The Winter Continues

When we woke up this morning we were supposed to be in the midst of a snow storm. I was actually looking forward to it as we have had so little snow this winter and the ground isn't even really covered. It's been a very unusual winter and although it was cold (almost - 30 with the windchill) and snowing, by noon the snow had disappeared and the sun was out full force. I sure can't complain about sunshine as we don't have any power unless we have sun but I sure had been looking forward to snow. Oh well.... We will no doubt receive some of the white stuff when we least expect it.

Life has been very relaxed and static lately. There is so little going on! The moose have disappeared for a while probably due to the tractors and trucks which moved all the hay off. Of course we are keeping busy with projects, especially Mountain Man who has a long list of things he wants to have completed by spring. Still, when I was speaking with one of the children the other day I was asked how I was doing and my reply was, "doing good! Just hibernating and waiting for spring." That's exactly what it feels like, I almost envy the bears who do hibernate and only come out when the weather warms up. Of course that is only an "almost" I sure wouldn't want to have missed any of our adventures this winter!

Mountain Man is working on numerous projects which I can't wait to share with you all, but I thought I should update you on just a couple things today. First off, the coffee table is finally finished! If you remember a few weeks back I posted about his building a coffee table, but the picture I had of it was not a finished project. So, after a bit of tweaking (he does that all the time! Creates something and then "tweaks" it until he is satisfied with the final result.) here it is.

I must say I love it! Especially the character of the knots and the grains of the wood! I can hardly believe it didn't cost anything except time. Oh, see that plug in sitting on the floor? The corner leg has a cut out where it fits perfectly. This way we can plug in laptops or anything else we need without hunting for a plug behind the sofa's. 

My second update is on the restarting of celery. I have to say I was just a bit skeptical if it would really work but since I potted it two weeks ago it has really started to take off and I even snipped the tallest stalk today just because I wanted to taste it. I really couldn't seem to help myself and almost decided to snip a few more so that all the stalks were even but eventually controlled myself and left them alone.

How nice it is to have something growing! I can't wait to start planting my veggies!!! I actually have the dirt ready but once I went through my seeds I realized I was weeks early so they are just sitting there waiting for me. Sigh!

Frugal Tuesday - Restarting Celery? Does it work?

All over the web lately (especially Pinterest!)I've seen posts about restarting celery so I thought I would do a little experiment to find out if it really works and how long it would take to regrow. First off I used up all my celery. I have a habit of washing the whole thing and then chopping from the ends down so it was easy for me to save the root area all in one piece. Once it was used up, but had about 1.5 inches left on the bottom, I just stuck it in a glass and added some water. That was easy! Now the waiting begins. Surprisingly after a week little leaves had started to show. Nice! Don't know where my picture went for week one.... oh well! Onward we go!

In two weeks the leaves were much bigger!

Three weeks and going strong! I'm a little disappointed though as there aren't really very many shoots and I'm doubting this will work well. In-fact I was so disappointed I ignored it for the next two weeks thinking I had wasted my time. 

Week 5: O.K, maybe I shouldn't have ignored it for so long! The root system is huge now and it needs potting badly. The old stalk has started to rot but the strangest thing is what you can't see in this picture. A whole bunch of tiny little leaves starting to sprout again from the bottom! Nice! It looks like maybe this experiment wasn't a failure after all. I'm off to town for an appointment today but when I get back this little baby is going into a pot with some nice soil. I know it is a long process but I have time. Even if I don't get any celery to use until mid summer that's fine. At least I have proved it works. If I keep this up by spring time I should have three or four of these to plant in the garden. From now on celery ends do NOT go into the compost pile! Have a great day everyone!

Update: I have to say I was just a bit skeptical if it would really work but since I potted it two weeks ago it has really started to take off and I even snipped the tallest stalk today just because I wanted to taste it. I really couldn't seem to help myself and almost decided to snip a few more so that all the stalks were even but eventually controlled myself and left them alone.

How nice it is to have something growing! I can't wait to start planting my veggies!!! I actually have the dirt ready but once I went through my seeds I realized I was weeks early so they are just sitting there waiting for me. Sigh!

Thank you to Frugally Sustainable for their blog hop.