I"m Moving Blogs

Hey readers...

Blogger is being a bit odd and buggy so I'm moving over to WordPress.... All of my posts and everyone's comments have been moved as well.

If you'd like to continue following this blog, head over to http://farofftraveler.wordpress.com/

You can 'follow' the blog and it'll be emailed to you, just like this one was.

Now, someone go leave me a comment on my new site so I can tell if its working. :-)

Day #2

Freeman Tilden - the ultimate teacher of slowing down and enjoying every minute of every beautiful day!

Raised Beds!

So it all started with a hole dug with no real plan....

 Then my dad visited and soon after, I got this in my inbox. It came after a lengthy trip to Lowe's to show me what bags of manure, peat, etc. to buy, and where the wood is, what wood to buy, etc. The Lowe's trip came with a $100 Lowe's Gift Card, which we just used up yesterday.

I also got a box of screws and brackets from the diagram. Awesome!

M and I got to work in the evening building the frame. (Actually, M did the work. I just held stuff together and listened to him cuss when he bloodied his hands. Whoever says gardening isn't hard hasn't tried to build a raised bed....) We got the frame laid out as the sun went down.

It seems that we were overzealous in our digging and only really needed half of the plot we dug up. Que sera, sera...

Luckily, we were working in the yard that day and noticed a pool of water in the corner by a faucet. A pool in the desert is always cause for concern so M went under the house to check for leaks. Yes, UNDER the HOUSE!

There was no leak in the house and we discovered it was a hole in the pipe beneath the ground. So good news is we got it fixed. Bad news is there's a freaky crawl space beneath my house! This has the making of a great scary movie. (no worries though, my boobs aren't big enough to star in a scary movie so we're gonna be ok)

Last Tuesday morning I woke up to very cold weather, which in my mind was perfect for filling the bed in with all the displaced earth.

Bring it on, Cold Weather!

Raised bed with a dad-approved ratio of soil-to-manure-to-peat moss mixture

Oh! and the container herbs are doing good too!

From bottom to Top - Scallions, Garlic, Spinach, and Spinach... there's also a tiny
wild cilantro in there somewhere

100 Happy Days - Day #1

With all the changes in my life right now, and with the way our lives move so quickly, I sometimes feel very overwhelmed and disconnected. This is an unacceptable feeling so I've decided to join the 100 Happy Days campaign. Basically you submit a picture each day of something that makes you happy, using hashtags to follow along with everyone else.

I really don't like hashtags and only use them for my work FB page, BUT I'm gonna do this anyway #100HappyDays

Coffee! No explanation necessary....

Moving Furniture.... To Make Room for MORE Furniture

So this whole moving in thing is ramping up to full gear... or for my more geeky awesome friends... Warp Speed Ahead! M and I have officially started moving furniture around.

We have decided to move the office furniture into the dining area, splitting the dining area into a dining/office space, and leaving a room free for an awesome movie space! I guess if we were really rich we'd call it our "Media Room".

Somewhere between this....

And this...

I'm also getting my Christmas present from my grandma and Pawpaw delivered tomorrow.... my own swivel chair where I can curl up, blog, internet, and crochet!

The movers will be arriving at my apartment in 2 weeks. I leave my job in one week. That gives me several days to frantically dump everything into boxes, cursing the fact that I own tons of books, and run to the liquor store, AGAIN, for more boxes. The bad news is this move will cost me almost $1000. The good news is I won't have to move any large furniture! That is for the movers to do :-)

So, in two weeks, I'll officially be living in Carlsbad!

Kristi's Organic Garden

Sometimes inspiration comes from the strangest of places... This was a drawing my dad posted last spring on Facebook. (note the hiking boots)

Slightly political, slightly sarcastic, totally awesome!

Although I do wonder what a 'non-vegan' garden would look like? Leatherface's backyard?