Teaching William how to garden

I am training my baby on how to garden. Here he is using the shovel. A shovel is something to play on and roll down, isn't it? Well, I thought he was very cute.

Gardening news

Daddy cannot plant a garden because he is having a lot of back pain and his elbow is still not working really well. He used the tractor to till his garden and I told him I would be in charge of seeds and weeds if he did the watering. I planted his garden for him yesterday, including an entire package of golden bantam corn! plus scarlet nantes carrots, two kinds of bush beans, red mangle beets (these are for cattle fodder), jackolantern pumpkins, spaghetti squash, and blue, acorn, and fairy winter squashes; zucchini, patty pan squash, pickles and dill, two kinds of slicing cukes, lemon cukes, sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, basil, and along the fence blue lake pole beans and red noodle pole beans (these are new to me, they are an asian bean that should get 18" long and be crimson colored, just something fun). I forgot to bring up the white onion starts I have but I will bring them up this weekend and plant between the mangle beet rows to help keep the root weevils away. Good companion planting there, no pesticides necessary that way.

I will put in tomato plants and lettuce in his raised boxes later. Today I will plant my beans and corn, put in my cuke plants. I am going to wait a bit to put out the tomato and pepper plants for me too. I shall also plant some beans in containers for Trisha's garden.

This weekend I will head up to Jena Mikal's house. She has brought in soil for a small garden spot next to the house, between the house and the pond. She has seeds and the kids will probably plant the garden for her. Her knee is getting better. She can at least bend it now, but I think it would better not to push it. If the kids don't get it planted or if she doesn't have seeds she wants, I will bring up my seeds and plant the rest for her.

Isn't gardening so fun! So many gardens, so little time.

more pictures of fawn lilies

These smaller flowers are difficult for me to get on film. Need a really nice cam like Keithie has probably to get really excellent pix.

lilies & orchids

Here are some pictures taken at the farm. Fawn lilies, lady slipper orchids, and a trillium. I thought they were lovely.

On a bike ride

Here are some pictures I took while on a bike ride the other day.

A name for the baby

We have chosen to name the new baby kitten William. sweet William, prince William, Willy, Willster, Billy the kid; all good nicknames.

A new baby

I have a new baby kitten. He was born on February 20, same as Reina. Is that too cool or what?
He is very small and we haven't yet chosen a name for the little guy. I have scheduled an appointment with the vet for tomorrow (Saturday) to get his well baby check and a distemper vaccination. I do not want my new baby to get sick. The other kitties don't like him much so far, but they will just have to learn to like him.

more Easter pix

More Easter pictures

Manthy & Sport with all else out of focus. I love this picture



















Joshua driving.















Ashleigh, Trisha, and Jena Mikal



Walter & me




















The Easter bunny was invited in for coffee.

Easter egg hunt

Kitties playing, airplanes overhead, and the water sound-the backyard

Just a bit of the backyard. The blueberries, the kitties playing, the sound of the pond and an airplane overhead. Just thought I would try the video upload to see how it does.

4-11 photos

I have no current pictures of Max nor of Fuzzy. I haven't been doing as well taking photos, so now I am trying to make up for it by taking pics of the garden, the day, the kitties, and whatever else. Here are some pictures from the backyard this morning.

bluejay in the sweetgum tree.

hummingbird feeder-also known as rosemary in bloom. The hummers love it.

Cauliflower soon

a garden Spot

New email

I have a new email for family and friends. marika763@live.com
As I have MSN as a home page, I get immediate notification if an email comes in--provided I am at the computer of course. I will still check AOL, but I get a bunch of newsletters there.

Goodbye to Max

Max is gone now. I miss him. So far this year has been very bad, very sad.

4-8 pictures

The first pear blossoms with Camilla in the back.















Native thalictrum just starting to send up bud stalks.















Paperwhites with water drops.















The gardener!




















Tulips with water drops.

baby veggies-squash & tomatoes

More pictures

Thomas helping to garden. He has been trying to make me feel better.

Lettuce in the green house. Soon to be salad.

a pretty hyacinth.

Garden cat

Thomas is ready to run the wheelbarrow when needed.

today's pictures 04-06-09

It is a beautiful sunny day. I have taken pictures of my garden.
















Zana Grey has come out to play. She is doing way better.
















Plum tree is in blossom
















Bean towers for pole beans to run up and squashes & corn to grow with the beans.

Fuzzy's gone

We found Fuzzy's body today. He had been hit by a car and didn't make it. I loved my Fuzzy very much and am very very sad. Thanks everyone for all of your prayers.

Great sadness

I lost my Fuzzy kitty on the last day of March. He has not come home and I have given up hope. I have done all I can think of to find him, but he was pretty defenseless. My small, favorite kitty is gone and I am very sad.