Reflecting on my first garden

This post is going to be sort of a summary of my garden this past summer– what worked and what didn’t… and a future post will perhaps muse on what I hope to do for next year
Tomatoes
The tomato plants worked out really well!! If only we hadn’t gone out of town right [...]

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Thankful Thursday, Thanksgiving Edition

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone
There are so many things to be thankful for, so I’m going to try and list a few here…
Thank you, Lord for…
a wonderful, loving husband!
a fantastic mom, dad, and brother
wonderful mother-, father-, and sister-in-law!
good health for me, my husband, and our families
the freedom we have to worship our Lord [...]

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Winterizing, featuring my husband :)

I thought I’d write a little post describing how we have prepared (deconstructed) the balcony garden for winter. The process was based on what we thought would be a good idea, and a few websites [I'll add the links here when I'm on the other computer] that we read about storing terracotta pots for [...]

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Thankful Thursday, on Friday

I’m thankful that we were able to hack down the remaining foliage in the garden last weekend, before it got REALLY cold. (okay, “REALLY cold” compared to the 70-degree weather I was enjoying throughout October) [I'll post more about this once I get the pictures from my husband's camera...]
I’m thankful for getting to [...]

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