What a Life!

Steve thinks if he would have entered these in the county fair, they would have won a prize.

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Remember the little garden that I planted?
This is what the one and only surviving bell pepper plant looked like at the end of June.

Here is the lonely eggplant, after the one and only weeding my garden got this year.

That, my friends, is what those little plants looked like all summer. July. August. Not a change. [...]

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Remember all the great plans I had for my garden? I did finally plant it about a month ago (much later than I intended thanks to all the rain we had this spring).
Here is a picture of my little plot.

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We stayed home yesterday – again. I did important things…like organize my yarn and look for Ben’s shoes (which I didn’t find until the end of the day). Every cell in my body still revolts at the idea of leaving the house, but we’re almost out of milk so we will be running errands today.
On [...]

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Today is the first day of spring – finally! This year I have been waiting on the edge of my seat for spring to come. It was a long winter cooped up with two boys in the house. Now Joey is big enough to ride in the stroller, and it’s warm enough for me to [...]

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Every year since I’ve lived in Nebraska, I’ve planted a vegetable garden. I can’t say I’ve been very successful at it. But I can say, that each year I’ve been more successful the year before. When I lived at Calvert, the soil had a lot of clay in it and you had to have just [...]

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