Our Life Through The Lens...

Friday, January 25, 2013

Garden 2012 - April

April found us busy planting....

Kristyn was proud of her first crop of lettuce from the pot we planted in March..she is our little apron-wearing girl...she loves aprons. :)

I don't know about you, but this time of year seems to last for-ev-er. :) I'm not complaining about it, because it forces me to stay inside and get some projects done that have been staring at me for a while and I like that feeling of accomplishment. BUT if anyone knows me they know I LOVE to be outside!

So I won't bore you with my finished projects - decluttering, organizing, sign painting (I may share those later) room rearranging....the list could go on and on, but you get the idea.

I thought it would be fun to do a post, or two (or ten) and show the progression of our garden last year. :) We had SO much fun with our garden and are still enjoying the veggies we got from it.

In early March, a dear man from our church came and plowed up the yard with his tractor.

Then our pastor came and tilled it with a tractor he was using on his garden.

What a blessing BOTH of these men were - I sure wouldn't have wanted to do that with a shovel.

We had planted some lettuce in a large pot and it was sprouting green in no time, making us all super excited for our new garden to be planted.

The bed is strawberries. Our great Aunt had given me four strawberry plants in a pot a couple of summers ago. I left them in the pot and one died and the other three took off. By the next summer when we made our strawberry bed, we planted 136 strawberry plants (yes, one hundred thirty-six) - just from those three plants. :)

Our finished product (for the month of March) ready to be planted.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Hobby On Tour..

Keith heard about this "Hobby on Tour" last week and decided we needed to go. Children 16 and under were free, so we just had to pay for Keith and I which wasn't very much at all and we all had a very fun four hours.

It was in the St. Louis Convention Center, so as you can imagine, it was huge. We had no idea what to expect when we went, but basically, it was just older fellows that had a hobby in little trains all set up all over the place. :) Some were huge and grand and others were just small, but they were all so interesting.

I can't imagine how long this must have taken to set up!

This sweet man loved talking about his train. :)

A real steam engine! :)

A lot of the men had train things for sale - kind of like a flea market type thing and the kids thought the people were very cool (and tiny).

Dad, this is the Lionel set up. :)

A Lego Train and Town. :)

Our sweet little Conductors.

The kids saw an escalator on our way out and asked if they could take a ride - so I took them up and across the walk and back down - I think Megan was enjoying herself. :)

Thanks for stopping by to see us. :)