Finally, an update
Actually, I have been posting my garden updates pretty consistently over on my webpage, it is just that doing both the web page and this blogger page seemed redundant and time consuming. But, since I am retired, spend most of my time around the house and want to keep my brain from getting too dull, I figured out that I can show my blogger site on my website and then transfer older news over from the website.
Since there are very few individuals who follow along (I think I have the least number of views of any poster in the world), I can play around with this stuff and keep my mind challenged. I have been working on the website for quite some time, trying to give it a more professional look and making it easy to venture around the different stories I post.
I like looking back over the years of posting here and seeing some of the great vegetables I grew up in Mansfield. It brings back some fond memories of being out in the backyard, picking tomatoes, green beans and broccoli.
My intention is to move postings that are old over from the website to here, using this site as a sort of "archive" of my years of growing veggies in the garden. The good news for me is that I keep learning, keep working at trying to get the garden to look nice and not be disappointed by failed crops, weeds, bugs and animals.
This spring has been an eye opener for me as I am doing a little better with keeping the garden clean (until this past week) and learning to succession garden. I am hoping planting okra where I had potatoes, putting in late tomatoes and having a second round of broccoli will teach me how to better make use of the space I have.
Here, then is a posting for April, 2025, as we returned from Florida and I got pretty excited about getting back to working in real dirt (Florida dirt just doesn't make it in my book).
A 16.5 hour road trip back home from Florida went as planned, with little traffic and an arrival time of 5:30 am, all without incident. I make this drive to limit the amount of movement Nancy has to make in and out of the car if we were to stop and stay at a motel along the way. It is a long day (night), but once we are home, we can relax and unwind.
The house is in good shape, other than lots of weeds and the lawn needing a trim (done later in the day on April 1). Cleaning out the van went well, despite being filled to the top. The seedling I brought back home survived and nothing fell out of the van during our trip.
Maggie was very good, settling in once we got going. We made a few stops along the way for gas and the bathroom, but that is expected.
It was just good to get back home and sleep in our own beds again.
My Walking
I didn’t even miss a day of walking, as I did a mile before leaving Florida and then managed to get in another mile once I got home. It was nice to walk in the woods with temperatures similar to Florida (an early warm front coming through), but with much lower humidity and cooler evenings.
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