in the backyard

It wasn't raining that day, but O was prepared anyway.

As you can see our back yard is still the source of lots of fun. Right now, the boys can pick peas, strawberries, lettuce and herbs back there, and they are eying the green raspberries, which look like they'll be plentiful this year after a good layer of chicken compost this spring.

Every year, we go to an awesome local nursery and buy a bag of a couple of thousand lady bugs. They are beneficial in that they eat aphids and some other bugs that would otherwise eat our vegetables since we don't spray. We let a few hundred out at a time for about a week, and keep them in the fridge in between releases. For the third year now, the boys have thoroughly enjoyed this ritual. I'm thinking that next year, I'll have to have the cousins over to see it too.

And it all washes off at the end of the day...

Comments

[Eva]

Lovely photos, and sounds like lovely summer days.

[Meika]

Wow - your boys are getting so BIG!

[Kim]

I'm new to this blog ring, so I'm just looking around and checking out blogs . . . was really moved by your previous post. Love all the backyard pictures, too!