tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28944131617108078242024-03-13T01:33:00.517-07:00Must be in the dirtJeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-27575355563078079452012-11-19T16:27:00.002-08:002012-11-19T16:27:50.649-08:00Blogging again!I'm back to blogging again everything has calmed down around here and I'm with out a computer so I'm using my phone to post so if anyone has any advice about using your smart phone to blog I would love to here it.Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-24270003978268521142012-02-21T08:49:00.000-08:002012-02-21T08:51:34.456-08:00Let Spring Begin!<br />
I started some lettuce, broccoli, tomato, pepper, and parsley seeds indoors using peat pellets that someone gave me I was a bit worried about using them because I kept hearing how they were bad about causing damping off but my tomatoes started sprouting in 4 days. I followed the directions that came with the pellets about adding warm water to them but that is pretty much where I stopped following directions after I watered them with warm weak chamomile tea to help prevent damping off I let the pellets sit for about a day and made sure they were wet all the way to the middle and also to get my nerve up to plant seeds in them like I said I was not real sure about using them but they worked great. I will have to pot them up soon because I don't think the pellets are big enough for the roots of the plants. I also will go ahead and pull the netting off before I pot them up because I found a picture of what can happen if you don't remove the netting. I also heard that watering was an issue but once they expanded fully I covered them with clear plastic and I didn't have any problems.<br />
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Here are my tips about using peat pellets to start seeds:<br />
1. Make sure they are wet all the way to the middle.<br />
2. I used warm weak chamomile tea to water the peat pellets.<br />
3. Keep them covered until you see the seeds sprouting up.<br />
4. When you pot them up remove the netting, it pulls off pretty easy.<br />
Here is also a video that is really good.<br />
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I hope this helps anyone trying peat pellets for the first time. <br />
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<br />Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-18384947231335828322011-12-27T09:57:00.000-08:002011-12-27T09:58:06.268-08:00Having a pity party I know it's been awhile since I posted but life got in the way and I have been having an awful case of empty nest syndrome and my 18 year old is still living with us (at least I think he is). My garden has mostly been put to bed for the winter except where the walking onions are planted and the cold frame still has lettuce and spinach growing in it so there isn't much to keep me busy outside. I let myself get pretty down about stuff that really doesn't matter. I felt like the kid that nobody wants on their kick-ball team. My hubs said it was because I have never done anything I wanted to do I was always doing what the kids wanted to do and he also said something about me having ADD and not being able to sit still for a even a minute but I blocked that out and I'm just going with the I'm sad because I don't have anyone to play with anymore (my kids have grown up and found new friends) Thanksgiving and Christmas came and it made me think about everything I should be thankful for and what a Debbie Downer I have been and I am getting back into the swing of things.<br />
On a better note I have been getting gardening catalogs in the mail everyday which is basically like porn to me so I have been busy drooling over all the different varieties of veggies, fruits, and flowers. It is getting close to start winter sowing some seeds if you haven't tried it you should because it is a pretty easy way to start seeds and and you don't have to buy any fancy lights or kick you husband out of his man cave because that is the only room with lots of south facing windows. <a href="http://www.wintersown.org/" target="_blank">Here</a> is a good site about winter sowing they will even send you free seeds. <br />
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I had a small harvest of green onions, spinach and some herbs from the garden this morning!<br />
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I hope everyone has a great New Year!<br />
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<br />Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-5869989916744291492011-07-27T18:00:00.000-07:002011-07-28T19:56:45.314-07:00Garden Update & Lamp Shade Redo.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had a little relief from the triple digit heat that we have been having, yesterday we got a 1/2" rain....woot woot I was catching rain in anything that could hold water...(I have got to get a rain barrel). I took some pictures of my plants growing in my yard and I just remembered I didn't take any of my tomato plants I have been picking a few ripe tomatoes. I think maybe the heat is causing them not to ripen like normal because they look healthy and I have a lot of green tomatoes on them I will have to do a little researching about ripening tomatoes.<br />
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I have been getting up at 5:30am....(yessss 5:30am) to water everything and do any yard work before it gets hot so I have been stuck inside in the afternoon and thought I would start to organize my sewing and craft room which only last until I find a treasure I forgot about having and then all organizing goes out the window. I found an old lamp shade and I needed a lamp shade for my craft room I decided to "kill two birds with one stone" since all my money is going to the water department I couldn't go out and buy a new one so I made me a cute one for my craft room with out spending any money which makes me, the husband, the plants all happy.<br />
