Our little patch of Heaven

Please click on the above collage so you can actually see these pictures. So, here we are on our "little patch of heaven" aka the "farm" as Hayden likes to call it. On Friday, the kids went over for the first time, we rototiller, and Hayden wanted to know if there were cows and horses on "the farm". We are doing a garden with our friends the Hillyards, Julie's parents the McAllisters, and US! The McAllisters, live on over an acre, so while we do not have the space (or the sunshine) to do something like this...they do, and invited us to share/help. They all did a garden together last year, it was about half the size. We were the lucky recipient of some fresh grown goods last year. But this year we were out rototilling, hoeing (we had lots of fun with that word yesterday ;) and planting. The garden is about 36x30, so it's not so little and we have lots of room. We even have a few rows left over to put some other stuff in later. Potatoes go in on Tuesday. We planted corn, tomatoes (roma,cherry, beefsteak, brandywine red and yellow), squash, butternut squash, zucchini, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, Walla Walla onions, cipollini onions, carrots, green peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts...hmmmm is that all?? I can't remember, but I'm very excited! All of the kids, minus Hope of course, helped hoe and plant. Fun stuff!!!! Well, fun until it started to rain at the very end. You can see (sort of) in some of the far away pictures. What a learning experiences for us all.