progress

     Remodeling inside the house has been virtually non-existent aside from a much needed new front door. Outdoors, however, we've been relatively busy. Tim & his dad tiled the backyard in mid-May, and then we tilled up the garden area. Tilling was an interesting experience. We unearthed more garden hose, hundreds of feet of Christmas lights, trellis pieces, a creature skull, dozens of very large rocks, cinder-block pieces, and lots and lots of edging. Despite my convictions that what we were tilling was not truly dirt and that nothing could ever possibly grow in it, our garden is flourishing. I give credit to the generous amounts of plant food we put in the bottom of each hole we dug.

     We kind of forgot about our ground-hog until we realized that between Saturday evening and Sunday morning, all of the leaves disappeared off of the muskmelon and cucumber plants. There was a nice burrow under the fence, so I'm blaming the ground-hog. Unfortunately, there seems to be a conspiracy against all suburbanites wishing to kill critters by keeping all farm-grade pesticides out in farm land. We've got the Root Beer...now we just need the fly bait. 

     Tim's back in school now too, so when we're not keeping ourselves sane outside, we're studying. I've never had school in the summer before, and I must say, it's pretty awful. If I had to imagine what ADD was like, I'd say it's like this - it's ridiculously difficult to focus when I really just want to be outside! 

     Hope you're all doing well!

                                                               one of my little flower pots                                                          

  one of our cherry trees - we'll get some, but not too many - there's a lot of little black pits just hanging there

our garden!