Spring has arrived beautifully in Georgia and with it the gardening bug... So being unwilling to dig up our hard clay soil with a shovel, I decided that we should have raised bed gardens. So we built 3 using the cinderblocks that used to be surrounding our old regular garden. We are very excited about the gardens! We have planted tomatoes (grape, cherry, romas, and amelia) in this bed. We were also out of room in our herb garden, so the basil and the chives also got planted here. We have another bed which is hosting the cucumbers, zuccinnis and the watermelon (hopefully the bunnies won't eat the watermelons this year).
Our Herb garden: German thyme, cilantro, parsley, sage, rosemary, and oregano.
While we were making our garden bed, we heard chirping from the plum tree, so we investigated and discovered that the eggs had hatched. We have baby birds! Little naked, blind baby birds. We were getting ready to spray the tree with Sevin, but will now have to wait until the birds grow up!
There are 4 baby birds in the nest (no idea what they are.
The kids said the eggs were blue, so maybe robins)
Sleeping baby birds. So fuzzy!
We took pictures with our camera from above the nest, making sure not to touch it, so the Mama bird will come back. Apparently this little nestling thought we were bringing lunch!
At our house, we play on the slip and slide!
Due January 11, 2010!
We were getting ready to go to church and I tried on James' Sunday outfit..
Carina managed to get the candles blown out!
Happy 15th Birthday, Carina!
Annie had her Kindergarten concert. They performed 3 songs.
Of course, this inspired all of the other children to run and find every other musical instrument in the house to play along too. So we had Peter on the coronet, Kathleen and her friend Hope on harmonicas, Annie and David on the recorder, and James and Jared on the tupperware drums! I took a video also, but you'll just have to imagine the beautiful NOISE that has come out of the kids. (my connection is too slow to upload videos)
