EKjourney Backup

  Just one more month until it is officially the month of Spring!  It has been such a wet miserable winter and I have so wanted to be out in my greenhouse starting seeds and preparing my early spring garden.  Well, that isn't happening since it is too wet to rototill and therefore too wet to put up the greenhouse.  I had a calendar set up and all my seeds (both flower and vegetable) purchased and categorized with the idea that I would start a few things in January and a whole bunch of things in February.  It is hard not to get discouraged because I can't even prep the ground outside or start my seeds in cell packs on heat mats inside. A few breaks in the rain... Signs of Spring Evi prepared for me a tasty fruit treat. Farm vans...hauling hay, animal feed, children, farm animals, etc.... Homeschool Mondays Kitties, now infested with fleas that are biting me and the children...sigh...I don't even know where they would get fleas.  They are inside cats. ...

I have shared quite a bit about my thoughts and feelings over the turmoil going on in our country (and the world).  It has been good for me to hash through things with my friends and to mull over those discussions and ponder how to prepare my family for more unrest.  I tend to be a very tangible person that really likes "action" in the sense that I want to be able to "do" something, make plans, create order, have specific things/systems that I am creating...  One thing that I have been planning for quite awhile is putting in a cabinet bookshelf system where I can put our books and knick knacks behind doors/glass as a way of combating the dust that is our reality in country living in a wind tunnel. I did a ton of research and finally decided on a set of Ikea shelving with glass on top and solid on the bottom.  It fit the space and was the cheapest option.  Unfortunately, they were sold out so we put our names on a list to be informed as soon as they came into the...