Busy

We had Michael’s parents and sister in town over the last weekend, and had a lot of fun.  Of course, I didn’t actually take any pictures.  What?  I know.  I realized that after they left. 

I also wish I’d brought my camera to the community garden where we have our own 10x20 plot.  I hadn’t been there in a few weeks, having covered everything with weed barrier and left it until I was ready to plant.  Well…the weed barrier partly blew off, so we were faced with a long, 3 foot wide strip of 2 foot high grass with weeds underneath.  When we were finished, we had cleared that all out, planted potatoes, melons, and beans, and covered the potatoes with straw.  It was a very dramatic difference and I had a lot of help. 

Naomi, in particular, was an extremely diligent and motivated gardener, following behind my grass-pulling efforts (the grass more than filled a wheelbarrow) and pulling all the little weeds.  She must have done that for about an hour and a half!  Then she asked for further jobs.  Hannah was very into planting, as well as ridding our plot of any grubs and slugs discovered.  Sim liked that I gave him scissors and asked him to trim the grass next to the path, where it’s hard to pull.  He also liked using the hoe.  If you want to add adventure to your life, give your 2 1/2-year-old a hoe and put 3 other people, also working, in a 10x20 plot with him.  Miraculously, nobody got hurt.  

I’m also still trying to get the garden at home set up, and this weekend is Father’s Day.  I’ve begun having dreams that are very clearly “you’re not ready for the new baby to come yet and you should be” nesting dreams.  They’re not very fun – new baby, no diapers, new baby, didn’t make it to the hospital, new baby, no name yet, etc.  For the most part, we have what we need, but there are a few scattered items that we haven’t gotten yet, so I need to make my list and get everything ready.  At least, my nesting instinct seems to think so. 

I have some pictures of more creations, but they’ll have to wait.  Some of them are ones that the girls made – they’re very cute!