Look! Look!

I am trying not to hold my breath, but there are more and more tomatoes! Riley is going to have to learn to count higher than six!

I love the smell of tomato plants and leaves and isn't it ironic that I can't eat many because they hurt my stomach so? No matter. They are beautiful to watch grow.

The boys always check the garden first thing. Riley carefully counts the tomatoes.

I remind him to peek under the leaves for little ones that are hiding. It takes much patience for this at four years old. That is the patience that allows for following directions, and reading, and listening, and creating.

 

We are also patiently waiting for strawberries. Being an amateur, I picked a variety that will produce in June and in August. We will see. I also read that I needed to prune the suckers so all the energy can go to producing the strawberries. I have done this in hopes to see more progress. We are watching and waiting.

 

Seth has been busy this week with a new TV mount, remedying the "hole in the wall". He has been a great help to me. He and Kristen have been very creative with some plastic outdoor chairs that are now painted anew and lovely old pallets from a barn sale that are making an outdoor table for Seth's patio in Athens. Kristen is participating in a mini internship with a public relations firm in downtown Nashville and is doing a great job. Tim loves, loves, loves his new job at Oak Ridge, Jane is approaching graduation, and Daniel is in training this week in Florida. Rebecca continues to move toward her nurse practitioner goal.

Counting the fruit and waiting patiently for it takes time, huh?!