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Category: My Garden

  • I think the best thing about working like crazy out in the yard is when I get to enjoy it with friends! When I was in high school my best friend Carmen went to Japan for a year on an exchange, I was heartbroken! While she was gone a super sweet girl came to live with her parents. And this last week she came back to visit, so Carmen came to visit too – as her and Tomoko had never actually met! Look at all our cute girls! The big girls are all with in six months of each other,…

    3 comments on Backyard fun and fun with toys
  • Ah the garden, such goodness. BUT SO HOT! I’m having a trouble finding time to work out there. The girls are not able to spend long periods of time out in the heat and it makes it hard for me to weed and stuff, I don’t really want to go out in the heat of the day when they are resting. So a few things have gotten out of control, you’ve been warned. I think I know what is going on with some of my plants, like my super small beets. Turns out you have to fertilize stuff. I’ve never…

    6 comments on The garden – mid July 2014
  • End of June! That’s when I always realize I’ve planted things too close together! Ha! I make it work though. The biggest news this week is that our grape trellis is finally going in! I’ve been on our handy man’s list for a while, but he’s been really busy. And then he wimped out on supposedly “rainy” days this week (it barely sprinkled!). Still I’m hoping to have this finished soon. My grapes have been in pots since I bought them in early May. There will be a high trellis that should give us a little shade on the table…

    5 comments on The Garden – end of June 2014

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