How does our garden grow?

Kurt has worked like a slave for the last month to get our new garden spot ready. Here he is in the first week of April rototilling the 40X70 foot area planned for the garden.

Eventually he rototilled the whole area three times...

Next came the posts. First we installed the 6"x6" corner posts in cement. Then came smaller posts at about 12' intervals. At the same time we buried old roofing metal 2 and 1/2 feet underground to deter the gophers. This job was accomplished using the excavator to dig a trench. Then we laid the metal and the poles in the trench....

and backfilled using the excavator again...

And here is one run of the fence complete..........

Then Joanie went out of town for a week- and Kurt finished installing the posts and metal on the other three sides of the garden.....

Another week of frenzied work and VOILA! The metal fencing wire is inplace and the planting beds are starting to take shape!

As of today we have planted potatoes, onion sets and asparagus roots.

The raked mounds will be planted with vegetables and flowers soon!

Who is the cutest grandson ?!

We drove our car to Denver during Joanie's spring break at the end of March. Didn't turn out to be the spring weather we were hoping for but it was great to see Lisa, Amy and Tim and of course our sweet grandson. Here are the cream of the pix of Mark from that visit.

This Picture is our favorite- such a cute face....

For one afternoon Kurt and Mark had a game going hiding and finding a couple marbles. In this first pix Mark is asking what happened to the marbles...

Hmmmm, maybe they are back in Grandpa's pocket.......

Nope not there, maybe they are back in my pocket......

Ah, ha- here they are!

Here's Mark helping Grandma check her email..
Amy and Tim have a Wii game- which the adults played every evening when Mark was asleep- because, if he was awake he wanted to play too. Here he is finally getting a chance to hold the controls- he's got the look of a player already.

Mother and son....These two fit together like peas in a pod..

Here is Mark giving grandma a smerk..........

Just before he starts writing in my puzzle book...

Every child has to have a picture of them trying on adult shoes

Going for a car ride in the bright Colorado sunshine

snowy trip home