I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

For those you who following along regularly, you will remember Matt and I received a package with spandex biking clothes in the mail from china a few months ago.  Neither of us had ordered the clothes, and honestly neither of us have use for spandex biking clothes.  It seemed that it would always remain a mystery where the clothes came from, but this week I received an email that cleared everything up.

The family that owned our house before us had ordered the outfit on ebay and forgot to change their shipping address, hence they came to us.  The clothes have now been returned to their rightful owner and all is well.

Mystery Solved!

Matt and I completed a home improvement / decorating project this weekend that we have been planning to do for some time now.  We setup a  curtain system on in our dining room.  We have a sliding glass doors at the back of our house, and while it is beautiful to look out of, at dinner time the light coming in the door is blinding.  So to reduce the  light and create a decorative wall hanging, we put up a curtain system from Ikea.

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I am now the proud owner of a brand new chest freezer. Tuesday Matt and I finally purchased one.  We have been talking about doing it for a few years, but when chickens literally started falling out of our regular freezer, it became obvious it was time.

We purchased a Kenmore 5.0 cu. ft chest freezer from Sears, and it is now happily freezing away in our garage. Our plan is to put the backlog of chickens we have from our CSA, along with any vegetables we can’t eat, in the chest freezer for longer term storage.  We are also hoping to split a side of beef from a local farmer with some friends.

We are very excited about the possiblity of being able to get local meat and vegetables and have access to it in the winter and not just the summer when things are “in season”.

Well, after a month-long self imposed hiatus, I am back to blogging. Life has been very crazy the past month and something had to give. Unfortunately it turned out to be my blog. If anyone is still paying attention, thanks for your patience.

So what has been going on all this time, you ask? Matt and I have been, and still are, buying a house. Yes that’s right, buying a house. Now I know we said we were going to do the responsible thing and wait a year so we could save up a substantial down payment and then buy a house, but the more we thought about it the more now felt like the right time. It is truly a buyers market, interest rates are they lowest they have been in years and are only going to go up, and we are tired of throwing our money away paying rent.

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