Garden Progress

The garden is growing some with the warm weather. Here's the peas.

And the tomatoes and pepper.

And corn. Now there's not much corn showing, and I think it's because I had to have one of the sprinklers fixed and the guy stomped all over everything I planted. So I planted more in a different spot and am waiting to see what this will do. I will probably replant it later.

And my prettiest strawberry plant.

Also, I went to a Relief Society Enrichment night last night on gardening and it was very interesting. All about how to seed your own tomatoes, squash, etc., inside in the spring. Also on composting and how to plant. She recommended the book Square Foot Gardening, and I bought it today. Check it out on my Shelfari shelf. I'm wondering how much of the actual building (boxes, trellises, etc.) I will really have to do. It seems like a great idea, though.

Old Scrapbooks

So I've been wanting to scan my paper scrapbooks so I would have them to duplicate or just in case something happened to the actual books. I finally did it this week! I had three 12x12 ones to do and one 8-1/2 x 11. They are now all scanned and I'm cropping and adjusting them so they will be ready to post online soon. Looking at all the paper ones almost made me want to go back to paper! But not quite... I am a little more motivated to do more scrapbooking, though.

Poor sad little pepper!

So the other night it got down to 34 degrees. So sad! The sprinklers had run at night and everything had a layer of ice on it in the garden! The wall-o-waters did their job on the tomatoes and zucchini, but the poor little pepper plant died and so did the basil. Parsley is fine! And I went out there today, and my peas are just barely starting to poke up out of the ground. I planted three rows of lettuce, spinach and carrots out there, and I can't remember which one is which, but one of them has lots of little leaves in a nice straight row, so that must be something coming up! Yay! AND it's supposed to be nice this weekend, so that will help, too.

My plan is to plant more peas, corn, carrots next week so they will be a few weeks apart in producing.

Gardening! and Genealogy!

I just finished planting tomatoes, Anaheim pepper, jalapeno pepper, zucchini, red potatoes and strawberries! I have peas and corn soaking to plant tonight! My other peas never came up!

I've been working hard to find some names to take to genealogy class, and I have a few that need work done. It will be nice to get some of our own work to do at the temple. I discovered online at findagrave.com that the brother of my great-great grandfather is buried nearby! So we went over to the cemetery yesterday and found the grave; it's so fun!

More Reading

Haven't done much crafting, etc. this week. I've been reading, though. All Barbara Michaels, who is also Elizabeth Peters. I think I like her Elizabeth Peters stuff better, though. I read Search the Shadows, Other Worlds and Greygallows. All fine, not amazing.

I have also been working on getting all my books cataloged so I don't buy duplicates. I'm up to 410 books, and that's just in the loft bookshelves!