Life in Marion, NC

This afternoon, after I was done running some errands, I came home to Chris working on the other end of the land on a fence. We are working on getting part of our land set up for cows! Who knew that it took so much time and HARD work to put up a fence for cows....!! Not to mention $$$!! Oh well, we will get through it...I mean, I know I will....I just talk his head off while he is sweating and digging and all that manly stuff. I offer to help, but assume I will just get in the way...so I talk away. ;) We are hoping to have at least 5 acres fenced in. Once we get that done, we will get a couple cows, and work on fencing in more of the land at that time. So, you may ask...why cows? ! ? I would have laughed at myself 10 years ago and would have never believed such a thing!! We mostly just want to raise our own, hormone free beef!!





Little Bobby watching daddy work hard! It is so funny...Chris will throw roots and limbs over the bank to get them out of the way. Little Bobby runs after them and thinks Chris is throwing a stick for him to fetch!



I picked some wildflowers from our field while Little Bobby was playing in the creek.


And finally, on my way up to the house, I grabbed my basket and walked to our garden to pick some spinach and leaf lettuce for dinner tonight! I love warm weather! :)

Meet Mack!

Mack is the newest addition to the Clark household. He has been hired to keep all of the crows and other animals OUT OF THE GARDEN! Although he has a friendly face, he makes a lot of noise when the wind blows (that is not so nice). If Mack works out this year, we may bring him back for another gardening season!! :)

It's Garden Time!

Yes, once again it is time to start a garden! This year Chris and I plan to have a bigger garden than we have ever had! We have also decided that with having a bigger garden that we are going to *gulp* can! I have never ever canned in my whole life and am very excited/scared to do so. Chris said he will help (this year at least..haha). For the past month or so we have been trying to figure out what it is that we want in our garden. This weekend we have set aside to start planting. About half of our seeds require inside growth for 8-10 weeks before our last frost (I read it to be April 24th). I even made a little booklet for our planting schedule (yes, I know, I am a dork!). Here are a few pictures...have a great Thursday!

I have all the seed packets organized by veggie/fruit


All the seeds.....




The lighting in my living room this afternoon!