Wednesday, May 27, 2009

getting caught up..........

Hey guys Olivia here




sorry I haven't blogged in a long time, I have SO much to do . Anyway you know that hair wrap I had in my hair my mom cut it out, I mean cut cut it out. I'm saving it, I'll take a picture of it and upload it..........out of my hair. Moving on..............i graduated Girl scouts and Awana. I finished my book so I get the plaque. oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh shiny!



Got to go, off to Yutzys.........bye!

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Finally a garden!

In true-to-us form, we have created a garden this year. A little late, but better than never! I know it is a little late due to the poor slection of plants at the store. With all that full sun in the back yard, we will catch up in no time. I let the girls select what they wanted to plant and both of them seem very happy. Reilly wanted carrots! She got them. We will be sneaking in a few more rows where ever we can as the weeks go by.

Olivia went with me to the store so her list is more varied. She requested yellow pear tomatoes. They will look so pretty in salsa a little later this summer! We got a purple pepper plant just for fun. We also got 4 different heights of sunflowers. It seemed so right to plant a small army of sunflowers. I must read up on how to enjoy eating them up when they are ready!

Something else that is special about our garden is the shape. We have a large center garden that is a circle. Then two smaller side gardens in the shape of rectangles. I have been reading alot lately about how to be successful with a garden and one idea is that you make sure you can reach everywhere in the garden without too much trouble. This encourages you to keep up with weeding and tending. This is the part where we have failed in the past.

There is much more buy in this year from my whole family! Richard worked very hard at digging the entire thing up before we borrowed the neighbor's roro tiller. He did a fantastic job! The girls and I worked very hard at getting all the sod off and collecting all the rocks. We probably dug up 3 good five gallon buckets worth. When we were done Richard felt like it was too small. I am perfectly happy starting off slow this year. we have 5 different tomato varieties, 5 pepper varieties, cukes, a zucchini - don't know if we like them and they take up a bit of room.

All of my reading has said to mix in some flowers either in the garden bed or nearby to invitet he beneficial bugs in to take care of the not so beneficial ones. We've got a few gerbera daisies, marigolds and a few others about now.

I am up at this hour (4:30 am) because my body hurts so much from all the bending, pulling etc. Off to get an Advil and hopefully some rest!

Friday, May 1, 2009

Morning Stroll

For anyone who might be interested... Took me a while but I'm finally getting around to blogging about the Half Marathon. What a great weather day and lots of energy too! This is a map of where the course took us. I've decided that 13.1 miles is a long walk! In talking to my nephew, he says that the average person walks a 12 minute mile. I am way above average I guess because my best is about 14.5 minute miles.

This will hopefully change soon! The person who coerced me into walking the Half is now getting me to try to become a runner by the end of summer. We have a goal of doing a 10 K in mid August. The run is through King's Island! Sounds like fun to me! Not the training or the running but going to King's Island.