another day in the garden
It is lovely havign one I have to say!! (I will shut up about it soon, maybe…) It’s been gorgeous today so we’ve been outside loads, stuck the blanket outside and kids have just run riot really. They did want to do some “learning”, mammals were the order of the day so I found Marcus an Usborne book about animals. Actually it was one of those books where you have to find so many animals in a page. He decided he wanted to draw something and found the sea life page. He did rather a good drawing of it all, with lots of conversations about the different animals too. Bit of a touch on reptiles and amphibians. He doesn’t know much about them so that might be something to look at soon.
In the afternoon we walked up to the post office and back via the playpark. Marcus did his normal trick of spotting some boys (school kicking out time) and joining in with their play as if he’d known them all their lives. They did get a bit mental though, Marcus couldn’t keep up with them!!
We planted some sunflower seeds in the garden today, I was good and let the kids do something 
Then we made a bird scarer, also known as hanging old cd’s from the tree in the middle of the patch. Dunno if it will work. Have come to the conclusion that the trees are nothing to get excited about, I did have some hopes for fruit (ha!) but nope. One against the wall is an elder I think (dunno why I thought it was kind of trained against the wall, it soooo isn’t!!!) and no idea of the small one in the middle. I reckon it’s a sapling that may have just grown there on it’s own. I daren’t cut it down though, it’s bigger than me!! Maybe next year. Slightly worried about possible frost overnight here so we’ve wrapped up all the fragile stuff. Hopefully not dead tomorrow!! Am thinking about doing a gardening blog since it’s coming along well (famous last words), shall see if I get chance.
Phew! It’s a relief to hear that you are planting the sunflower seeds out now…so I am not too late. A mate of mine told me I couldn’t possibly plant any sunflowers now…but I knew she was wrong. I’m going to plant some tommorrow. Your trees sound sweet…no doubt they will reveal themselves as time goes on..they might just be a bit shy!
Comment by elderfaery — May 31, 2006 @ 7:30 pm
glad you found are gardening blog - have got wayyyyy behind!
Comment by HelenJ — May 31, 2006 @ 9:22 pm