Happy New Year!

A new post for the new year?  I'm only a few days late, right?

There are a few new happenings around these parts. First, I am quite excited about the order I just placed with Seed Savers Exchange in preparation for the upcoming growing season. We have many seeds from last year that we will continue to use, like our carrots, beets, chard and kale, but some veggies needed replacing. Lettuce seeds are only good for about a year, and Nick wasn't at all happy with our broccoli or eggplant. So we've indulged in a few things...Yay seeds! We have also invested in 10 lbs of Purple Viking potatoes from Seed Savers to grow our own potatoes this year. My sister-in-law taught us how to do it using basically a food-grade giant trash can; looks like fun. In order to improve our efficiency at starting seeds indoor this year, Nick's planning on building a whole indoor gardening bench/potting bench setup for the sunroom, complete with grow lights and plastic sides to keep the warmth in (and the cats out) during the cold winter. He has the lumber but hasn't had time to put it together. Time is running out to start seeds, though, so that has moved up on the priority scale.

I've been playing with colors for the kitchen. We're simply tired of not having a tiled backsplash, but would prefer to have a paint color on the wall with which we could coordinate said backsplash. So there are swatches of various colors of gray and blue-gray all over the kitchen walls. Nick has been making fun of my indecisiveness. We're leaning towards Farrow & Ball Parma Gray, which is really a blue with a bit of gray in it. Very pretty. A bit darker than I was thinking, but given all the bright white cabinets it could work nicely. It's one of Nick's favorites and so far he's been right about color choices and hanging artwork...Will decide soon. We like it more than the Benjamin Moore colors, but it's a significantly more expensive paint. However, I would only need a gallon and would probably have at least a third of a can leftover to paint either the sunroom or the master bath....