Reading the last post has me so excited for tomorrow!! I get to dig holes and water my plants. I feel so bad that they have been sitting for a week, but the weather here just hasn't been good. If you have ever wondered what the weather in Rigby, ID is.....windy.......usually windy. As a matter of fact, I just got my haircut thinking "oh this will be soooo good because less hair to deal with". Well, I was wrong the problem is now my hair flies into my face and I have no way of "pinning" it back. I'm glad it's short though. Sorry for the diversion, back to my plants. My raspberries are starting to pop green on the sticks and my grape is still looking like a halloween tree. After this weekend, when they are in the ground and staked up properly.....GREATNESS will occur. We are going to till the garden, plant the peas and carrots!! My kids are going to be weeding the front flower beds getting them ready for bark. There will be bees humming, birds chirping and it will seem as if Snow White was singing "just whistle while you work". I wonder if my children will be singing while they work. I just might get the BAR B QUE warmed up this weekend. I don't have to work (thank goodness). That is a whole different subject. May the peace of spring be with you on the coming Saturday.

Grapes and Raspberries

Can I just tell you how EXCITED I am for monday night. My sweet hubby bought me 10 raspberry plants, and a grape vine to plant! I have wanted to plant these for a couple of years, but didn't ever get around to it. This year after a very busy Saturday, I told him I wanted to go get some starts. Now on the ditch bank about a mile from my house, I could have gone and dug up some "free" raspberries. Sometimes it's worth buying things already prepared. I really didn't want to find them, dig them up, transport them, and then get stuck with the thorns the whole time. Instead we drove up to Rexburg to Treehouse nursery. It's family owned, small, but very helpful. They didn't have any. Sooooo the hubs drove to Lone Pine Nursery, they have a beautiful nursery, but NO RASPBERRIES! (they are coming next week or two) I had told him earlier that Town and Country nursery in Idaho Falls was advertising bare root plants. We drove down there and HOLY COW! What an amazing nursery. I could have spent all day, no joking, all day at Town and Country. They had the plants, and a freakin flyer for those of us that are newbies!!!!! I am totally going back. I am so excited to plant these bare roots and watch how beautiful they are going to be!

Then, while we were looking around, there were grapes!! I have been reading about grapes and I want to plant the vines along our pasture fence. We got a grape vine too!! Bare root of course, but I can't wait to talk to these little plants and encourage them along :)

This is what I hope for them to look like:

Grape vine:

Raspberries:

Wish me luck