This month Jason went on a school trip to Cambodia and Singapore. It took me a few days to adjust to having him gone, and then a few days to adjust to having him back. It seems like he had a good time. When he finishes his entry for the monthly cousin blog we submit I’ll post it on here. 🙂 Kiki was my cuddle-buddy during his trip. It’s funny how animals seem to know when you need company.
The spring has been going by quickly. We ran out of room (and potting containers) in the basement and ended up planting out our heirloom tomatoes shortly before Jason left (April 27th). Then while he was gone we had the most miserable cold weather you could imagine (at least for garden plants). My mother had told me “marigolds are hearty, that’s why kindergardeners plant them”…and I found out that when you freeze them really good they curl up and die like you took a flame-thrower to them. My heirloom tomatoes were covered, but still look very abused. I only killed one, but it was a traumatic event since they are Jason’s babies and I was doing my best to protect them from the elements while he was gone. I think the remaining group (12 of them) will manage to survive and thankfully the weather will be improving this week. I am including a picture of the sheltered basement tomatoes which were given out to Lee and Marion, and Garth and Maydene, along with a few of my co-workers (Laurie, Kristi, and Theresa) and look much better than the partially stunted outside crop I tortured. (The shoe in the following picture is a size reference)
I have also been working on a few flowerbeds outdoors to spruce them up a bit. This is one of the back flowerbeds with the replacement marigolds already in. I plan to plant out some more things this weekend so next month there will be more new pictures. 🙂
