Really Getting Started

Yes, we have a few things in the ground (got the sweet pea flowers and strawberries done yesterday), This week will be serious stuff; we have potatoes, slicing cuc's, ghost pumpkins, bush beans & sunflowers seeds waiting in the wings. But today I only have enough energy to put the sugar pea starts in. As soon as I see tomato & zucchini starts I'll get those in the ground too.

Garden List

E helped me make our list of veggies/fruit/flowers for our garden:

• tomatoes
• peas
• spinach
• potatoes
• pumpkins
• green beans
• basil
• zucchini
• carrots
• sunflowers
• sweet peas
• strawberries
• rhubarb

* notice the color coordinated words and apostrophe placement! Sometimes she asked for help with the spelling, but most of the time she was convinced she knew...

I LOVE Summer

I have been in Summer mode lately, partly because of the recent weather swing here, and partly in preparation for the trip E and I are taking later this week. We're gonna hop on a plane to Phoenix to visit D's family for a week in the heat. It's supposed to reach 103 on Friday! That's a little too intense for me, but I'll revel in it, and dip my toes in their backyard pool. Here's my anticipatory list for this coming Summer, now if I could just find those sunglasses...

Pro:

it's light out until 10pm
homemade popsicle's
children smell like sunscreen
tomato's from the garden
cookouts on the BBQ
the garden looks great
walking in my bare feet
the school buses aren't rumbling past my house all day
berries
walks after dinner
camping
outdoor markets
the beach
open windows
Green Lake wadding pool
drying clothes outside on the line
the tv's hardly on
vacations with friends & family
no heating bill
my feet are warm when i get in bed at night
boat rides
ice tea & sangria

Con:

hot seat belt buckles
stubbed toes
skimpier clothes = more of your body showing
slugs
bee's dive-bombing your BBQ