Memorial Day Weekend

What a wonderful and busy Memorial day weekend! It started with my first horticultural article being published on HortUpdate (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/2010/may/potager.html). This was a very exciting event for me. I was at A&M when it happened and everyone there was so complimentary. Sally was truly over joyed as well. I am very happy about this and I look at it as the first step down the road to my next career. After work, I went home and Sally and I mowed and edged our property. It was hard work but the house and yard are really beginning to look very nice.

The weekend really started on Saturday. All of Sally's siblings came to our house for breakfast and a discussion on where to bury MiMi. It went well and everyone had a lovely time. Kim and Mike both suggested hosting these get togethers more frequently. Everyone liked the changes we are making to the house and they loved the garden. Before the got there I picked 26 pounds of beans, squash and tomatos. They all took food home. After they left Sally and I went to the dump and got a load of mulch. We mulched our beds. That really made a diffence. Everything looks so nice. After that we went to mass and then just chilled on the porch.

Sunday was the annual "100 Days of Summer" festival at our church. We worked the "Trash to Tresure" booth. Sally was awesome! She worked so hard and sold so much junk that I was truly impressed. After it was over we were beat. We went home and crashed for an hour or so and then we started grilling. We cooked corn, hamburgers and calabacita squash. We washed our meal down with Diet Cokes with a splash of lime. Very refreshing. The whole meal was awesome, but the squash gets some extra praise. I will definately be growing this squash variety again.

Monday found us in the row graden by 7:00. We built the beds for our purple hulls and okra. We also finished mulching the potatos and we laid down the soaker hoses and newspapers between the rows for weed control. We also worked on cleaning up the mess behing the cedar fence. After this we showered and ate wonderful leftovers. We then took a holiday nap. Once we got up we went to DQ for a sundae. After that we rode around in the country for about an hour. Then we hit the yard again. We planted the plants Sally bought for me as a present for getting published. We also planted all of the plants that we got at the palnt booth at the church picnic. All in all it was a lovely, lovely, long weekend.