double rainbow

yesterday evening we got our second rain of the season.  it was a light drizzle, but it left today cold.  there was ice on my window this morning i tell ya!!!! ice!!! luckily it wasn't anything thick.  with the rain though we got a double rainbow!!!!

i had today away from second home.  it was nice.  i took care of some errands in the morning and was very productive, but in the afternoon i fell off the wagon.  there were some things i wanted to take care of.  one of them was car insurance.  oh well, monday will have to do.  though one errand i did do was take the coupons over to boyfriends and when i did this is what i encountered...leaves.  nothing, but leaves.  i don't understand mister neighbor is how come you cannot sweep them into a nice pretty pile in the middle of your property since it is your tree shedding?!!!

oh well it was a nice crisp day.

happy fall, its officially here.  well its more like winter.

double rainbow

mister neighbor's yard.  notice the pile is towards
boyfriends side (left of mister neighbor)

big pile of leaves from mister neighbor's tree

happy raking.

sluggers

the garden update:
the garden is growing at a steady paste, considering the battle it is constantly fighting!  slugs and white maggot looking things mowing them.  the heriloom lettuce and carrots are growing rapid.  however, the plants with anything purple veggies are not doing too well.  they look like something came through and picked it to pieces.

so boyfriend and i went to the local (and i mean local, its about a 10 minute walk) nursery and got some snail/ slug filler.  it's suppose to be organic and safe around pets.  what it does to the snail/ slugs is it makes them feel full.  yes call me a bug killer, but the plants are starting to look good!

here are  a few images of them before snail bait.

purple broccoli, you can't see center leaves because they are gone!

heirloom letuce and the purple cauliflower which you can't see because they've been mowed.

purple cauliflower looks the same as when first planted.

victory garden

with the first of the rain coming next week, we had to get the garden in.  fall is definitely in the air!  the leaves are starting to slightly change colors and drop.  the weather has gotten cooler, except for some random warmer days.   but apparently it's still warm enough out to wear a tank!

we started the day with a trial of a new restaurant that specialized in vegetarian food.  can i say that there's about 1 more week left of no meat eating.
boyfriend:  what do you want for the first meat meal?
me: hm, well love, as much as i can't wait to eat meat again.  i am going to miss it'.
boyfriend: so does that mean you are going to continue on with this?
me: NO WAY
so till next time 14 of january.
we counted 8 range rovers (4 of which were BRAND NEW) on the way to the new eatery and through the meal, in yuppie town.  saw a yuppie mom try to take an ugly old luis vitton bag (i mean even if it were brand new who would buy such an ugly bag) and turn it into a diaper bag for her boy (poor baby boy and baby daddy who had to carry the bag).  then off to some browsing of the boutiques.

while eating brunch i suggested to boyfriend that we stay in and nap the day away.  his response 'love, its such a lovely day.  do you want to stay inside?' me 'i guess not.'  so off to work we went and went and went...

starting to dig random holes.

hour later we have this along with tired of slaving all the dirt off the grass.

just told boyfriend so exhausted i'mma puke.

no energy to throw up so lets get it done planting lonely onion.

can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

done (heirloom lettuces)

and done. (purple broccoli)

this mini compacted garden was a lot of labor because well we didn't go out and buy nice dirt.  instead we bought two bags of soil additive to make things soft and fluffy.  the road-a-till was in the very back of the yard, but being that both boyfriend (didn't realize there wear gears with it and thought MAD MACHINE!) and i (when little remembering watching my dad till the ground it required 2 men to man it when we only had 1) didn't know how to operate it we went with manual labor (thank you my love!).

hopefully in 60 days we will be enjoying fresh veggies.  proud of the garden, just realizing not cut out to be a farmer.  that's really sad news to me.  there goes the dream of having an apple orchard or pumpkin patch with bountiful plum trees and chickens, but i will still enjoy the pumpkin patches and apple hill!

master's

good morning, almost afternoon.

this post has gotta be quick, sorry i was suppose to wake up early to go cheer on fellow colleagues on at the cliff bar, but my body could not do it.  then after head over to the habitat and see what we can score for the cheap.

so this has been something on my mind constantly and for a while. going back to school.  i know how hard it would be to make a transition of a steady income to a not so steady income, but there's also many things that are weighing in on the decision.  there's cost, going back to school for a master's would be something like an investment for me.  i don't have all the funds in the world to go back and do something that requires a master's degree, but you get little pay out of it.  location would play a big part in that means either boyfriend and i will have to do long distance and or relocate.  then there's the decision of what to go back to school for.  choosing wisely has become well so hard because there's sooo many things i'd like to do, but don't know if after pursuing it and finding out it's just not cut out for me then you gotta start over again.

ideally i'd like to find something that i can turn it into my own.  have ownership over it all. and via this post i think i now know what this blog will mainly be about.

today will be the day of the attempt of the first garden.  i am on my way of learning about farming. farms are honestly amazing.

 

august fields