I transplanted my tomatoes over the weekend to free up flats for corn, pumpkin, zucchini, green beans, lettuce, carrots, and peas. I made a lot of pots from newspaper (wow, those things are cool!). Something like 108 in all. Half way through I ran out of the StaGreen potting soil I was using so Tim got me some Miracle Grow so that I could finish.
Yea. Not so good. All of my tomatoes in StaGreen are OK, but my Miracle Grow tomatoes are all but dead. 50% failure rate is not good. I think it was the soil might have been it. I watered everything the same, but the little guys are still taking a down turn so I might have to replant at least that many tomatoes. A later crop perhaps?
On a good note, 1/3 of my peppers have made an appearance! I'm going to keep the lid on them for a little longer until I see more of them pop up, but I think we'll be OK on this batch. I should start seeing some of the second planting in about a week or so and then I'll do a third with more tomatoes.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
I see a baptism in the future...
See? I'm trying to be prophetic, but I guess it doesn't work if I'm doing the planning for it.
A couple weeks ago I thought I had jumped the gun when I told the Missionaries that I needed to talk to the Mission President. I spent the next week trying to figure out how I would tell him that I had to wait a year or more if it came to that and that I didn't mean to get their hopes up. Luckily for them (and me) I didn't have to because the Council had other things to say.
My appointment was Tuesday after work (for me) and the Zone Missionary Lunch (for them). They said that dessert wasn't as good this time. :-) Traffic was a little interesting, so I pulled in the parking lot at the church at 5 pm on the nose. The Missionaries were waiting for me as if they thought I wasn't going to show. Going inside, they introduced me to President Moody, and I jokingly said that they followed me in and were blocking the door to keep me from running if I chickened out. He asked them if they still had the rope. Haha... no really, they had one in their bag.
We had a good lesson, reading from D&C20:37 and somewhere in Mosiah (I can't remember where) to show that the requirements for baptism were the same then as they are now. Then he dismissed the Missionaries so that we could talk. Yikes. I'm rather ashamed to admit that there are things in my past that prevented a traditional interview (hence the appointment with President Moody), but those things are over and done. I can honestly say that they are behind me, and I'm glad to say that I feel that the Lord thinks so as well. I can't say that I really want to go through that again, but the good news is I won't have to because...
I PASSED!!!
Yes, I passed, and if you're just now joining us I'll say it again... I passed! Can you tell I'm excited??? The best part is that Tim is going to baptize and confirm me when it is time. We're looking at a time frame of 3-4 months, but if the kids have already gone to Arkansas for the summer, then we'll do it in August when they come back so that they can be there and see it.
One more thing. Since I've been threatened for dear life if I don't have cake at the baptism, I've been inspired to make a temple baptismal font, complete with the 12 oxen. I can't wait to start planning that one! :-)
A couple weeks ago I thought I had jumped the gun when I told the Missionaries that I needed to talk to the Mission President. I spent the next week trying to figure out how I would tell him that I had to wait a year or more if it came to that and that I didn't mean to get their hopes up. Luckily for them (and me) I didn't have to because the Council had other things to say.
My appointment was Tuesday after work (for me) and the Zone Missionary Lunch (for them). They said that dessert wasn't as good this time. :-) Traffic was a little interesting, so I pulled in the parking lot at the church at 5 pm on the nose. The Missionaries were waiting for me as if they thought I wasn't going to show. Going inside, they introduced me to President Moody, and I jokingly said that they followed me in and were blocking the door to keep me from running if I chickened out. He asked them if they still had the rope. Haha... no really, they had one in their bag.
We had a good lesson, reading from D&C20:37 and somewhere in Mosiah (I can't remember where) to show that the requirements for baptism were the same then as they are now. Then he dismissed the Missionaries so that we could talk. Yikes. I'm rather ashamed to admit that there are things in my past that prevented a traditional interview (hence the appointment with President Moody), but those things are over and done. I can honestly say that they are behind me, and I'm glad to say that I feel that the Lord thinks so as well. I can't say that I really want to go through that again, but the good news is I won't have to because...
I PASSED!!!
Yes, I passed, and if you're just now joining us I'll say it again... I passed! Can you tell I'm excited??? The best part is that Tim is going to baptize and confirm me when it is time. We're looking at a time frame of 3-4 months, but if the kids have already gone to Arkansas for the summer, then we'll do it in August when they come back so that they can be there and see it.
