Dennis wanted me to post a picture of the garden. Really you should be seeing a picture of us at some nice bed and breakfast an hour out of town. However, I and I alone decided I didn't have the energy or desire to leave town, so we planted our garden instead. I have to say, it's pretty satisfying.
My parents watched Eddie basically the entire weekend, while Den and I did exciting things like order new fluting for the front door, ordered bath hardware, and stood in line for 35 minutes at Mount Vernon because they were having a garden plant sale. Last time we went (2 years ago) we got 1/2 our garden plants here, and they were of great quality and price. So, we thought standing in about the longest line I've ever seen at Mount Vernon when I could have another 3 weeks to come back at any time I liked, but there we stood, with the tourists, loaded down with their cameras and bottles of water.
It was a huge disappointment. We wound up visting 3 different stores to get 10 tomato plants, 8 green pepper, watermelon, acorn squash, cilantro, lettuce, green beans, eggplant, basil, and chives. Sure would be great if the lettuce and tomato were ready at the same time--unfortuantely, our summer heat kills the lettuce just about when the tomatos start producing fruit.
Eddie had a good time with g'ma and g'pa Ohio--they took him to his first art museum--the Phillips Gallery--and he slept through the whole thing. The picture was taken the day after we planted everything.
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