More gardening and food

Today was another successful day despite the forecasted weather. Even though it was rather on the windy side, we were able to get done all that was on the agenda (except maybe Jer getting to any siding on the garage). Okay maybe I should say we completed what was on MY agenda. Saturday we got that wonderful flower bed in front done. And today we were able to dig out and get ready my vegetable garden. I'm going to grow VEGETABLES! Maybe...we'll see if they decide to grow or not :) Maybe if I go out there and talk to them. I could set up my lawn chair beside them and drink iced tea and tell them how wonderful I think they are...they call me the crazy lady around here for lots of reasons...

The morning started off with me deciding that as it was cloudy and windy I'd like to cook breakfast for 10 people (I'm nuts, I know). I called an impromptu brunch party with Tara and her family and Andrea, who was without family for the morning. They contributed and we had a roaring good time. By then the weather had cleared considerably and off we (Jer and I) went to pull up sod (I must add that I actually relaid sod in another area, quite meticulously, I might add. I know, I know, I'm a jack of all trades!). Then later in the afternoon Andrea comes sauntering over and asks if hotdogs are okay for supper. Sweet, another potluck - although we didn't end up having hotdogs, we had sausage burgers instead. Just as good, still not cooking! So out of 8 meals this weekend, we all shared 4 of them. That's a pretty good run. I figured we should set up a colony. I mean, we eat together, we garden together, we play together...it's pretty darn close to a colony. We decided a good name for our colony would be the Cortieben Colony (for those of you who don't know us, that's a combination of all three of our last names, brilliant, I know). (BTW, this picture of our supper is taken from Andrea's blog, I kinda stole it, hope that's okay, Andrea! Now nice bloggy people, go read hers and Tara's posts and comment)

Anyway, after supper I got my tomatoes, peppers (1 green, 2 yellow and 2 red), rhubarb, cilantro and 2 popcorn plants in the garden. My mom is supposed to be coming to help me tomorrow to plant all the seeds (carrots, chives, beans, peas, lettuce, spinach, cantaloupe and broccoli...for never having planted a garden I'm feeling rather ambitious and slightly nervous that I'm going to have a massive crop failure), but it's supposed to rain. Maybe there'll be some hours that it won't and we can get it all in before it does rain and it'll save me some watering!