Sunday, February 24, 2013

Happy Birthday Rowe-Quinn


Rowe-Quinn came into my life at 4 months of age!
 
He is now 8 years old and just as cute. Happy Birthday sweet boy!

Planting Of The Fruit Trees

Another first on the Vining Plantation! We plan to add two apple (Gala, Red Delicious), another plum tree (for pollination purposes), and another avacodo. Avacodo trees are NOT cheap, approximately $50 each. We may even plant an Naval Orange tree too!
Lemon Tree
 Digging the hole for these trees wasn't easy! The gumbo soil (clay and black dirt) is so dense and sticky. It was quite a work out!

Tangerine Tree

Avacado Tree

Plum Tree

Friday, February 22, 2013

Sookie Antiqued

 
I didn't know I could do this with my phone! Pretty cool!

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Young At Heart

Sugar never acts like an 'older' dog. She's going on 12 and you just can't tell.

Although she sleeps a little more than she use to, it's probably because her life is so full of fun!


She loves her (nearly) daily walk to the back of the property. Marking, sniffing, searching the landscape for anything she may want to chase. She's on leash though, so she can't, but that doesn't stop her from wanting.
 
 
She's just a girl that wants to be silly!



The Rainbow

The other day we had some (more) rain and I was glad to be home. One of the things that give me goose-bumps is a beautiful rainbow. Rainbows have always meant something to me. What I don't really know. They just touch me.

First I took this photo of one end.
 
 
Then the other.
 
I posted this one on Facebook and stated that perhaps I should go looking for the pot-o-gold. A friend commented, "you already have it". She's so right!
 


What's Been Happening In Rosharon


We've begun our vegetable garden! The first step was to get the plants started. So far we have 3 varieties of tomatos, some broccoli, lettuce, peppers, parsley, brussel sprouts and more.



The second step was to remove the sod in the space we needed. This is approximately 20'x30'. The soil is what is referred to as "gumbo", black soil mixed heavily with clay.

This is what that machine looks like.

 
Below is what we ended up with. It doesn't look like much now, but wait!
 
Hubby tilled it the first time without anything added to the soil. It was a workout.
 
 
This little plot needed a LOT of composted cow manure mixed in so that it could be worked with the tiller and to add nutrients to the soil for the plants.
 
 
Now we're getting there!
 
 
We have a few more steps to do before adding the plants and planting some of the root vegetables, carrots, parsnips, and more.