Tis the Season

Amidst the holiday rushing and pushing, all I could think about yesterday is the fact that I have been lazy in one area of my life…..prepping my soil for next season!!!!!  So I found the perfect holiday shopping spot yesterday, Alameda Greenhouse.  No crowds. No lines.  Just a wonderful woman, whose name I should have gotten, so I could send her a Christmas card.  She coached me through a few things I need to do differently with my two fruit trees and also walked me through the wonderful winter wonderland that is my dirt filled beds.  It has been interesting this year how i have been more excited to think about which vegetables are going where and which beautiful flowers I swear I won’t kill this year.  While everyone is looking at electronics and toys, I have been researching garden windows for my kitchen.  I guess I inherited more from my Grandma B. than originally suspected.

So while the kids dream of santa and reindeer, I’ll be dreaming of compost and seeds.  Strange.  Well, time to bake cookies and through Luke’s reindeer food out in the front yard.  Maybe they’ll stomp on some of those awful xeriscape plants that are there.

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