Melon Season

I know I promised you all pictures of the actual planting of watermelons... And I have to say that at this point I'm going to be disappointing you. They planted the seedlings this past week while I was at work! Jeez! Those boys had no consideration of my Blog!! Hello?!! It was ICLW and I didn't get to post the pics of Farmer Kid and all the helpers riding on The Setter, setting melons. So this past week I have been trying to get home in time to get changed and find a field full of teenagers setting melons and it hasn't worked yet... But maybe it would be better if I woke up a little earlier? Like before dawn? But that doesn't happen to often for me. But I promise I will TRY!!!

These pictures are actually of the plants themselves. And the plastic they are set in. The plastic was laid several weeks ago. It's set really early to get the ground nice and ready for the melon plants. So here is half of what I promised.


The perky little melon seedling popping out of the plastic


It's almost art!! Okay Not really But it's kinda purty to me!! :)




In a matter of weeks this little guy will almost have tripled in size!! And will have pretty little vines growing in all different directions


But right now you can hardly see the green little heads sticking out of the plastic


This is my Golden Chariot!! I can usually been seen flying up & down the country roads between Mama Farmer's house and our humble abode. With a bandanna in my hair, a metal bucket of eggs, a giant bottle of water strapped to the cargo rack, and my handy dandy camera bag dangling from the handle bars... It's not a pretty site.

The next few pics are of our garden. Which always gets planted in the plastic. It helps keeps the weeds down.


My Beautiful Pepper Plants!! Oh How I Love Thee!!


And one more picture of the pepper plant for good measure.


This just happened to slip right out of my camera on to here. I can't delete it!!
Yes it's a whole row of Pepper Plants!!!


Onions!!! Mmmmmm Sweet Onions! I'm already planning dinners in my head for these bad boys

Oh there is nothing in this world better then an Indiana grown Tomato! I'm telling you, that you haven't tasted a tomato if you haven't bitten in to a red, ripe, juicy tomato off the vine in the middle of The Hoosier State.

And that is my garden. I forgot to take pictures of the Cucumbers. My Hubby lives off cucs in the summer time! That boy will actually pick them, rub them on his shirt to get most of the dirt off and bite right into it! I love fresh vegetables but NOT that fresh!!!

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL weekend. And please don't forget the sacrifices that were made for us to celebrate this long weekend! And if you can Thank a Veteran. They can never hear Thank You enough.

Love & Hugs

Thank You Miss Sass!!!

Gorgeous Blogger Award

Accept and thank the person who gave it to you! List 5 things about yourself. List 5 additional things you DON'T like Then pick 5 people to give this lovely award to!

Miss Sass over at The Secret Life Of Sass and Lex sent this to me. And I want to apologize cause I'm so slow at putting awards up. (the reason is: cause I'm so stinking TERRIBLE at making clicky links!!!) So please everyone go and visit my loverly friend Sass and all the other award winners while your at!!!! Thank a million Sassy girl and please don't hate me for taking so long to post it!!!

5 Things About Me:
1) I always have my toes painted a very bright loud RED think: 1940's secretary red :)

2) I'm a big book reader. I love to read. And since we have this book club I find myself reading more and more. Anything I can get my hands on.

3) I'm a water baby. I love to swim!! And I'm begging Mr. Farmer to either get me a pool or a hot tub. Preferably a hot tub cause then I could soak in the winter. But both would be heavenly!!!

4) I love to mow grass!! I never got to do it growing up because my dad always said it was "his job" so my sister, mom and I never learned how to mow. But I secretly think he loves to mow as much as I do. Now that I have my own yard I don't even like to wait a week to mow again. I love the way it looks when it's freshly mowed. I love the smell of the grass and I love to run the tractor. And I really love the time that I get to spend thinking. It's a great not so quiet, quite time. :)

5) I love Dark chocolate!! I have a torrid love affair going on with chocolate. Shh don't tell Mr. Farmer!!

