Let's see if I can update this blog just a bit.
The vegetable garden took off growing like wildfire after amending the soil with a good manure/compost mix.
God blessed us with enough cucumbers, tomatoes, okra, squash, and peppers to share with a good many neighbors, family and friends !
It is still producing okra and peppers, with a few small tomatoes.
This plant that I couldn't identify last Spring turned out to be some Canterbury Bells that I had planted from seed and forgotten about.
I'd never grown them before (or seen them grown by anyone else) so I didn't recognize them. Many a morning I was tempted to pull the plant, thinking that it must be a big weed. But patience prevailed, praise God, and here's the sight with which I was eventually rewarded !
The long flowerbed gave me beautiful Gladioli, Crepe Myrtle blooms, Easter Lilies, Marigold, Lantana, and many, many, MANY Zinnias !
And if you will notice, we added a carport to the end of the driveway. Last week, we were also able to have the leaning power pole replaced, much to the relief of my husband.......he was obsessed with that thing, and it turns out that the old one was only in the ground 2 feet ! It's only by God's grace that it didn't fall before having it removed !
I pieced a little baby-sized quilt top yesterday from flannel squares that my sister brought me from California last month (what a wonderful visit we had !) I hope to be able to finish it and give it to a young woman at our Church who is expecting a little boy !
That's all I have time for right now, I think, but I'll try to get back here again soon !
Love to all you guys !
