Gardens, kids, groundhogs, and frogs.

Last week, Beth, Tancy and I were able to spend some time on our garden. We are going to have a joint garden this year. We have been looking forward to being able to work in it all year. This is what it looked like before we started working. JP had already burnt off some dead weeds from last year.

It was a beautiful day outside and the kids were able to play in the yard. They played out most of the afternoon.

The boys played in a pine tree. They LOVE to climb trees. (We were taking a walk the other day, and Brother kept saying, that would be a great tree to climb, or, that tree would be hard to climb!!)

The girls played in a little slide/fort thing.

Thay all played so well. I think the kids were just happy to be running around outside on such a GREAT day.


Tancy was so excited to get out in the garden and play in the dirt. She was absolutely giddy about getting her tiller out.

While we were raking in the garden, I started to rake a pile of weeds and look what we found! Can you see what this is??

We found what we think are 3 baby groundhogs!! They were so little. At first we thought they were mice. But after further inspection, we figured they were groundhogs. Their eyes weren't even open yet.
At the end of the day, it was nice to look back and see a lot of progress in the garden. Isn't it pretty?? We still have some burning to do. But it is a big step in the right direction. I am excited and looking forward to our joint garden.

I was getting ready to put everything away, when this caught my attention. A dead, skewered frog on the pitchfork!! He was a good frog, a kind frog. He came to a bad end. You will always be remembered. Poor frog.