Garden Spot (#1)

We grew up around gardening, my siblings and I. Every spring, as soon as the grass was greening up, we'd get out the tiller & help mom & dad: weeding, raking/hoeing, planting, watering. It was a family event you see. I didn't realize how much I really did know & love about it, until I was married & we had our own house. The first garden we had was a small little square big enough for a few tomoato plants and a cucumber vine that grew way out of the box.

Last year we had a small little square down on the opposite side of our pond damn. It did pretty well we had a few tomoatos & some great squash plants & a few cucs.

This year, I'm trying my hand at raised bed gardening. So far, we have the box built (thanks to my amazing hubby & young bees) and filled in with dirt. The other night the young bees & I went out to work the dirt around, pull out any weeds, rocks & break up the big clumps of dirt. They found that it was more fun to break the big clumps of dirt with their old bats than the rakes & hoes. They are going to get to pick our some type of plant & watch it grow and harvest veggies from their plant. We'll have some tomatoes, green beans (hopefully) and squash & cucs again.

I love the way that you take a tiny plant or seed; water it & watch God work His miracles under the soil. Sounds familiar huh? Glad He's not finished with me yet either.

There may be rocket launchers...

My youngest bee can be very witty at times. In the midst of our long days with Granny Weyrauch having a set back in her health, we were tired, and worried. But Buzzby, was his usual self coming up with comic relief.

At dinner one night, the kids were all eating dinner when Grandpa decided to join them. Our niece had brought me my coffee cup from the morning so that I could dump it because she thougth it was gross. ( I have the bad habit of leaving my coffee sitting on my sink after I've been getting ready that morning). So, at the dinner table she was telling Buzzby that his mom had left coffee out there. Buzzby (with raised eyebrows) stated that you never know what you might find on his mom's sink: could be a coffee cup, a ring, earrings or maybe even a rocket launcher. So, the next time you are looking for a random item, like a rocket launcher; call- I may have one! :)