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Sorry about the blurry picture but my creative juices were flowing.</div>
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Some of the fabrics and lace that I used for the lamp shade. The dress I bought at Goodwill a couple of months ago I just bought it for the print I knew I could make something out of it. The quilt blocks were my great-grams they are all hand stitched she could sit and piece quilts while babysitting all her great-grand-babies and cooking and cleaning and whippin all our butts with that damn flies swatter or whackin us with that damn yard stick nothing got by her anywayyy..... I took the ones that had stains and used them on the lamp shade since I could hide the stains on the lamp shade. <br />
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Me----New lamp shade <br />
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Update: 07/28/2011</div>
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I was so excited about my lamp shade I forgot to post my little harvest from yesterday.</div>
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<br />To get my tomato plants to bloom in this heat I watch the future weather report and when I see we are going to have a so called "cold front" (when the highs drop back down to below 95 (92 is perfect) for the daytime and around 75 at night) about 4-5 days before this cold front comes through I feed my tomato plants with bloom booster it works out really good. You don't have to use bloom booster because the tomato plants would probably set blooms any way but I like the extra insurance. <br />
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I love bell peppers and I always plant Blushing Beauties because they keep producing even in the heat. When we have a more mild Oklahoma summer they will have more peppers than leaves on them.<br />
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I did have a good cucumber harvest this morning so it looks like it is Spicy Bread and Butter Pickles time!<br />
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I'm linking up with <a href="http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/2011/07/harvest-monday-july-11-2011.html">Daphne's Dandelions Harvest Monday</a>.<br />
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<br />Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-3461356739350690752011-06-20T12:57:00.000-07:002011-06-20T13:10:09.260-07:00Squash Bugs, Grasshoppers, & Father-in-laws! I have been biting my tongue this weekend because kicking a 65 year old man in the shins on Fathers Day would not be good but my father-in-law picked and took my FIRST RIPE TOMATO!!!!! I would go out to the garden just waiting for that moment of perfect ripeness. I was so ready to slice into that tomato and taste it but when I went to the store my father-in-law went and helped himself to my squash, my basil, cucumbers, and some onions and the one ripe tomato that I had. I know I sound awful but I have tried to help him start his own small garden I always take him all kinds of goodies from my garden and I would let him pick what he wanted if he would just ASK! The man says he doesn't want a garden because he doesn't like messing with one. HE JUST HAS TO ASK! I hate going out there and thinking I'm going to pick something to toss in a salad or dip in some batter to fry up for dinner and it's gone he does this all the time I'm so tired of it! OKAY...... my rant is over... now a 65 year old man will not get kicked in the shins.<br />
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I did get to harvest some despite squash bugs, grasshoppers and FIL.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d0fcX_pqNPM/Tf97ifdyGdI/AAAAAAAABPc/3mDvjlNMvoQ/s1600/2011+06+14_0789.CRW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d0fcX_pqNPM/Tf97ifdyGdI/AAAAAAAABPc/3mDvjlNMvoQ/s640/2011+06+14_0789.CRW.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S0v0qFBJUgs/Tf9xl6vwWBI/AAAAAAAABPE/AfLAYFRkXOQ/s1600/2011+06+20_0828.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S0v0qFBJUgs/Tf9xl6vwWBI/AAAAAAAABPE/AfLAYFRkXOQ/s640/2011+06+20_0828.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>I'm linking up with <a href="http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/2011/06/harvest-monday-june20-2011.html">Harvest Monday @ Daphne's Dandelions</a><br />
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I hope everyone had a great weekend and the bugs stayed away!<br />
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I harvested my garlic a little to early but I was worried they would start rotting in the ground with all the rain we got. It hasn't rained one day since I harvested them.......go figure.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have no clue what kind of eggs these are.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squash bug eggs </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squash bug</td></tr>
</tbody></table>All I can think of now when I see a squash bug is <a href="http://engineeredgarden.blogspot.com/2011/05/onion-harvest.html">"I'M RICK JAMES!"</a> it's like that song that you can't get out of head once you start humming to it on the radio. Thanks EG for putting that in my HEAD!<br />
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Waved light fly on a squash plant<br />
