I don’t think I have posted a full update in a while. At this point as far as our garden goes, the summer veggies are spent. Just not enough water for the plants no matter how much we put on the garden, we can’t complain however. It was a 1^st year garden at it’s current location. As many of you know we answered an ad in the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association newsletter and got free access to 5 acres this year. It did very well all things considered. We will spend the remainder of this year amending the soil, installing proper irrigation (not the makeshift one we have now), and designing the layout of next year’s garden. We will be installing hoop greenhouses there and fixing up our little one here at the house. The income from farmer’s market and CSA shares is missed but we have found the beginning of the substitution for it. A wonderful auction site called Plunderhere.com. The link to our farm store, that we moved over there and a referral link if you are interested in buying or selling are in my signature. We have also begun seed saving from this year’s garden so we should have plenty of seed and a lot less start up cost in the spring.

The school year is getting ready to start for young Miss Claire. She is very excited to be starting third grade. We have re-organized her bedroom, set up a desk for her and have almost finished school shopping. Her uncle and aunt will be picking both Claire and young Mr. Morgan up early tomorrow morning for a weekend of fun and shopping, visiting with their Pa-Pa and a lot more.

Mr. Morgan is growing by leaps and bounds. He is almost completely potty trained and enjoys wearing his big boy underpants now. He speaks very well for not quite 3 and has mastered the use of the computer to play his favorite Nickjr games. Right now his heroes are Superman and the Care Bears. He can identify quite a few shapes, tons of colors and is learning ABC’s and 123’s. He can count to 15, though counting to 5 is much easier for him (you know the drill you have to the count of 5 to stop or get out of whatever).

Hubby and I won’t be starting back to school this fall as planned. Financial Aid made some major mistakes and screwed up our aid completely. So we will go back in January.

I have started writing again and plan to complete one book per month, there are only about 6 started at the moment. I have moved my current eBooks from Lulu.com to my eStore on plunderhere.com.

The hens have refused to lay in this horrid heat, I honestly don’t blame them. Miss Shelby the rabbit has been spending her afternoons stretched out on the couch in the front room. Often our couch is filled with children, cats, dog and rabbit. All just chilling, napping and snuggling, yes, you read that right all of them on my couch in harmony. The cats think the rabbit is a wonderful pal, the dog honestly I think he could care less as long as he gets a corner, the kids fit in some how between all the animals. Oh and our one surviving chick from this spring has grown into a beautiful hen, who does occasionally visit inside the house as well. She thinks Miss Claire is her mommy and will sit on her shoulder. Our rooster Spurs has finally gotten all of his feathers in and is absolutely handsome, he knows it too.

Well off to finish packing the children’s bags for the weekend. Apparently they need bathing suits as well. I am not sure who is more excited my kid brother or the kids. He is not my only brother but right now the only that is either human or actually stateside.  

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