Child Organization, Box Gardens and More....

My son Preston likes to organize things.  It doesn't matter what it is either.  If the refrigerator is open, he'll take out all of the bottles on the bottom door shelf and either organize them on the kitchen floor, or put them back on the shelf where he thinks they should go.  He does this with his toy animals

bowls, his books, and pots and strainers.  Basically anything he can get his hands on, he will organize it.  It is hilarious.  It is fascinating to watch him think it through and put something exactly where he wants it.

So we finally got our acts together this year and bought a small box garden kit.  We then bought a seed started kit and started seeds inside for tomatoes, egg plant, and various peppers.

All of the tomato seeds, most of the egg plant and only two of the pepper seeds survived.  In our box garden we decided to plant this year: peas, cucumber, yellow and green zucchini squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash, egg plant, the two various pepper seeds and tomatoes.

Note to self, get a second box garden kit dedicated to squash.  And maybe cut down on how many peas and tomatoes we plant too.  Craziness is abounding here folks.

It has been fun to watch our small garden take off and go crazy.  I hope we get a bit of everything this year, but as you can see above, the squash plants are taking away sun from the cucumber, egg plant and peppers, so we'll see what ends up being able to grow.  We got a late start this summer, planting our garden, but hopefully more things will begin to produce before we have to start covering the garden at night to protect the plants and produce from the chilly nights.

My son keeps me on my toes all day long except when he is napping.  During nap time, I crochet while streaming netflix, journal, nap myself, work on revising my theses so then someday I can maybe find someone to publish them (fingers crossed), blog, speed walk on the treadmill when I can for exercise, check facebook once a day or every other day depending on what is going on around here and play in the garden.  I clean house every once in a while but only when I can't put it off anymore.  These are things I do to pass the time and fight the occasional feelings of loneliness.  I tell myself, that this too shall pass, and pass it does.