Firstly, I am working hard to be a master gardener or maybe I am just trying to be a better gardener. Either way, I have 3 gardens in 3 locations this year. This takes a lot of work and thankfully I have help where the biggest garden is located. That is also where all my creative ideas have been working on other projects because by this time next year there will be the beginnings of a new house that I will get to call home and with that comes lots of creativity needed to make it comfortable, functional and easy to live in but not look like it is brand new out of a box. But back to the gardens; I planted 200 pumpkin seeds this year. Yes 200! I have 100 pink pumpkins in a patch all their own on the East farm. In another garden plot there I have 7 other varieties of pumpkins, none of them being the normal orange jack-o-lantern style. At the farm I call grandma's, because that is who used to live there, I have another smaller patch of 10 pink pumpkins with a volunteer baby boo left over from last year. At my house I have 2 patches of approximately 18 each of the pink pumpkins. With all of the pink pumpkins growing, I have decided to continue raising money for breast cancer research by selling my pink pumpkins and sending the funds to 2 different foundations - The Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation. Between these 2 wonderful foundations I will split 75% of my proceeds of my pumpkin sales. All of my pumpkins get to help, not just the pink ones. My plan is to set up every Saturday morning somewhere in NW Kansas the 5 weeks prior to Halloween with the last sale culminating in a special presentation to a Lion's Club in Shawnee Mission, KS for my sorority sister, Kimberly Morrow. So if you are in NW Kansas and see a dark blue hatchback with a royal blue canopy in a parking lot, that is likely me selling pumpkins. Come and see what I have and get yourself a fun and unique pumpkin. Look for banner too as it pictured below. My fundraising website is listed on it and if you can't get to me to get a pumpkin, you can always donate to my fundraising efforts.
Secondly, my creative energy has been channeling into designing a house. But it does not stop there. I am trying to envision everything from the skeleton parts to the electrical and plumbing and just where all that will be located, how it all fits inside the walls and then once all of that is set, what will it look like when a person walks in. Of course, I see a finished product in my mind, but making what I envision come out and appear in real life, that is the true challenge.
Third, I am trying very hard to find a creative way to make my life work. I feel like I am stretched thinner now than I ever was when I had a child under my care. I work 2 part time jobs and try to help my family and my future family on top of that which is another part time job essentially leaving me no time for myself. My house is a mess. The cats are almost certain that I have abandoned them and whenever I am home they are all glued to me like they fear I will disappear again for days on end. No one ever told me when I was a kid that being a grown up was such hard work. None of my teachers in high school sat down and told us what real life was like or all about. That would have been a great educational tool to have but as I look back I realize, we were confident teenagers who thought they had it all figured out and that there was nothing we couldn't do successfully.
Finally, forgive me for the lack of blogs and quirky stories about life on the farm. If anything has been going on, I have not been around to observe it and weave it into a fun little story for you to read.
Stay posted, pumpkin selling starts in about 6 weeks and surely that will bring some stories around.
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