The Yard

The Yard takes up a lot of time and energy, but we LOVE having it.  Our garden is growing and we love discovering the different plants that are growing.  (Some times we have to do a bit of weeding to find the poor plants.  I think next year we need to put our plants closer together so weeds have less room to take over!)  Today I picked cilantro and green onions from the garden and used them with our dinner.  I just wished that the tomatoes were red instead of green.

Yummy Cilantro!

Green Onions

 The other day we also noticed a little life growing on the mostly dead baby twisted locust.  We decided to cut down most of the tree and leave the little bit of new growth to grow.  It has been growing well!  We are excited about this little guy.

On the right side is the baby twisted locust

The kids have discovered that there are millions of snails all over our yard.  One of their hobbies is to gather them and stick them on the 'snail rock' out the front door of our house (what a way to be greeted!)

But then they do something cute, like take the dying roses I have just snipped and place one on each window sill in the home...aren't they beautiful (for a day).

A lot of the yard work Dad and I do together is after the kids have 'gone to bed'.  The other night while out working I looked up to see this beautiful sunset!

Sunset!