Thursday

I can't quite put my finger on my 'funk'. I have recently been thinking that it is because it is getting warmer and I am not wanting to be at work anymore. I am totally unmotivated to teach right now. All I want to do is be outside and digging in the dirt. I take my daily walk around the house (outside of course) in the afternoons when I get home from work and as my youngest says, "check the plants". She usually walks with me and she tells me about her day and we pick the weeds that have grown up in the flowerbeds and check on the daily growth of our lettuce, cabbage, and newly planted tomato plants. It makes me happy but I have realized that I am being a bit OCD about the weeds.

I ventured over to the larger garden this evening with my youngest in tow. She and I had just spent $30 for a bunch of marigolds "for the deer". She thinks that they will like the flowers and will want to eat them instead of our vegetables. I tried to explain to her that the deer don't like marigolds and they will not only stay away from both the flowers and our vegetables. Or at least that is the theory. We will see if they work. So we walked around the garden there and checked on how much the deer had eaten. The lettuce that they ate down to the stem is coming back nicely, the potatoes are HUGE (the plants that is), the onions are coming along. The cabbage has the worm in it and we need to spray. The purple cabbage is coming along too. Some though were nibbled on by the deer. Two of the broccoli plants have little heads on them and we both got very excited when we saw that. My little one LOVES broccoli! The tomatoes are coming back but we definitely lost a few to the deer. We couldn't find the peas and only saw two bush beans. The peppers are not much bigger than when we planted them. We have some squash seedlings coming up and the second plot is ready to be planted with squash, cucumbers, corn and others stuff. I will try to take a few pictures so you all can see my newfound joy.