Keeping Busy

     Well the last few days I've been pretty busy and I'm hoping to keep it that way. If you saw my "Felling Accomplished" post that you may already know that I've planted some rose bushes. Earlier today, before I went into work I was able to get two more bushes planted leaving two left to plant. Those two are climbing roses however and I have another place in mind to plant them. Hopefully when I get everything set up I can get a picture of them planted. I want them in an area I have surrounded by paver stones.

     It will take a lot more work and cost a bit more money to get the area looking nice, but well worth it in my opinion. Just before I went into work I was able to but two blue birdbaths for this area, and I'm hoping to get bird houses a large variety of flowers, bird feeders, and possible lattice to enclose I little bit, allowing me get another type of climbing plant.

     While I have that planed for this summer, I still have enough room for probably close to ten more roses, if not more. Still thinking about rather or not I want more roses. Along side that I want to work on my orchard, which will probably be more of just trees scattered now. I'm trying to save as much room as I can for more grape vines.

     Just as I wasn't busy enough already, my mom wanted to get more blueberry plants, and strawberries to grow in a raised boxed in area. I was hoping to spend a ton of time outside this summer and it seems I may have gotten my wish. My plans for this summer is to get enough plants that I can spend most of my day outside caring for them every summer. I'm not big on gaming or being on the computer like everyone deems I am.

     Though beehives are still on my mind for this summer, I may go with a different kind of bee instead of the honey bee. This is mostly due to the fact I work a lot and get called in a good amount, and with all these plants, I fear I won't have time to take care of the bees to the extent they need. If I am correct the Mason bee or something like that don't produce honey, but they are one of the best for pollinating, which was the main goal for bees to begin with, the honey would have been a bonus.  

     So far I have spent almost the last three days completely outside which has helped me a bit with my anxiety and depression. Though I would love to get off my medicine and use nature as a therapy, I can't relay on it because of rainy days, or even bad days in general.

     

Summer Plans

     I have a good amount of activities planned for this summer. I did plan on doing a separate post over each thing but I felt I wouldn't be able to come up with enough to say for just one project. If I feel like to split this post than I will, and I will more than likely find more things I would be willing to try this summer as well.

     One of the things I planned for this summer I had mentioned in my article Backpacking. For those who haven't read it yet feel free to, but basically I plan on traveling around a bit. By foot is ideal since that is backpacking. Traveling in general though would be just as fun. I had also planned on taking a plentiful amount of pictures for my nature blog, or a new photography blog if I feel the need to be organized about my photos.

     Aside from backpacking however, I also plan on trying to plant a flower bed, and possibly a rose bed. I love plans, if it were up to me the whole yard would be nothing but flowers and trees, but my parents aren't to keen on that idea for some reason. Part of the reason I want to plan beds is so I have more plants to turn into stars. I would be able to take pictures daily and upload them on my photography blog Opachii's Photography. More than likely if this happened I would create separate blogs for different types of flowers to stay organized... I hate feeling the need to be so organized but it bothers me if I'm not.

     Along side the flower and rose bed, why not try an orchard? I want to plant a forest but my parents of course don't like the idea of that and frankly there just isn't enough yard left to do so. I rather enjoy tending to nature. I can help it thrive without the worry of offending someone or being judged. I plan on planting something around twelve to fifteen trees, all depends on how much space I have left over from the beeboxes.

     The last thing I have in mind for this summer at the moment is bees. I'm hoping to become a bee keeper. Not only would it be a fun experience, but it would also be a smart move. My plants would thrive, and anything that bares fruit should produce much better bushels. One of the reasons I want a rose bed is, because the only way to get rose seeds is if bees pollinate the flower. I would then use the seeds to make starts, and either breed different verities of roses or just sell them the way they are. I'm unsure about rather or not I want to take the time to cross rose breads.

      

Again With the Snow

     As much as people think I like snow, I really don't. I'm the type of person after it accumulates once I'm ready for the 70 plus degree weather. Sunny day or not I don't really care. I just like the warm weather, and a lot of that has to do with my claustrophobia. During the winter I typically stay in more, and I don't very much like it, not one bit.

     I was looking at the weather the other day though and it appears the warmth is creeping it's way back. As windy as it has been though, I'm also not a big fan of wind. A lot of that has to do with just about everything I enjoy doing outside requires little to no wind. Some things can still be done while it's windy though not as enjoyable, like fishing on a boat. It's not fun finding a school of fish than a second later your boat is on the other side of the lake, especially if you a fishing a small tournament.

    I do however like telling people who I know hate the snow when there is snow in the forecast. Their reactions are funny, and it's also fun to tease. Watch though half way through summer and there will be people who are ready for winter because it's to hot. Something that I found interesting, my dad was over in Malaysia during their cold season. Well their cold season was just beginning anyways. It was roughly 80 degrees out while the people there were starting to wear coats. I'm not sure if the coats were winter wear as my dad stated or not, but I wasn't there.

     One thing to look forward to after winter this year, it's only a thought as of now, but this year is believed to be a long time coming, one of the best years for moral mushrooms. I know it's a bit of a lost art nowadays, but I am one that enjoys going out and looking for the stealth fungus. Even if I don't eat them, it is still fun. I like the outdoors and if I lived in an area where there were more orchards, vineyards, and berry patches, I would probably spend my whole day outside.

     I will probably be covering my Pokemon collection tomorrow, as it has been one of the biggest things that has helped me. I will be doing a post over how collection in general helps with anxiety, or at least how it helps mine. I spent most of my day today looking for more farming places on World of Warcraft, and sorting out my Pokemon cards once again. I was scheduled to work, but I'm guessing with the weather people didn't want to get out, so we were pretty dead today. I have the whole day off tomorrow as of right now, and I plan on hopefully getting the rest of my cards sorted... I have over seven thousand cards, probably a bit close to eight thousand now. It's a collection started from my childhood.