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The Caterpillar and the Fly

August 18, 2010

Lookie what I found in my tomato plants the other day. This caterpillar is literally as big as my index finger, probably a good 3 inches. The only reason I noticed it, besides if being so huge, was that it was flopping around, because apparently a fly was bothering it. I couldn’t figure out what [...]

Winter Garden week 16

February 5, 2010

This unusually cold winter of ours has not done the best for our garden, and it shows. I admit by the first glance at our garden it looks pretty pitiful. Small and overgrown with weeds. But when you look closer there are some wonderful veggies growing in there, for instance this cauliflower, its about the [...]

Winter Garden week 14

January 22, 2010

It’s week 14 of the garden and we are finally eating and enjoying it. I picked our broccoli today and cooked Broccoli and cheese (a family fave). We’ve also been enjoying our lettuce this week in plenty of salads. The weather has been very mild with highs around 75 and plenty of sunlight so the [...]

Winter Garden week 12

January 8, 2010

At this time last year in our garden, we were picking broccoli and cabbage already. It just proves how weather can really affect the growth of the garden. We’ve have had an extremely wet and cold winter so far and last year a really mild winter. This is our garden last year at 12 weeks [...]

Winter Garden – week 8

December 11, 2009

As predicted we got about 3-4 inches of snow last Friday. I was happy to have snow (which is very unusual in South east Texas) and we all had a blast, but I was very worried how our winter garden would handle the snow. It lasted all day and by mid Saturday it had melted [...]

Winter Garden – Week 7

December 4, 2009

The cold is finally upon us, it’s even predicted to snow tomorrow. In south east Texas that is a rarity. I have a great snow story I will share one day, and I am hoping to have another tomorrow. I really really hope it does, but I also hope the garden will be able to [...]

Winter Garden week 4

November 13, 2009

I find it rather funny calling this my winter garden, when its 85 today! Can you ladies up north send some cooler air down? I need it desperately. I want to wear a jacket, I want to feel the cold air blow through my hair and send a chill down my spine. I want to [...]

Winter Vegetable Garden – week 2

October 30, 2009

Week 2 of the garden and we’ve had lots of rain and lots of growth. Though sadly enough the pictures are still not all that exciting. I so will give a brief run through. Front view of the garden and we have some carrot sprouts Lots of little green sprouting up, it always makes me [...]

Winter Vegetable Garden

October 23, 2009

We’ve Planted!!!! Yea after 3 weeks of waiting for the rain to stop we (ie: DT) was able to till and plant our winter vegetable garden. As you can see we still have some of our huge Okra plants, and a few pepper plants. They have slowed down a bit so we will probably pull [...]

I've got the garden blues

October 16, 2009

Why is it when you want and desperately need rain, it doesn’t rain, and then when you don’t need rain, it rains everyday for weeks? The past 3 weeks we have gotten so much rain, and we haven’t been able to plant our winter time garden (check out that link its to our garden last [...]

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Howdy, y’all! Welcome to my blog world. I am Sweet Pea, a 20-something Texas native and a newlywed…well, almost. We wed May 2006. Shortly after we were blessed with identical twins boys born November 2007.

My husband, whom I lovingly call Double Trouble (DT), owns and operates a trucking company, and we use our CB handles as our names here.

I however recently converted from a working mom to a stay-at-home mom. I love the new challenges that it brings and enjoy sharing my triumphs, messes, and adventures with you. I hope you enjoy reading about our busy lives with babies, cooking, gardening, trucking, and bargain shopping.