They have taken over!!!

Hey y'all,

     Ugh! The ants are driving me crazy! We have had ants in our humble little camper for about 2 months now, and we have tried everything to no avail! They fall on our heads when we are brushing our teeth!  I think the little stinkers just spit the poison out and laugh! I probably sweep up about 50 a day, no lie, it's crazy! We did finally find where they are coming in, and I don't quite understand it, but they are going up and in the main outlet to our camper, and they come out in the light bulb over the bathroom sink, explain that one to me, cause I don't know! And no ant killer known to man works, so, my mama and I found a recipe online for natural spider repellent, and I thought, heck why not, what could it  hurt right? So we made some, it's pure orange oil, peppermint castile soap, and vinegar. We put it in a spray bottle and I sprayed, well ok, drenched the inside of the camper with it, and it worked for about 2 days, so every 2 days now I am spraying that stuff, which smells really great by the way, and if I don't forget to do it, we are almost ant free for a couple days, we see maybe 3 ants. BUT, if I forget, whoa nelly!! They come back with a vengeance!! And, since I started using it, no spiders, and our little mouse, you know, the one that plays the drums under our bed at night, well he hates it, I have not heard him in 3 nights!!!! So, I call it my miracle worker, and the best part is, it's all natural!

Forgot to mention...

Hey y'all,

   I forgot to mention that I am very excited about an opportunity that God presented me with!  My hubby got me a 8x10 paper mold for Christmas and I have been fooling around with making paper. Well I made some lavender bookmarks, they are purple with dried lavender in them. Someone saw them on my etsy site and asked me to make her 150 for her upcoming wedding!!!! Never thought that would happen!! So I hope it's just the beginning!!

Where I have been and Hummingbirds

Hey y'all, I sure have missed ya! it seems time between my posts gets longer and longer! Things have been crazy busy around here! I am now working part time, and in between that, starting seeds and trying to keep them from freezing in our mountain temps here, it snowed the other day!! I think spring and winter got their info mixed up this year.

     I am still planning on blogging about my life in a camper, I will have a lot to write about next time, I need pictures first. We have had a horrid ant problem for a while now, and there seems to be a mouse that gets in the storage compartment under our bed at night of all times, and starts making an awful racket that sounds like he is a drummer in a hard rock band!! And banging on the walls and poison does  not phase him, I think he likes it! So, anyway, I hope to have lots of pictures and posts in the days and weeks to come, sorry it's been so long! I will leave you today with some pictures I took of our returning hummingbirds that decided to come back a week early just in time for the cold snap!

Homemade seed starting pots

Hi y'all!

   I don't know about the rest of you, but I am just about to bust at the seams waiting on seed starting time! I have been drooling over seed catalogs for about a month now, and get more catalogs everyday! Since Husband and I are trying to grow, harvest, and put up everything we would need during the winter, we have acquired an extra field for growing, and I could not be more excited! I hope I will still be saying that about June or July when I have sores on my hands, a bad back, sunburn, and bug bites!! I think its all worth it! Especially since we didn't have to buy any veggies this winter, we had all we needed  here! Anyway, I thought I would share some of the things I use to start seeds in.

•   News paper pots- there is an awesome video that tells you exactly how to do this on youtube, very easy! and a great way to recycle, when the plants are ready to plant in the ground, just pop them in news paper and all!
• Plastic containers lettuce comes in- If you buy lettuce or anything else for that matter in those wide plastic containers, just wash it, dry it, and poke holes in the bottom and sides, and presto! recycled plant pot! If you start sprouts or lettuce in these, most times you can just leave it in there and let it grow! 
• Yogurt containers- I buy yogurt in big plastic containers, and I have been saving them, because this spring, I can poke holes in them, and start seeds, or grow herbs!
• Cardboard egg cartons- If you buy your eggs in cardboard cartons, save them, and fill the spaces with dirt, some people save the egg shells also and put the seeds in them, but if you want to just use the carton, use the space where the eggs were and when it comes time to plant, just cut each one off and plant the whole thing!
• Milk, soda, and water bottles- Just cut them in half and poke holes in them and you have pots!

Well, I hope this has been helpful to some one out there! Just a little tidbit, if you like heirloom seeds, and want to save them, check out Baker Creek Heirloom seed company, and Sow True Seeds, Sow True is  local here where I live near Asheville, NC. Happy planting!!

Still here!

Hey Y'all, just wanted to let ya know I am still here, I have had a lot of family and church stuff going on, and I have been really busy!! But I didn't want y'all to forget about me! So, I hope to be back to blogging really soon, but until then, I thought I would leave you with some pictures from the Cow Pens battlefield, in SC. We went a few weeks ago, and had a blast!! God Bless!!

Camper living

Hey y'all,

    I hope everyone had blessed holidays! I did, but I am soooo ready to start seeds, plant things, and play in the dirt! I have been  intensely looking at  seed and chicken catalogs for weeks now, and its about to kill me!!

  But moving on, I am going to start blogging about what life is like in a 25 foot travel camper. My husband and I have lived in one for 3 yrs now, since we said I do in 2008. We decided to live in one, for several reasons. I didn't have a job, I quit my lab clerk job at the hospital where I worked for 4 yrs because of stress, and I couldn't find another one. So that little detail is one reason we decided to buy a camper. My husband had a job and a good one that he still has thank God, so we  had one source of income. We bought an acre of land next to my mom and dad, and started paying  on it, but it still had to be cleared of very thick trees. So we put our camper on hubbies grandpa's land where there had once been a home, so it had septic and well hook up that we could hook into, which was a blessing. So we had everything hooked up with the camper, and moved in after we got married with the intention of building a small home within 6 months to a  year, but that never happened.
But I have to go for now, there will be more to come later with some pictures!
Take care and God Bless!!

Back again, I hope I can stay this time!

Hey y'all,


    Well I did it again, I went weeks and weeks without posting anything, sorry about that!
I have been taking turns staying with my grandmother, visiting family in Savannah, it got kinda crazy around Christmas time, then we all got sick with an awful virus we seem to be passing back and forth, and now finally I have time to blog! I hope everyone had a blessed Christmas and new year, I sure did!

   We had our first snow fall of the year, but before I could take pictures it was gone with the wind!  For the past two years we have had 9 degree temps and below 0 wind chills and last year and the year before it snowed 12 inches in November and didn't melt until April! So this year we are getting a much needed break from the bitter cold and snow.

   My hubby and I have lived in a 25' camper since we got married 3 yrs ago, trying to save money to build something small, and pay on our acre of land. So, I was thinking about blogging more about that this year, since it has been quite an adventure and learning experience, would anyone be interested in reading about that? if not, I will drop the idea, and move on to something else. Well, gotta go finish up some laundry, thank goodness it's too cold to hang the clothes on the line today, the squirrels have been extra crazy  ;o)