5-7-11 Sunshine!!

After days of gray and rain it was so nice to see the sun yesterday morning. I did errands all morning with ASK, then came home to fall victim to a nasty case of stomachache which had me down all afternoon and evening. No fun. Then Saturday I was much better, thankfully, because we had a lot of garden work to do and it was again sunshiney :)

First a self-photo by one of our odd children. Can you guess who it is?

Lots of Saturday morning kitchen work – catching up from Friday plus regular Saturday jobs. Lots of help!

Our men did some fencing, ground some corn, and then worked in the garden. It was a beautiful day and we’re thankful to have the garden mostly in. So nice to have Levi & Jesse home all day.

Tomatoes are tiny but (hopefully) mighty -

We laid the plastic to warm the ground where the watermelon will go, and started the watermelon inside the house in cups. We’ll see how this experiment goes -

Also planted green and yellow beans, sweet corn, and a few yellow zucchini bushes (another experiment).

Broccoli experiment – cans on or cans off? We’ll see -

Onions looking bedraggled but hopefully still growing -

Spinach coming along nicely -

Lettuce almost ready for salads -

Grandpa’s Wonder Tomatoes already peeking over the top of their buckets…look closely to see a blossom!

Grandpa’s onions and radishes -

Potatoes are slowly appearing -

Strawberries – all but one came out and look GOOD!

  

Lilacs!!!! So beautiful and so fragrant!!

Blueberries  looking good - 

 

Blueberries looking not-so-good -

Chives -

Tulips & daffodils are done; irises are almost ready to open.

I love spring!!

Practice continues -

 

Beautiful view – note 3 white dots to the left -

Kate, Dad, Ben marking the electric fence to separate the cows from the steers (different diets).

Flowers in the front garden all came back and look very good!

I think this is an Asiatic lily.

Butterfly Bush (I’m pretty sure).

No idea! (help, ASK!?)(Can you tell I’m a VERY novice flower gardener!?)

I’m 99.9% sure this is Yarrow.

 

Playtime for littles.

 

“Big, big hole!”

Blonde pigtails, freckled noses, and toothless smiles are awful sweet!

That’s it!