Slip and Slide

I think I remember when "slip and slides" first came out. But then, I remember when "plastic" was new! The neighbor kids had lots of fun today, especially when we put the slip and slide under the slide and put the hose on the slide. It was great! We have been trying to get our back neighbor, Kevin to come out to play for about a year and today he just couldn't resist the fun.

Jumpin Jacks!

Nine Mario's descended on the local "Jumpin Jacks" for a birthday party for Luke. All of these guys live with 100 yards or so from Sara's house except his cousin, Tyson.

Tyson Myers, Cam Monson, Steven Call, Colton Balagna, Hayden Bott, Kai Monson, Ethen Ure and Carter Balagna

Squash and Squash Bugs

Just showing off our kind of Square Foot Garden. We didn't follow the rules accurately, but it doesn't seem to make a lot of difference. Our boxes are 10 x 4 feet instead of 4 x 4 feet, and we didn't make a permanent grid yet. We planned on it, but didn't get around to it and now probably won't. Everything seems to be doing really well.

One of the yellow summer squash plants was looking a little poorly, and on Sara's inspection was found to have squash bugs. We hurried and read up on the awful looking things and found that we should just squash them. So Sara did! We already have little squash coming so we hope we got the bugs in time. I did remember after the bugs came the reason Rod stopped growing squash. If you don't have squash plants, you probably won't have squash bugs!

The tomatoes are trying to grow up the netting, but aren't quite big enough yet. We do have little green tomatoes already. We have eaten a little spinach and could eat beet greens if any of us really wanted to eat them and someone was willing to cook them.