This Wednesday post is the one that portrays how I am living more than any other. In pieces. Different hemispheres and different roles. Typical for a mother of far flung children. Juggling many balls above my head.
First: The Farm in Illinois
A couple of inches of snow and cold temps.
Everything is handling the cold – hopefully this is the last mean storm. But we always hope that.
John’s seedlings, on the steps of the house glasshouse in the sun.
So there must be some sun! I have not heard confirmation yet but am hoping John was able to keep the hole open in the pond.
The Wild Garden on the Hill in Wellington
Lots of photos today! we had good rain yesterday. Sun again today!
Plus: Drumroll. The first chick has hatched!
The kids are beyond excited watching the hatching process.
Compact Kitchens Garden in Melbourne.
The first of our raised beds is finished and Sops (my daughter) says they are Huuge!
So that is exciting.
Evidently she has teed up one of our neighbours there to help me wheel in the soil – he has a wheelbarrow too. Having helpful neighbours is wonderful. Maybe we will have a tea party when I have all the gardens in.
And now it is time for kids to go off to school. I am on pick-up so all I do is wave them off. Lunchboxes full of fruit were packed last night.
Here is CHAPTER ONE of Winnie the Pooh. For our bedtime story today.
Chapters Two and Three coming tomorrow!
Take care and talk soon!
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
17 responses to “A little home, a little here, a little there.”
Hi there Ceci………Ha…..living in three homes at once. I get that! When we were younger we did the same thing between boats, homes, and motorhomes……ah those days are over…..but what memories.
You are doing the same…..making memories.
Jo
I sometimes think our whole lives are about memories. Especially with kids – building good memories..
That dark speckled chick is adorable — I’d be excited, too.
now of course we can’t help checking every few minutes. Two more eggs are popping in the excrutiating slow motion that I remember!
looks great! It’s 29 degrees F in Arkansas today with teens at night. We will build our raised beds when it warms up. Bill cut some dead trees down and cut into pieces that we will put in the bottom of our beds. They rot nicely plus less soil is needed. Hugelkultur is name of the technique. Maybe you can use the tree that got cut down for that.
oh yes! That is actually great idea Kim! Thank you. And your baby gift is safely tucked into my suitcase for the great reveal when I get to sops! So excited to see her face!
What a wonderful update on all the places! From seedlings to chicks to the possibility of amazing crops filling those beds. I would quite prefer the temps where you are if I had my choice 🙂
I am definitely enjoying the warmth!
For some reason my comment could not be posted? I don’t know what happened. Anyway it’s lovely to see the progress in the gardens, and that chick is adorable.
we have two chocks hatched now. It is hard not to be checking on them every few minutes!!
I still think that watching chicks hatch is a miracle!
There are big storms coming tonight, but the temperature is going up to 14 or 15ºC!
it feels miraculous!
it all seems wonderful
I can totally relate to much of what you say. I am British and went to the States for a two year visit in 1966….not realising that I was pregnant with my first child!!……which meant everything changed. I had another child in USA 1975…and stayed until 1993….but of course this has meant we are always on different continents…etc. I love your blog and stories…and I love that you are tough:)
😍the raised beds look great!
Right? – very exciting.
Cold! And as you know NZ is having some super weather! What a summer … Great photos. Isn’t John good, how I love watching seedlings grow, a promise of things to come