As a few of you’ve noted from my blogs, we’re moving!
700 miles away and 1-1/2 zones from my norm.
I’m incredibly excited and disappointed at the same time. We’re getting ready to begin a new adventure and live closer to some of our best friends and my parents. And I cannot wait to be back at my Lake Michigan! The best part – NO MORE BERMUDA GRASS!
The downside is that we’ll be leaving my gardens behind at peak harvesting as well as all of our birds. We’ve got a good friend down here that will be taking our chickens and the tractors we built. Yeah, the ones we spent all of spring building…
Hopefully once we get settled we can come get a few of the birds and one of the tractors.
The turkeys may be harvested early, and the guineas are going to the fellow that owns our CSA. Everyone will be well taken care of … um, but for the turkeys (though we’ll do our best to make it quick and gentle).
Leaving the garden behind makes me terribly sad. It has done so very well this year – the best since we’ve moved here – and I’ll be able to harvest very little of it. I’m hoping I can at least get some seeds for our next garden, so that I can reap some of the bounty in the future.
I’ll be taking some of my favorite landscaping plants with us, and storing what I can at my parent’s house until we get more permanent living quarters. It’s been too hot and humid lately to even think about gardening.
So for now I’ll be putting much of my blogging and journaling on hold. The next month will be absolute madness and I cannot wait to get the adventure started!
Previous Journals
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The Patch garden and Chicken garden
Later Journals
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Apple Tree Guild garden and Kitchen, Northeast Corner garden
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One bed finished, seeds sown outdoors, transplants, and beehives
Garden Box garden , Apple Tree Guild garden , Kitchen, Northeast Corner garden , Radish - French ...
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Kitchen, Northeast Corner garden , Holding garden , and Garden Box garden
Comments
anelson wrote:
good luck with your move
Posted on 13 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
hotwired wrote:
Are you really ready for sub-zero temperatures and snow & heating bills?
Posted on 13 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
SneIrish wrote:
Here’s hoping all goes the absolute best with your move. It does sound sad to be leaving all behind, but there will be great new adventures ahead. When you get settled, let me know if you want any plants or seeds that I can offer for the new homestead! Want some more Comfrey? Good luck!
Posted on 13 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
rainymountain wrote:
It sounds like you are very happy to be going ‘home’. We’ll be waiting to hear the next installment of your journal from the Great Lakes. I hope the move goes smoothly and is not too exhausting. Too bad about the garden harvest but… onward and upward!
Posted on 14 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
flowerweaver wrote:
Good luck with your move and be sure to let us know where you land!
Posted on 15 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
whirliegig wrote:
Thanks for the support, everyone! I’ll need all the sanity I can get!!
@hotwired – I cannot wait for the snow … skiing, forts, all that pretty white stuff the first day it lands. The rest I can live without!
@SneIrish – thanks so much for the thoughtful offer! It will be a while before we’re truly settled. We’ll be in a rental until we can sell this house, but I will definitely look you up when we do get into a more permanent location.
@rainymountain – you bet I’m excited! I’m glad that we’ll be away from the industrialized area that I grew up in, but close enough to home that I can visit (and have sitters available) on short notice. Ah, the lake! I missed that lake too!
Posted on 15 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
AspenShadow wrote:
May you have an uneventful move.
Posted on 16 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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