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</tbody></table>These are just a few of the visitors I have had in the garden so far, I saw the first squash vine borer moth of the season so I will be on the look out for squash vine borer eggs now. I have a couple of pest hunters for the garden, they might be old but moles, rabbits, squirrels, and maybe a cat or two don't last long in my garden.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pest gitter #1</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pest gitter #2</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crap I cram in the garden</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CmoMTu_HmSA/Tej7ecrzDuI/AAAAAAAABN8/8KNFmElDG2Y/s1600/2011+06+03_0759.CRW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CmoMTu_HmSA/Tej7ecrzDuI/AAAAAAAABN8/8KNFmElDG2Y/s640/2011+06+03_0759.CRW.jpg" width="426" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">more pictures of the onions planted with the tomatoes</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Well that is about where I'm at in the garden.<br />
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I hope you all have a great weekend! <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some herbs growing next to the back deck</td></tr>
</tbody></table>I have been pretty lucky with the garden this season so far I haven't had to replant anything because all of the rain. I know people that are planting there garden for the third time (I think I would just call it quits). I am going to go ahead and pull the rest of my garlic today, they are just floating in mud and I'm scared they are going to rot. You should really stop watering a few weeks before harvesting garlic, too much water will shorten storage life. <a href="http://www.garlicfarm.ca/growing-garlic.htm">Here is a link about growing garlic </a><br />
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I'm complaining so much about our rain and crazy weather but I know I'm so very lucky. My heart goes out to the tornado victims in Alabama and Missouri. I have a friend who lost her sister in the Joplin tornado she was pulled from her home and died at the hospital because of blood loss they had ran out of blood. I am going this afternoon to donate blood, my son donated yesterday. I try to give every few months, I just love all the compliments I get when I give blood like "my your veins are so big and nice" and "oh how wonderful your type O blood" I just love all the attention....he he he. I do forget sometimes and I really need to remember to go and give more often so I will be marking it on the calendar as a blood donating date with the husband. <a href="http://www.redcrossblood.org/">http://www.redcrossblood.org/</a><br />
Thanks for reading and I hope everyone stays safe. <br />
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Jalapeno Grande hybrid<br />
Jalapeno Mucho Nacho<br />
Jalapeno Chichimeca<br />
Bell California Wonder<br />
Bell Yolo Wonder L <br />
Bell Blushing Beauty <br />
Bell Roumanian Rainbow <br />
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Tomato Sungold<br />
Tomato Black Cherry<br />
Tomato Black krim<br />
Tomato Bush Early Girl<br />
Tomato Jet Star<br />
Tomato Rutgers<br />
Tomato Martino's Roma<br />
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Eggplant Lavender Touch<br />
Winter Squash Old Timey Cornfield<br />
Summer Squash Early Prolific Straight Neck<br />
Cucumber Marketmore 76<br />
Cucumber Homemade Pickles<br />
Loose leaf lettuce Salad Bowl<br />
Loose leaf lettuce Black Seeded Simpson<br />
Onion Texas Super Sweet<br />
Onion Red Long of Tropea<br />
Evergreen Bunching<br />
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Sorry about not posting anything in awhile but waterfowl season is over now soooo on to gardening!!!<br />
I have been doing some seed starting I promise I'm not sitting on my fanny eating cake and ice cream which really doesn't sound to bad right now. I even have pictures to prove it..<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>These are some tomato seeds I winter sowed the first week of January we had a record snow fall and then started having pretty warm weather so they started sprouting a little early and I freaked out and grabbed anything that held dirt to plant them in I have never had my winter sown tomato seeds sprout this early.<br />
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here are the winter sown tomato seeds this morning (March 13th) when I took them out of the cold frame. I'm leaving them in the cold frame and just covering the cold frame with an old blanket if it gets to cold at night. <br />
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My pepper seedlings are pretty pampered they get to stay in under warm lights with a fan moving the air around and they get taken outside when it is around 70 degrees which we have had a few of those days. They are getting a little leggy but I think they will be okay.<br />
