June 18th, 2006

I can actually start this post out by saying I am actually not tired today. Though I got to sleep around 2 am, I got to sleep in until 10 am, which was weird for me.

Yesterday it was snowing up here.. yeppers snowing. I actually stopped the truck in the middle of the road in the middle of this monsoon/hurricane/tornado thing we had going as I could not decide if the white stuff was hail.. then cottonwood/poplar fluff or snow.. I think it was about 70% snow. It was mostly warm out, but we had this string of thunderstorms go through. My bf's mom saw a truck with about 2" of white on the hood that had passed her from coming from this direction.

I am glad it did not hail.. my poor garden. It has been rainy enough for the last week, I am not watering my garden every day and my new lawn is starting to grow. I just got done ordering the food stuffs for the fresh produce Co-Op I belong to and just became the coordinator for. The person who is supposed to help me and teach me this.. had 2 lessons with me and then she is gone to Toronto until this next week. I was slightly traumatized. I am doing all these spreadsheets and I have a war movie blaring on the TV and then the Teenager was playing the same tab over and over and over. None of that helped at all and finally they went to bed and I got the order sheet done. I think I did OK.. we shall see.

Like the rest of the days, it has been pouring. We did get to mow the lawn and weedeater between rainstorms. I left the goat out during the biggest rainstorm and from her protesting, I am pretty sure she thought she was going to melt into a pile of goo from getting wettened.I started to make Focciatia bread with fresh basil and other herbs on it for dinner tonight. For no apparent reason, my bread failed me for once, so I rolled it out into a pan and made deep dish pizza from it instead. While it was cooking, I made a batch of banana nut and raspberry lemon muffins for breakfast tomorrow.

Now that I am sorta getting the hang of the fresh produce co-op, there are about 5 of us who want to get an organic foods co-op going and buy wholesale. That is one of my next projects here in the upcoming weeks finding distributors and such. When I finish this entry, I am off to finish editing the Summer issue so I can get it printed tomorrow since I am a week behind what I wanted to have it done, but I had those 1 and 2 babies to watch and NOTHING got accomplished according to plan for about 5 days.

My garden is growing great guns. I need to hill my spuds with straw this week. I need to finish planting my carrots. It has finally warmed up enough I did not have to worry about germination issues. I also planted Quinoa this year as it is about $22 a pound in the stores for it. The horse shoer is coming on Monday. Though we are now trimming our own horses feet, I like a professional to do them every 6-10 months, just to make sure we have everything on track.

I weeded the baby asparagus beds this afternoon. I am trying to keep on top of it every few days and bust the weeds out of there. The wild strawberries were reported by the boys to be ripening. I will have to go out in a few days and get some. If you have never had a wild strawberry, you are missing out on life.. they make all others pale in taste.

I love bartering. I have a friend who I am working with to help promote each others stuff. She makes BEAUTIFUL.. real jewelry and I popped in there this afternoon to tell her some things and she asked me a question on how she would word something for the commercial which will be on TV for her jewelry line. I yammered off a few sentences for her and she liked it enough , she gave me a garnet and pearl necklace. It is GORGEOUS. I still have it on. If anyone is looking for gifts for anyone else.. give her a jingle on the email. Her ad is in the back of the Summer issue..you will not regret purchasing anything from her. It is all sterling silver and real semi-precious stones. They also custom build pieces as well. OK.. off to go edit.. Goodnight everyone

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