Apparently I need to keep a garden journal

Annette here...

Please allow me a bit of type space to reminisce at first...

I remember in my younger years Miss Gloria would get these Southern Living daily planers - this was well before Franklin Planners made their way to Underwood Printing and Office Supplies in Foley - and she would pimp David E for whatever information he would care to provide about what happened on the farm that day.  She would dutifully scribe what he said and there those words reside within those faux white leather bound calendars to this day.  Granted, this exercise of journaling only lasted for about the first 5 weeks of the new year, but those words still sit in those old planners.  I'll have to grab them one day and share some of the comments on the blog.

If you read this and know any of us Bittos first hand, you'll understand when I ty[e that I can honestly say there are more things going on at the farm on a daily basis that I can possibly write about consistently.  But that is not the intent of this blog.  Bitto Farms is business.  While I was at the farm a couple of weeks ago, Beau decided that someone need to keep a garden journal for us.  That would be code for, "Annette, time to keep a garden journal so we know what we did when."  I agree. This blog is about our (mine, Dad, John, and to a lesser degree Miss Gloria and Jen...and our four legged family members) trials, tribulations, excitement, and joy spent working in the garden.  We luv to garden and hope you will enjoy reading and commenting as we grow across the seasons.

I thought seriously about keeping the journal in a moleskin notebook...similar to how I keep my notes for work...but decided it would be best to keep our journal a living, breathing, visual document that we can share between us...and still have some sort of repository for our random thoughts.  Therefore, I deem the Bitto Farms blog to house our garden journal.  And since I have the passwords to the blog, I can say that officially!!

For those of y'all poor folks who happen to have nothing better to do than read the absolute chaos that reigns around the area we know and luv as Bitto Farms, I hope you enjoy reading about our gardening adventures.

Please don't hesitate to comment...Beau and I need all the help we can get!!

War Eagle and All the Best,

Annette and John (aka Beau)