A Garden

A couple days after Simone died, my brothers helped Lane get some of our yard ready and then build a garden bed in memory of Simone.  Tim took the Gabriela and his girls to pick out some flowers each and they picked some other plants as well. 

A couple days later, when Claire, Natalie, Chaney and Beau were visiting along with Auntie Liss and Auntie Adie, they put that garden together.

 

 With six kids trampling through the garden bed and all trying to plant things at once, it wasn't quite as ceremonious as our tree planting. But the important part was that the cousins were able to be there and help assemble that little garden.

It looks much different now.  We acquired some tomato plants and since we didn't have another garden bed yet, Lane planted them in our garden bed. Then the plants exploded.  They are huge!!  And the chickens noticed them, so we had to put chicken wire all around the garden.

I'm glad Simone helped get us into gear and finally plant a garden like we've been talking about for ages.