Following

Sometimes following the Master isn't as easy as walking down the street. Those times, I'm grateful for His love that leads me like leash leading my puppy to water after a long walk. She knOws I'll take care of her as we walk dOwn busy roads or sidewalks, and sometimes have to give her a smack when she wants to cross the street to find a more shady path...but I do by best to make sure she knows I love her, even after I have to scold her when she puts herself in harm's way. I am so grateful for His love, that keeps me from straying too far from the safety of His hands.

Walking iris times nine

Blast... just deleted the entirety of my post because I pushed a button  and I'm still trying to figure out my new phone.

Anyways, my friend Jacki gave me the start to a walking iris back in 2011. It decided it liked me, and grew itself a nice little root system after I moved to Florida. Found it a pot so it could move from its gas station cup into something more p permanent and roomy.

While we were staying with David's grandpa, Iris favored us with a few blooms that were blue, white, and heavily scented. She then proceeded to continue growing beautiful, green shoots until the pot was dwarfed by a small forest.

Yesterday I went to go split Iris into some new pots and found NINE separate plants. ... and had only picked up two extra pots. Some garden forums I'd found mentioned planting walking irises in groups of three in a triangle, so that's what I went with. I put three plantlets in each pot in a little triangle . . . And now I get to wait and see if they like their new digs :-)

big move

(from 7/15/2013)
Almost two years after agreeing to move to Florida for a job (and working there for a year, and then moving back to Michigan for about a year), my husband has accepted a position in Maryland... a state I know almost nothing about.

vermicomposting

1) We're in Maryland - it's been almost a month! :)  more later ...

1.74) I realize no one knows what's been happening, so I am going to make more of an effort to post on here using pictures, if not words, to keep life interesting for whatever-who-are. :) You might see a lot of "older" pictures, but there are some things I wouldn't mind sharing with the world :)

2) I'm in the process of digging in the dirt clay to make more room for dirt slash topsoil (The dirt is very much clay-ey, the top inch or so has a little dirt, the next few inches have small rocks, and after that it's one big rock after another. That I get to dig out. I have a trench about 6-8" deep, and maybe 4 feet wide by now. (Not sure of the length, I'm not that cool.

3) I built a vermicomposting bin a few days ago  - we got two 30-gallon tubs at Walmart last night - on sale for $4 each! - and I followed the directions written here to put it together.

This is their prototype:

  It was really easy, and I think it will keep Sally and Scooter (our landlady's tiny dog) from eating composty things. . . (which I think happened a bit ago when I caught Sally nomming on a corn cob, and subsequently having nasty diarrhea for a few days; Scooter had something similar. Ick.)