Secret Garden

The time has come.  Spring has sprung.  (Pretty much.  Sun in the forecast for three or more days in Buffalo = Spring.)  Some of our seedlings have outgrown their red cups and so... out to the gardens they go!  Sadly, the raised garden beds we put in last year weren't quite prepared for winter all too well.  It seems somebody got distracted in October whilst pulling the chicken wire down, taking out the tomato stakes and uprooting the corn stubs etc. because it all still lays in a jumbled heap in and around the beds.  So, we have that to tackle before taking on this year's sowing.  But we did clear out a spot for the peas and found out the spring onions are perennial and already 5-6 inches tall.








The girls had a blast resuming their favorite warm weather activity - digging.  Abby, in attempts to "wash the mud off" her foot, buried it in garden soil.














After planting the lettuce, I turned around to find Ellie "making snow angels" in the dirt.

  And both girls had fun "planting" all sorts of decomposed roots and stems that didn't quite make it to the curb with the other garden refuse in the Fall.











QFTD

Ellie, while walking into church:  "Daddy, where is the sun?" "It's hiding behind the clouds." "But, I thought today was Sunday."

Ellie: "Mom, I love your serious garden!  I have a serious garden too."

Abby, while digging in the garden bed: "Ellie! Stop! You're going to ruin my termite field!"

Ellie, watching me transplant my seedlings: "Why do you have so many fantastic seed plants?"

Abby: "Mom, look at my secret garden (a hole in the dirt). I have alive plants and killed plants and big ones and small ones."

We had lunch outside in the gazebo. Ellie: "I know! Let's have a picnic with Uncle Michael and Uncle Matt in the bumbwella!" (umbrella) Abby: "We made all the whole world happy with our lunch day."

Abby: "I got this kitty for being so brave when I got my tonsils out." Ellie: "Remember when I was bigger I was grave and got two kitties to get my tonsils out?"

Me: "Abby please go pee so we can leave." A: "I can't.  It's stuck for March.  It'll come in April."

Abby: "Hot peppers are so so spicy and girls don't want to eat them." Ellie: "Yeah. We don't cut our hands off."