Spring In Nebraska

Hello there as the weather continues to warm and the days get longer that deeply embedded farmer's daughter spirt in me begins to surface once again this year. I love spring; the smell of fresh turned earth ready to plant; the greening of the pastures and leaves forming on the trees; all the little livestock that is born from calves and colts to chicks and bunnies. Everywhere you turn you can't help but reminded of the gift of life. However, today its about my great love of the smell of fresh turned dirt that I want to share with you all. I can't wait to plant potatoes every year. To me they are the easiest and most rewarding of all the garden crops that there are. You can always plant them in the early spring (fact of the matter Good Friday is best) and you have wonderful tasty treats by mid July. Yum I can't wait. Now days there are so many choices too....this year I planted red potomic, yukon gold, blue potatoes, finger links, and a white variety too. With just some mulching, watering and hopefully little weeding due to my mulching I should have wonderful potatoes by July. I will keep you updated on the progress and share recipes when we dig them. :) Oh I noticed too on my way back in the garage its almost time to pick my first crop of rhubarb. Won't my husband be happy for the first tast of Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie? Promise to share my award winning recipe when I get that made next week. Well I gotta run and be my mom's nurse again today. She had her knee replaced on Monday the 19th and is doing great, but still need daily care. So til we meet again may God Speed.

What Earth Day means to me!

Earth Day........well we all know this can be quit the controversial topic if you allow it to be. Sure we should all be conserned about our affect on the world and the footprint we will be leaving behind. But should we have to have a special day to be concerned about this? And more over should we only be conserned about this on this certain day? Well to let you all in a little secert about me up until 11 years ago I wasn't even really aware that the day existed nor did I care that it did. And to this day I haven't changed what I do for the earth on this day. But 11 years ago my life changed forever when my baby sister was killed in a car wreck on "Earth Day"! So for me Earth Day will always be the anniversary of her death and the start of my broken heart. Yes I will say that I do try to make the world a better place now, but I do it in honor of her. So I hope that each and every one of us can honestly say that we have a real reason to make the world a better place and not just a date on the calander that for one day we try to change the world for that day. I'm now more careful about the litter I leave laying around, the chemicals I use in my home, and I am especially careful about what I allow my friends and famliy to use on their skin which I will explain in a later post. So for today I will sign off and let you all think on this for a while. God Bless til we chat again.