Crop Garden

Today we went to the crop garden like we did in April last year. Corey is the Elder's Quorum president, and when they didn't get people from the ward to volunteer, we were an easy choice to fill in for the job. Cause we have a lot of helping hands. They put Sophi and Lily to work punching holes in a drip line...

The little kids were told to each grab gloves and a hand shovel, and we (NODPK and I) worked in a bed planting green bell peppers first - taking the cups with the starters  in them and putting one plant at each emitter...

Katharine did great at that! Natalie Owen and Daniel did a good job digging, and Peter collected the cups after. 

After we did the green bell peppers, we moved on to planting a bed of cantaloupe starters, and then Anaheim peppers. Lily was working hard punching holes in the drip line. It was her nemesis...

Sophi waiting patiently for Lil to finish the hole so she can put in the emitter. 

Lily was working hard and her hands were getting sore from punching the line. She had to yell to finish the last 10 or so holes on the line. "This is SO HARD!!! BUT I WILL WIN!! I WILL NOT GIVE UP!!!"

I took the kids down alone while Corey finished work, and then he joined us and we picked weeds for a while in the tomatillo beds. 

It was fun working in a garden. I'd like a garden someday if our home ever allows for it. I tried here at this house, but it just didn't work with the deer that pass through our yard. They ate all my plants, so I tried one year and then didn't try again. Maybe I could plant stuff in my dad's garden if I really want to do it again, but I'm ok with Costco for now. After working tonight, Sophi said as she talked about her instagram cottage life in the future: "I wanted a garden at my house so I could cook with fresh natural ingredients, but after tonight, I don't think I want to work this hard..." haha, that kinda made me laugh. Corey said "You don't like the law of the harvest!?!?" I'm glad she sees that there's a lot of hard work and prep that goes into organic meals or cute flower and vegetable gardens. 

So that was good. Thankfully it wasn't too hot. I think I got a mosquito bite low on the back of my neck, between my shoulders. Boo to mosquitos. I blogged today, got a few posts done from May, yay. I went on a morning ride at 5:45am. We have our bikes in the garage right now (not in the basement) so I have to open the garage anyway (which I don't like to do cause I feel like it's noisy and wakes up kids) but since I had to do to get my bike out, I decided I'd just take Corey's car to the trailhead, cause there's nothing special about the ride on the road. So I started at the trailhead and rode up to the ruins, techy on the way down. Biking is fun. As for the kids, the summer books aren't going as well as I'd like. I won't throw in the towel yet. I haven't been paying them, so I guess it works out fair - they don't clean, I don't pay. They don't write stuff down, I don't pay. Sophi earned some money by helping Corey's brother last weekend. They worked for 7 hours helping him in his yard. She blew like $45 of it via an online store called Comfrt, which had things so low priced that it didn't look legit... but she was super anxious about doing it TODAY, but she didn't have money in her account to pay via her debit card. I couldn't take her cash and transfer money in cause we only had $5 bucks. Lily volunteered to help her and let her use her debit card, but to do that she needed me to take her to the ATM, which I reluctantly did - I let them deal with that while I returned books to the library. I got back and she was still working on trying to deposit it - the ATM wasn't working, I guess it's cause Lily's card is for a minor so it doesn't work at the ATM, so then since we were there I deposited her cash in our account and then Corey moved it to Lily's account. I was being kinda in a bad mood about it. I'm blaming pms. Getting outside into the garden helped my mood improve. Maybe I should garden. Hopefully monarchs will be here soon. That usually helps me get outside and into the plants.