Is it Sunday night already!?

Man, the weekend just totally flew by.

There was all the crazy garden related business all last week, and this weekend, no surprise, more garden related stuff, and now it's Sunday night and time to go to bed. It has been a very fine weekend though and we've done lots of stuff together as a family.

We drove out to a little town called Chulafinnee, Alabama to the Tasteful Gardens facility and got some seedling plants for our garden. They have a cool operation out there and the land is absolutely gorgeous. Beautiful rolling hills, fields, big trees, all begging for a little person (and big ones too!) to go exploring. They also had two very nice dogs who were quite amenable to Riley petting them and trotting merrily after them as they strolled here and there.

Today I turned our humongous compost heap to see if any of it was done yet but it's still got some work to do, so Riley and I just gathered some worms from it do put into the garden bed. He's a fine worm finder and when we were done we had probably close to a hundred of them loaded up in his pail. As he filled the pail he thoughtfully sprinkled bits of 'cool, moist soil' on them to keep them comfortable. ;-)

While Riley and I were worming it up out back, Robbie added the sill to our raised bed and ripped down some cedar for the grid that'll lay across the top for the square foot gardening. It's hard to imagine 48 plants in our 4x12 bed, but we're going to give it a whirl and see how it works. The far end and the right side will both have trellises on them, so all the climbing and rambling things will be going up rather than out. We still have lots of room left to plant, so in the next few days little R and I will be seeking more seedlings and seeing what we can still sow from seed.

Shazam! A garden!

A neighbor outgrew this scooter and loaned it to Riley. It's a huge hit!

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Indulge me for a moment and just behold how cute this is.

Oh, hi! Remember us? Riley's parents? ;-)