A tomato of my own!

Late in the afternoon around the beginning of August I went out to water my tomato plants and lo and behold I had a tomato hanging on the vine. I about jumped up and down. Of course, I ran in the house, grabbed my camera, and snapped a picture. It was about the size of a quarter when I took the photo below.

Now I have 7 tomatoes on the vine and the one picture above is about the size of a baseball. I can't wait to eat those suckers. Yum!

My strawberries didn't do bad this year either. I planted a single plant last year and I bet this year I had 5 plants come back and then about 15 runners so far. I have picked around 30 strawberries. Granted they aren't huge berries, but they were there and the boys have loved every minute of it.

Marigold's, Tomatoes, and Strawberries

A few days back, maybe a week even, I mentioned that Mom sent me home with Marigolds to plant. Wednesday afternoon, I finally had a chance to snap a picture of them. If you look close on at the petals you can see some rain droplets and a little visitor, too.  Isn't he cute? If you'd like to see a bigger version, stop by my photography blog.

Next, we have one of our strawberry plants. You can see the little ones growing, slowly but surely. Last year we bought a lone plant at Lowe's. This year three grew back. I read somewhere that you could do something to the runners and get more plants. Anyone care to explain?

Last, but certainly not least we have one of our tomato plants that my Dad gave us. This one is a yellow tomato. I don't know the specific type. He also gave us three of these and a purple one. I think four plants should be a good amount for us as long as they grow good. How many would u plant?
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Family: Silly Boys and Busy Bees!

Michael and I have been busy bees today. We worked on the wire on the Crowbars cage, cleaned the house, done laundry and dishes.  Then we took the boys out to ride at the church parking lot. They took their motorcycles as well as their bikes. Dalton's new bike is a 20 inch and honestly I had doubts he would be able to ride it, even with training wheels. He is so small, and it is pretty heavy. He surprised me and done great today riding it.

After they were tired of riding, we walked down to the river and skipped some rocks. I snapped a couple pics of the boys, being boys. D had a silk belt tied around his head... he said he was Ginag Hagane from Bayblade. His poor mohawk was flat from wearing his motorcycle helmet, but he was still adorable. Don'tcha think?

Bailey decided he wanted to throw sticks into the water, so he did. He is Bai. My Bai. I wouldn't have him any other way! Although, I am sad to see how grown up he looks in this picture. He is still that little baby boy in my mind. Doesn't seem possible that he is almost 10!

After we loaded up and came home, we walked up the hill to an my Grandparents old house. It is falling down; no one has lived there in many many years. My uncle use to keep cows, goats, and sheep under it. We went up there to get some old dried up manure, but the weeds were over our heads. We ended up going out to our goat barn and getting two five gallon buckets worth that had been sitting for a couple years.

Then we went down to Moms after that and picked up some tomato plants Dad had for us. There were three yellow tomato plants and a purple one. I'm not sure of the exact names.

When we FINALLY made it home we planted the tomatoes, watered the flowers and strawberries, and put the chickens up.  Now it is time to relax and enjoy Michael's last afternoon of vacation.