it's all about veggies.

we've had a long few weeks of warm, sunny weather and our arms and faces carry the tanned shadows of our full days outside. the boys were so happy to be outside, and they all slept the whole night long, so tired from running, climbing, digging, and playing..

we planted our garden over the weekend. here's what we're hoping to harvest through the late summer, into early fall:


it doesn't seem like a whole lot when you're out looking at the garden, but looking at that list - wow - it seems as though we're setting up our very own garden stand.

here's the garden, chock-full of plants and seeds, waiting for the rain to come (it did a few hours after this picture was taken):

right behind the garden (where the boys are standing in the photo above) is a huge grapevine that yields lots of sour grapes. but this season, we found a robin nest inside:

mama sat dutifully on her eggs until they hatched yesterday morning (mama has since returned to the nest after i took these pictures):

and she's there all the time now that the weather has turned cooler. what a good mama robin. fortunately, mama robin picked prime location in the grapevine as our garden is right next to her nest, and she has first dibs on all morning worms. smart woman.

also, since the weather has been cooler, kenny had to hook up an extension cord from the barn into the chicken coop to put a light on them last night. by the winter, they'll be fully feathered-out, but they still have those bald spots on their necks and heads, so we don't know how warm they actually are. it's supposed to warm up in a few days.