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I Won!!

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A while back I entered a twitter contest from Garmin to win a new Garmin nüvi 3790T. All you had to do was retweet something each week and they picked two winners from each week. Last week I found out that I was one of the week 2 winners. Our Garmin 250w was stolen out of our car about a year ago and we have been using my iPhone in a pinch or borrowing one for trips. I was really wanting a new GPS recently, but with two of us being unemployed or mostly unemployed there was no way to justify a $150 purchase for a new one. Well, we were blessed with a new $450, top of the line model instead. I am anxiously awaiting it and when it comes I will post some impressions on it.

The last week has just begun so if you want to try to win head over here for the info.

The Garage is Painted

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One of the big things on my layoff to-do list (along with getting a new job) has been to paint the garage. Well it is done! A power-washer and paint sprayer made it a one day job, and a sale at Sherwin-Williams made it cheap. We have been busy and the food coming from the garden has made it even more busy. You can check out some of that chaos here.

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It has been a crazy month thus far.

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We started the month with three weddings in two weeks and for the past couple weeks we went to K-Zoo to visit family/friends and then went camping. Plus there have been lots of vegetables (and weeds) to harvest from the garden.

If you are in Kalamazoo the AirZoo is awesome and free. This was my first time since they redid it and I was very impressed.

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Being Unemployed

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Well, I have finished my first week of being laid off. So far it has been crazy busy! I have actually been off work for two weeks, but the first one was vacation. We had three weddings in those two weeks, one of which I was in so it was pretty hectic. There was also some family in town, adding to the chaos.

Most of the applying stuff is taken care of, or at least as taken care of as I can at this point. It is great being able to spend so much time with the family. We have been going crazy with the gardens too. This week we thinned the beets and carrots, and got our first green beans and potatoes.

The Garden Annex

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Last year we decided that our yard didn’t have enough room for all the stuff we wanted to plant, and still have some yard. We decided to get the garden at my parents house back in shape. This year it has expanded (to about 60′x60′)and we are growing more densely.

Our first change was to move our bean production to our home garden. Beans require too regular picking to keep up with when the garden is a half hour away. We added potatoes this year (4 varieties-including blue), so far they seem to be doing great. In the past (before I can remember) my folks had problems with potato bugs. We will see how it works out. We are doing almost all our tomatoes at home because of tomato worms. We haven’t had problems at home, but they decimated the plants at my folks. We have also planted two quarts of onion sets one yellow and one red. The potatoes and onions are so reassuring to see after planting seeds for the other stuff. It is nice to see foot tall plants.

Another cool thing we are trying is the 3 Sisters method of co-planting beans, corn, and squash in mounds. Right now they look like dirt moguls on flat ground with small corn shoots coming out of the top.

We spent the afternoon yesterday mostly weeding. I also planted a third phase on carrots. Phase 2 is just peeking out and phase 1 are a few inches tall and also got weeded over the weekend.

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