::OG planted 2014::

This is my back garden or my Orchard Garden (OG).

It is about 20 feet wide by 96 feet long. 

The thing is HUGE.

I outgrew my pretty front garden after one year and this is my work horse garden.

I don't keep it perfectly. 

It gets weeds.

It sometimes gets neglected.

It is where I experiment the most, because if it fails I just try again the next year.

This year I am really excited to see what I can learn about gardening from it. 

For the first year ever these kids really where a huge help to me. 

For real.

Not like the year where Max helped me by pulling out every baby corn sprout that he thought was a weed. 

Not like the year where Lily mixed a few pack of different seeds together cause they where pretty. 

This year they (mostly Lily) really cut my work load down and I enjoyed my time with them. 

I use lots of sticks in my garden. 

They keep the dogs from walking or laying on young plants and they remind me where I actually planted something.  Occasionally, they provide a visual barrier to toddlers to walk around instead of on seedling.  And sticks are in large supply around here. 

Sometimes little boys sneak off into the hay field and have sword fights with some of my sticks. 

Bruno was sporting his new summer do and looking very handsome.

We tried a new technique with the tomatoes this year.  Five on each side of a one foot deep trench.  Since this area is a bit hard to get water too I wanted a way to irrigate the tomatoes weekly instead of trying to water more frequently.  The sticks are just to mark the plants but the real bracing will be coming soon. 

Corn is new for me this year.

I always found too many other things I wanted to grow.

This year we decided to give it a shot. 

I looked around and decided to modify a few different ideas.  We took a small bucket and pressed it into the ground so it showed a perfect circle imprint in the soft soil.  Then we put six seeds evenly spaced around that circle.  Each circle is about 2-3 feet from the next one.  I don't measure and I only sort of plant in straight lines.  The lazy girl in me just can't be stopped to make row lines straight.

We mixed in pumpkins between a few corn rows. 

I'll keep you posted with how it all turns out. 

Look at that abandoned boot, sticks, and circles!  Love the barely controlled chaos. 

 

Look at that cute kid!

She kept saying the whole time that she couldn't wait to grown her own garden. 

Next year we may need to make her a little space of her own.  

Here is how the garden ended up being planted.  

::disney adult trip 2014::

We got to sneak out on an adults only Disney trip.

We visited our favorite candy shop.

The candy apples kill me every time. 

Here is Josh using our Magic Bands for the very first time!

This was really exciting for us. 

I tried a new brownie covered with chocolate.

I have lost 25 pounds in the past few months but I cheated a bit at Disney.

We loved listening to our favorite clean up crew and seeing our iconic monorail.

Since it was the Flower and Garden show we had fun checking out all the topiaries. 

England had a Peter Pan one that we loved. 

I had my three drinks at the same time at every meal.

It makes me so happy.

Water - caffeine - alcohol. 

Josh fell in love with Captain EO.

It rained like crazy on our Epcot day.

We wear poncho folk for sure, but it couldn't bring us down.

We heard great things about the Bacon Maple cupcake.

I wanted to love it but - it wasn't for me.

Josh took a big honest bite and it wasn't for him either. 

These fairy house that they had in the butterfly pavilion where for me.

I took a million pictures as inspiration.

It was just a three night trip, but a very nice sneak out for grown ups.

We where sad to go home but still ended up with this spontaneous photo bomb picture.

::rocket man::

Max and his dad built a super cheap kit rocket together.

Max was excited but I don't think he really knew how much he was going to love it. 

Because of the cheapness of the kit we couldn't get the launcher to actually work. 

These boys tried to solve the problem.

Notice our wedding tree in the background. 

Bruno was near by to offer moral support and pillow support.

Then Josh returned from gathering fix it supplies. 

Max was still upbeat but the rocket continued to not launch. 

Till Josh hooked it up to his truck battery.

It pays to have a solver as your father.

Max was beyond delirious when he say how high the rocket actually went.

He kind of lost his mind with joy. 

Then he figured out we could launch it again! 

This crew had on the dirtiest old barn clothes and was so happy.



::our new nubian::

We got a Nubian junior doe this year.  We have never had anything but small goats before.  This little girl is amazing!!  So sweet and kind.  I think she may quickly become my favorite.  She is calm and so easy to train.  We adore her. She is for Emma to show and she named her Genivieve.

This is what most of our pictures look like.

Starting to teach her to stand and lead.  Front leg good, back legs in progress.