Spring time, the only pretty fling time...

Is that how the song goes?  Anyway, it feels like spring to me and I'm obsessively trying to clean things out.   That means that some areas of my house look like a tornado hit, but nooks and crannies are sparkling.  This week, I cleaned out my pantry and got these cheap and wonderful can rotaters.  Is it weird that I've been wanting a can rotating system?  Well I have.  But who really wants to spend that kind of cash to rotate cans?  So these delightful cardboard dealies from thecanorganizer.com fit me just right.  My pantry went from this:

to this.

I still have a ways to go when it comes to food storage, but every baby step is better than none.  I've really latched on to Tiffany's little phrase--"the time is going to pass either way."  Tick tock, right?  I mean, whatever I do, the day will come and it will go.  I can move toward my goals or not, but the time keeps on ticking regardless.  Something about that hit me just right.  Timing, I guess.  I tend to have times when, as Mike puts it, I'm "on one."  I'm bipolar, not so much with my mood, but definately with my projects.  Burst of energy followed by total lethargy.  I try to ride the wave as long as I can. 

And in that spirit, I also built a light stand for all my emerging seedlings.  And they are emerging!  Here are some of my tomatoes.  I'm still waiting patiently on my peppers; they take longer. 

Now I have to figure out how to keep Leo from using the garden as a litter box--why do I have a cat again?  Oh, and the website I've been enjoying for some gardening how-to is mysquarefootgarden.net. 

I also took the time this week to create an emergency binder for the family with all our important documents, etc. in one easy to grab spot.  Each week's new topic for this class leaves me with a list as long as Raelynn's legs of things I need to do to be on track.  I'm glad to have the binder, but ugh about the rest.  I really hate 72 hour kits and all that emergency preparedness.  The last kit we made sat in the garage next to the gas can for the lawn mower.  After a year, we decided to use the stuff in it that would go bad, and it was all heavily flavored with gasoline.  I'm not saying it's a bad idea.  I'm all for it.  I just don't love it.  Here's the good website I found for helping me through all that.  It's foodstoragemadeeasy.net and it's been a great resource for me. 

I'm wiped out.  It's 8:30, so that's not great.  Bon soir.