Unintended Hiatus

Hello blogging world! I can't believe we haven't posted anything in 2 months. We have is that we been so busy enjoying our new spring projects and seemed to have forgotten to continue blogging.

Our biggest project was preparing our vegetable garden area. We had to fence it in to keep out large and small animals. So far no elk have jumped the fence into our garden area, even though we have seen that they've walked through our yard. We're hoping it stays that way! Dan also built 10 raised beds, filled them with soil, and then we started planting and transplanting. I admit that we transplanted our indoor starts too early. We had a great room to help the starts grow, but we didn't realize how big they were going to become! The plants were crowding each other so we finally decided to transplant them outside. Thankfully, they've been doing well even though the weather hasn't been ideal. We did learn our lesson and next year we will start our seeds a little later. Then it won't feel as urgent to plant them outside. 

Another big project is the beginning of our furniture building. Dan is currently building a bed frame for our room. I'm so thrilled that we're finally going to have a real bed frame. We've had a metal one for as long as we've been together. We'll make sure to post pictures and give the necessary information when that project is finished.

Lastly, we've been continuing our research about health and food. A few days ago we decided to try becoming vegans. It will be an interesting journey and we'll probably document some of it here. Dan and I are vegetarians so at least we are halfway there. We still have a lot to learn.