my thumb is getting greener.. go me!

My garden is turning out pretty awesome this year. My mother is an amazing gardener, and so is my Grandma - so naturally I want to be too. Last year with the wedding, well - let's say it started out well and ended poorly. I planted a lot of pumpkins and gourds for decorating at the wedding and those darn vines ended up completely taking over my garden.

Well another item that has helped out a lot, is that we bought a little rototiller. This thing has made keeping the weeds down a breeze, and so much easier to have to weed within the rows instead of the whole darn garden!

You might also be impressed to know, I have "year two" potato plants growing with abundance. I "may" have forgot about digging them up last fall, and then this spring with Neil was rototilling he said there was a lot that got thrown about with the rototiller. Well, let me tell you that this is the way to plant potatoes! I have nearly hip high potato plants growing now - I have no idea when I should dig these brutes - but I am thinking within the next month I will have one heck of an early harvest of potatoes! 


We also planted a bunch of other veggies.. you ready for this? Potatoes (obviously), decorative corn, sweet corn, zucchini, english cucumber, green beans, sugar snap peas, peas, carrots, beets, radishes, broccoli, green onions, hot peppers, green peppers, red peppers, plum and big boy tomatoes, romanine lettuce, green leaf lettuce, spinich, buttercrunch lettuce, and a big herb supply. Woweeee! I'm a green thumb!! I took this picture a couple of weeks ago. 

I will take another today to show you the difference!


I was down to spend the day with Haley while Dale had surgery last week, and we spent the early part of the afternoon at Ikea and the later part of the hot afternoon in the pool - she is so much fun! 

Neil and I also went camping last weekend, for what is likely our last trip in our tent trailer. We have actually upgraded to my grandparents 5th wheel camper, which is awesome! So if you're in the market for a tent trailer, ours is for sale! We went to Meaford, and it was a beautiful weekend.. here is our Lenny-girl all tuckered out from playing in Georgian Bay all afternoon. She loves the water!! 

I love Meaford, one of my most favourite camping places.. amazing sunsets, warm water for swimming, Lennox friendly park, and close to my family.. love love love.. 

We're going camping again (in our new quarters) for our next camping trip, really looking forward to going back to Meaford again and joining my Aunt & Uncle, and Grandparents there! 


Last but certainly not least, I tried curry this passed week at home and we both loved it! Keri had made it one night I was there, and the rice(see beside - we did not use spinach or raisins, we used corn it was good!) and chicken were amazing! I would make this again and again, it was a big hit in our house. I'm just going to post the picture of the recipe I used as I don't have time to post it - it's really good, and if you haven't tried curry - this is a good place to start as I "didn't like it" until I tried Keri's when she made it. So go ahead and give er' a whirl.. urgh I cannot get this picture to upload the correct way, hope I don't hurt your neck. :( 

Thanks to all who read my last post and for all the sweet comments and personal messages. I am thankful for the support and the outlet to be able to talk about it.