Friday, June 26, 2009

The Garden











I have a garden! I did`nt plan on having a garden, but weds night Adam came over with his newly purchased tiller and tilled me up a garden, i was just going to spend the summer weeding it and getting it ready for next spring but then..................




My neighbor Mark stopped by and handed me a bag of onion sets that he had left over, sooooooo, i spent the next morning cleaning weeds out of one end of the garden for the onions, figuring, that won`t take long, but then.......................




Marks wife came over yesterday morning asking if i wanted some pumpking plants she had left over, ok sure, so now two spots needed digging and weeding, ok, i can do that. I went to her house to get the pumpkin plants and she dug up two rubarbs for me, ok, i can get that in, but then..........................



Marks wife handed Skip 6 packages of herbs, ok, Danika can do that, no problem but then........





Skip and Danika went to the garden center outside of town and bought two big beautiful tomato plants.........................and six big pepper plants..........................and 5 brocolli plants. ok, this was becoming a huge undertaking for someone who had no intention of planting a garden this year but ok, i can do that.




Eight hours later and sunburns, we had most of the garden, today radishes and maybe a few greenbeans will go in. Skip, who really is`nt a gardener or blueberry picker, decided we needed a scarecrow, so, He and Danika did the scarecrow, which Flynn views as in intruder and does`nt like him very much, we named him Shorty.

10 comments:

Bec said...

wow busy busy, but the first thing you should have done was put on SUNSCREEN!!! maybe you guys can come to my place next spring and get my garden going!

sulli said...

Wow! Thats great! and it seems youve found some finlanders in your area too...whenever they want to do something nice for you it ends up being work for you! Its great!!!

Shorty is pretty cute.

and one last thing...Bec... ya right!(dripping with sarcasm...)

Anonymous said...

OOHh You are such a dear and so is that talented hubby!!!!!!!!!

Jettie said...

this is sooo funy...do you realize the post before this one is about snow....and soon we will be talking snow again!! crazy!!

Jettie said...

ps...read my earlier comment...it's here!! Your previous post was june 24th..ammm Snow is back!!
Happy New Year!!!

Diary From Africa said...

A garden - what fun ! You'll have to post updates on how everything grows. And I simply love your scarecrow !
Lynda, Kilimanjaro, East Africa

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Bye for now
Lynda, Kilimanjaro, East Africa

Dirt Princess said...

Hey there! Just wandered over from Food, Fun and Farmlife (love that blog). She had a link to you, so I clicked on it, and here I am! Great blog, haven't stopped laughing!

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Diary From Africa said...

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