Break Time

Yesterday, Rebekah brought her chickens in for school break time. Actually, it wasn't break time, but when she brought the chickens in, we had to take a break...

Front Yard

When we bought our house last year, it was bank owned. The lawn hadn't been watered in months. We started watering it and found that it was all weeds. The parkway had lots of prickly weeds which made it hard to walk on barefoot. So, we covered the whole yard in plastic to kill off the lawn, the weeds and anything else in the ground.

It's been about six months and last week we started lifting the plastic. The plastic was already off the parkway for a while (Don't use white plastic, it deteriorates.). We had some really good rains, so I figured now was a good time to start removing the new weeds from the parkway.

We spent a couple of days last week removing the weeds. Jim started shoveling off the top two inches of soil because the dirt was too high. We put it into the front yard to deal with in the days to come.

We loosened up the top of the soil left on the parkway. (That was a tough job.) Then we layered on some garden soil. I mixed the creeping thyme seed with sand and sprinkled it on the dirt. Then we put some sphagnum moss to help keep it moist. We also need to get some stepping stones to put here and there so people can cross easily. I'm really looking forward to the ground cover when it's grown.

Funny Boy

I haven't blogged for a while. So, I figured I'd start off with an easy one.

While we were on vacation, Elijah kept telling this story about how his name isn’t Elijah, it’s Johnny. Cuz, you know, his other family named him Johnny. He's 5 years old. (He's really only 4, but he's wanted to be 5 ever since his older siblings were in a class that you had to be 5 to be enrolled in.) His Dad’s name was Sukkah and his mom was Sukkah 2. His mom died and his dad gave him a map to go live with us. Too funny. He goes into all this detail. And he even answers to the name Johnny.

Uncle John came and visited us while we were up there and he just had a heyday with the whole thing. John and Johnny shared a room the night he stayed. And John would just do all kinds of stuff to bug “Johnny” or get him to tell more of his story.

On the way home, we stopped at Taco Bell for dinner. There were highway patrolmen eating there and Elijah wanted to talk to them, but he was too shy to go by himself. Rebekah took him over to say hi. The patrolmen stopped eating, said hi to him and then asked him his name. After a long pause, he said "Johnny". Then they asked how old he was. Another pause and "5". Too funny! I think the kid is starting to believe his own stories. :)