Here's one with some flowers that just bloomed in our yard. Pretty cool.
(Maybe it's because I'm working with an insanely slow computer, but I feel like I did when Mom and Sarah used to take me out to buy jeans and I would get exhausted after trying on two pair....this blogging will wear you out!)
A couple of weeks ago our landlord let us borrow his rototiller to start a garden. Here I am working the beast.
I'm actually digging up bricks in the above pics. Apparently there were a ton of bricks in the garden, and they kept making the rototiller pop up and nearly take my leg off. I felt like a little weakling who couldn't handle a man's machine in front of my manly farmer landlord, but I'm hoping after he saw the pile of bricks I was trying to till through he cut me some slack (good thing he doesn't know that I sew and that "You've got mail" is one of my favorite movies).Here's the pile:
Here's the finished product. We planted tomatoes (a couple of heirloom varieties), bell peppers, egg plant, okra, squash, cucumbers, and something called a muskmellon (supposed to be like a cantaloupe).
Here's the garden two weeks later:
Also, since we had two trash dumpsters, we decided to cut one up into three parts and use it for cool "green" purposes. The top part is being used as a compost bin. The middle part is a leaf holder for use in the compost. And the bottom part is our new herb garden (mint, basil, cilantro, and rosemary).
Finally (I guess I caught a second wind here cause this baby is a marathon), we have a grape vine in our back yard!
Here are the beginnings of our grapes.
