Deck Garden

Once again, Bob and the boys have planted a deck garden. It's really thriving due to all the rain we got over the weekend. The box in front has beans--all the strings are Bob's innovative space-saving way for the vines to climb. They also planted squash, spinach, romaine lettuce, cucumbers, and bell peppers in the other boxes. The boys aren't big fans (yet!) of peppers or cucumbers, so I think they only were allotted one or two plants. In the big pot that you can only see the edge of, Bob has 2 tomato plants (boys aren't big fans of those yet either, LOL), and 2 blueberry "bushes" (actually "twigs" right now--we're hoping they make it, much less ever bear fruit!) I'll try to post pictures to show the progress.

In other backyard nature news, yesterday morning we saw a pileated woodpecker out our study window. Nathan actually was the spotter. The bird was pecking away at a stump we have back in our little stand of trees, so he was really low to the ground. After he finished pecking, he rooted around in there for awhile, geting bugs out with his sticky tongue. Yummy! He's a pretty big bird, with that striking red crest on his head, so even the little boys could see and identify him. After that exciting interlude, it was back to the test review books for the boys. The Stanford tests are in 2 weeks!