Spring is coming!

And I can feel it.  I am sooo ready for the nice warm weather (and to get my garden back up and running!)  I think I really miss the greens around me when winter's here.  Snow can be amazingly beautiful, but this winter has stunk in that regard :(   It's felt like just mud and cold :(

Our indoor "garden center"  so far we're just using the top two shelves of this shelf for plants, but we hope to have two shelves full of plants growing soon!

In anticipation of the wonderful weather that I'm excited for, we've started seedlings (and potted plants) indoors!  We took our extra room (that doubles as a sewing/craft room for me) and have started setting up shelves (well one shelf but now that we know it will work well, there will be more in there) in front of the window and are growing our own baby plants!  I think this weekend we'll be adding another plant tray to the group of plants in front of the window.

Our seed starters!  We have baby plants starting to come up.

A close up of some of the baby seedlings.

This year will be exciting because not only are we doing raised bed gardens, but I'll be teaching T.  He's really excited to learn about gardening and to help me :)  (no more weeding by myself!).  I think it's going to be run.  Our big obstacle right now, minus building the raised beds, is figuring out where and actually doing the pruning of the trees.  I'll post before and (hopefully soon) after pictures of the backyard.  It's HUGE, but it does need a lot of work as far as being pretty goes.  I'm excited because in addition to increasing our garden size this year, we're planning on two flower beds!  One in the front of the house and one in the back.  I LOVE flowers (well truth be told I really love all plants). 

The lily plants I felt sorry for at Meijer.

When we were at Meijer, I (like always) had to browse the garden stuff.  I found some blue berry bushes that looked just amazing.  I had to buy one.  I just had to have one.  My addiction to blue berries doesn't play into this at all *shifts eyes from side to side*.  Right next to them (yes a picture of the blue berry bush will be in the post soon...just wait will ya ;) ) were some bags full of lily bulbs.  These poor bulbs were trying their hardest to grow.  Look at how curved they are from growing in that little bag :( .  I had to liberate them.  My husband is a very understanding and very doting man.  He let me buy them, the blueberry bush, two pots, and potting soil!  (Of course, it was all around 20 bucks...big spender me ;) )  So these pretty babies are going to grow in my bedroom and brighten it up more!  One of the coolest things about our new house are the windows (they stink in winter though).  They are everywhere! 

My baby blue berry bush.  See I told you I had a picture!

Well, now that I'm starting to garden again, I WILL (I'm not allowing myself to flake out anymore) be more regular with my posts.  Also, BzzAgent presented an opportunity for me to test out the new Science Diet dog food, so I'm sure I'll be sharing those stories/feelings/findings with you all soon as well.  I'm excited for spring.  I think maybe this weekend I'll get my squirrel feeder (I haven't set it up since we moved) and bird feeder (if I can find a reasonably priced one I like) up and filled.  See you soon folks!