Hooray! My 200th Post!

In honor of my 200th post, I present to you...

...pretty much a regular post, but with a celebrating-like title.

Today we did lots of garden-type stuff. A few days ago Jeff turned the weedy jungle that was our front yard into a barren field. That's funny talk for he hoed and raked and weeded like crazy, and got rid of all the big huge weeds that were covering our yard. Today we bought some cute plastic fencing to put around the yard (the local kids like to hang out in our yard, and we're thinking that's gotta stop). Here's the two sections of yard with the fencing. We're going to put garden vegetables in.

If you look closely, you can see that the fence sections don't link together. They're supposed to, but we had so much trouble trying to get the darn things to work! So we decided not to worry about linking them together, and just put them in close enough to each other that we still pretty much have the desired effect. The fence was supposed to go all the way up the sidewalk to the door, but we miscalculated how much we needed. That's okay, more fence would have meant more money.

We also bought some tomato plants and a squash plant, and put those in the ground this afternoon. I didn't get a picture of them after we planted them, but I did before:
(As a little side note here, my kids are driving me crazy! It's a quarter past nine, and they just aren't going to sleep! Grrr...)

Anyway. I transplanted my little Mother's Day flower into a pot this morning. I really hope it lives and grows and provides lots of beauty! Here it is, along with another couple plants that Mom planted and gave me yesterday. The purple one is the one I got in church.
Here's to a day full of digging in the dirt, planting flowers and vegetables, and hoping that the local kids will leave our garden alone and let it grow!