So, this is where it all starts...

Finally got things together and am now starting a blog. The following activities are in high gear around the Yew Glen farm:

• Garden - The following have been planted:
• Sugar snap peas - they are about 6 inches high and starting to crawl up the cattle panel we put by the split rail fence to give them trellis support.
• Spinach! - Wow is it doing well. Very tasty too. I may have to make some Palek Paneer to use some of it up.
• The yellow onions are off to a good start, but I think my original idea about thinning them and using the thinned ones as green onions for potato salad may not be such a good idea. The young onions appear to have a much tougher green top than the green onions you buy at the grocery. I'm going to have to do some more research on that one. They'll have to be thinned anyway, since I planted them too close to not thin.
• Leeks - I've planted about 20 leek plants. They looked like little blade of 6" grass when I planted them. I thought that they might not survive. However they seem to be doing okay so far.
• Yellow and Orange Bell peppers (6 plants total)
• Habenero peppers (2 plants)
• Jalapeno peppers (2 plants)
  
• In planters in the corner of the side yard I also have the following herbs: basil, flat leafed parslet, thyme, garlic chives, and oregano.
  
• We've got the following plants that need to put in the large garden in the back. Hoping we can get to that real soon, we had too much rain today to start: 30 tomato plants of different varieties, a couple broccoli plants, brussel sprouts, zucchini, acorn squash, and spaghetti squash.
  
• Knitting - working on the following projects:
• scarf for my husband. It is a simple decrease one stitch at the beginning of the right side row, and increase one stitch at the end. Knit the right sides and purl the wrong sides.
  
• I have a sweater I need to reattach the button band on one side, and attach the band on the other side. I didn't know what I was doing when I attached the band on the one side and didn't do a very good job. Need to redo it.
• After having completed my Hemlock Ring Blanket, I am now working on a Swirl Leaf Blanket. I've just about reached the end of the pattern, but still have a fair amount of yarn left and need to figure out a way to extend the pattern to make the blanket bigger.
• I'm also working on a Moebius Fanny Basket from Cat Bordhi's "A Second Treasury of Magical Knitting". The down side of this is that I have a front load washing machine and found that when I attempted my first moebius basket, felting by hand is not easy. I've still not got the first basket to the felted point I want it.