear funny looking hats and ugly clothes and grow vegetables in the dirt. Don’t ask me those questions. I don’t know WHY. I don’t make the rules."-Ouiser Boudreaux

     I'm having a Ouiser Boudreaux kind of moment.  I'm feeling old and want to grow something in the dirt!  I've been talking about growing me some vegetables this season and figuring out the best and easiest ways to do it for me.  Now, I'm not talking about a massive undertaking, I just wanted some tomatoes, onions, maybe some peppers and a few herbs for Hubby and me to use.  I looked at my options and worked on getting Hubby on board for this whole undertaking.  The things I get him into, I swear!  Bless his Heart for encouraging my hairbrained ideas!  Thank You Lord for giving me an understanding man!  Especially after today!  

     As I saw it, our options looked like this...  
Raised Beds - too expensive and time consuming to build, and the sunny spot in my yard is WAY not level.  

Plow up a chunk of my yard - No tiller, and if it turned out that my decidedly brown thumb extended to actual gardening i'd have a huge mud hole in my yard until it leveled out and grew some grass.  Nope, my sensibilities just couldn't handle that.  

Container Gardening - hmmm... not too bad, but then what will I do with all the containers when winter comes?  

     Then my friend Kellie told me about the Tire Gardening that the folks out at The Old Farts Farm do.  She buys the sweetest and cutest goats from them!  Anyway, she said, "They just stack up tires, fill em with dirt and grow stuff in em!"  Yep!  That sounds right up my alley and it can be kind of cute too!  So, off I go scouting out places to get old tires... lo and behold, not three miles from me is (to me) a motherlode of absolutely free tires ripe for the picking!  So now we're off to the races!  Woot!  

     I could hardly sit still this morning during our dental appointments thinking about getting started on or "Garden" once we got home!  I looked up websites on my phone about tire gardening, how to do it; what are the risks from the rubber; and what's the best way to get started.  I pretty much busted my data plan for the rest of the month I'm sure.  So, after a quick lunch, it was run home, get changed, and head out to Lowe's for the goods!  

     On our way back home we swung by to pick up maybe four tires.  Well, we ended up with four big ol' truck tires, one car tire, and one wide and narrow walled racing type tire.  Carried away much?  Nah!  Not us!  LOL!  I found online that several people were cutting one or both sidewalls off their tires to make more growing room.  Heck yeah!  Let's do that!  Trust me folks, it's NOT EASY!  They say that you can cut tires with a jigsaw, it didn't work for us, but Hubby's old knife with a little bit of serrated edge did the job really nicely!  Dirt, Dirt, and more Dirt... then I couldn't help myself and had to plant in them right away!  We do need more dirt, and I'll fill around the stuff I've already planted probably tomorrow, but I'm really proud of my little "Garden"!

My First Tire Garden!  We are seriously thinking about painting
them some fun colors too!

Nevermind the weeds growing on the fence and the overgrown lawn please!
We're going to mow tomorrow!

Tire #1 has a Celebrity Tomato, a Sun Gold Cherry Tomato & White Onions.
Tire #2 has a Sweet Marconi Pepper, a Tobasco Pepper, Boxwood Basil,
Lemon Thyme & Rosemary. 

Tire #3 has my gifted plants.  Three Broccoli plants and an unknown
Pepper plant.  Tire #4 has Sweet Mint, a Cherokee Purple Tomato,
and a Husky Red Cherry tomato plant.

See?  I got my hands dirty!

I even had dirt under my fingernails!  LOL!

Poor Hubby was pooped!  

So wish us luck!  If they make it through the night without getting eaten by something or dug up by the neighborhood cats I'll be posting updates soon!





HUGS!

Wow! It's Been a While!

Two years since I blogged anything!  I could give a plethora of excuses, but that gets us nowhere.  Here's a rundown of the major events in my life in the last two years and 5 days...

