Week eighteen in the garden

Today might have been the best Sunday of the summer. The weather was not too hot, most of the yard work was finished yesterday, and Mommy and Daddy were both home all day so we had lots of together time, lots of snack time, and even more belly rub time than ever. As you can see our garden is doing very well.

The cucumber plant keeps spreading out and is now crawling across the little fence around the garden.

They sure are growing slowly.

I really love the colors of our lettuce. They might be the prettiest edible plants out there.

It looks like some little black bugs found the broccoli flowers before Daddy did.

We also harvested all of our beets and carrots yesterday so today we planted more beets, and carrots, and also some spinach.

These little pepper plants are finally starting to come back after Daddy almost killed them by not watering them enough during our last heat wave.

Our corn is starting to flower already so we will definitely be enjoying corn on the cob very soon.

Our cherry tomato trellis is starting to really fill out with little green balls.

Our oranges are almost full size so we hope they will start turning color soon.

Sierra's Scoop

Happy Tuesday everyone, it's Sierra. Do you know what the best thing about camping is? Is it hiking? Hiking is fun 'cause you go places you usually have never been before. Is it being in the wilderness all day? Cause it is really cool to be out in the middle of nowhere especially when there are squirrels and chipmunks running all over the place. Or is it spending time with your family, away from all of the everyday distractions? Well I think those all sound like real good reasons to love going camping. Unfortunately, none of those are my favorite reason. You see, every time we go camping we have a tradition of always stopping at IN-N-OUT. See that Double Double hamburger? Daddy's gonna save a whole patty for me and Mommy will save a whole patty from her Double Double just for Teddy.

To top it off, we are then hand fed...

...some yummy french fries.

I know that might sound kind of like a selfish reason but let's take it from the top. I get really tired on long hikes, and there are a lot of yucky bugs out in the wilderness. Oh, and those squirrels run up trees and take all the fun out of the chase. So I am sticking with IN-N-OUT, 'cause that's what a hamburger is all about. I hope every one out there gets to experience IN-N-OUT for themselves. How many of you already have?