straight from the garden

the other day we decided to have a salad for dinner. it was awesome to walk into the garden and come back with some romanie lettuce and cucmbers. walla! summer salad!

i have discovered that i absolutely love having a vegetable garden. in fact i love it so much i had kevin build us another raised bed for this year. honestly, i can't tell you why i love it so much. there really isn't that much involved other than planting the vegetables and watering occasionally, but for some reason when i walk to the back of our yard and start looking at what is happening in the soil i get really excited. when things are growing i swell up with excitement and then when things don't seem to be quite right i go on a search through books, the internet and even magazines to discover exactly what is going wrong. i find all this to be so therapeutic? here is just a peek at what is happening. i just can't wait till its ready to be harvested...yeah!

spring break is...over?

talk about a fast week. i honestly can't believe that in nine weeks school with be over with and summer break will start. can someone please tell me where the time goes? this week has been pretty low key which in my opinion is sometimes needed to get the batteries recharged. we spent the night and gigi's, the girls went to the gram's and to finish the week off we headed to fernbank, yesterday.

not much had changed since we had been there last, other than the fact we caught an imax film and saw an exhibit on natural disasters. both of them were quite interesting and the girls seem to really enjoy them. i think it's because it was something they understood and have seen on tv.

today, we will be working in the garden and then later going to lacey's soccer game and taking lela to a spend the night party. kevin is going to build us another raised bed so that will give us two. i can't wait! last year we had a lot of luck with our garden, so this year we are trying for some different things and hopefully some good results. as right now, we are looking at two different varieties of tomatoes, okra, crookneck squash, zucchini, blueberries and cucumbers. i'm hoping we have more than enough room because i really would love to try and plant some lettuce. the girls want to plant green beans, but all i have found is seeds and i don't know if i'm that ambitious. i guess we'll wait and see.

first fruits

i'm absolutely so excited! yesterday, i bought two blueberry bushes for the garden with the hopes of having homegrown delicious blueberries come june. i keep thinking of all the wonderful things we will be able to make with them in the coming months. this morning we started working in the garden and they were the very first thing to be planted this year. the girls had so much fun "playing in the dirt." they even found a worm to torment....poor worm.

sweet smells of a bakery

this morning i picked my very first zucchini from our garden. do you wanna know what i did with it? i baked a honey zucchini bread. yum! that sweet smell of cinnamon coming from my oven was so intoxciating. i was giddy with excitement waiting for the bread to finish. in fact this is first time i've ever done anything with zucchini, but somwhow i have a funny feeling it won't be the last.

our very first crop

here is a picture of our very first crop from the garden....two squash and one green pepper:


i guess you gotta start somewhere, uh? it's so exciting because we have squash, zucchini, green peppers, cherry tomatoes and tomatoes growing right in our very own backyard. i'm really enjoying myself and have even started thinking about next year's garden. who would have thunk it, me and a vegetable garden?