5 Things I hate:
1) I HATE INFERTILITY!!!

2) I HATE CANCER!!!

3) I hate to fold clothes!! But I love to do laundry... Go figure that one out!!

4) I hate know it all pricks! (Some nameless men I work with:)

4) I hate Insensitive pricks (see above sorry there just aren't a whole lot of things that I hate)

And now, the awards:

1st award goes to my favorite Chickie in Texas Marla

2nd award goes to the greatest acrobat in this circus: The Circus Princess

3rd award goes to: Hannah cause she is she a sweetie and has about the biggest heart in VA

4th award goes to a fellow farming widow Kacy

5th award goes to all of you stopping in from ICLW please take this award as a Thank You for stopping in and visiting me and my little corner of the world wide web.

Love & Hugs

Wheat

Wheat is one of my favorite crops. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that it's planted in the fall and so it starts growing really really early in the spring so we get to have this lush vivid green field growing. When everything around it is brown and dead. The leaves on the trees haven't even begun to grow yet. Or maybe it's the fact that it's just so gosh dern purty! But really wheat is a beautiful and amazing grain. I always beg the hubbs to plant it in the fields around our house or at least as near by as possible so I can get my green fix. The wheat will actually be ready to harvest in about a month or so. That will be one of the first things ready for harvest. But right now just the bottom of the stems are begging to turn. And the heads are still green and the husks aren't nearly ready. So let me catch you up a bit on the wheat And I haven't been doing my duty as far as posting pics of the farm and our progress thus far.


I know it just looks like grass right now but it's not! This is the beginning of your favorite bread, cereal, crackers you name it.


Notice all the brown around the green? I wish I could capture the real depth of the colors. One day maybe I could. These pics were taken in the middle of March.

And this is the wheat field today. The stems with the head are about two and half feet tall and the heads are the lighter green color.


This is the husk which houses the seed. This one is still not ready but it gives you the idea.


And these are the teeny tiny wheat seeds the get ground into flour for our food. They aren't ready yet they wouldn't be green at all when it's time for harvest. It's more of a tan/brown color.

So that Guys and Gals is wheat!!! Stay tuned for Watermelon Seedlings...

99 Things about Me

I have to say I stole this post from Marla Please drop by and see one of my favorite bloggy friends. She always posts fun stuff! So I thought I would play along. I love finding out all kinds of fun stuff about people.

If your here from ICLW welcome! I can't wait to meet you all. I'm really going to try and at least peek at each blog on this month's list... Hopefully!! But if the weather is super nice out Hubby might need me in the fields so I won't be able to. As my blog name states I'm a Farmer's wife. We live on my Hubby's Family Farm. It's been in the family FOREEEEEVVVVVVER


And we have been TTC for 2 years now. I have PCOS which is sooooo not fun. We are kind of on a break since Mama Farmer (aka Hubby's Mama) was diagnosed with Cancer. We are hoping to start fertility treatments again in July. God willing! But anyway that's our life in a nutshell thanks for stopping by and I hope you stick around and get to know me a little. I promise to check you out if you leave me a comment. Thanks again! And have a very happy ICLW!!!


99 Things About Me

1. Started your own blog – Yes Indeed!!!
2. Slept under the stars - Oh yes and it is heavenly!!!
3. Played in a band - I played the guitar for our church choir a few times but I mostly just sang. So I don't know it that counts. I would love to have been in a REAL Band
4. Visited Hawaii- Yes and it truly is paradise!! My baby brother lives there and I'm trying to work in another visit soon.... Hopefully
5. Watched a meteor shower - Yes I Remember sitting on a dock in the middle of a huge lake at about 2:00 in the morning with one of my best friends and we sat there all night talking and drinking beer and watching and wishing and every star... It was awesome!! I miss you H. Thomas!!!!
6. Given more than you can afford to charity- Well I don't feel like I ever give what I want to give. But I try.
7. Been to DisneyWorld - Yes
8. Climbed a mountain- Yes the last one was Diamond Head in Hawaii
9. Held a praying mantis - Nope
10. Sang a solo - Yes I love to sing
11. Bungee jumped - No but my Hubby has and loves it!
12. Visited Paris - Yep I actually spent my 15th birthday there. Lord was it amazing!!!
13. Watched a lightning storm - Yes I

