I like to grow a garden each year. There are lots of reasons and one on that list is how pretty the garden can look.
And then you go on vacation and come back 10 days later. You can no longer find the rows between the peas or even find the pepper plants at all! All the squash plants disappeared, too, but these weren’t eaten up by the weeds – they were actually gone. No plants at all. Well, not AT ALL. The voluntary, miscellaneous squash plants that grew on their own are still thriving!
The garden doesn’t just include the vegetable patch, there is also the pool area. We didn’t use it quite as much this summer because our weather was so different, but we were all so excited to put it up in June. Even Bobby couldn’t wait for all those poles to be put together!
The garden (or yard, for simplicity’s sake) includes all sorts of toads and bugs for the boys to explore around and find. Sometimes they build habitats for them to live and other times they try to catch them. Rusty built this trap for something. With a ball being the bait, I almost wonder if he was planning to catch a brother …
Proper head gear is required when working in the yard – until a half naked toddler comes and steals it.
But the best thing about the garden is watching Kevin and the boys work in it. I do a lot of the work just because of Kevin’s job, so when I happen across them all out their working, I love it!
