Seedling update

Well, almost all of my original seeds have sprouted. Most have grown true leaves now as well, and I've trimmed back the weakest seedlings. The tomatoes and broccoli are doing very well. The peppers have been the slowest to sprout, but they are starting to grow now. Also in my stir fry veggies, the snow peas and carrots are starting to sprout! I think the snow peas are just the prettiest little seedlings!

It's alive!!!

Well I guess I'm not a very patient person... Yesterday I gave up on my seeds and started over. This morning I woke up to 3 little tomato seedlings! Yay! Still nothing from the peppers, but it's very exciting to see something growing!

Seedlings-Starting over

So, 2 days after my seeds were supposed to sprout, and I still see nothing. I have a feeling my seeds rotted in the potting soil... So I returned to Lowes for more supplies and started over. This time I used seed starting pucks made of peat moss, and a mini greenhouse! These ones had better grow!
I also bought a Growums stirfry veggie growing kit, which I believe is marketed towards kids, but whatever. It includes bok choy, carrots, and snow peas!

Still no seedlings...

My tomato and pepper seeds were supposed to sprout yesterday... Still nothing. I'm starting to think (because of some things I read yesterday) that I shouldn't have planted them in potting soil like I did. I should have used special seed starting soil... But I'm not giving up on them yet! I saw an idea on pinterest to make a mini green house with a pop bottle. So I'm gonna try that with a couple pots and see if it helps. If I have no seedlings in the next couple days, I will start over :(
Also as seen on pinterest, I'm trying to grow a new celery plant from a very shriveled stump that I pulled out of my crisper! We'll see how that goes...

Broccoli

I started my broccoli indoors today! According to sprout robot, my tomatoes and peppers should be sprouting today. But so far, I don't see anything but soil...

Gardening!

To quote one of my favourite Kristin Wiig SNL characters: "Lets see…Yard gloves…tomato seeds…fertilizer… Hey, Pat Sajack, I’ll solve the puzzle! Gardening!"
That's right, I've decided to start a veggie garden this summer! And to help me get started,  I found this great site called Sprout Robot which tells you what to plant and when, according to where you live! It told me to start my tomatoes and bell peppers indoors last week. Which is exactly what I did! Now I'm waiting for the little darlings to sprout! I'll be posting about my gardening experiences throughout the summer! I'm very excited to see how green my thumb is! 

Winter Wonderland

We've been pretty busy the last month or so, mostly with skiing and snowboarding! It's been exactly what I imagined living in Colorado would be like. Getting lots of great snow, and going to the hills as much as possible.
The two main hills that we've been hitting up are Copper Mountain and Winter Park. We've had some great days at both places (if you forget about the terrible traffic going through Denver).

Winter Park

A couple weeks ago we went up to Steamboat Springs for a few days, and had a blast! We were surprised by a dumping of fresh powder on our first day. It was so light and fluffy! Then the next morning we woke up to another 10 inches! We were hitting some untouched runs, knee-deep in snow! It was awesome. By the third day, we were pretty wiped and there was no fresh snow (we had gotten quite spoiled by this time) so we made a day of skiing our way from bar to bar on the hill. There happened to be a rugby match on at the last lodge, so we camped out there until closing time! All in all, a great time!

Fresh Powder at Steamboat Springs

Steamboat

I hadn't even gotten fully unpacked from that trip, when Ty's friend invited us on a  Summit Hut trip to do some back country skiing/riding! We, of course, jumped at the opportunity! I finally got to test out my new snowshoes! We drove out to the Breckenridge area where we parked and hiked to the cabin with all our gear on our backs. It was about a 40 minute hike uphill. We shared the cabin with a group of about 20 people. It was a great time. All three days there were spent trekking out to the surrounding hills to do some back country riding. This was my first back country experience. Being at 11,360 ft altitude in a foot of fresh snow, the 20 minutes of hard work it takes to get to the top sort of overpowers the fun you have in the 30 seconds it takes to ride down. But those 30 seconds are still a lot of fun! By the third trip down, I'm thinking "that was fun, I wanna do it again.... But there's no way I'm climbing up there again." Then at the end of the trip we got to ride back down the trail to our car!

Snowshoeing with the board on my back pack

Gorgeous views

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