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Veggies

Welcome to Our Garden

A view of the garden when you step through the gate...

Front garden bed - waiting for garden boxes to be built...

The veggie beds

Front bed - Tomatoes, lettuce, basil, & chives with marigolds

Seed starter trays - left to right: radishes, beets, and dill

More seed starter trays: sunflowers, brown eyed susans, annual flower mix, and ... can't think what the last one is... and the picture is too small to see... lol

A view of both seed starter trays

Middle garden bed... spinach, marigolds and potatoes

Back garden bed - left to right: cucumber, squash, pumpkin (with marigold interspersed)

My baby - artichoke!

Thanks for coming... come again soon!

“You are not permitted to oppress the worker…”

In a society where large corporations are corrupt and money-hungry, this story reminds me why I am a Christian.  I believe this post is relevant because it shows what true community can and should accomplish.

Excellent documentary on Wasted Food

Meet Fancy Pants

Cheeky little bird

He looks to sit on our head and groom us... especially dh's curly mop

Pretty boy... our very tame hand raised baby budgie lovey

I’m not Twittering

I don’t get the whole frenzy, to be completely honest.

1. You post frequent status updates (assuming you have anything interesting happening in your life).

2. You read other people’s frequent status updates (assuming they have anything interesting happening in their life).

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t everyone already doing this on Facebook?

I’m just your average citizen, no celebrity status, no outstanding talents, and I really don’t need the entire world to know what I’m up doing on a minute by minute basis. Colour me old fashioned, but is it really necessary to broadcast your life that frequently? Really?

It took me a couple years to get on the Facebook band wagon, and the only thing that convinced me to get on board was the knowledge that I could reconnect with people that I had lost touch with over the years. The privacy was key as well. I could block or invite anyone I wanted. I update my status on FB maybe a few times in a day to keep people up to date on what I’m doing… I enjoy reading other people’s infrequent status updates periodically, but twittering just seems like overkill.

So you go on a vacation… You are feeling particularly proud of yourself for doing a tough hike, and the scenery is breath taking. So now you twitter about it, via your iPhone, “wow, you should see the view from this mountain… blah, blah, blah… I’m so awesome…”

Here’s what I’m thinking:  TAKE A PICTURE! Post it when you get back. LIVE IN THE MOMENT. Turn the technology OFF.

This is my biggest beef about twittering… Everyone is so busy text-bragging about their awesome amazing life that they are MISSING their awesome amazing life!

Do you really think that your lover, your son, your daughter, your friend is getting the full benefit of the moment while you’re huddled over your technology frantically typing about how awesome you and your life are?!

Simplify your life. Look up. Engage. Make real life conversation. Stop twittering and start living IN your life instead of around the periphery. Life is not a movie that you can rewind. You only get one shot at this particular moment.

A new gate and deer fence

A truly "island" gate... We repurposed the gate, the hinges, added a driftwood handle and arch... and added some old repurposed boards from another old gate to add height to keep the deer out

Summer joys

Free range kids

Batman takes a popsicle break

An update on the “getting help” post…

Well, the landscaping company came and gave me a rough estimate, and I had a good laugh.

I have an old gate I wanted to repurpose, but they didn’t seem to be open to re-using materials, which was a major turn off for me.

We decided we were going to have to forego gardening this year, and save up to hire someone next spring.

Then a visitor stopped by yesterday…

Good ol’ dad.

Dad and the grandkids blowing bubbles in his garden

Dad and grandson building a deck

Dad watching the sunset at the Haven

Dad and Heather in love

Dad in his hat

Dad and 3 of his 9 grandkids

Dad on the ferry

In exchange for a BBQ, some banana cream pie (mine is to die for, if I must say so myself) and a haircut (there are perks to having a hairstylist husband), he’s going to help us put up a new deer fence, build a gate (repurposing the one I already have! added bonus), and he’s going to build garden boxes out of some materials he salvaged from an old deck. My dad would have been my first choice to do this work in the beginning anyways, but I didn’t want to bother him cause he’s been so busy, but I can’t turn down his offer.

We measured up the area for the new deer fence and gate yesterday, and my job is to get the materials delivered before Monday, May 18th, which is fence, gate and garden box building day.

Catchy Tune with a Message

John Elliott

Organic Veggie Garden Video by editor of Organic Gardening Magazine