Just Me!!

July 3, 2019 Turned over bed for the next harvest...cucumbers and lemon cucumber planted. Here’s what they will look like full grown: The rest of the pictures are from today when I went for a visit to the garden. I have been discouraged by the garden since my maggot infested turnips reared it’s ugliness. I hated it. All the work for nothing. It was my fault, I chose not too wash and dry when I got them home. I’m back though. In the meantime someone watered my plants/veggies so that I could have a rebirth of feelings toward the garden. It worked. I am back!!!

What a fun opportunity hanging out with just Ethan tonight. He doesn’t get too much one on one with us but when we do we love taking time to enjoy his passion of soccer. Sunday when we were in Seattle was saw the BvB bus and thought that the Sounders were playing them on Sunday night. We lucked out, or the stars alightened because Ethan had the day off, Mark and I were free, and Dortmund was playing the friendly game with the Sounders on Wednesday. I purchased super cheap tickets through Stub Hub, and ended up getting better seats because the owner sold us the wrong seats so Stub Hub switched us to better seats. So our cheap seats turned into being seven rows from the field. The view was perfect. The night was perfect minus the fact that Dortmund beat us 3-1.

https://youtu.be/4aPWD4qDM4o Four years of camp photos! Our weekend was full. It’s the weekend Valerie has been waiting for since December. She received 2 Queen 👑 tickets for Christmas and had been secretly dying inside for this weekend to come (that’s teen talk=waiting with excitement). Included in her weekend she tacked on a reptile convention with snake purchase, purchasing a Salmon from Seattle’s most famous Fish Flyers, and going to a Avi Kaplan (post original Pentatonix member) concert.  “Queen was amazing, and I got this cool hoodie!” Valerie was on cloud nine when she got home Friday night. It was definitely a bucket lister for sure. Something she will tell her kids and grandkids about her experience.  She got permission to have a snake in her new place that she is leasing (the landlord has one too)! Thanks to a generous contribution from her new babysitting job and a few other resources she was able to swing the cost. She has been working so hard to make money for h...

I love geocaching. Pretty sure I said it before and will say it again. Mark thinks I dream about geocaching but he definitely wrong about that. It has never seeped into my dreams yet! I do love a good find though. We are currently work on a clue series (with pictures of who did it, with what, and where hidden in specific caches) and I would bust it all out in a day if I could. 22 caches to the series. Unfortunately my 2nd favorite geocacher, who now has her own premium account, is at camp so I will have to wait. I did recently take Charlie to a Fear Nothing Geocache and we left without a smiley (meaning we found and signed the log, and logged it in the app) because she refused to walk in a dark drainage ditch. She said she heard sounds and saw a clown 🤡 in there. I was making her go it alone because I didn’t have the correct shoes on for the job. We will go back with some TOTT (tools of the trade) and boots for that one. It’s rare that we walk away without a smiley 😃. When we do cach...

Valerie decided at the last minute to walk in her graduation. Apparently she felt a twinge of  loyalty to Pierce because she got a free cap and gown and didn’t want them to be disappointed if she didn’t show up. Due to all the construction and blocked traffic we barely made it on time. She at least decided she was going to be at the front of the line so lucky for us she was literally the 2nd person to receiver her Associates in Arts Degree!  She did amazing since she had to complete her Chemistry final earlier that morning. She past the class with flying colors. She found out around 1130 that she was good to walk;)! Congratulations Valerie on a job well done. She did it without any loans as well! As I looked out onto the sea of caps and gowns I was thinking that these kids just in that room probably represented a large number of student loans. College costs have skyrocketed and it is literally rediculous for this generation. She received no student loans and paid nearly $1600 ...

May 5, 2019 May 5, 2019 May 18, 2019 May 23, 2019 First Thinning May 28, 2019 May 28, 2019 Second Thinning June 8, 2019 Harvest Day June 13, 2019 Farm to Table June 20, 2018 Water  June 21, 2019 Harvest Day I love belonging to the Blueberry Park Garden. Apart from the amazing garden boxes, free dirt, free seeds, community commraderie, free gardening advice, I get to be part of an award winning team. We were presented with the award for 2018 Community Food Project of the Year in March 2019. Pierce County Conservation District even had a ceremony complete with a wonderfully delicious meal and desserts! Last year I grew Turnips (only had one or two) and Kale. I switched my bed to a larger one this year and planted in early May. I planted Zinnia’s, cilantro, radishes, and turnips. I have harvested 1/3 of my turnips, all my radishes, and two good handfuls of cilantro from my garden box so far. The Zinnias are working hard to flower but we’re slightly overshadowed by the turnip leaves. ...