Monthly Archives: March 2004

Clothing, clothing, baby and mama’s

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I am so tired of late, of course, being in the first trimester of a new pregnancy. I’m finding it hard to do so many things, motivation to cook is fairly nil. I’m not having “morning sickness” but just feel anti-to-making-food. :( Well, that’s alway’s worse when the night before is a bad one, or, as in the case of yesterday, I didn’t get a nap and when on a ride with Frank on a couple of appoindments he had … the whole family went, of course. We stopped in a little store we’d seen before, that has nice clothing for babies, and up to size 6x in girls and 7 in boys, plus nice wooden toys and such kinds of stuff. Then we decided to go to the mall and see what kind of maternity clothing was there. Ah, the bad day afterwords is alright, for I know how painful the journey was and the worstmentless of it, or doing it again.

Yes, eBay is the place for shopping for maternity clothing!

I have been going through my stuff, and having a hard time with most of it, memories, but I will not wear most of it again. I only wear dresses now, and hate wearing “shorts” or “pants”. (plus, my stance on modesty keeps me happily in dresses!) I do wear tights or leggings under dresses, that’s just not the same as “pants” or “shorts”. So then, I have a nice black jumper from 1995/96 Motherhood Maternity, it needs dry cleaned. Then I need to find my blouse I usually wear with it, but probably need a new one. Anyhow, that was one of my farorite things to wear in the past pregnancies, and I find now, looking at it, that it’s rather short ;) My tastes have changed remarkably. Anyhow, it’ll work alright, as it is below the knees.

Another favorite is a dark blue dress with white polkadots. It’s a long dress, nice coller,swingy skirt, and it’ needs dry cleaned too. It was folded on a shelf, and I took it down and was looking at it, and found a funny spot of white on it and there next to it was a worm (the white must be a webby thing that it hached out of). Uh Oh. It was probably about to start eating clothing. Yikes! Good thing I was prompted internally to look at doing something with my maternity clothing.

So that leaves me with shirts and weird stuff.

I have three things coming to me that will be great to wear out and to church. eBay, another “of course”. Very good deals, all of them.

I’m watching another auction right now, and it has 4 dresses in it, and oh I’m hoping to get it. They’ll be the things I wear at home or some of them also out.

I’ll be seeing about putting some of my stuff I don’t want up on auction soon. Plus I have a load a particular brand of Chr. Romance books that I’ll sell in one or two huge lots.

What I make in those things is funding for other eBay purchases.

All things listing on eBay are more difficult for me now that we don’t have a digital camera again (the one is out for repair, hopefully warranty in full effect and coverage!) So that’s why I’ve not been listing things since the first few I did, as the camera has been unreliable when it was here, and now is gone. I may gather a great amount and take the fewest pictures I can muster with my film camera … a thing I don’t want to do.

I find it interesting that I was starting to sell baby clothing, and considering how much of it to sell … when the camera was then oblesy not working right, and then one buyer left a nasty feedback without contacting me … and my heart wasn’t in it anymore … then just some weeks later, I find that selling my good baby clothing isn’t the best thing to be doing ;)

I’d been wondering for a couple of years if I should give away or sell my baby things … and was reticent to do anything about it at all until December finally. Hmmm.

This is mostly due to our belief of leaving our family size to God’s planning. We don’t “try” to have more children, nor “try not to” have more children. Considering that, we at this point have 3 children, and one on the way, in over 12 years of marriage. It’s wonderful that God is blessing us with another child, which I’m so thrilled with, as I love babies and “at least four” is what I’d considered all my life long as “being right for me”.

So all this coming together, baby clothing, feeling able to give it up finally, then finding I will need it afterall if all goes well. It’s just very interesting to consider.

Another thing, I had the crib set up as a daybed in our bedroom last year. We moved our bedroom furniture around over New Years, and the daybed has been apart, and I was going to set it up in the dining area. I hadn’t gotten to it yet. With the resent advent of our news, I now can save that set-up time and just put it up elsewhere as a full fledged crib instead, later. :)

Please understand any mis-spelling I’ve done in this post particularly. Sometimes I just don’t spell well, my fingers fly and my mind speaks the word, but my fingers spell it wrong. Pre-old-age-disease? Lack-of-mineral-or-vitamem? Not-enough-good-literature-reading-these-last-few-years? Ah, my new excuse — Pregnancy-brain? :lol:

I’m too tired right now to attempt spell checking, when my spelling don’t work so well with any spell-check I’ve got on my computer ;)

I’m in need of posting. I’ve done very little the last week. So here are my thoughts! It feels good to get them down on a page of something, whether paper or internet. I love blogging. :)

Fried eggs: the right way

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I’m making myself breakfast right now, and boy oh boy how I have missed my home laid eggs!

I’m using the first two eggs laid, brown ones they are, and frying them as I normally do, in hot butter but on a low heat to gently cook them. They are gorgeous!

We have bought the best eggs we could in the store this winter, as we used to before having hens … and this time is even more noticable at to how much better backyard fresh eggs are. We aren’t into Spring grass yet, so it’ll just get better than this.

