MountainMama: Howdy From The MountainTop!

Howdy in the end from the frigid mountaintop!! It has been eons since I’ve posted one factor on correct proper right here, I can not take into consideration how the months have flown by. I am sorry I have been away so extended – every single day I take into accounts you all and plan to place up a put up, after which the cases/weeks/months slip by as shortly as as quickly as further. 

Fortunately we’re all staying protected and correctly by way of this horrible pandemic. Sweetie and I’ve saved our distance from almost everybody as shortly as we wished to change indoors for the winter. It is humorous, I at all times talked about I did not have ample time at dwelling, and now I am dwelling often….nevertheless I do not get sick of it! I am nonetheless working remotely, which I like….and the pups desire it furthermore. Molly is totally my little shadow now, heaven forbid I am going away her for a second! 

My job has taken on an entire new diploma of stress, which is principally the rationale I’ve not been on correct proper right here. What a 12 months to be contained in the marriage ceremony planning enterprise! We hope and praying we’re ready to renew internet web internet hosting weddings this summer season season, nonetheless who’s aware of what which can appear like. I shut the pc on the top of my workday and sadly it is the very very last item I would love to try till I completely must as quickly as further. 

I purchased myself barely lap desk so I am going to change from the kitchen counter (the place I used to be for the primary 6 months of working from dwelling) to wherever inside the residence. I settle myself on the couch inside the lounge, nearer to the fireside for these blustery days. I can see out the lounge window, to my rooster feeders and the gently falling snow. There is a pup on each side of me, and each sometimes Molly will get as loads as give my hand barely kiss – she’s such barely lovebug. I am grateful for the straightforward moments of peace in my days, to assist me by way of the traumatic work hours. 

Regardless of the completely frigid temps we’re experiencing at the moment, there are indicators of spring contained in the altering delicate and the lengthening days. The primary seeds have been began contained in the utility room, which supplies me one issue else to deal with apart from getting by way of this loopy pandemic. Thus far I’ve began all my herbs together with a number of types of peppers, celery, leeks, and a few spring flowers – inventory, osteospermum, nicotiana, and candy peas. The impatiens seeds arrived yesterday and could possibly be the subsequent to be began. 

I began my seeds two weeks earlier this 12 months – I’ve a relentless wrestle with rising peppers up correct proper right here, and I hope if I set out higher crops in spring I’ll lastly have a superb pepper crop. 

I think about I’ll strive them in pots this 12 months, significantly than contained in the veggie yard. Maybe if they don’t seem to be competing with so many various veggies in such a small yard they may do higher. If I put the pots on the stone patio, presumably the warmth radiating from the stones may even assist them out. Fingers crossed! Yearly I swear I am giving up on peppers, nevertheless yearly I strive as quickly as further. I assume I am an everlasting optimist! 

I miss my spring and summer season season evenings on the swing, nonetheless I do know they may come spherical as shortly as as quickly as further. Time actually flies as I flip into older – I can not give it some thought’s just about February already. Prior to you understand it I is likely to be doing my day-after-day walkabout contained in the yard, trying to find bulbs popping up. I planted a bunch of newest bulbs inside the autumn, so I is likely to be massive excited to see what the critters did not eat, come spring! I furthermore break up and moved a ton of daffodils in spring so I hope 12 months by 12 months I am going to see a sea of bobbing yellow heads as I stroll my property. 

Till that point comes, I am going to do what I usually do in winter….hunker down and luxuriate in my cozy residence. My houseplants get barely additional TLC in winter, after they are not competing with my outside crops. The amaryllis is out of dormancy and rising like a weed. 

The geraniums I’ve tucked correct proper right here and there spherical the home aren’t flowering nevertheless, nonetheless they’re completely blissful, in order that’s good. I normally overwinter all my geraniums utilizing this system nonetheless I’ve seen that a number of the youthful/smaller ones do not do together with the bigger, additional established ones. This 12 months I made a decision to ship the smaller ones in (they’re all devices I rooted from bigger ones) and scatter them spherical the home. 

I ended up bringing in 7 potted geraniums, which in the mean time are in each window I am going to tuck them into. Two are even in the shopper bathe, beneath a skylight. 

I consider as our days get longer they may start to bloom, and naturally as shortly as spring settles in on the mountain extreme, they may go outside and be part of the remainder of the deck yard. 

I hope you might be all staying protected and correctly, and I am going to attempt to not go away it as extended earlier than the subsequent alternate. Due to all of you who’ve reached out to verify I am okay – I really do miss all of you, I’m merely having a difficult time balancing my work and private life, I’ve to get higher at that. 

Till subsequent time, my associates xo