Domestication Update: Garden & 1st Quilt

 We spent some time in our neglected garden this weekend.  I'm so glad we have the water automated or else we probably would not have a garden right now. 

 Of the 10 fruit trees we planted in January, 3 have come to bear fruit: a peach, nectarine and the nectaplum.  I've thinned the trees of fruit so they would produce something but use most of their energy to establish good roots.

 Today I gleaned the 2 peaches and 3 nectarines....they were still hard so we set them out on the counter to finish ripening.  Update: a couple days later, I began eating these fruits and they were delicious--so juice and sweet.  I can't wait for next year's fruit!!

 We've been enjoying an assortment of fresh lettuce for months.  Today Carl got in the garden to weed because the grass started taking over.  He found some large zucchinis (you can see even the zucchinis have sort of taken over).  He harvested 6 zucchinis which yielded over 10 lbs!  The vine growing vertically would be our green beans, trying the vine this year instead of the bushes.  So far we've had a fair amount of beans, yum!  We also have some tomatoes fighting in there but I think our bell peppers were a dud this year.  Not too bad starting off with seeds instead of plants for the first time. 

 Elena picked flowers to give me.  Mostly dandelions but also my hydrangea.

 She loves picking flowers.  It was my intention to build her a small flower garden this past spring.  Alas, not feeling well scratched that project off the list.  Next year she will definitely have a flower garden to tend to and pick all she wants.

 This was a potted hydrangea for inside.  I thought it was a goner but it has started bouncing back in it's new location.  Now we just have to keep the grass from overtaking it :)

 This is an old picture but I wanted to share my first quilt.  I worked on it from January - March and for my first attempt it turned out wonderful.  Of course there are some things I would have liked to change, maybe improvements for my next one.  Quilts, even easy ones like this, are completely time intensive.

And also addictive.  Before I was done with this one, I was ordering material for Elena and Baby.  I have the material but haven't started even started designing.  Elena loved the space print so much, she's requested to have some of it in her quilt..she also asked for purple :)