Surviving…

Surviving…

Life…Love…Soul

  May’s Garden



Finally some rain..
This is our garden at the beginning of May.. Or part of it.. This is the Vegetable part.. We also have a little Herb/strawberry/garlic patch, and soon to be a pumpkin patch over by the shed..
In the Veggie garden from far back to front..
3 rows  - Irish moss Potato /Blue novelty potato
1 row […]

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  The View



 
Maybe someday we’ll have our farm… A little place on the hill.. We’re running out of room here.. Maybe sooner then later..
We have a chance for a little spot connected to Papa’s folks.. 150 acres to connect to his father’s 350.. And the view…Oh my… Up on a hill over looking several communities from across […]

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  Guineas & the Flu..



  The title almost sounds like a band doesn’t it? Or a super hero duo…Why is it when something bad happens it happens near me.. Swine flu.. SARS.. both have hit close to home..When SARS hit i was in a pub in Ireland, celebrating my last real guiness before heading home, when a pub goer asked it […]

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  Purple Potatoes



  So.. We’ve been busy like a couple of bees.. Over the past couple weeks the Other Half and I have been preparing the soil.. starting with raking the leaves off our yard. Although lucky enough to have nice sandy soil, we still need to add a couple of things to make it just perfect. We […]

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  My Organic Garden



 6 years ago I met my Other Half, the Farmer’s Son. I was struggling through life with a loaf of bread and a jug of milk..I was a single parent with no income, barely making rent.. My best friend had come over with her cousin one friday night to play cards.. I remember being so […]

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  Wow..just wow..



    It’s been a while.. i haven’t had that feeling since high school… You know the one.. when you walk into a room, and everyone goes silent.. So SIL and I decide to go to the local Family Resource Centre.. They have a program once a month called Baby-Love.. Sounds like fun, and SIL really needs to […]

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  My monster..



 I have a monster..Or should i say he had me..Once..He kept me in his cage with a key tied to the roof..just high enough..not tall enough..I sat with my eye on that key..i will grow and some day.. someday..Every second weekend I was allowed to give it a go.. try and reach that key.. And […]

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  My Father..



 My father, or the man who likes to call himself, that was a very angry, very manipulative, very controlling man who never really got over my mother leaving him.. Not that he cared about her, he just didn’t like the ego kick.. He also liked to powder his nose..it was the 80s and snowing if you […]

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  Please don’t..



  delete me.. I am here..  trying..  lifes just been a little shitty lately.. It seems sometimes that life kicks you in the pants in a big way all at once, and yesterday was the day i felt it the most…  It started a few weeks back when SD’s new-to-her-car (her Grampy had spent months fixing it for her)   was […]

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  Ah..



I have a Minute!One whole minute..to myself..by myself..for myself..finally..wait a second..what’s that?oh…i have to go..my minute wasn’t a minute…but seconds…just seconds…wasted on…..myself.

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