The Garden

The garden is growing well this year.  The pictures are from about a month ago, so things are much bigger now.  

We have to have the garden on the outside of the fence for two reasons, one is that that is the place that gets the most sun with all the trees in our yard and two is then the chickens can't destroy it.

Here are my tomatoes 

Some even have tomatoes on them.

Daphne has been wanting to buy ladybugs to put in the garden since she has seen them for sale last year.  So we did.  We bought a package of live ladybugs and and sprinkled them around the garden.  They didn't stay around very long.

Here are the beds on the other side of the drive way.

Our raspberries really took off this year.  I think it helped that I fenced around them (they are inside the main fence and the chickens love to eat raspberry leaves) to keep the chickens out.

The flowers are some of my favorite things growing.

I love calendulas.  We had some growing in Bremerton and they would reseed themselves every year.  I had a hard time finding seeds when we moved, but my mother in law had some growing at her house in Utah.  She let me dig some up to take home with me.  Then she sent me an envelope of seeds when hers went to seed.  Some of they plants are self seeded from the transplants I took home and some are from the seeds I planted this year.

I love the orange color and how bright they are.

The lettuce really grew well this year.  It has mostly bolted now, I think I will need to seed some new, to keep us in lettuce.

You know I often think I should write in the blog, but then I think, what would I write?
T's grandma is not well. We want to go visit her in Arizona, but I don't know if she will still be around by the time we can go in February. The last time we took the kids to Arizona was 8 years ago. We have added 4 kids since then.

Tonight we took R to the Priesthood Preview at church. He will turn 12 this year and be ordained a Deacon. His soon to be Deacon's quorum adviser spoke and talked about the Priesthood, how it is the same power that created the earth and how R will get to hold that power. And also about the responsibilities of a Deacon. Wow. The Lord sure entrusts our youth with big responsibilities. But wow, what better way to help them grow up righteous. If they take their priesthood duties seriously and strive to do what is right and to serve, how can you help but gain a testimony and become an instrument in the Lord's hands.

It seems like there should be more funny quotes to add, let me think, Ah yes, the other day T told O that he had a razor sharp mind and O responded that he also had an exacto knife and it was bigger than mom's.
For Christmas we got a Wii and the kids bought Lego Starwars to play on it. H loves Yoda. He will get whatever he can find that is long like a staff and walk with is saying, "I Yoda." Or he will tell me, " I cutting your hand off." he is so funny.

I am getting excited to garden. I have been planning out where to plant and what I want to plant. I love to watch things grow.