My Sunday

Enjoyed a wonderful hike to Ice Berg lake in Glacier Park. Lots of people still out hiking.

My Garden

The morning I took these I was coming home from a morning walk and thought finally the light is right. These where taken like Aug 8th. Now it is dark at this same time in the morning. It amazes me how quickly the days shorten up, makes me sad. It has been a good summer to garden here, lots of unseasonably warm or should I say hot weather, and not frost! Happy me.

Summer fun

July

We have had wonder warm weather and the garden is responding in a most positive way. I took these photos July 15 and things continue to grow daily! Picking peas and beans, and will harvest the garlic next week.

Ordering seeds

I ordered my vegtable seeds today.

 I ordered my seeds from Johnny seeds, and potatoes from Seed savers exchange. I had saved over my potatoes  it worked great but they were scaly last year so I was afraid of transferring that to this years crop. The postage is high from these gardening catalogs so if I can I like to order everything from one place.  I really like what Seed savers does but they didn't have carrots seeds and that was the main thing I needed. The one thing that is cool about saving your seeds is you have them. I did ordered some new Brandy Wine tomato seeds as I feel like it and the Purple Cherokee cross pollinated.

Something new to our community is Bountiful baskets. Bountiful baskets is a coop that brings low cost  fruits and vegetables straight form the farm to you. You can purchase either organic or non-organic it is wonderful, so much verity for very a reasonable price. You are being introduce to things you aren't familiar with for example I got papaya's.  In our little town of 3,000 they sold out 96 baskets in half an hour!  So lots of people excited to have fresh vegetables and fruit.

We have had such a mild winter a few skiffs of snow, very few below zero days. It has been nice. I would imagine that we will have spring snow. Spring snow is a good thing as it brings much need moisture. 

A couple things from Christmas

This is our 1929 International Truck. We moved it to the front of our property and I have big plans for decorating it for the seasons!

I had a hard lesson, there are two different colors of "white" lights. I freaked out when we turned on the lights after stringing 600 of them on the truck and then to have then not be the same. I will have to decide if I want to change them in the future. My husband wasn't going to switch them after putting them all on, and I didn't want to buy any more. So time will tell.

The Mantel

Fireplace mantel project

 This is the original fireplace from out 1930's home. Isn't operational but makes a nice decorative piece, I have used it in different rooms. It was out inspiration for the mantel below.

We purchased this mantel at a garage sale this summer it was painted white and had a mirror in the center. What we did, strip and stained, purchased an electric fireplace insert, the black around the insert is a piece of plywood that was painted the silver trim is detailing fro cars, the decals in the corners where for what use I do not know we found a bag of the for a dollar and painted them. I am super pleased with this!