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I also started my sweet potatoes inside on March 7th. I have a real technical way I do this so I thought I would post a picture to go with the instructions on how I start my sweet potatoes. 1. Get a sweet potato. 2. Get a container and put dirt in it. 3. Stick the sweet potato in the dirt. I'm so high tech it is scary.....<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J3g5gcRdMi4/TXzi60HOE8I/AAAAAAAAA84/NershlSqEf0/s1600/2011+03+13_0592.CRW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J3g5gcRdMi4/TXzi60HOE8I/AAAAAAAAA84/NershlSqEf0/s400/2011+03+13_0592.CRW.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I keep the sweet potatoes in a warm place in the house until they start sprouting (which are the sweet potato slips) then start moving them outside when the weather gets nice and warm to start hardening them off. When the sprouts (slips) get about 4 inches long you can brake them off and plant them in the garden or in a container I try to get mine planted out around June 1st. Sweet potatoes are a tropical plant so they like it hot and they are drought resistant and really a trouble free plant to grow. I grow them in the garden by making hills with compost or in a container of compost I have planted them in the garden and in containers and get good results both ways. When you dig them up remember not to move them around to much because the more your sweet potatoes are moved around in storage the sugar in them starts to turn to starch and they won't be as sweet. If you love sweet potatoes you should really try to grow your own the flavor is so much better than store bought. Here is a really cool <a href="http://engineeredgarden.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-of-two-sweet-potato-harvests-for.html">video</a> by Our Engineered Garden. Here is a good <a href="http://www.currentland.com/ViewArticle/536/Default.aspx">article</a> in "The Current" about growing sweet potatoes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Thanks for reading,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Jeana </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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It is goose season and I didn't get to go duck hunting to much so I thought I better get in on some geese before they were gone. That got me a little bit behind on my seed starting but I did manage to get some seeds started indoors I'll get my list together and will post some pictures and some of the things I do to prevent damping off and to get hard to start pepper seeds to germinate. It was worth it though my son got a banded bird which was really cool for him but I think hubby and me might be leaving him home next time so he will quit getting our bands the kid has good luck he hasn't went one season since he started hunting with out getting a banded bird. The North America Bird Banding Program is a very useful program that helps to better understand the migration,the life span, the survival rate, and population growth to name just a few things that the banding data helps with. They even band hummingbirds...... I know that sounds crazy.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BM2SIffGiug/TVs6K7jUVBI/AAAAAAAAA7M/R_CDNdOL5Gw/s1600/Caleb+and+Jayce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BM2SIffGiug/TVs6K7jUVBI/AAAAAAAAA7M/R_CDNdOL5Gw/s640/Caleb+and+Jayce.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FT5Nf1AM5Ug/TVs6ApuH0sI/AAAAAAAAA7I/2v53rVB3n0o/s1600/Cookie+and+Geese.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="456" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FT5Nf1AM5Ug/TVs6ApuH0sI/AAAAAAAAA7I/2v53rVB3n0o/s640/Cookie+and+Geese.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>We had 200 birds last weekend and now we have around 160lbs of bratwurst, summer sausage, Italian sausage, hot links, and a whole lot of goose down. <br />
Here is the link to <a href="http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBL/">North American Bird Banding Program</a> it has some pretty cool information. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: xx-small;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Here's how the awards works:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> Thank and link back to the person(s) who bestowed the awards</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> Share 7 random things about yourself</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> Nominate 15 other awesome bloggers</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b> Contact those<span id="goog_1899269736"></span><span id="goog_1899269737"></span> bloggers and inform them about the award</b></span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">So here's the 7 random things about Jeana @ Must be in the dirt</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">1. I am a post-it note addict.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">2. I love junk stores and resale shops.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">3. I'm a cheap gardener.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">4. I love to be outdoors</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">5. I'm a homebody.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">6. My favorite food is ice cream</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">7. Seed catalogs are like porn to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">now for the blogs that I like to stalk and nominate for these awards:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://twenty-eight-0-five.blogspot.com/">Honey @ 2805</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://mycraftinessonlydollarstoreallowed.blogspot.com/">Cindy Sue @ my craftiness only dollar store allowed</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://thyme2gardennow.blogspot.com/">Minji and Keith @ Thyme 2 garden now</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"> <a href="http://engineeredgarden.blogspot.com/">EG @ our engineered garden</a></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://inmyownstyle.com/">Diane @ In my own style</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://twosucculentsisters.blogspot.com/">Linda @ two succulent sisters</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://karenharveycox.blogspot.com/">Karen @ karen harvey cox</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://annieskitchengarden.blogspot.com/">Granny @ annies kitchen garden</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://daphnesdandelions.blogspot.com/">daphne @ daphnes dandelions</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.craftskeepmesane.blogspot.com/">Kaysi @ Keeping it simple</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://sugarnspiceinthelandofballsnsticks.blogspot.com/">laxsupermom @ Sugar & spice in the land of balls and sticks</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://artfuldesign.blogspot.com/">Patti @ Patti's Artful design</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://onecheapbitch.blogspot.com/">Jeanine @ One cheap B*tch</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://searchingforarainbow.blogspot.com/">Shiela @ Searching for a Rainbow</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://myhouseofl.blogspot.com/">myhouseofl</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;">Thanks again Christina for the awards.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div>Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-21007624979832871442011-02-06T18:20:00.000-08:002011-02-07T06:36:12.030-08:00Cabin Fever!!I have been snowed in my house for a week and it isn't looking good for my sanity. I have been in a competition with the laundry gods and actually winning. <br />
I did make a couple of things for my sewing room with some graphics from The Graphics Fairy. <a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_vQVjNrWvGVk/TU9NaOxoXnI/AAAAAAAAA6E/TZKEga4ekBU/s1600-h/dressform%20wallart%5B6%5D.jpg"><img alt="dressform wallart" border="0" height="266" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_vQVjNrWvGVk/TU9NarFfc6I/AAAAAAAAA6I/EEmtd8YMdSs/dressform%20wallart_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px none; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="dressform wallart" width="400" /></a> <br />
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The wall art is a canvas that I layered with pages from an old phone book and Gesso (Gesso helps the paint from soaking into the support) and then printed off the graphics on tissue paper using the “fast draft” setting on my printer so the ink wouldn’t be heavy on the tissue paper and bleed, then I mod podged them to the canvas. I painted around the dress forms then and added some flowers that I made from an old sweater. <br />
I wish I would have taken a picture of the lamp shade before because it was uuuglyyyyy. I did the same thing with the lamp shade as I did with the canvas using the phone book pages and Gesso (I liked the texture that the pages and Gesso gave the lamp shade). I printed the graphics out on tissue paper on the “fast draft” setting on my printer and mod podged the graphics on to the lampshade and glued black ribbon to the top and bottom of the shade. <br />
I just got the call we will be out of school tomorrow so wish me luck with the laundry gods.<br />
Jeana<br />
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<center><a href="http://www.craftskeepmesane.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> <img border="0" alt="Keeping It Simple" src="http://i936.photobucket.com/albums/ad206/kaysinerwt/th_DSCF63832.jpg" /></a></center>Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-54094826046954698512011-01-24T18:25:00.000-08:002011-01-24T18:31:39.806-08:00Organizing my seeds.I got a little bit of Spring Fever and started getting my seeds together to see what I have on hand for my Spring garden and realized I had seeds strung all over I had them stuffed in drawers, baskets, jacket pockets....... really my jacket pockets...the jacket I wore when I was cleaning up the garden at the end of the season last year had seeds in the pockets (thank gawd there isn't a show for seed hoarding). I didn't want to give my hubby a heart attack and just go crazy and organize something around here so I warned him before starting on my seed storage project. I had a little 3 draw cabinet that I got at a garage sale years ago that I had great plans for I know at the time but can't remember what they were at this moment anywayyyy......the plan now is to make it into a little seed storage cabinet. <br />
Here is a before picture and after picture.<br />
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</tbody></table>Spring will be here soon so it's time to start thinking cool season veggies!!! I'm linking to <a href="http://thetatteredtag.blogspot.com/2011/01/kisskeep-it-simple-sunday-7.html">K.I.S.S. over at The tattered Tag</a><br />
<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54488/378/1F2EE705222F066ED0ADCCD967EDE367.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /> </a>Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-47257473924180685742011-01-15T11:01:00.000-08:002011-01-15T11:01:10.177-08:00Free planner printable<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I have been doing some blog hopping this morning well now I guess it's afternoon but anyway I ran across Sofia over at <a href="http://www.sofiasworld.org/2011/01/finally-free-planner-printable.html">Sofia's World</a> and she made the coolest <a href="http://www.sofiasworld.org/2011/01/finally-free-planner-printable.html">planner</a> to help <strike>you</strike> me keep organized which for some reason after 41 yrs I have decided to become a organized person. What I like about this planner is that it does not expire and you customize it anyway you desire.<br />
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Here is just a taste of Sofia's planner head on over to her blog and check it out. <br />
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I hope you all have a great weekend.<br />
JeanaJeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-13211378864309066772010-12-29T11:32:00.000-08:002010-12-29T11:32:27.928-08:00Ingredient Substitutions for RecipesIt never fails that I will forget something from the grocery store or just think I already have it on hand and when I get home I don't. Here are some substitutes for ingredients that I have used and had good results with. <br />
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<b>Self-rising flour</b>--------1 cup all-purpose flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1 tsp baking powder.<br />
<b>Baking powder</b>---------1/4 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar.<br />
<b>Buttermilk/sour milk</b> --1 Tbsp white distilled vinegar plus enough milk to make 1 cup.<br />
<b>Fresh Herbs</b>-------------1 tsp dried herbs.<br />
<b>Heavy cream (not for whipping)</b>----3/4 cup milk, 3 Tbsp, 1/3 cup melted butter.<br />
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Jeana<br />
I have linked this project to <a href="http://thetatteredtag.blogspot.com/2011/01/kiss-keep-it-simple-sunday-6.html">K.I.S.S.</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Good Luck<br />
JeanaJeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-42999440155502150082010-12-13T18:40:00.000-08:002010-12-14T13:18:41.438-08:00First digital collage attemptI have just been amazed at all the beautiful collage images on flickr I could spend hours just looking around on there (and I have) another great place is <a href="http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/">The Graphics Fairy</a> I can just get lost looking through all her images but I have never really just sat down and enjoyed trying to create my own collage so I thought now that I have decided to set time aside for ME TIME (doing something that I want to do) that I would start playing around with some of the wonderful graphics that kind people are sharing and maybe even make a few gifts by printing my collages onto tissue paper and mod podging them to canvas that is if they turn out good enough that I would want to give them as gifts. Here is my first attempt and it is so strange because I had something in mind and even some of the images that I wanted to use and after playing for a couple of hours (which didn't seem that long at all) I stopped and look at my creation and it wasn't anything that I had planned in my mind but I liked it better.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vQVjNrWvGVk/TQbSgEQM4dI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/goqlKiEEt6A/s1600/Freedom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vQVjNrWvGVk/TQbSgEQM4dI/AAAAAAAAA0Y/goqlKiEEt6A/s320/Freedom.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>The floral background texture is from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/playingwithpsp/4306026021/in/set-72157604052440248/">Playing with brushes</a> group on flickr. The bird and bird cage and music background are all from <a href="http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/">The Graphics Fairy</a>. I'll let ya'll know how my modge podge idea turns out. I'm linking to <a href="http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com/2010/12/brag-monday-gorgeous-coffee-filter.html">Brag Monday</a> at The Graphics Fair. <br />
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This is a great soup recipe that is cheap and easy to make, I like serving it with grill cheese or corn bread.<br />
EASY DAY SOUP<br />
3 cups water<br />
3-4 potatoes, diced<br />
3 carrots sliced thin<br />
3 celery sliced thin<br />
1 can whole kernel corn drained<br />
1 can (16oz.) tomato juice<br />
1 onion, diced<br />
2-3 garlic cloves <br />
1 can tomatoes and chilies (I use Rotel brand) <br />
1 lb hamburger (made into small meat balls)<br />
1/2 tsp seasoning salt<br />
1/4 tsp celery salt<br />
1/2 tsp oregano<br />
1/4 cup ketchup<br />
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In a large pan, bring water to boil. Add all remaining ingredients together except for the hamburger. When soup comes to a boil again, add hamburger. Turn heat down to medium. Let soup simmer for at least one hour. You can substitute stewed tomatoes for the tomatoes and chilies for a milder soup.<br />
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I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays<br />
JeanaJeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-7672904047513534752010-11-23T07:15:00.000-08:002010-11-23T07:15:59.016-08:00I have been busy cleaning up my garden, raking leaves to go into the compost bin and and fighting moles. I never had a mole problem when I had my rat terrier he would deliver them to my back door dead and ready to be disposed of....man I miss that dog. I'm trying to get rid of the grubs which is supposed to help get rid of the moles. The weather here has been so nice it is hard to stay indoors. We are supposed to be getting some cold weather this week so I thought that would get me inside and stop thinking about gardening but then the seed catalogs started to arrive and I <strike>love seed catalogs </strike>will not be ordering much this year ( I have to keep repeating that over and over).<br />
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I did manage to make a gardening apron using some scrap fabric and my husbands old overalls without dragging my sewing machine outside that sounds strange but I do take my sewing machine outside to sew sometimes when the weather is nice (now I sound strange so I'm going to stop typing now).<br />
