Veggie time

Our garden has been growing and doing really well so far.  We've picked yellow squash, zucchini, radishes, and dill weed.  I found the big 2 lb zucchini in the top picture hiding in our plant.  It was a nice surprise!

Camping

Teresa and Jesse came to visit us April 25-May 1.  We went camping Saturday at Bucks Pocket State Park.  We first went to High Falls to look at the waterfalls and then took the rafts out on a cove off of Lake Guntersville.  It was a great day to be outside.

High Falls Park

Easter sunday we went to High Falls Park, about an hour and a half south of us in Alabama. It was a beautiful day to be outside. We hiked to the bottom of the falls and enjoyed a picnic lunch.

Grandma visits Alabama

Grandma came to visit us with mom and dad March 10-15. We took them to Green Mountain for a picnic lunch and stopped by the U.S. Space and Rocket Center on the way home so grandma could see the Saturn V rocket. She had never seen one before so she was excited to see it. We had a great time, playing plenty of card games, playing guitar hero, going to a movie and planting flowers.

New Bed

We got our headboard finished on Saturday right before mom, dad, and grandma got to our place with the bench that dad made for us. Here are the before, during, and after pics. We sanded the old finish off the door, stained it, finished it, and built posts to hold it up.

Thanksgiving/Christmas 2011

This year for Thanksgiving Ken and Arlene came and stayed with us. It was nice celebrating with family. We made a feast and ate leftovers for days, yumm! They helped us find a Christmas tree at the tree farm that Saturday. I can't believe that this is already our 3rd Thanksgiving and Christmas in Alabama, but our first in our new home this year.

2011 Garden Totals

Here are the total counts for how many of each vegetable we picked from our garden in 2011.

Okra: 684
Tomatoes: 159
Zucchini: 21
Yellow Squash: 56
Green Pepper: 27
Eggplant: 16
Yellow Pepper : 4
Salsa Pepper: 13
Beets: 3
Lettuce: 19 salads
Spinach: 3 salads

We figured that we saved approximately $190 on groceries. Not too bad. We learned a lot this year and have ideas on how to improve next year. We definitely will not plant as many Okra plants. We were sick of Okra by the end of summer. They were the easiest of all the veggies to grow. We will try some new veggies next year.