So it has been quite some timed since my last blog post, or since I have been here.  Since I have been here last I have closed up the garden for the winter, crocheted Yule gifts and now halfway through the jam and dilly beans and knee deep in seed catalogues.  I have so much planning to do for the spring.  I have started planing the spring plantings.  I think this year I am going to grow more of what is hard to find in the area and get everything else at the local farms.  I am definately growing my own pickling cukes this year.  This past year I had a failed attempt at pickling and I think it is because the cukes at the farm stand were older than I was told.  We'll see when I grow my own this year.  Inot planting green beans this year, because I have found out about a farm where I can get them for $5 a half bushel, so why bother growing my own?  I have a frd I am going to can large batches with this year so we can both be sweaty and miserable at the same time.  lol.  We still haven't finished the dining room.  All I hope for is that the room is done by planting time.  OK, thats all for now.  Blessed Be.