Fruits of our Elbow Greese!

This is from just 1 picking of our garden. I'm impressed! The garden work worked out well this year. Every week the kids and I weeded our garden. There wasn't even much complaining. We knew that every Tuesday morning we'd be up early and weed until it was done. Because of my new best friend (you're still my best BEST, Bestie) Preen we didn't have tons and tons! So sometimes I made up things for us to do if weeding didn't take long enough. All in all, I can't complain.

So after having all of these tomatoes I decided to bottle them. They'll be good in recipe's this winter! Noodle donned her apron (or my apron) and jumped right in. She wanted to do every step of the process - at least once. Although cutting the tomatoes wasn't her forte'!

Weeds Already??

I have weeds in my garden and I haven't even planted my garden yet!! And I have more dandelions in my lawn - not picture, you'll just have to take my word on it - than I did last year. Last year I had 2. This year I have at least 4 - but those suckers multiply like crazy - don't all weeds???

Eclypse, Pledge, and Weeds

Last night Bestie and I went to the 12:01 AM showing of Eclypse. It was so fun. There are some really weird Twihards out there. There was this one lady and her friend who saw Twilight in the theater 50 times and have seen the DVD more than 120 times - they stopped counting at 120. The one friend made an 85 question quiz, a word search, a crossword puzzle and a "how many words can you make out of:" "Bella and Edward" "Team Jacob" etc. It was rediculous. Not to mention they are probably in their 30's and 40's. It was almost creepy. We enjoyed the movie and the story. I'm glad we went. It's sorta our tradition to see these movies on the midnight showing, but some people are getting too obsessed and that's a little scary sometimes. As for the movie, I liked it. I thought it was done well and followed the story pretty good. What did you think of it? So it was Noodle's turn to dust the living room. Usually we use the fluffy duster, but this time she asked if she could use the "spray stuff" and a rag. So I let her. Nearly half a can of Pledge and a VERY soaked rag later, she was finished. I guess the good news is everything is generously coated with Pledge. It's funny now - not so much when I realized how much she used! I haven't weeded for 3 weeks. Super BAD on my part. So tonight our family weeded for a couple of hours. If we can do it again tomorrow night, we might have most of the weeds. Boy, they sure get a head of you fast!

In My Lovely Garden

Last fall while Hubs was at work, I borrowed a sod cutter from a friend (thanks McKay) and amidst may questions and weird looks, I cut out some of our front lawn. (It's in our front yard but on the side - no directly in FRONT of our house.) I added mulch and let it set through the winter. This spring, with much advise from a neighbor gardener extraordinaire, I planted a garden. Here is some of the fruits of our elbow grease. I'm so glad I did it. I don't have 1 regret. Since then there have been 2 others in our neighborhood who have taken lawn out of their front yards to put in a garden. (Our backyards are just too shady!) I'm also VERY thankful for a husband who doesn't detest weeding. Thank you Hubs, for your many hours of weeding! We've already picked a couple of peas - but sadly we won't get many more of those. We have many green tomatoes and a few pumpkin blossoms. Not to mention all the other stuff.

Garden Varity

The other night for dinner we had hamburgers and hot dogs, corn on the cob from our neighbors garden and a cucumber, some tomatoes, acorn squash and green beans from our garden. It was so cool too eat all of these things that we grew and took care of. The kids have a GREAT time looking for ripe things to pick. They even weed for short periods of time. Our garden isn't very big this year, but I'm hoping next year we'll get a bigger one.