Nature's Pals

Back to the land of the living...probably should have been the name of this post As many of you know, we came down with the flu virus last month. First Chelsea, then Madison and they were so clingy that of course, I got it too. It was awful, I couldn't even eat solid foods for four days and didn't have an appetite for about 3 or 4 days after the virus was gone! It was pretty bad but thank God we are all better and I will definitely somehow take better precautions next year, I can honestly say that we haven't had the flu in a number of years and my guard has been completely down where that is concerned.

Anyway on to happier times... We spent a lot of time out in nature this past week. Well with Spring finally here in all its glory, we have taken full advantage. First we visited a creek that runs through 2 cities where we live.

 Later in the week we went to a lake where we saw a migration, I guess you'd call it, of caterpillars. They seemed to be everywhere but all traveling in the same direction. It was a very cool and educational thing to see as we all talked about how they must be searching for a place to build their cocoons.

Last but not least we planted our garden!!! Yay!!! It was hot out there and the girls were "feeling" it. This is our first garden so to me it has very little rhyme and reason to it. So here's what we planted Tomatoes, Carrots, Cucumbers and onions. I have cantaloupe seeds that I want to plant as well. We're just diving in and hoping to do an even better job next year. My mom tells me that the cucumbers are going to be a pain. Oops, we didn't know.

We also planted marigolds as my father-in-law told us that they would be a deterrent for some bugs and insects. We planted on Wednesday of this week because the weather forecast said that it would rain on Thursday and boy did it. So our garden was well watered yesterday and hopefully our seeds are on their way.

We labeled popsicle sticks to help us remember what we planted where.

We also spread our compost over the garden after we planted. Generally you would place some compost in the soil where you are sowing the actual seed. Our compost however was not 100% ready. I'd say it was about 50% ready and an ant family took up residence in it so we had to spread it out in the sun and air to get them out and then we took what was ready and spread it out over top of the garden space. Hey, nobody said that it would be easy...I sure didn't ::smile::.

As always, thanks for reading and leave a comment and I will come and do the same on your blog so leave link as well. Have you been out in nature or do you still have snow on the ground in your part of world???

 Steph.

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