We finished planting! The orangle planter in the back is the onions. The 5-gallon buckets are the tomatoes & cukes. The red pot in the back on the left has Elijah's strawberries. The green planter with the mesh on it has the string beans, and the orange planters in the front have the bell peppers (one red, one green).

Leslie's new Gerbera daisies



Strawberries in full blossom (sorry for the flashback!)

closer-up of the green beans

Leslie moved the snapdragons & lavendar to the bed outside the gate

Leslie & Elijah went out tonight & got some plants and potting mix. They got 2 tomato plant, 2 cucumber, 2 onion, a red bell pepper & a green bell pepper, string beans, and some herbs (basil, chives & oregano). Elijah wanted to get some strawberries too, but they were out, so that will be a trip for another day.

After the kids went to bed, Leslie transplanted the veggies, and Mike potted the herbs (yes, it was after 9pm, but with 4 young'uns, we have to take any chance we can get!). We ran out of potting soil, so Leslie wasn't able to transplant the beans & onions. She'll have to go get some more tomorrow so that she can get that done (and maybe find some strawberry plants too!).

Leslie is embarking on a new (ad)venture: selling Usborne Books. We use a lot of Usborne's books for our history & science, and this way we can get a discount...and if it brings in some additional income, so much the better!

If you'd like to visit Leslie's Usborne website & see the great books offered, click here!

...that we went on our annual day trip to Green Valley Falls/Cuyamaca Rancho State Park for Memorial Day, that is! Somehow, Leslie got out of the house with everything except the camera AND without an extra jacket for Elijah--so when he promptly fell in the creek, he just had to shiver until his mother had mercy on him & said that they'd pack up & go home.

It wasn't much fun anyway; Mike had to stay home with Joanna & Rachel, who were sick, and Leslie made the silly mistake of believing the weather forecast that said it would be cloudy in the morning, but that it would clear up & be in the mid-60's...so Leslie, Elijah & Rebekah were woefully unprepared for the low clouds & high 50s weather that greeted them! Yup, pretty much a bust.

All of life can't be a fun adventure, right?!