Garden Adventures

This year I was very excited to rent a community garden plot and plant a garden.  A friend and I went in together and oh, what a garden it would be.  I could almost taste the peas and carrots...yum.
Getting a community garden plot is trickier than it seems, but, after a lot of hoop jumping, we were finally ready.  Taylor and I were out of town when we were told that we could begin work in the garden, so our friends took care of weeding and preparing the soil.  Then, the following week, Taylor, Clara and I planted.  Unfortunately, we planted in the wrong plot.  In all fairness, the plot map was very confusing.  When I realized what we had done, I quickly sent an e-mail to the garden committee.  I was sure that all would be well, as we could just give our plot to the person whose plot we mistakenly planted.  Alas, it was not to be.  The plot we had planted in was a very special plot, I guess, and the owner was not willing to trade.  Before we knew what had happened, our happy little garden had been planted over.  I was so disappointed.  Sigh.  I can't say that I didn't greatly enjoy the time I spent planting, watering and working with Taylor and Clara though.  It was nice to have a project like that to work on together, despite its short life and lack of edible benefits.  Oh well.  There's always next year, right?

Oh how happy we were when we were ignorant of the fact that this was not actually our plot.  :)

The North Country

 I grew up outside of Dawson Creek BC, which is about 650 km north of here.  A few weeks ago, Taylor told me that he would need to leave for work and that he would be gone about a week, so I took the opportunity to travel back home to visit my parents and my youngest sister.  This is the second time that Clara has made the trip, and she was very good.  We are fortunate enough to have wonderful friends in Valleyview (which is about halfway) so we were able to split the trip in half.  A three hour drive is much easier with a baby than a 6 hour drive.

Clara LOVES being outside, so we had a wonderful time walking the many trails on my parent's beautiful property with Lucy the dog and Linus the cat.  Clara saw her first beaver, as well as her first beaver-decimated forest. 

 

 Clara is so loved by her Grandma and Grandpa Hills, as well as her Auntie Leta, and it was wonderful for me to be surrounded by family instead of at home alone!

Thanks for a wonderful week!