June 5, 2006
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A Good Day
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Today was good. Grandpa (Trevor’s father) came for 6 hours and played with the kids for every minute of his visit. They laughed and played board games and ran in the grass and worked on puzzles and watercolor paints and ate peanut butter sandwiches together and looked for worms in the yard.
Perfect.
Me? I finished sorting through 4000 books, did some weeding in the garden, washed 5 loads of laundry, baked bread and cleaned the kitchen.
Perfect.
After Grandpa left, Roo and I went down to the garden to look for more worms
(her passion).
The green beans are up.
The onions are up.
my herbs are coming along, as well.
What is this in the garden?
A nutweed?
A monkey vine?
Whatever it is, it’s growing faster than anything else!!!!
“If you want to be happy, be.” ~Leo Tolstoy
Comments (46)
:fun: Nutweeds and Monkey vines DO grow faster than anything else as you just said – Guess we are learning while we are feeding them.
How do you grow onions? Same way as garlic I would assume? But do I need “NOT” to cut up the onion down to it’s core for food then use the core as the planting – or is it necessary to leave it as a whole. Plus herbs, I am totally stumped because I have spearmind growing fast and have no clue how to do homemade tea or when to cut anything from any herbs. Impulsive wasn’t I? :p
duh oh – I meant do I need “NOT” to cut or can I and still use the core to plant :sleepy:
hahaha, I clicked over to see what this mysterious and interesting monkey vine or nutweed looked like! I’ve got three of the southern variets of that plant, and never knew what they were officially called!
How hilarious! She is growing so fast! I love her expression in that last pic.
Glad you and the kids had such a fun AND productive day.
OMG, that is one gorgeous little girl!!!
She gets sweeter and sweeter with every pic.
It’s always nice to get some relief, isn’t it?
Love the quote. I am baking bread today too. Carrot Bread. I can smell it baking right now, mmmmm. I think bread baking is one of the most comforting smells on this earth. Your garden is lovely, weed and all
What a wonderful day! Love you Julie!
p.s. you have beautiful dirt!
I have added you to my unofficial top 10 list of fave posts to read!
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:sunny: so glad you had a good day!!! And got some stuff accomplished too. Your garden looks wonderful. I love the look of new sprouts. I have one of those nutweeds or monkeyvines growing in my garden too!!! The best little seed I planted. :love:
:sunny:Oh a ‘good’ day! sounds just wonderful* and what a cutie pie* love your garden…they all must enjoy watching things grow…take good care..and enjoy the fruits of your labors…hugs…Lee
BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL pix of Roo…and the garden is lovely too.
I love the little pink nose!
LOL!! She is just too cute!!
Oh wow, some of those plants came in fast! Could it be that they will soon grow faster than Monkeyvine? Might happen but they will never be as cute to look at.
What a blessing to have time to get things caught up while the kids are having a wonderful time as well!
The garden looks super! And that otehr thing growing in there… the fast one… the best looking in the lot! :goodjob:
K~
We have rather large and aged nutweeds and monkeyvines in my garden, as well as the sprouts! Love your pics, and envy your garden space. Roo is a total cutie pie!
You are wonderful (= I am glad you are feeling better. Happiness is a decision. I agree.
What a wonderful post! I loved reading it. I’m glad to hear you got some time (and support) to do what you wanted to. :heartbeat:
Love the quote! Your garden looks great! Glad you had a good day.
Good to see pictures of your garden and it’s growing things. We’re having a tremendous amount of rain here in Vermont which is cramping my style when it comes to reclaiming my garden. I planted my peas yesterday. I’d be late anywhere else, but the climate at this elevation will support the peas quite nicely. That is, if the seeds don’t drown first. Blessings abound
those monkeyvines are taking over my garden! any idea on how to control them??? hee
glad to hear you were able to find someone to come play with your kids that you didn’t have to pay! brilliant!
Wow! That garden sure got a great start!
Your dd is so adorable!
