Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Bikes, trains, and green things... oh my!

I've been delinquent.  My apologies.  My attention right now keeps straying to other endeavors... which I'll share soon.  Here is our life in pictures for the last month.  With a little commentary of course.


 Cute boys. On bikes.  Big and small.



 Basil from seed... these guys are doing the best of the seed bunch.  (I did buy some too.)


Our peas.  All snap pea varieties this year, but only half seem to be blooming thus far.  
Maybe it isn't warm enough for the others yet... waiting, waiting....


Back to front: Beans, lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, carrots, and nasturtiums. 
The boys went crazy planting nasturtiums (we saved a lot of seeds), so they are all over the bike track too.  Craig loves it!  


 Flowers with new bird bath.


Tomato from seed, though no idea which variety, and you can see that there are tiny blossoms just starting.
Sun!  We need you!  The sunflowers in our yard have gone crazy ad are kind of shading the tomatoes a bit, but so be it.  I've never had this many sunflowers, so it should be fun.


Raspberries finally starting to blush!  Yippee!


And this year we planted potatoes (on right), which have gone crazy.  
I've been told I need to cover them more, and will get to that sometime soon... peas and beans on the left.  


And boys with trains.


Gavin has a plan to engineer train track throughout the bike track in the backyard.  This includes a function where the train goes through the wall downstairs and then up onto the deck to bring in veggies from the garden to the kitchen.  At one point, part of the plan was to extend train track out to the driveway so the train could unload groceries.  Oh, and tracks to the laundry room so trains could do the laundry.  
Which would be fantastic.  

Ask him about it.  He likes to share his ideas.  At length.

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