Garden 2013

John and the kids expanded the garden 3 feet in both directions this year. It is still small and manageable. Yes, we still had ALL THESE WEEDS that John pulled today (there was much more than one wheelbarrow full)! The garden is his baby. He has a green thumb. He loves to garden. I wouldn't mind a bigger garden with rows wide enough apart for more desirable picking accessibility. I'm not fond of spiders - BIG FURRY BLACK ONES - and I like to see them before they see me. So he can keep on gardening in unfavorably tight jungle conditions and I will gladly help process and consume the products indoors away from the crawly things.

I always tell him not to plant the tomatoes too close together, but he does it anyway. Who am I to give orders when all I do is eat the food. Ant and the Grasshopper ring a bell? Ha.

Onions, cucumbers, and guess what? More friggin tomatoes that replaced the dead cucumber plants;-)

Zucchinis plants and extra large pumpkin plant in back left - a gift from our neighbor who grew a 300 lb. pumpkin from this same batch of seeds last year. No joke. It was in the newspaper with a picture of his little boy. I hope we can produce such a pumpkin. It will make a nice photo prop this fall.

Green peppers (center) limping along. They will have a chance now that the wheelbarrow of weeds is gone.

And everyone's favorite, Oh, it's beans, beans, beans, they make you feel so fine.

After a week of fun at boys' camp, we put Gabe to work upon return. He mowed the lawn and helped empty the weeds for Dad.

We have had GORGEOUS sunsets all summer long (here is tonight's). Is it especially beautiful against the backdrop of the Argentinian horse stables located behind us. (They are a super rowdy bunch, but hearing the sounds of horses neighing in the morning and evening hours makes up for it.)