Spring where oh where are you?  I’m still in shock over the severe cold that we have had here in Louisiana.  It is very hard to try to prepare for Spring projects when it is 30 degrees outdoors.  I have started already indoors.

This is my new set of grow lights that HL built before he left for work. I think we spent a total of $40 to build them and they will hold 4 72 cell trays. The tray to the left is full of cabbage, broccoli, raab, leeks, & onion starts.  I started them a couple weeks ago.  The other two trays were planted yesterday and have tomatoes, peppers, & herbs in them.   Last night I ordered medicinal herbs & perennial seeds for the butterfly garden I have planned for our patio area between the new sidewalks.

There are a few new arrivals on the farm.  Ruby the Lionhead rabbit and we just love her to pieces.  She arrived a few weeks before Christmas.

A new Serama Roo we purchased from Maine.

He is now breeding two little hens and one is now setting on a clutch of about 8 eggs. I hatched 3 Seramas in the incubator myself and have 5 to hatch in about a week.
Well I guess that’s about it around the farm.  I’ll be back to have a show & tell about all the knitting going on around here.

Over the last week HL and I have been paying catch up around home.  We had the garden to finish planting, a new chicken coop to build, a pool to put up, & spending time with Makinlee.  A week ago we were sitting in the Dr’s office trying to digest the news that our fresh In Vitro cycle was being canceled.  It felt as if the rug was pulled out from under us.  We were naive enough to think that since the procedure was scheduled and no one mentioned the possible cancellation that we were good.  We were not good.  My uterine lining wasn’t good enough to justify wasting great embryos on a transfer.  The Dr said he was 99% sure it wouldn’t have worked anyway had we proceeded with the transfer.  Now we are struggling with being able to schedule a Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) that will allow HL to be home during the painful Progesterone In Oil (PIO) shots.  This is not an easy task.  I think we are almost there with a schedule and it looks like it will be mid August before we try again but that is not set in stone yet.  I’m struggling emotionally with the fact that there are 11 “textbook” grade 5 day blasts frozen just waiting for us to figure things out.  This should have been our time, our chance but it wasn’t meant to be.  It’s hard to just sit and wait almost 3 more months but this is what must be done.  I hope the next 5 weeks fly by because then it will be time for us to go on vacation and get a much needed break from everyday life.  I do however have a ton of projects to keep me busy.  There is sewing that MUST be done, Makinlee’s bedroom to paint, duck and chicken eggs to be incubated, & the garden to be tended.  Also Makinlee is playing T-Ball and I’m helping coach.  We are busy but not busy enough to keep my mind from going to Houston and thinking about our embryos.