The Joys of Gardening

She finally got to wear a dress to school.

So the joys of having our garden! Last week my mom and dad came over and we bottled beans and some stew, we have got over 30 quarts of beans just fom our garden alone and they are still growing like mad. We had to pull our corn up cause when we had the wind storm over Labor Day weekend it ruined the corn and pulled the roots up and it deformed the corn that was growing. Our carrots are huge, most of them are about the size of a baseball on the top but they are not very long, but we have a whole crap load of them and don't know what to do with all of them. We have gotten a ton of peas and suprisingly they are still growing, mom and dad's peas quit growing two weeks after they planted them. It has been so nice not having to run to the grocery store for veggies, and we will have stuff stored for the winter, now we just need Andy to get a elk to fill the freezer, then we will be set.

Our weekend.

This is her favorite outfit, especially when dad is around!


So to start the weekend off, I started getting everything ready to go and I thought to myself "I'm going to make Andy really happy, and hook up the trailer and have everything ready to go!" Well so I went out and hooked the trailer up for the first time, I call him and tell him that everything is hooked up and ready to go and he got a little worried cause he thinks I'm the worst driver in the world but I did it without hurting myself, the truck or the trailer. I was proud of myself! Andy got home showered and then we took off, on our way he is remembering all the things he forgot, and he blames me cause I hooked the trailer up and it messed his routine up. We made it through the weekend though! It rained so the only time they got to go out and hunt was Saturday morning really cause the road that they take got rained on hard and when it gets wet it is like driving on crisco so we got to hang out in the trailer most of the time.Getting ready to head up the hill.

The hunting trip, and the very long weekend.

Well Andy didn't get anything so I guess they have to go back up the last week of October, they said that they saw a bunch of elk but they couldn't get any to come within bow range. He said that it was still to warm for them to be rutting so that made it that much harder.

As for my weekend, we went up and spent time with mom and dad. Bottled some beans, and Saturday we had to go to my brother-in-law's father's funeral. We went down to Logan for that and then we went bargin shopping with mom cause we all know that is the only shopping mom does! I never sleep when I go stay up there, and it didn't help that I never heard from Andy till he was on his way home which scared me to death cause I didn't know if he made it up there or not. We survived the weekend though, and now another week has started. Fun times! We are headed up to Grace this weekend to help my brother-in law hunt so hopefully I will get some new pictures to post.

Labor Day Weekend and the 2nd Week of school.

We went camping over the weekend with my family and had a blast. We went up Cub River and camped, had the fourwheelers and motorcycles, mom had games for the kids and we had fun. I forgot the camera so I didn't get any pictures which makes me mad, but oh well. Sunday night it started raining and so most everyone went home, and Monday morning mom and dad went out to put their trailer down and they thought it would be dry enough, as soon as they started putting it down it just started pouring on them. By the time I realized they were out in the rain packing up I went out and dad was drenched his hat looked like it was a waterfall dripping over his face. We got them all loaded and off and we waited a few minutes and the rain stopped so we hurried to get loaded and left. We got home and all of our corn was laying flat on the ground I guess we had a really bad wind storm after the rain, but we got all our garden fixed and now I get to go out and really start picking all the veggies!


As for the second week of school it has been a chore! Both days this week when I have gone to put her on the bus for some reason she thinks she needs to cry and make me feel like a bad mom as soon as the bus shows up. She just has to be a little turd and I just want to cry, but I know if I do she would just be worse and I would have to take her into the school and then it would be worse for me. Hopefully she gets better and I won't have to worry about it.