Gardener Conall

Conall has another garden this year. He got a gift of money from Aunt Jackie and Uncle Bill for Easter. He wanted to use the money to buy plants for this year's garden, and Caitlin decided to do the same with her gift. They bought Roma tomatoes, heirloom tomatoes (Caitlin picked out a "pink" tomato plant), grape tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, a bell pepper plant, a strawberry plant, a watermelon plant, two basil plants, some marigolds and a jalapeno plant (for Po Po and Pop Pop).
We also had some seeds for green beans, cucumbers, and flowers. We had already started the garden off with a rosemary plant. As always with Conall's plants, the plants are flourishing. They are healthy and he has at least 10 green tomatoes, if not more. The kids have already eaten about 6 strawberries and there are more growing. I am interested to see if we actually get a watermelon from our plant!

Conall showing his garden off to the neighbor boy

State Fair Field Trip

Conall's class went to the Arkansas State Fair on Monday, despite the rain, to see the animals. The school district has a rule that the kids can't ride the rides while there on field trips, so things weren't quite as chaotic as they could have been. Still, it was wet and icky on top of the normal icky fair smells and animal poo. Despite all that, the kids had fun and saw a lot of different animals.

Baby birds going down a "slide" into the water and swimming -- the kids loved this

If you ask Conall, his favorite part was seeing the bunnies. They had every possible color combination of bunnies that you could dream of. He got to milk a "cow", saw chicks hatching out of eggs, planted sunflower seeds, and saw all kinds of farm animals.

Milking a "cow"

Waving bye to one of the animals

Posing with calves

Planting sunflowers

Planting Bulbs

The kids and I planted bulbs earlier this week. We'd bought them to plant over Spring Break, but it rained, and rained, and rained ... Anyway, we planted them earlier this week, between rainy days.

We had 20 Gladiola bulbs and 3 Dahlia corms. Conall picked them out -- he picked the bright red Glads and the bright red and white Dahlias -- so like his daddy -- I guess it will be a Razorback garden!

I did most of the digging and my tendinitis is sooooo making me pay for it. I don't know why, but I thought the kids would enjoy digging more -- after the first four or so bulbs, they were done digging. They kept hauling all of my dirt off and really had lots of fun playing in the dirt. Although, I think the most fun was watering the bulbs.