More Garden

Where oh where are the seedlings? It's been too hot for the seeds to germinate that I planted. This week it will be cooler, so we will see. The things I planted can also be a cold crop, so we may yet harvest in late September or in October.

Garden Progress and Girl's Camp

Here's the progress on our garden. Can you see it? If not, that's because we've been busy doing other things. Girl's Camp was fun and we think C.O.P.E is the best thing to be in charge of there. Jerry worked really hard as you can see from the picture. (Seriously, he did all the planning and prepared the things with some help from me. He did a great job. We felt like we were playing all week long.)

LDSWA

A friend has worked for at least two years on a website where LDS women can share, much the way people share on My Space and similar sites. She launched it today. That's what the post below is about. So visit the site if you're interested. I haven't done much with that page, but I'm looking forward to hearing from other LDS women.

I'm a Member of Our Ladies Room

View my page on Our Ladies Room

Visit to Joy

Had a great time helping Joy celebrate her birthday. See how cute Oliver is. He says "Ma, ma, ma".

Keeping Up With Kelli

Keeping up with Kelli, technologically speaking is not easy but it is fun. I figured out how to add music to this blog. I learned something new today, and that is good.

I know, now all I need is some good music.

Home at Last

Jerry got home yesterday from 5 days of helping cook for the Pioneer Trek. They cooked for about 250 people. He said his job was to keep the pots clean and filled, and then to stir all 15 of them when they were cooking so nothing burned. He looked exhausted. I think that was mainly because it had been so hot over in Hermiston and because the last night all the youth stayed up until midnight square dancing and then they didn't go to sleep. They talked quietly and things, but out of doors, everything carries. So, not much sleep for Jerry that night.

I am so glad to have him back at home.

Here's a picture of the beginning of our garden. Picture it with 3 more boxes in a square grid and gravel between and around them, covering the weed barrier.

It's Gardening Time

Today we are finally, after 13 years, making a garden here. We only have 2 1/4 acres to work with. After deliberating and planning together for quite some time, Jerry finally made a box out of materials and of a size that we had not planned on. It is great- made of old corrugated metal roofing we had lying around and some lumber we have had. Jerry was certain that there was no good soil to be found here. I suggested next to the barn, under the giant cherry tree, where leaves, grass clipping and vegetable peelings have been piled for the past 13 years. We also had chickens penned up in that yard for several years. He looked doubtful--so he used the tractor to get some dirt next to that area and it was good soil. It's a start!