My goodness, look at that perfectly weed free garden. How do you do it all?
woah! things are coming up perfectly!!!
the plants look great! I was wondering, are they organic? if so where do you get them?! I can’t find onions anywhere. and I wqent thru all this trouble to make sure my dirt was organic (and i to bring in dirt b/c I didn tknow how to fix my solid clay to eb workable!) and it was SO expensive so I dont wanna ruin it.
your posts always make me happy….:sunny:
Hello. Saw you hit my site in the footprints coming over from my darling girl.
That’s a good grandpa. World needs more of them. nice garden.
Is it very warm now in Maine? Summer seems only to be just arriving here in the UK so my stuff is still tiny!
Glad you had some time to catch up with stuff. How come you have so many books? Are you a book dealer?? and that is a lot of laundry!!
Wonderful garden!
Henne Penne: I buy the majority of my seeds from here and then here (they are both local and have a good selection of organic). Some of the plants I raised indoors and the rest I bought from local nurseries (the brassicas, mostly). They are 75% of them organic. We get manure from a dairy farm that is certified organic. The onion sets came from Fedco and were organic but they are hard to find!!
how about here?
Hey Julie… I have a question/favor to ask of you…
Would you consider “blogging” about your kitchen? I am in the midst of making some changes; rearranging, organizing, cleaning… and I am looking for fresh inspiration for a humble, green, frugal kitchen. I just have a feeling that your entire house is green, kind, warm and wonderous.
Would you have time to click a few pics and share a few tips? I am pretty sure I am not the only loyal follower/voyer who would love a peek in your cupboards!
yeah for green beans. mine are up too..my poor husband has to endure my daily points and oos and ahs of their seemingly minute progress! it is wonderous and miraculous to me still… :sunny:
you know though, my cukes are just producing these little tiny cukes that aren’t really progressing. I’m harvesting them as little ones for now until they start showing a bit more healthy progress…they start out fine and then get yellowish, which they shouldn’t. I’m considering doing a second sowing…I think it was a mistake to start them indoors…what do you think? I used the same type last year and had great ones…so that’s the only thing I can think of as problematic…
I really like your site its pretty,diffrent :goodjob:
<3ari
HAHAHA!!!! The expression on her face is positively maniacal. I love it. Who is teaching that child to be so free with her joy!!! And all that rain seems to be doing your garden some good. It looks so TIDY and perfect. All those little beanyweenies!!! Yay!
Im so glad you had a good day – it sounded WONDERFUL!
And Roo is such a cutie. The last picture just cracks me up.
:sunny::fun: Oh that Roo is growing like a weed. your garden is awesome! Blessed Be
What a wonderful grandpa. More great memories.
Sometimes I share your pics with my dh, but if he sees your garden, he might start thinking ours should be that weed free. Maybe I should head outside to remove weeds before it gets too hot…
And your little girl is just so beautiful!
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! That IS a good day!
Maine is looking beautiful! As is Roo. Ah–she just glows!
Cute little sprout. Nice veggies, too.
Indeed! Roo as sweet as ever!
Wow, not even knowing what’s in that garden, it still looks like the kewlest freaking learning garden I’ve ever seen someone take the time to take the time on. Your kids are bound to be nifty people.
Ruby is soo precious, I love that face!! your kids grandpa sounds so fun!! glad you had such a peaceful, productive day. :heartbeat:
what a great day, what a worker bee you are:)
RYC: thank you , just knowing you understand and don’t judge, helps. much. (((Hugs)))
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Have you ever lied? What does it make you when you lie? A liar right?
Have you ever stolen anything, even something small? What does that make you? A thief right?
Have you ever murdered anyone? Jesus said that if you hate someone you have already committed murder in your heart. That’s pretty serious huh?
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If you died tonight (you have no control over your next breath or heartbeat) and God judged you based on His standard of good, would you be innocent or guilty?
If you are judged guilty of breaking God’s law, would you go to Heaven or Hell?
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