Sawyer Smith: 2011

Fall appreciation

I see this view with this mutt every morning. I appreciate it.

Garden pumpkin

We grew our first pumpkin in our new garden. We carved it early - as it was ripe early. And the squirrels promptly devoured it off our front porch. Alas, it was fun anyways.

We are doing a chicken share with three other families in our neighborhood. Our friends built a coop in their yard and today we went to the County Fair to pick up some 4-H chickens. Below is Heneley, the chicken Sawyer picked out for himself.

Meet Huevas & Rancheras

Here is Heneley, Chester, and Rocky (Roquette)

Delilah-Clementine

Rocky (Rocquette)

mid-July garden

Not long after we moved in I convinced Dan to help me build two additional raised beds for the garden.

I desperately threw seeds into the garden to see if we could pull off having a garden at our new home the first year. After several terrible spring storms things were looking desperate. I ended up adding some starter plants and things have turned out really nicely.

By May, the garden looked like this and we were getting beautiful micro-green salads.

Now, in mid-July, we have a really beautiful and productive garden.

I am growing beets for the first time - they are beautiful! (Yes, Mom, me and beets- who knew?)

Sawyer was dismayed that the cabbage moths ate all our broccoli the week before we were going to harvest. Since then he has been a bit worried about the "bad bugs that eat the garden" so we spend a lot of time talking about all the good bugs, like spiders and lady bugs that help us out.

He is very proud of our garden. And so am I.