Gardening! Sort of...

I wasn't sure what we were going to do about a garden this year.  We moved into this house, but it's still a rental so I can't dig up the yard and make a big garden plot the way I'd like to.  So I didn't start little seedlings this year because I was indecisive and thought I probably wouldn't have a garden...But when I started seeing other peoples' gardens on our evening walk I decided I had to do something.

Here's the solution for this year:  Garden vegetables in long planter boxes.  It's not exactly 60 pepper plants and 20 tomato plants like we did before, but we should still get something from these little guys.  And it will be fun to watch their progress as they grow fruit this summer.  I've got red, green, and orange bell peppers, tomatoes and cherry tomatoes, and two kinds of squash.

Maybe next year we'll come up with something better.

Maggie Graduated!

This is my sister-in-law-to-be, Maggie.  (And my silly husband.)

Last weekend Maggie graduated from Gonzaga University, so we had a nice time visiting with her and lots of family.  Below is Maggie with her fiancee, David.  He is Greg's younger brother.  Greg and I love hanging out with the two of them.  It's great to have in-laws that you would be friends with anyway.

Greg's parents came to stay with us for the weekend, and his uncle, Bob, from California.  It was fun getting to see them too.  We only get to visit a few times a year.  And we see Bob even less.  Greg and Bob got some special time together going out for a movie after the rest of us went to bed one of the nights.

I've really enjoyed hanging out with these guys since they moved to Spokane.  It's about two hours from our house in Pullman, but we go to Spokane about once a month to go to the temple anyway, so we can usually meet up with them sometime that day.  I will really miss them when they move away.  I think they should come back and David could teach at WSU.  That way Maggie and I could hang out all the time.

Congratulations Maggie!