My eggs are lovely to look at, orange yolks sitting high in their bed of whites, firm yet delicate. Nearly too good looking to eat … nearly ;)

How many eggs I’ll have to share this year is still up in the air. I’ll do it if I can, but I sure will use the ones I need to and not be using any more store eggs if possible, as last year we did.

Store eggs, ANY kind, bleck! (I haven’t been eating eggs except in quich and other dishes all winter, so to eat them breakfasty like, fried, scambled, french omlet — got to be backyard laid!)

Lion and Lamb

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Tradtion says that if March comes in like a Lion it’ll go out like a Lamb, visa versa.

That’s what I learned as a small child in Pennsylvania.

It’s not a useful saying in The South though. In any case, March 1 and 2 have been blustery, windy, but nice days. Lots of wind gusts and high breezes, warm temperatures. Clouds and sun. We may have some showers today, it’s rather overcast now, but a high overcast, not that low oppressive type.

If you’ve seen my eggreport you know that we have eggs being laid now. Just the fourth day in a row now. For us it’s a true herald of Spring. Last year, our new pullet Leghorns began laying in March. This year, our Wyandottes (brand spanking new hens, not pullets anymore!) started off the second to last day of February, and the first Leghorn hen laid today.

Our Weeping Willow tree is putting out green leaves, won’t be very long before it’s flushed out full. That’s a sight I love.

All the other trees are getting their buds ready, won’t be long there either. Peonies have magenta nubs coming up from the ground, some other perenials are showing their growth as well.

My herbs, I transplanted some from my regular garden into my small herb garden. I’m filling it in piece by piece, and hope to do a lot of work on it this Spring. Well, my Chives are starting to take off just the last couple of days since I’ve moved them. It’s the weather, the time to do it. I moved them by disturbing them the least I could, I transferred them as large chunks of earth and roots, into loose-soil filled holes. This is their second seaons on growth. I bought them as a 4″ pot Spring 2003, and divided them into three parts. I decided to do that as an economical way to get three distinct plants going, but not expecting them to be huge for quite awhile. Start small, wait for full development in time.

As for time, I also have a few varieties of Thyme. I transferred my German Thyme from the regular garden as well. So now there are Wooley, English and German varieties. They were all new small pots of herbs in Spring 2003. I expect them to take off better this year. All the herbs that survived the winter kept growing some during the winter. I also have Curled Parsely, still in the regular garden — it’s supposed to be an annual, but stayed small and green all winter, and is super green and growing in size now the last week. I ‘m debating on moving it or not. I think I may leave it be. I have my lettuce right next to it. I’m doing things this year that I haven’t done the past few that I’ve gardened with purpose.

I’ve wanted to do lettuce, but didn’t do any. Finally I have four little leaf lettuce plants out there. They were planted yesterday, and should be ready in 5 weeks. It’s not as cool as maybe they’d prefer, this week anyhow, but we shall see what happens. I have six Walla Walla onions set. 110 days, maybe they’ll work, maybe they won’t. I have to be careful and figure out what to feed them, so that they’ll stay sweet. High maintenance? Maybe. I *usually* garden au naturel, not feeding, just planing and watering as needed, and treating for worms (started that last year) if need be. I intend to figure out what to plant where for best pest deterent stuff naturally, and to figure out what’s good to follow in the same spot next year. Right now, I’m just winging it. The way I do too much ;)

I want to get some pole beans started soon, and be sure to plant some more in stages, to have beans sooner and later, and see what’s the best, and all that in terms of planting when, etc.

Tomatoes, I want to find plants that are heirloom, not starting them from seed myself (I just like some things in plants better than fooling with seed) I’ll put them in a different place than I did last year. Whatever tomotoes I find to plant.

I’m going to put some veggies next to the deck too, where I’ve let scraps go to rot over the years (and had tomato and canteloupe and onion sprout themselves nicely). So I’ll see what I can do about a narrow garden that can be tied to the deck for trailing beans and such. (easy pickin too!)

I’ll be throwing sunflower seeds out in some places to get flushes of them, in stages if I can do that. I’ve grown to really love them. I just use the bird seed I buy for the birdies, black oil sunflowers. Maybe I’ll get fancy and get something special in a packet to try as well. (the birds always plant some sunflowers themseleves around the feeders, as well as millet) Last year I accidentally spilled a bunch of sunflower seeds around the big feeder in the back yard, and it was a circle of wonder not so long later.

Out front I scattered extra under the feeder, to get more flowers than we had the year before. I’ve got to get some feeders cleaned and fixed now. Our big backyard one fell over a couple of weeks ago in a wind storm. I’ll be trying to install it on the railing of the deck instead now, once I get some areas re-nailed. It’s done-for on the post in the ground.

Well, that’s a slight garden/weather update, I feel like I’ve written some of this before, but I sure couldn’t find where … not that I looked very hard, mind you. So if there’s duplication of data, please don’t fret.