Preparing to Plant a Garden. . .

I love Damian and Emma's hands in the dirt here. Emma was sifting dirt through her fingers, but I didn't capture the moment.

Notice the shovel. Gehrig kept shoveling mounds of dirt and tossing them without care onto his little brother and sister.

I should have gotten a better picture of the dirt that was dumped on them, but you get the idea. . .

I've made small attempts each year that we've been here to have a garden, but without much success (probably planting in the heavily shaded, rocky, clay soiled flower beds was the biggest part of the problem). I convinced Lou to help me prepare a corner of our yard for a garden. We still have a lot of prep work, but hopefully we'll have a little more success this year. I want it to be Gehrig & Damian's garden (with a lot of help from me). We'll see. . .don't hold your breath. I don't seem to have a green thumb.