A New Season

I have registered this blog for several months now. But putting the pen down seemed so hard. Since even my mom has started to blog now.... So here we go. This blog will be about various things in our lives here in western MA. We will start with our backyard adventure. We have been here at our homestead for one and a half years now. This will be our second gardening season. During our first year, we have cleared some land for four raised beds to grow some vegetables, but it was a very wet summer and we had some harvest. One of them will be turned into a strawberry patch. I also would like to put in another raised bed just for asparagus. We put in the ground 4 blueberry bush and a grape vine. I hope to put in some more raspberry, blueberry and blackberry plants this spring,
because it' s easier to take care of the berry plants than vegetables. I am also thinking about moving the herbs to the front yard, but it only gets sun till noon. I hope they will do well.
So today, we started burning the brushes that has been collecting since last summer. My husband was so eager to start and it felt pretty good as the pile diminished into ashes. It was a good start and we both felt the satisfaction after a hard working day. There will be many more hard working days to come and we are looking forward to it. Working in the yard makes me feel thankful ... the enjoyment of working with my life long mate.... working with dirt and observing/learning from things that grow.... the wind and sunshine. Thank you God! I am grateful for this life.