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There are 66 days until spring arrives. Have you decided what you’re going to plant in your garden come spring? 

Are you the type of person who saves their own seeds to use next planting season?  Or are you the person who receives catalogs and needs time to place an order?

I’m the person who does both…..I save seeds, and I compliment my seeds with a nice order through several out-of-state vendors.  

Many of my Blogger readers are experienced gardeners, who know exactly what seeds to plant or order, how to prepare their garden beds, when to plant, and when to harvest.  However, there are some of you who don’t quite understand when, or how, to setup and start your own garden.  

Here’s a great website to help walk you through the garden process, it’s called Vegetable Gardening Online.  

This website talks you through how to design your garden, the zone you live in, when to plant, and what type of garden best to start with.

Are you ready to start taking those baby steps of becoming self sufficient by first starting to grow your own garden?  

It doesn’t hurt to try.  What are you waiting for?

 

Challenged Survival Blog, Mamma Bear Needs Your Help

Dear Blogger Friends,

I sent a Christmas card out to a dear friend, and recently received a card back from the friend’s husband, Papa Bear.  He asked for me to please call him.   I called Papa Bear, we all know of him through his wife, Mamma Bear over at the Challenged Survival blog.  

He has informed me, and I’m informing you Mamma Bear is still recovering daily, from the stroke she experienced on August 20, 2014.  She had surgery, spent 9 days in the hospital, and almost a month in a rehabilitation hospital. She went home to continue her recovery, to be around family, her animals, and friends; during this process, she suffered several seizures, was hospitalized again, and is now on several seizure medications, back at home. The doctors aren’t sure what’s causing these seizures. Mamma Bear is a fighter; even though she’s had a set back from the seizures, she keeps on fighting.  She’s working with her hand, and her leg, and is learning how to express herself, when she knows exactly what she wants to say, but can’t say it verbally.  

Papa Bear placed a medical update on Mamma Bear’s status on her blog, Challenged Survival on October 21, 2014.  Since then, he’s not been able to get back on the computer to update you on her status.  He’s tried numerous times; to sign in to no avail, and that’s where I come in.  He’s asked me to inform you of her status, and has requested prayers to help in her recovery.

From the bottom of my heart, I ask of you, as friends, to please pray for Mamma Bear’s recovery.  

On a personal note, if you would like to send a card, drawing, or maybe write a short note to Mamma Bear, to help put a smile on her face, as she takes these big steps toward recovery, then drop me an e-mail (SandyLivesay@G-mail.com), and I will be more than happy to provide you with her mailing address.   

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