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Summer is garden time

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Summer is really truly here, after a long cold spring.  It took us many weeks to finally get to the garden, because we had SO much rain.  Every day it seemed, and definitely every weekend, it rained.  And rained, and Rained!  I didn't get to finishing the rototilling until well past Memorial day, our unofficial date of last frost, which means everything in the garden was put in very late. (Click the pictures to make them bigger)   One good thing about the wet spring was that it was pretty easy to pound in the fence stakes.  The fence is 6 feet tall, so I'm glad I had Chad helping me since he's so tall.  I would have needed a ladder. Here's what my garden looks like today.  Despite the rough start, and the fact that I couldn't do very much to improve the soil because of the wet spring, it's coming along very well.  Here's a picture from our side porch:    And here's one from our new attic windows:   Despite being sunk prett...
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Hello summer!

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 Summer has taken it's sweet time to get here this year.  It was one of the coldest and wettest Mays the northeast has ever seen!  Consequently, we spent almost the entire month of May sitting in and looking out.  Chad had to rush out any time the rain stopped and mow the grass before it got wet again.  For me, all the cold and rainy weather meant that the ground stayed so soggy that I couldn't get out and start my garden.  It has been a real struggle for me, as I'm usually out in April, planting peas and onions and potatoes.  But May wasn't all bad.  We got to finally see what color our rhododendrons out front are.  The one under the kitchen window is a small leaf rhododendron, so it bloomed earlier, and it's a very soft and lovely pink color.    The one under the living room window is a large leaf rhododendron, the kind that's more common, and it's a lovely magenta color. It also currently has a momma robin living in it, literally...
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Springtime in the valley

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 Life seems to get away from me sometimes.  Between selling our house, finishing all of the moving, doing work around the property, and all of my daily chores, I just don't seem to have the time to blog lately.  But I know there are folks that would like to see what we're up to, so I'll at least do a photo dump today!  Hopefully one of these days life will calm down enough to actually write a good post.        
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A Springtime Update

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Well, it sure has been a while since I last posted.  December, January, and February were some pretty tough months for us.  We wanted so badly to get back to Jamestown and finish moving our things and getting the house ready to sell, but the weather had other plans.  Seems like every time we set aside a day to drive back, there was a pretty nasty snow storm that kept us home.  The real trouble is that there is the tail of a snow belt between us and our old house, and we didn't want to chance it.   If I'm being totally honest though, we needed a break from everything.  We were so burnt out from moving and working constantly, that we barely felt alive.  So most of January ended up being a down time for us, and we enjoyed it very much.  We went snow hiking and snowshoeing through our woods.  We sat by the fire with the kitties.     We looked at cool things out our windows, like the neighbors' Christmas lights reflecting off the ic...
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