LOL - I'll do that if I have to, for sure!
Not only did we plant watermelon, but also another type of rather obscure melon called "Schoon's Hard Shell" melon. It's a cantaloupe type that is supposed to be resistant to cracking - we'll see, I guess. Next we planted:
lettuce
radishes
lemon basil
rattlesnake pole beans
yard long beans
and several types of sunflowers (so far)
They helped a lot! It did get pretty warm in the middle of the day so they had to spend some time with the water hose, lol. They hosed down the geese along with themselves, lol. I had to threaten them to stay away from me!
Somewhere in between all of that I taught my granddaughter to tie her shoes....it was funny and frustrating at the same time but she got 'er done. It's amazing what kind of motivation works. "If you don't learn to tie your shoes you can't work in the garden!" In a couple of years that one won't get me anywhere - but it worked yesterday!
We had broccoli cheese soup last night along with grilled cheese sandwiches. It's their absolute favorite meal and easy enough to fix - so they got their wish. They are quite the pancake connoisseur's also. This morning's selection will be cranberry orange pancakes. I'll be cheating and using a muffin mix to make 'em... (Yesterday was honey wheat pancakes- also from a muffin mix.) I usually cook 'em from scratch but this is a pantry cleaning project for me - and fun for them. We learned that you can also make pancakes out of cake mix. We call 'em pancake cake around here. Maybe not the most nutritious breakfast item, but we pair it with some bacon and eggs and call it good.
We'll be butchering some quail tomorrow. We talked it over and they think they're ready. Part of our discussion was that the quail are sacrificing their lives for us so we have to thank them and be very respectful when we butcher them. Granddaughter said yesterday that if all the grocery stores in the whole world were closed - she's coming to my house! What a smart kid, lol.
