Jackie's Blog

 It's only when you know you are going to move that you start to really open your eyes to what is around you on a daily basis. Not only inside the house (how have we accumulated so much 'stuff' in the last four years?) but in the yard too. My raised vegetable bed is outside the front of the house, yes, not the back garden but the front. It's a small piece of land- maybe only a depth of 8 feet but enough to put a 12 ft x 4 ft raised bed.  I started tomatoes and peppers under the grow light with heat pads in the basement last year, and ended up with a bumper crop because we had such a dry and hot summer but I didn't start any other veggies. This year I tried a bunch of different veggies but in the coco coir pellets. They started really well but almost too quickly and were fairly weak plants, so they didn't transplant very well. I took a chance and sewed new seeds into the bed a bit earlier than usual, along with the transplants. Luckily, it was a mild Spring and e

To be honest, I had rather forgotten about my blog but I was reminiscing about the road trip from CA to MA on Route 66 and came back to read it.  Here we are, four years later and at another milestone. We've decided to move back to the UK next year. There is so much to see and do between now and then, I thought I would try and keep a record of it all. We'll see!  Today it is raining, and we've tried to do something toward moving every time we are 'stuck' in the house. We have started going through some of the boxes in the attic office space. We ended up moving some things here from CA that we shouldn't have, therefore the aim is to whittle it down even more this time. We are also not self-packing like our last move either, so it is more about sorting through everything we have. We've already accumulated four boxes of electrical waste that have been taken to Staples.  The thing I'm not so fond of doing is selling online. I haven't had a great deal of