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Raising boys is rough, raising caring boys is rougher. My son is 35 years old and he lives on the east side of Pueblo, Colorado. He says he still loves his drive to work every morning seeing and appreciating the mountain view. On his way home in the evening he calls me. He'll pause in our conversation and I know he is admiring the Arkansas river as he crosses it. I love he appreciates God glory everyday!❤
Sunset was beautiful ❤
Teaching your boys to highly value a beautiful sunset is a valuable life lesson and life skill. The more a person shows appreciation for the things in life, the more 'the universe' provides even greater things in life to be thankful for.
I wish it is gardening season in Zone 6b – Pennsylvania. We had snowflakes today, Wednesday, March 26th.
I chuckled about nurturing a weed. I’ve done that too 😅.
Enjoying the new beginnings of plants.❤❤❤
Jess, I agree with you on the pea gravel. I had that around my pool and HATED walking on it, so I put river rocks down next, hated those just as much, but I am stuck with them for now LOL The WEEDS are ridiculous and it takes me hours to get rid of 🙁 Nice job today, girlie. I am also ready to do my planting here in Ga. All my beds are ready, woohoo. Now for the starters to finish growing and be ready to add in 🙂 Ahh Spring! God bless you and your family <3
You are so lucky that Creeping Jenny is a perennial there. 🌞
Also love that you chose Ajuga. I have it planted in a low channel in one of my natural landscape gardens and when it blooms it's beautiful blue-ish purple, it looks like a little waterway. 🥳
And brick walkways, yes please 😘
Thank you ! Everything looks awesome.
That's my favorite garden tool. I bought it 10 or 12 years ago on the recommendation of Paul James, on Gardening by the Yard. (He called it a Ken-ho, and that's what I ordered.) The best gardening show HGTV ever had. He was so practical and taught me so much about the garden, plants, and tools.
This time of year is so exciting and full of hope for the garden. I’ve been landscaping and adding to my fruit trees beside my garden. Anyways, great garden ! It Looks beautiful as is and I look forward to seeing it grow in many ways 🙂
Great Transformation 👍 a good before and after is always something to appreciate!
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This sounds like a Devotional Video Topic for another day 😅😉
I've nurtured some weeds in my walk with Yeshua 💯 I've probably been a weed a time or two to boot 😅
Those first few full garden days make it so easy to get caught up in the doing that you forget the good habits you had last year. You will strengthen that muscle along with all your other ones as you find routine again. On the sunny days I have started weeding my perennial spaces. So much easier when they are small but those weeds are stubborn, and they grow so fast . Yay spring!!
Do you know what the weeds with the purple flowers? My back yard is covered in it this year and we've never had it before. I was wondering if it blew in with hurricane helene
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I've tried creeping thyme a couple of times but somehow keep killing it, it smells so amazing and it's so soft that I'm not giving up, here's to another growing season 👍
I just imagine myself being one of those seedlings and getting fire hosed in the face lol
So glad you changed your mind on the pea gravel, I don’t like it either!
You've raised a bunch of boys, that are going to have spouses who think you are the best thing ever for all the wonderful things you've taught them.
Hi Jess , regarding bottle baby goats that you have, I think Nomads of Iran have the solution for you. When the goat doesn’t accept to be a mom after they give birth to the baby Nomads hold the goat and let the baby nurse and meanwhile they put some salt on babies back toward the tail( which they made it wet with mothers milk to stick the salt) . As baby is nursing mom will licking the salt on babies back and gets familiar with babies smell and amazingly mom accepts the baby after couple times nursing it. They have about hundred goats none of the babies are bottle babies. I don’t know if it’s going to work for you at this point but I’m sure will work next year when babies are new borne.
You have a never ending labor of love Jess. No matter what you decide, it will be beautiful, because you have that photographer's eye for beauty.
OLDER FRIENDS BE CAREFUL WITH THAT TOOL; I overworked my thumb joint when I first got it in 2020 and my thumb arthritis started that very day and has only gotten worse. Well I'm 76 so I should have known better. Just know your limits. We are not Jess's age any more.
❤ this videos bring me so much peace.
The sunset was beautifully pink/coral in SC wasn’t it? ❤
🤣I think we’ve all been there. One year, I pulled up all of my poppies thinking they were weeds. 😅
Oh man. I was really looking forward to seeing poppies in my garden.
So jealous! Lol it snowed here today it didn't stick, but still…😮
I mowed the tall grass among the Bermuda in the lawn here (planted by a former owner on the septic drainage field). We had some recent rains so it was taller than I'd like (Rye interspersed I think into the Bermuda). Now on to the other side of the house and all the veggies. Will be a good solid gardening year. I know your gardens will be so beautiful! High expectations among all the other things you have going on. Do be encouraged and do watch your health.
Looks beautiful…ya'll did a great job…😊
15:00 your garden is a patchwork quilt, a granny square afghan, and pathways fashioned from the scraps.
First love your content but consider this before you get an inorganic mulch. Arborist woodchips works wonders in the garden and pathways. Second I inoculated the woodchip with wine cap mushrooms to break it down. The wood chips keep the moisture in the ground and the breaking down of the wood into human keeps the microbes and fungi happy, which in turn keeps the plants happy.
the art of noticing, love it!
I love your chanel. I look forward to every episode!
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I'm also putting in a picket fence this year around some garden beds by my chicken run, or rather my husband is. They're so classic and pretty! Can't wait to see how they look in your cottage garden 🙂
Was just wondering how Asher's project turned out? He did such a good job filming 😊
If you had to pick one aggressive yet beneficial/useful plant to put in an area that you want covered, which would you pick? I was thinking mint but I don’t want to regret my decision 😅😂
Honestly as a landscaper and a designer with an "old world" sensibility,I never recommend pea gravel as a mulch unless folks are willing to use a chemical weed control/pre-emergent and I know you (and many of your subscribers,including me) are not. I have a chemical applicator license. I can spray chemicals for a living but I wont spray my own lawn or landscape. Digging weeds out of organic mulch is easy compared to digging it out of pea gravel. The truth is, any gravel will be overtaken within four years and likely sooner, even with barrier fabric. It just costs so much more,in purchase money and labor, to top off gravel. Weeding and dumping on organic mulch ends up being more reasonable for many. The hardscape pathways are the ultimate easy-care solution. Gravel (ANY GRAVEL) will not stop aggressive weeds. And even concrete wont stop Bermuda grass forever.
Fantastic progress & I look forward to seeing your garden plans come to fruition! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦🌻
You can take a picture of the weed, email it to Clemson extension and they will email you back after they have identified it and tell you what it is for free.. Or for people who live outside South Carolina, send it to your agriculture extension service at whatever university in your state it might be for the same service.
I taught all my kids to appreciate the sunrises and sunsets. 😊
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Great job Jess can’t wait to see it in full bloom 🌺🪴🌸🌹
"Raised a bunch of boys to notice the sunset." "The art of noticing"
Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
JESS!!!! I found some dutch pie fork pumpkin seeds!!!!!! Just wanted to say thank u for letting me know about them. I struggle w squash bugs so bad. Do u think they mostly ignore these pumpkins? I’m
praying these will make it. ❤
Happy gardening sweetheart!!
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Great job!!!
I have pea gravel around my raised beds and I also regret it. Difficult to walk on and weeds seem to thrive in it! Not sure what I would have done differently though