New Year, New....um, well...

I started my garden planning today. Thanks to my friend Jamie Flarity, I found what appears to be an awesome seed catalog and ordered that bad boy this morning. I have most of what I need already, but I'm looking for a specific variety of swiss chard and a couple other things. By starting this early, I'm hoping to be able to grow more from seed this year, but we'll have to see how it goes. For the past couple years, I have bought about half of what I've grown as plants and I'm really hoping to cut that back to about twenty percent. I would like to buy tomato plants, and nothing else, so we'll have to see.

I'm expanding the garden by two rows this year to make room for this really cool beam and pole system that my neighbor, Mr. Harding gave me after this past year. It's about sixty feet long and is used to grow pole beans on. Mr. Harding's wife, Ruby, passed away a couple weeks ago, so I think that I will be pretty alone on the garden front this year. I've always bemoaned that fact that he was able to produce so much more that I have ever been able to, but he has become a great friend, and I hate to see him go through this. They had been married for over sixty years and were quite the couple.

I'll figure out how to post an excel spreadsheet on here eventually and give you the 2012 layout as soon as I can. Party.

Music that has been getting me through the winter:

Ryan Adams-Ashes & Fire
The Decemberists-The King is Dead
The Head and the Heart-Self Titled
Jay-Z & Kanye-The Throne
Washed Out-Within, Without