Puddles and Planting

 One lovely June day we enjoyed lunch out in the warm sunshine,accompanied by the wonderful scent of the red roses blooming their hearts out on the arbor/trellis.

 Only to have the sky change on us that evening and dump a sudden and torrential downpoor, the likes of which we haven't seen since we moved from Oregon. :D

The waterfalls spouting off the ends of our downspout-less gutter were pretty amazing and left some lovely puddles, which the kids immediately tried out for the fun factor.

 Turns out this little one would suck your boots right off if you weren't careful.

 And the large one worked out well for rinsing off the gooey mud.

 When trying to get one boot out...

 The other would get stuck, and it made such strange sucking slurping noises during the whole process.

 These things bring joy to a childs heart. :)

 Then it was time to run through the big one for the final rinse.

Ooops! Its over his boot tops! :)

 Splish, splash, splish! What a fun and unexpected evening entertainment it was.

We have since moved our strawberry patch to the other side of the grass strip to make way for  a new sandbox.

 Which means that our tiny garden has shrunk to half its former size.  The kiddos still had a grand time planting it tho.

 Our main crop is beans this year. ;)

 It was fun to watch each ones different planting styles. :)

 We tried out 2 varieties of beans. Kate planted the white ones and Elliott planted the brown ones.

We also did a little bit of carrots, lettuce, tomatoes, & peppers, and called it good.

Now it looks like this! The pepper plant is struggling along but the rest of the stuff is thriving.