For those of you who know me, you know that I am not a gardener…at all.  I do not have a green thumb.  I don’t keep plants because I typically kill them…because I forget to water them.  So yeah, not a gardener.

Well, in our backyard we have a raised portion that the previous owners used for a garden.  It’s a really big area and would be great for a vegetable garden.  However, it being Spring and all, it is full of weeds.  A lot of weeds.  While Dan was mowing the lawn today I decided it was time to weed that area so that maybe next weekend we can plant some stuff.  I know I’m probably a little late in the season, but we’ll see if we can get some tomatoes and other fruits and veggies going.

Here’s a “before” shot of the garden area (along with a before shot of our un-mowed backyard).  Click for a bigger version.  I had actually weeded a little on the right side of the photo before thinking about grabbing my camera, but you get the idea.

This is the “after” for today (click for bigger version).  I got about a third of it done, and then I was DONE.  Hopefully the weather will continue to be nice and I can finish it up this week.

Anna, of course, was loving digging around in the dirt.  She helped me pull weeds and found lots of worms (and slugs, eww) for her critter cage.  Here are a few pics..

Hopefully I’ll continue to fix up the garden area and actually plant some things.  It would be great to grow some of our own veggies to eat.

Anna wrote and drew this little post-it note “story” for me today.  I didn’t help her with the words at all.  I’m so proud that she’s actually writing some of the words she knows.  She can sight read a TON of words now and doesn’t have to sound them all out like she used to.  While we’re in the car she’ll sometimes be in the mood to spell words, so we’ll play the spelling game with 3 and 4 letter words…but we haven’t really worked on writing words other than her name.  We write individual letters from time to time, because she still needs to work on quite a few of the letters.  I think we’ll try to write more in the coming weeks.

Anyway, here’s her story.  The 2nd picture says “Car,” in case you can’t tell by the picture..  ;)  (Click on the picture to see a larger version.)