Leo

Yes my horoscope tells me I'm a Leo. I'm not really into all that nonsense but on occasion I will read it if some one has a copy of the paper laying on their desk. Today one of the guys I work with had an article he wanted me to read in our local paper. So I read it and my eyes glanced over to the Horoscope column and quickly found this:

LEO (July 23- Aug 22) - Some major impediments in an arrangement you're trying to get to work will finally break away and let you grow crops in what was a field of weeds.

Ummmm Well that was interesting! I do tend to think of my body as a barren field... So what would the major impediment be? Maybe the fact that I did not ovulate with my miracle herbs! Or maybe I will get another period on them in the next week or so and then in the new cycle I will ovulate!!!!... That is a lot to think about. I just thought I would share this with you all. Since I thought it was so funny that it was farming related and kinda sorta made me think. I'm thinking I need you all to give me your insights on what this horoscope means. I don't know how to decipher them. And I always like to add: "In Bed" even though you are only supposed to do that on fortune cookies!! :)

Oh Holy cow!!! For shits and Giggles I just read Mr. Farmers!! Hold on to your hats!!!

Pisces (Feb 20- March 20) - If you have something interesting you've been working on, and you are ready to launch, throw the switch now. You could be extremely lucky today regarding new endeavors.

WOW! Now if that's not creepy I don't know what is! I think just to be on the safe side I might have to jump Mr. Farmer tonight... Hey my Horoscope said so right?

Fertility update: I pulled out the dreaded, evil and despicable CBEFM. Back when I began spotting about 31 days ago and i peed on sticks faithfully every morning for 20 days. Now it's telling me it's low again I never got a peak fert symbol. But I feel really good taking this stuff I don't know what it's doing. I had some pretty weird cramping right around the time I "should" have been ovulating. So maybe my body is trying to do this. I think I will go one more round on the "Au natural stuff" and then maybe in about 2 months time we will be in a better position to go back to the RE and try again. Mama Farmer actually feels somewhat better but she is carrying a whole lot of equipment around with her. They just added a vacuum to the wound on her stomach to assist in the healing. Her body just is not wanting to heal and I know the chemo probably is mostly to blame for that. But hopefully by the end of June she will have finished all the Chemo treatments. She had to do 13 total and we will be coming up on the 11th this next week. So by July Mr. Farmer will have harvested the wheat got the late beans planted and we will slow down a little. And I will be on may way to Dr. B.... Maybe

Why Me?

You know how I posted all those smart and snappy remarks to use for when some one came up to me and asked why Mr. Farmer and I still hadn't produced any children... Well those funny little remarks flew right out of my head yesterday when a guy I have worked with for 7 years said one of the most terrible comments I have ever gotten.... I was sitting at my desk minding my business as usual. He came by to stand in my office door since my office is near the sales fax. Jim pokes his head in and asks: So Mrs. Farmer how was your Mother's Day? I shrugged my shoulders and said Jim you do know that I don't have kids right? Oh yes I know... So did you have a good Mother's Day. And so I said yes it was fine, I planted flowers and spent some time with My Mother In Law. And then he proceeds to ask me: So Mrs. Farmer will this be the Last Mother's Day you celebrate with out children?... OMFG!!!! He even laughed after he said it... Like he had just told the funniest joke of the day. I sat there and imagined smashing his head in with my fist... And pulling out that evil tongue that said such nasty things. And do you know what? The only thing I could think up to say was WOW! I think I shook my head looked down at my hands and said wow a second time and then I told Jim I don't know? Why don't you tell me? Is this going to be the last one? I literally had to bite the insides of my cheeks as he walked away so I could keep from crying! I would never in a million years have said that to someone who didn't have children. Esp if I had worked with them for 7 years!! And that person had not had children and didn't ever talk about children. You would kind of get the hint that it might be a tad taboo!!! I'm still flabbergasted today as I type this out. Why do people think that it's funny? And why would they think it was their business to know that kind of personal information while waiting on a fax? I hate people.... I hate people I work with... I hate people who think they should know every juicy bit of information about you but never share the slightest bit of information about themselves... I hate that I'm the type of person that gets hurt by stupid people like that!

