Our 1st garden down here

When we first arrived down here for our Summer Vacation my bride wanted a garden. (these two photos are from that garden) So she took a corner in the back and planted some beans and squash and what not. I didn't have much to do with it as I was trying to get the house live able. In fact I thought we were not going to be here that long so why bother, but I didn't say anything. It made her so happy to do it so I just swung my hammer on the house and let her play in the dirt when she wanted to. I kind of shudder to think what if I would have been an idiot and discouraged her, all the joy we have gotten from gardening over the last two years would have been missed. In fact Summer time was always a season to get through and didn't hold much appeal for me. These last two Summers are the greatest Summers of my life and it is all because my wife and her desire to plant seeds.

If I was to give marriage counseling to a guy I would say, shut up and let her be. She will make your life better than you can ever dream.

Last October and today

I love the before and after shots. Perhaps it is the way God feels about a life that has been submitted to Him. The bottom picture is the garden last October, which was an improvement from where we first found it. This morning while looking through the old pictures I found it and had to take a picture to compare the difference. There is so much more to do but we are making progress.

Our Summer Vacation Continues into Fall

We have been doing some work outside the last few weeks. You know how a person should photograph all the progress? Well I haven't done so good on the outside. When we first picked up trash in the yard it filled a 55 Gallon trash can, so you can imagine what it must have been like. In this shot you can see the old mouldings have become a compost bin and we have dug up a few places to garden. We put blueberries, rasberries and strawberries in one row. We put around 80 tulips bulbs for the spring in another row. There was a large weed that looked like a tree, which now is our fire pit as I burn out the stump.