June was spent furiously finishing our sprinkler system, plannting bushes and trees, and planting grass before we left on our trip. It was so fun when we came back because volia! Little grass was growing! Now it is thick and green and looks like a real lawn. These pictures were actually taken a couple weeks ago, and it looks better now because most the weeds are dead. That is one thing we are really good at growing--weeds! Anyway, it has been fun to enjoy our yard and continue to work in the garden as the summer progresses. We have already bottled 36 pints and 6 quarts of green beans, 11 pints of homemade salsa, and 15 quarts of pickles. We have been busy bees and it will be good food storage. One thing I still have yet to learn is to bottle fruit and make jam. If it doesn't grow in my garden, I don't bottle it!
Some other fun things we have done this summer include buying a new car (with air-conditioning that works--yay!), going to a few family reunions, and Cameron going on a high-adventure outing with the young men in the ward. They rafted and hiked in Alpine up by Palisades and went to Jackson for the Bar-J Wranglers. The bishopric thought the rafting was so fun that the girls should get to do it too, so this Saturday all the youth are going back up to Palisades (3 hours away) to float the river. Should be fun!
5 comments:
Sounds like you have had a great summer. Your yard looks great as does your garden. We need to come see it in person now. Hope all continues to go well for you both.
You're yard looks so good!! I'm very jealous of your garden too. Palisades sounds like fun. Hope you have a good time! And we'll see you soon.
WOW! Good work you two! I love yards, especially the kind that have grass :) The garden looks great too. That's so exciting.
I wanted to call you yesterday, but obviously didn't get to it. I was thinking about you though...Happy 25th Vaness!
Your lawn looks great! And your garden looks like it did really well. I can't beleive you were able to can so much out of it. I got a brand new pressure canner forr Christmas and haven't been able to use it at all this year:(
You are so lucky. I wish I had a garden like that. A couple of weeks ago I canned beans that was fun. They taste so much better then the store.
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