Urban Garden

As a part my effort to embrace where I am, I decided to make tracks into urban gardening.

Rob put up these lengths of gutter for me a couple of weeks ago.

They are level, the ground is not.

I planted lettuce on the top row, onions on the middle, chives and some zinnias for fun on the bottom.

The onions and chives are pretty puny.

Although Florida gets it's nickname (the Sunshine State) pretty fairly, our yards (front and back) get insufficient sun (6 hours of less) or torrential rain.  I'm no master gardener and I have plenty of distractions, but I think these two things are also working against me.  Regardless, my gardening efforts are not that stellar this year.

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Natalie did a little painting in her pajamas this morning.

We are listening to Beezus and Ramona in the car and there was a chapter about a painting class.  Natalie told me she was making animal tracks on her painting (which is what Ramona did in the book).  Do you listen to audio books?  The kids are enamored with them. 

She told me a lot of other things about her painting (Baby Jesus and a bear were in there too).  Natalie has a lot to say.