June 2011

Hubby and I celebrated our 15th anniversary.  What a fantastic milestone for us!  

July 2011

1.  Took some time off to be with my Mom for surgery during the first part of the month.
2.  At the end of the month we went to Savannah to celebrate those 15 years together and Loved it!
3.  Hurried home to help Mom out with Daddy because he was having some issues with his Alzheimer's.

August 2011

Daddy passed away on August 11, 2011.  It was the hardest loss I've suffered so far.  My Daddy was my world and it felt like my world was crumbling around me for a while.  It's getting better, one day at a time.  

September - December 2011

The rest of the year was kind of a hazy blur for me.  There was work, there was helping Mama get everything situated after Daddy's passing, there was depression, there was home and Hubby and the kitties.  Holidays were practically non existent for us.  I did realize that I have the BEST, most caring, Hubby, friends and co-workers in the world during this time!  They had a lot to put up with me and my moodiness, and they were there no matter what.  I will forever be thankful for each and every one of them!

2012

I slowly climbed back into life again, and continued to help Mama try to do the same.  The anger and depression faded, the moodiness evened back out, Hubby finally told me that he was glad to see that his Wife was coming back.  (That meant the world to me by the way)  We all found a new routine and got stronger again.  Mom learned that she was pretty good at living on her own, and has even begun to ask for help when she needs it.  That in itself has been an amazing feat!  :)  The holidays were easier this time around.  We still weren't really in the mood for celebrating, but we did it anyway.  

It's definitely been a time of change for me and mine, but we're hanging in there!  I'm hoping that 2013 will keep looking up.  It's been pretty good to us so far!

HUGS!

It's another Giveaway!

If you're a crafter and have had a crush on the Yudu machine but haven't had the funds to put one into your grubby paws (like me), then This is the giveaway for you!

Dusti over at Scrappin with Cricut is drawing one lucky winner for this...

Grrr! Blogger isn't letting me add a photo! So go HERE to see the pic! Sorry!

once she reaches 200 followers! There are 4 ways to win, so Run on over to her blog HERE for your chance to win!

HUGS!

Silhouette Giveaway!

I learned of this Fantastic Giveaway from Leigh of Bloggerativille and just HAD to try it!

So, head on over Here...

for a chance to win This!!!

HUGS!

I DID IT! DAY TEN!

I may not have done this challenge in the 10 days alloted, but I DID IT!!!! WOOT! And I have found that taking a little time out of my day to jot down a few things and setting things to post for later is Really Handy! Why oh Why didn't I think of this earlier?!?!? Oh well... here's my...

One Confession...

I'm a worrier. I worry about EVERYTHING! I have everyone fooled that I'm all cool, calm and collected, when the reality is that I'm quite often tied in knots on the inside. I'm not saying that I can't handle life as it's dealt to me, I think I do pretty well with the day to day. When things start to fall apart, my inner optimist takes a hard hit. I find myself worrying more about the "What If's" than the immediate problem. It sometimes keeps me up at night. Need meds much? LOL! Most likely. But then, what if they don't work??? (that was a funny... I think) :)

HUGS!

DAY NINE

Two Smilies That Describe Your Life Right Now...

Sleepy...And A Little Confused...

I just got off work, I'm always sleepy when I get off work!

This has been a very hard couple of weeks for a few of my very close friends. One's father is suddenly battling cancer, and the other is having problems in her marriage. These things always cause me a bit of confusion and sadness. Makes me ponder my own life and decisions that I have made. Y'all please keep my friends and their families in your prayers.

HUGS!

DAY EIGHT

THREE Things That Turn You ON:

Oh goodness! Ummmm.... Well....

1. The Eyes... It's all about the eyes.
2. Manliness... I was raised in the country, there's none of this Metrosexual stuff in the Country! We likes our mens to be Mens!
3. Sorry! I can't even say this one! I'm getting the Vapors just thinking about it!

HUGS!