all fenced in!

We have been eagerly anticipating a new fence to contain our "back" yard...and I say "back" because most everyone uses the back door as the main entrance since it is closest to the church entrance, and we have streets on 3 out of the 4 sides of our house.   This entrance unfortunately leads them through the office, usually a messier room just because I do my projects/crafts in there.  Now maybe it will look more like a backyard, not sure that will make people use the front more, but we could hope.  Regardless, we are so happy to have a way to allow Maria more freedom to play in the yard, while we do something in the house, work in the yard, etc. without worrying every 5 seconds that she went out into the road.

We also have planted a garden again this year, our third.  Here is last year (which we never got to fully enjoy, since we moved mid July). We have a smaller plot than before, but just enough to handle with a newborn and a two year old around.  We spent about 4 hours weeding out the grass yesterday. Since it is a newly tilled plot, grass is going to be an issue for a while.  Most other weeds were taken care of by the Preen we applied early on.  Most of the seeds we planted have come up, with the exception of the onions, leek and spinach.  We replanted the spinach and got some onion sets to replace the seeds.  We have a nice amount of beets, carrots, peas, lettuce, kohlrabi, and sunflowers coming up.  We did starts of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage that were transplanted a couple weeks ago.  We have starts of cucumber, zucchini, cantaloupe, and summer, butternut and acorn squash that Larry is planting in the picture.  I bought tomato, eggplant, bell peppers and banana peppers from a local nursery.  I also seeded the green beans yesterday.  So if we get some of all that we have planted, we should have a nice mix of fresh produce this summer.  

We have plenty to praise God for; a new fence and a promising looking garden!