Garden Update For March 15th

Warren and I went to Stake Conference with Jeff and his family today after which Warren ordained Jeff to the office of High Priest. There was no associated calling, yet. After having a delicious dinner at Jeff's we got home and I went out to see if the garden needed water. My eyeballs almost popped out! My cucmbers had literally doubled in size over night! There are six tiny cucumbers already. Yesterday I made a salad from lettuce, radishes and parsley from my own little garden. With prayer and work I finally have a successful garden. I feel it is an important thing to know how to grow one.

Tomatoes



Cucmbers!


Radishes, lettuce and spinach

Finished!

Tuesday we did the floor in the bedroom closet and are now finished for a while. Poor dad has open sores on his left knee from blisters. He did wear knee guards, but it wasn't enough protection. I again had the chief responsibilities of clean up, running back and forth with boards and tools, caulking the baseboards and painting them.



ALL DONE

Charlottes Baptism

Saturday we went to Charlottes baptism, but there were not photo ops at the church. (long story) I hope someone got photos. We went to Ron's afterwards for a BBQ. It was a good time and I did get a couple of photos.

Chef Ron


Klara, Kai and Kamden


Zoe, Brigham and Charlotte




Klara

Garden update and more flooring to come

The lettuce and cilantro

The garden is doing great this week. I had something eating the radishes as they turned red, but I threw some leftover bird netting over them and they are doing great now.
Sometime this week we have to finish the flooring. We haven't done the closet floor yet.

BUSY THREE DAYS!

We had two exceedingly heavy laden days! I'm not kidding. On Thursday morning Warren pulled two thirds of the bedroom carpet out and we started laying down laminate flooring. We quickly found out we aren't as young as we used to be. (We already knew that, but didn't want to admit it). Friday morning, sore and stiff all over, we continued the project. Warren pulled out the rest of the carpet and layed the remaining floor boards while I scraped and sanded the baseboards. After he tacked the boards back down, I caulked them, running out of caulk and going to Home Depot while Warren took all the carpet and pad to the dump. After finishing the caulking we had lunch and ran errands for Riley's birthday while the caulk was drying. When we got home I painted the baseboards and we moved some of the furniture back, got cleaned up and went to Riley's birthday dinner at Ah So. Sorry, no pictures of that because my camera was broken. Inspite of knee pads, Warren has a huge blister on his knee. I won't tell you where I'm most sore.

Thursday morning, ready to start




Thursday night and ready to quit



Scraping and sanding baseboards Friday morning
This picture cost me $135 because I dropped my camera and had to buy a new one :(



DONE

Two Temple Days

Warren and I spent big chunks of Friday and Saturday at the temple. Warren's cousin, Chuck Sorensen, died a year ago of pancreatic cancer. His wife, Nancy joined the church shortly before Chuck died. He had not been active in the church for over 50 years, but had recently reconnected with the church and they had a wonderful missionary couple from Perry, Utah, who helped them through the ordeal of Chuck's illness, the conversion of Nancy and re-activation of Chuck. Last weekend Nancy and another of Warren's cousins, Greg Prince, came from Minnesota. He is the nephew of Chuck. John and Karen Sorensen came from Sacramento and their daughter Minday and her husband came from Bountiful, Utah as well as Marilyn Prince, Chuck's sister, who came from Cedar City, Utah. Randy and Charlene Sorensen came from Sacramento area as well. Greg stayed with us and Randy and Charlene stayed in our fifth wheel at Scott's. On Friday we did endowments for Nancy, Chuck and some of her family. Afterwards we all went to Aunt Wim's in Peoria for food and great visiting. Aunt Wim is the sister of Chuck's late mother. They have always had a good relationship with her. The lady in the picture with John and Karen is Wim's daughter Sharon, who also was at the temple with us and made wonderful tacos and enchiladas. Saturday, which would have been Chuck's birthday, we did sealings for Chuck, Nancy, her parents and grandparents and nine children. Warren and I were able to act as proxy for the parents of the nine children. It was really awesome. Afterwards we all went to Monte's Casa Vieja (13 of us) in Tempe for great fillet mignon. We sang 'Happy Birthday' to Chuck. Nancy picked up the whole check, saying it was her wedding dinner. How sweet and wonderful she is.


Nancy Sorensen and Marilyn Sorensen Prince



John and Karen Sorensen, Sharon Burns and almost Greg

Now THAT'S Gardening

Lettuce, radishes and cilantro




Brigham, Zoe and Taylor admiring the garden.



O.K., I am finally getting ahead of the bugs, birds and lizards! I have transplanted some of the beans and squash I started in peat pots and everything at last seems to be growing well. The tomato plants have needed tieing up three times and are blooming already! We should have some yummy vegetables in about 50 days. I can hardly wait.

We had lots of fun on Sunday. After all my Arizona kids went to church, they came here for dinner and games. We had everyone show up except Peggy and Anita with Emma. Anita had to go to Idaho to visit her sick brother and took Emma along. We missed the three 'girls' who weren't here. The cousins had a blast, even though things got a little out of hand when someone started picking lemons and throwing them. The kids all did little clean-up jobs to 'earn' the privilege of picking legal lemons. They cut the tops off, stuck straws in them and walked around sucking out the juice. Sorry I didn't get a picture of that! We had fun playing Farkle and Phase Ten Dice. Thanks Ron for helping cook the Parmesan chicken and Scott for donating lasagna and bringing chips and salsa. He makes delicious salsa!