Outdoors. . .

I feel so behind on my blog reading and catching up with you all, but I didn't want that to stop me from posting too. I will get caught up soon and visit all your blogs a few at a time this week. In the meantime I just wanted to let you all know I posted an update to my garden blog this week and I still have 'week 8' to post from this past weekend. Here's a few of the pictures from out back, I thought I'd show them here and join in with Susan's wonderful Outdoor Wednesday and the lovely Marla's Woo Hoo Wednesday :-)

Things are starting to look pretty good outside now. . . .

The pumpkins that were being eaten alive by beetles have started growing like crazy and already producing pretty yellow flowers.

Sunflowers are starting to bloom too!

There's Jason checking on the green beans.

Picking green beans for dinner :-)

The plums on the tree are ripe and we've been picking those this week too. What I love best is when Jason and I wander around the garden in the evening and we pick fruit and eat it as we go. Some apricots are ready too . . . .

Woo Hoo, look what we picked last night. Apricots and plums from the trees, and a few beans for Jason's dinner (I'd already eaten). I have a huge ziploc bag in the freezer of beans I picked and blanched a few days ago.

School is out on Friday but it looks like Kristen might not be back there this week! I went to her graduation ceremony yesterday but after school she was complaining of yet another headache (she's had a few this past week which I thought might just be allergies) and then mentioned her throat is sore - again! She also had a fever of 100.7. I have kept her off school today and will take her to the Dr at 11am this morning. I am hoping it's not strep again, but if it is she probably won't be able to return to school.