One more thing. Since I've been threatened for dear life if I don't have cake at the baptism, I've been inspired to make a temple baptismal font, complete with the 12 oxen. I can't wait to start planning that one! :-)
What color is your thumb?
I decided to try my hand at gardening this year so that I could *maybe* make us a little less dependant on the economy for our food. My little helpers helped me plant tomato and pepper seeds on 3/15 for our family time. We watered, we covered, we waited. For a while I had them sitting by the sliding door at the back of the house where I thought they'd get the most light. After about a week we started getting little green leaves!!!
I assembled 2 shelves of a plastic 5-shelf unit I've had for ages and set up shop on the island in the kitchen under the lights. Wow the little guys really took off then!
I have 3 "Bog Boy" tomatoes for hamburgers and such, but the rest are Roma tomatoes. They have lots of flesh are are good sauce tomatoes. My peppers are still hiding from me, but the packet said they take 10-14 days. Maybe we'll see some this Sunday. We plan on also starting the lettuce, zucchini, and pumpkin seeds then as well.
I also learned from Juliette Stollings about when to transplant and how to do it. When I saw her this morning, she showed me her newspaper "pots" for her tomatoes. Wow. She said it was something she learned at the gardening seminar a few weeks back that I wasn't able to attend. I wish I had because it looks like there was some really good stuff! We've agreed to swap some of our plants as they grow for more variety. Gardening is really a good fellowshipping technique!
I assembled 2 shelves of a plastic 5-shelf unit I've had for ages and set up shop on the island in the kitchen under the lights. Wow the little guys really took off then!
I have 3 "Bog Boy" tomatoes for hamburgers and such, but the rest are Roma tomatoes. They have lots of flesh are are good sauce tomatoes. My peppers are still hiding from me, but the packet said they take 10-14 days. Maybe we'll see some this Sunday. We plan on also starting the lettuce, zucchini, and pumpkin seeds then as well.When we planted the tomatoes and peppers, the kids also planted daisy seeds they received at church as part of the family lesson (mothers nurture). Their seeds started growing before mine did! Each kid has their own pot that they sprinkled seeds in (with their name on it). Aren't they cute?
Here are two of my helpers and the shelf setup on the island.
Here are two of my helpers and the shelf setup on the island.I also learned from Juliette Stollings about when to transplant and how to do it. When I saw her this morning, she showed me her newspaper "pots" for her tomatoes. Wow. She said it was something she learned at the gardening seminar a few weeks back that I wasn't able to attend. I wish I had because it looks like there was some really good stuff! We've agreed to swap some of our plants as they grow for more variety. Gardening is really a good fellowshipping technique!
Family Home Evening
I asked the kids what they wanted to do for FHE, and Audie said, "A house of order!" I looked online for pictures that I thought would represent the list as found in D&C88:119 "Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God"
We got our the white board and talked about what it meant, drawing pictures of "needful things". The kids listed food, clothing, a house, scriptures, and water among those things they needed. Then we came to the list. I had drawn a house with windows in it and given each munchkin two pictures. As we read the list, we tried to figure out who had the picture that represented the "house" we were reading. From left to right, top to bottom we had: prayer, faith, learning, glory, order, God, fasting (the door on the addition).
Then while I got the treat ready (the remaining King Cake from Mormon Mardi Gras), they each got to draw their own house. Tim even drew one of his own! Counterclockwise: Tim, Audie, Chloie, Dougie (mine was the big one in the middle). :-)
We got our the white board and talked about what it meant, drawing pictures of "needful things". The kids listed food, clothing, a house, scriptures, and water among those things they needed. Then we came to the list. I had drawn a house with windows in it and given each munchkin two pictures. As we read the list, we tried to figure out who had the picture that represented the "house" we were reading. From left to right, top to bottom we had: prayer, faith, learning, glory, order, God, fasting (the door on the addition).
Then while I got the treat ready (the remaining King Cake from Mormon Mardi Gras), they each got to draw their own house. Tim even drew one of his own! Counterclockwise: Tim, Audie, Chloie, Dougie (mine was the big one in the middle). :-)
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