A New Growing Year and A New Adventure

After last summer's dismal garden, I am so excited to get started for 2013!  Last year at this time most all the trees were budded, the flowers were out, and I had vegetables planted.  This year, we have had snow and rain every other day.  It snowed AND rained this morning.  That was special.  I'm not adding beds this year, but I am adding something even more special.  Husband finally said yes to Chickens.  The coop is started and I'm hopefully getting 6 chicks next week!   I don't think anyone's ever been more excited about chickens than I am this last month.  Actually, there may be people with no food in Africa who received chickens as a food source.  They are probably a little more excited than I am.  But not much.  And their coop is not going to be as awesome as mine.

 
I also want to include some pictures of last fall's garden so I have inspiration to get to work.  Flowers and spring go well together, and I got some good shots of pretty flowers last summer. 

I'm lazy.

We haven't put up a fence. The deer also haven't come back, so that's a good thing. I have been spreading Milogranite around the entire garden regularly, which is helping keep the deer away! It must work because there have been a family of bunnies in our yard around the garden too and they have left everything alone, even the lettuce. So, I think we're going to pass on the fence because the ground is very hard and it's hard to poke in the stakes. And I'm lazy.
Everything is growing, and all my flowers are blooming, and I'm so happy with everything and how it looks. There are some yellow/spotty leaves on my tomatoes and peppers, but they are still thriving, so I don't think it's anything serious. I love all the flowers in our yard and on the vegetables. So pretty, and a contrast from the sour last post I had.