This Saturday night depending on the weather... Mr. Farmer and I will be heading out to his High School Mixer. Which is usually tons of fun. But because of the timing we don't always get to go because of planting season and the fact that crops need to get put into the ground before we can party. So the last 2 years we haven't made it to the mixer. So this year could be the first year we have gone since we have been officially TTC. And I know the phrases that I love to hear will be thrown out there and then they will be followed by awkward silences. I'm just hoping I can get tanked up really good this year and I won't remember any of the rude questions about our still being childless or I get really tanked up and throw some not so nice comments back!

Mr. Farmer is 6 years older then me. And so many of the couples that we know have children that are already in Kindergarten and a few are even older then that. Some of these couples have been together as long as Mr. Farmer and I have been together. We were just a little slower at getting married. Hubby and I dated for 5 years before we got married so altogether we have been a couple for nearly nine years!!! So every time we get together with his crowd we have to hear all kinds of "helpful advice" not so nice comments and some actually down right rude comments.

But this time around I'm going to implement a plan to counter attack the nosy fertile ones... See below!!!

Here are my top 5 excuses that I'm going to use when someone comes up to ask why we haven't had any kids yet... Or some other idiotic question regarding my reproductive status! This time I'm going to be prepared!

1.) Well see I don't want to loose my School girl Figure... (::Insert hysterically drunk laughing here:: and then point at the woman who said the above comment or point to said commenter's wife and say:: "like you/she did"::and then laugh again::)

2.) Well see I like to be able to drink alcohol till my face turns numb!!! And you can't really do that if your knocked up or have a kid hanging on you...

3.) Well we don't have to worry about getting home to relieve a babysitter. Heck we could drive to Florida tonight and we wouldn't have to tell a soul!

4.) Mr. Farmer and I can sleep in as late as we want after an all night drinking binge. And we don't have to worry about having to get up to take care of a little kiddo.

5.) My 1968 Brittany Blue Mustang would not look very cool with a baby seat in the back

I'm sure I don't have to explain that I would gladly give up all these things for the rest of eternity if I knew I could have child in my arms... But by actually acknowledging that we have a problem to some of these idiots would just make it ten time worse. So for me and Mr. Farmer it's easier to think of funny or not so nice come backs to say to nosy people who don't really need to know our reproductive status... Please think of some more good come backs and share them in the comments!! I'm sure we are going to need them!

Love & Hugs

National Day of Prayer

Since today is the National Day of Prayer and I thought I would write about prayer.

I have been trying to pray for all of my bloggy friends everyday. I thought I would ask the same of you. I know some people don't believe in prayer and I have only lately began to pray again. I'm not asking you to pray to God if you don't believe. But please just send some good thoughts out to each other. Or a great big virtual hug to each other.

I don't know what has come over me lately but I have been trying harder and harder to pray for God's will instead of my own... It has been so difficult asking for that. Instead of praying that "I become pregnant as soon as possible." or "please make me a mother." I'm actually trying to focus on what is, meant To Be. Not what I want, To Be. It has been such a struggle. Some days it has been easier then others. And some days not so easy. But I thought if maybe we could all pray, send happy thoughts, or just some good karma to each other it might bring some peace into our hearts. So please think of all our bloggy sisters today!!

Sending you all the prayers and good thoughts I can muster!!!

Love & Hugs