So LaTe!!!

I know I promised this forever ago. Well the long wait is over...

What I've done so far...

First Goal: Get the garden going.

To do this I had to move the boxes. Which sounded quite simple, but ended up being a huge pain.

*I had to remove the all the dirt and put it on a tarp, then move the boxes out of way. When I was moving the boxes, two of them broke (grrrrr).

*Then I had to move two sprinklers, to do that I had to dig big holes, go buy the parts we needed, and then get Jeff to help me:)

*Then I put the soil back in and added some 8-8-8.

And then Jack was born! My cute little nephew. Born April 11th 2010.

Tomorrow a current picture of the garden!

Kindergarten Field trip

I was lucky enough to be able to go on Owen's Spring Field trip. This is the Place Heritage Park, here we come!

We're blue #3.

Livery and petting corral...

We were a little worried about the sheep that couldn't see.

The John Gardiner home. I wish I had this little army of 6-yr olds to help me with my chores.

Practice for milking the cow,

Washing the clothes,

Plowing the fields,

Beating the rug!

Samuel Jewkes/Henry Draper Home. We learned about turning wool into clothes.

After lunch the kids played on this train. Here the girls were chanting "We need more girls!" I love that Owen was one of the boys trying to break into their territory.

Do SOMETHING!!!

A few months ago I was outside and I realized I just needed to DO SOMETHING with our yard. I've made so many excuses: we aren't going to live here forever, we don't want to spend the money, and on and on. But I decided that doing something, anything, would be better than just wishing my yard was different. Here are some before pictures and if you want you can follow how things go.

See that bushy, brown thing? It was the shrub from %!#$. More on that later.

Here I'd started taking the garden boxes apart. When I first put them together (last year) I put them too close. I was trying to do some fancy terraced look, but it was impractical and I couldn't reach into the middle of the boxes.

Aren't those shrubs lovely?