Is This Thing On?

I love reading blogs and waste, I mean, spend a lot of time reading and perusing blogs when I'm supposed to be working or doing other things. My goal last summer was to document how my attempt at increased food self-sufficiency was going, plant a fall garden, and then enjoy the harvest well into the winter months. Ahh, such the dreamer that I am. The good news is, that over all, I managed to glean hundreds of pounds of produce from my back yard farm. I dried, froze, and canned some wonderful veggies. I even weighed and wrote down what I grew on various scraps of paper and calendar pages. It would be swell to actually do the math and see what I finally got.

Fall garden? What fall garden? I never even got around to planting garlic last October, so sprouty garlic from last year's harvest is all I have left, then off to the famer's market for me one it runs out.

Speaking of running, I trained for and ran my first full marathon last fall. That life goal sucked up just about all of my free time. Am I glad I did it? Absolutely.

So, welcome to a new year of whatever. New plans, new garden dreams. New running and other goals to accomplish.