Garden Guardian!

I'll bet everyone wishes to have one of these sitting at the side of their garden to scare away the critters that might be interested in munching on the plants. Storm seems to be taking his job seriously..."standing" at attention!

I awoke hearing giggling children...they were outside helping their mommy prepare a garden for flowers and also waiting for their daddy to hide eggs in their back yard. They had a fun hunt...finding all sorts of things in their plastic eggs...jelly beans, promise notes (date with Mom, date with Dad, roller skating, Imagination station, Science center, etc.), and also some quarters and dimes. Elijah was more interested in the jelly beans (and his note for extra stories) than in the money...so he traded Graham some jelly beans for the money that he found. The ones who got the date with their daddy went to a yardsale with him to see if they could spend the quarters that they got in their eggs! After all the excitement, Kathy and Nathan gathered up the kids minus Abigail and Graham and went flower shopping for their front garden. Abigail went grocery shopping with Goosey and Graham came over here and built a robot with his K'nex.

Woody has spent a lot of his spare moments in his gardens. He has put out a LOT of tomato and pepper plants...he claims that he planted so many as he figures that he will lose several to birds, etc. But with the garden guardian maybe he won't lose too many...and then if all these plants do produce lots of tomatoes and green peppers I'm not sure what we will do with all of them...but we should have enough for us and for the neighbors...and...(We just hope to have at least a few! Our gardening "luck" isn't always the best...but Woody does try hard and enjoys trying!) While I was out looking at what Woody had planted so far this morning, a dear friend and one of her granddaughters stopped by with cherry crisp...and we had been trying to decide what we would have for dessert tomorrow when Melany, Wade, Erin and Alex come!

I have been catching up on my wash today and getting ready for Melany and family to come tomorrow. I actually got my suitcase unpacked and returned to Nathan and Kathy today (it "only" took me a week) I enjoyed the front porch for a while after lunch...I read a bit, watched a "gun battle" with some of the teenagers in the neighborhood, watched the grandchildren run around our yards, and read some more in my book. I made two gelatin salads this afternoon (one for tomorrow and one for the neighbors). Later in the afternoon I took a nap. Then this evening we went over to Nathan and Kathy's for supper...yummy Texmex chicken! For dessert the girls had a "cookie (cake) walk" all planned out...we walked in a circle and when the music stopped then a number was called out and if it was ours we got an Eskimo cookie that the girls had made this afternoon! Fun time!

A flower gardening day planned for tomorrow with Melany, Wade, Erin and Alex!