Spent a day working on our gardening project. Added a new bed, moved our lettuce and peppers out of the wall and made cone covers for the tomatoes. Naomi cooperated for a while by sitting on a blanket and playing. When she started eating the bark she had to be entertained so our neighbor Sue took her on her first wheelbarrow ride.



Jess built the second raised bed - it was much easier the second time around - and did all the hard labor of getting it filled up with dirt. I had the more technical job of building the tomato shelters. Just wrapped painters plastic around tomato cages to shield them from the wind. Hopefully that will help them along. I am also going to bring in a few to hang in the kitchen.





I started some kale and cucumber inside on the kitchen windowsill. The kale sprouted up within a day. Nothing so far on the cucumbers. I am also soaking some sugar snap pea seeds to plant. Usually peas are planted earlier in spring but I think it stays cool enough here for them to go in now. I'm going to try putting the carrots in between the lettuces. We'll see. It's really just a trial and error for us. The sunflower is doing amazing.... 10" to 2' in two weeks.

More to come later. We went on our first hike as a family. I took pictures.