Doing adventure stuff

When I finished my summer class, I had a little more free time this summer to do several things. 

I was so happy to finish a semester of school and the summer class, that I made a list of what I wanted to do when I was done with classes.

My list was:

1. Watch the last season of Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 

2. Catch up on Running Man episodes 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️ 

3. PAINT 🎨 🖌 

4. HIKE

5. BIKE

6. GARDEN

I have done all of those things this summer, and then some! Here are some of those adventures...

All if the forests, trails, rock formations, caves, and creeks you see are part of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky, at the heart of Appalachia.

Painted a barn for a coworker that was retiring

My family and I hiked along the 3 Bridges Trail, Smoky Bridge, Fern Bridge and Cascade Caves and X Caves in Kentucky

I have Fall semester classes coming up, so it will be hard for me to do much more hiking the rest of the year. 

I'm glad I got to hike for the last month consistently. It's therapeutic being surrounded by greenery, gnarly trees, big beautiful rocks, and mushrooms! 

I have one last trip for the year to the Red River Gorge. I'm going to try to find Copperas Falls. Wish me luck!

May spring garden: kale, radish, & lettuce

Sunday, May 7, 2023

Howdy folks! Hope you're all well and getting your garden groove on. I have been extremely late to the garden game this year, but fully intend to spend the next few weeks ramping up by transplanting; and will need to get tomatoes and peppers out, as well as sowing seed of corn, squash and beans in the garden. 

Yesterday, I tranpslanted radish, kale, and lettuce into the garden. I germinated these seeds in March, and planted the germinated seeds in small container pots with a mix I made of perlite, vermiculite, peat poss, coconut coir and garden soil. 

I have kept the germinated seedlings growing outside in a mini-greenhouse so they would already be acclimated to the outside. The plants have doubled their size in the last 2 weeks, so I knew I needed to get them transplanted, especially since the month of May was creeping up.

While I was gardening, I also stopped to snap a few shots at the Iris and tulip flowers growing around the garden.

My cactus plants have steadily been blooming all year, each different one blooming. I have two pink Flowering cacti plants and one that is red and white striped.

I will have more plant and garden updates for you in the next few weeks!