Garden

So one of the reasons we wanted a house so bad was so we could have our own garden. Sadly, the best place in our backyard for a garden was where this AWESOME dog run was. We are not dog people so we decided to get rid of the dog run. It was A LOT harder than both of us anticipated. We borrowed sledge hammers and pounded the cement out. My arms have never hurt so bad EVER. Jeremy worked so hard and was so sore, he could hardly move when we were done. I felt so bad that I told him all his work could be my Mother's Day present--he was really excited.

Here's Jeremy at the beginning at like 9:00 in the morning.

Here's Jeremy after 30 minutes, I had to beg him to smile.

After four hours we hit the second pad of cement on one side. We decided to call in reinforcements. We paid my brother, Burdette, to drive down from Logan to help us with the rest. It only took a couple more hours to pound out the rest of the cement and dig up the poles.

Will really enjoyed being outside, basically unsupervised. That is a gigantic chocolate cookie he's eating.

Carter really liked playing in the huge cement pile and almost got squashed by a really big chunk of cement. Luckily, Burdette saved him.

Here's our final product. We had to cut out about 70 square feet of sod and we rented a truck from Home Depot and we got railroad ties from the farm store and a couple bags of turkey manure and we tilled it up and planted beans, tomatoes, peppers, one jalapeno, cucumbers, zucchini, summer squash, and butternut squash. After we planted all our stuff, I realized that we probably planted it all too close together and now that it's hot our plants are going to die anyway. I guess we'll be more experienced next year...