Funny Kids

Clark dug up part of his Halloween costume from two years ago and put it on. He then told us to take a picture and put it on the blog. So here you go. 

Eliza is reaching for the camera, but you can just pretend she is reaching up to touch your cheek. 

Sabrina made a dreamcatcher for Yogurl. I hung it up since I thought it was so sweet of her. Yes that is a single use flosser hanging from a no longer glowing glow bracelet. Waste not, want not. 

*WARNING* There is about to be some boring talk about my garden.

Since I have put up pictures in the last two Mays of how the garden is doing, I figured I could do that again this year. Everything this year has been grown from seed directly sowed in the garden except for the onions - from bulbs - and two tomato plants I bought at Lowe's. We have gotten a fair amount of sugar snap peas, basil, parsley, cilantro and dill already. Yesterday, we also got our very first ripe Mr. Stripey tomato. A little cat faced, but pretty tasty. We also have a couple cucumbers that will be ready in the next day or two. In the center you can see that the onion greens are over two feet tall and some carrot greens are nearly as tall. They have nearly no underground development, though. Apparently this means I have got too much nitrogen in the soil. I have never had a soil test, since I just added my own compost to augment the soil, but I think next growing season I will break down and start following some more traditional gardening methods. Also, I have three corn plants that each are only growing one ear. That could also be a symptom of excessive nitrogen. Oh well. Finally, we have no plants of genus cucurbita growing this year since I have been plagued by squash bugs the last two years. Hopefully by skipping a year, they will be sparse next year. I also hope that they don't attack and thrive on eating my cucumber plants, which are of the cucurbitaceae family. I didn't realize that cucumbers were of the same family, so I might have shot myself in the foot on that one. Gardening is great, but it sure can be frustrating realizing how much there is to learn.