Entry doors to the vendor floor….Anticipation!!

The last couple of weeks have been ‘crazy busy.’ I’ve somehow managed my way through any number of computer and printer problems and finished the Yule Tree ‘Advent’ Calendar pattern! The pattern is finished and I have 65 packaged and ready to go! Even packaging presented ‘issues’! I cannot express my relief that this one is done! Like a mother sending her little ones out to the world, I hope that it will be well received by those that decide to take on the challenge. While waiting for the printing and the covers, the weather cooperated and we managed to get our garden in. Can’t believe how early we are able to plant – I don’t remember a year when we got things in the ground this early! But I am so looking forward to those fresh radishes and lettuce. The straw bales have been conditioned and planted as well: and this year we are trying ‘grow bags’ as well – for potatoes, strawberries and some squash. As far as I’m concerned, gardening is really just a big science experiment, subject to some hard work and the hands of Mother Nature! After harvesting our extremely abundant first cut of rhubarb, I can only hope we’ll be blessed likewise for the rest of the growing season. More…