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We had our first frost here this last week and I picked my last peppers Nov. 4th. I wasn't able to get anything planted for the fall but some radishes and some leaf lettuce. I'm already thinking about winter sowing, the few plants I tried last season all did really well even the tomato plants. I'm hoping to sit down and this week sometime and go through what did well in my garden, what didn't and what things I need to do different. I know I need to be better prepared for those pesky SVB and fruit worms. I'm also building my mom a small garden for next season. I am making her a trash can composter using <a href="http://organicgardening.about.com/od/compost/a/cancomposter.htm">this</a> guide I didn't make my holes as big but I made more holes and put them closer together I need to add more but my little drill ran out of power on me, not to bad for my first project. I want to be like <a href="http://engineeredgarden.blogspot.com/">Our Engineered Garden </a>when I grow up, he does some great projects and has some great ideas on his blog.<br />
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</tbody></table>Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-77727253229216919042010-08-04T00:53:00.000-07:002010-08-04T00:53:01.044-07:00My tomatoes have "worms"I wanted to pop on here real fast and let anyone that was wondering about the mystery worm that was attacking my tomato plants. The <a href="http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/r783300411.html">Tomato Pinworm</a> he is not my friend.... really, they are caterpillars; worms live in soil...at least that is what my son tells me (just great now I have to find out about the whole worm caterpillar thing). I better get some sleep.<br />
Jeana Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894413161710807824.post-72432547912361535522010-07-27T10:30:00.000-07:002010-07-27T10:30:03.223-07:00Refrigerator or Counter?I have been trying to find out what is the best way to store produce from the garden or store to maintain the freshness and flavor. This is what I have found out I thought it might be helpful. Produce should not be kept in a sealed plastic bags cut little holes in plastic bags so the produce can breathe. <span style="background-color: black;"></span>Hold off washing produce until just before preparation and eating. <br />
<div style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b>Ripen on counter, then store in the refrigerator:</b></div>a<span style="color: black;">pricots</span><br />
<span style="color: black;">avocados</span><span><span style="background-color: black;"></span></span><br />
nectarines<br />
peaches<br />
pears<br />
plums<br />
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<b>Store only at room temperature: </b><br />
bananas<br />
basil (in water)<br />
cucumbers<br />
dry onions<br />
eggplant<br />
garlic<br />
grapefruit<br />
lemons<br />
limes<br />
mandarins <br />
muskmelons<br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;"> oranges</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">peppers</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">persimmons</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">pineapple</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">plantain</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">pomegranates</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">potatoes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">sweet potatoes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">tomatoes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">watermelon</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">winter squashes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />
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<span><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Store in refrigerator:</b></span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">apples</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">asparagus</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">beets</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">blackberries</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">blueberries</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">broccoli</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">brussels sprouts</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">cabbage</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">carrots</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">cauliflower</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">celery</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">cherries</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">figs</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">grapes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">greens </span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">green beans</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">green onions</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">herbs (not basil)</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">leeks</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">lettuce</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">mushrooms</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">peas</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">radishes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">sprouts</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">straberries</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">summer squashes</span></span><br />
<span><span style="background-color: white;">sweet corn</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span>Jeanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09588879673180076842noreply@blogger.com5