Happy Mother’s Day! New Beds and New Orleans!
First off, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!! 
To all you mothers out there, I hope this day is a day of rest and happiness!
(the garden bed layout from before)
This weekend I built 2 of 3 of the last few garden beds that we can fit in the backyard and it was kinda bittersweet honestly. Sweet, because we have more room to experiment growing our own food with (which is always good) and bitter because we’ve played out all the sunlit areas out back. I don’t want to cut down more trees because… well… they’re trees. But I can’t help but view this as one of many paragraphs in the prologue of our stay here. It signifies much needed changed in our lives but yet it also hails in the end of a lot of heavy situations.
(garden bed layout after…)
Tough decisions ahead for sure, but, for now, I’m more than happy to be stuck with deciding whether or not I want to use the extra beds for more herbs or garlic (YUM!!) or a maiden voyage into potatoes and their various tuber brethren. Probably the latter.
We also, as shown in the post below this one, made a crazy bomber run down to New Orleans for the annual Jazz festival that they have down there. I won’t reiterate, just suffice it to say it was amazing!!! Every aspect of it. What an amazing part of this country! It was my first dose of how different this country can be heritage-wise. I‘m sure everyone says the same thing when they visit my native New England, but it was unbelievably cool (and humbling at times) being in a part of the US that definitely didn’t feel stereotypical of the United States. It totally gave us the travel bug 10 fold!
Extra special thanks to our friends Heather and Cat, for showing us the ropes down there. It definitely wouldn’t have been the same trip with out you!
That’s about it! Summer’s definitely here and the garden will be in full swing before you know it! Expect the lotsa pics and stories from the back yard!
All the best,
Tad (and Mel)
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Rachel on 12 May 2009 at 9:41 pm #
Glad you guys had such fun in NO…sounds like a blast! I followed through some of Mel’s pictures on Flickr and stalked her on Twitter to see what bands you were watching! Living vicariously again! :wink:
Loving how you are turning your backyard into raised beds for veggies and herbs! Can’t wait to see your gardening updates this year. Although the choice of garlic or potatoes…so tough…I can’t live without either! I got my potatoes in the ground a couple weeks ago (may have been too late, but I hope not since we are having a cool spring) and the garlic I planted last fall is growing full force (first time I’ve planted it…normally I get a huge bagful from a friend when we work with him each fall. But that project is over so I have to grow my own now . :cry: ). I can’t wait to harvest it in a couple months! Here’s to an amazing gardening season to us all!