WOW!!! She is growing so fast & has changed so much and looks so much older…she's now looking like a soon to be toddler already.why can't they stay little for longer??
what a wonderfully joyous absolutely delightful smile. You must be smitten. I would be LOL just saying hello I am not sure how I got to your page…. LOL I have been link hopping giggle Have a great week/weekend
Part 3 was almost exactly a year ago and it took a year to figure out that we needed to sort of start again. Actually, we pretty much knew by the winter, but we didn't get to put the plan in place of how to adjust for our backyard orchard until this spring. We uprooted the handful of trees that survived, put them in 15 gal pots in the meantime, awaiting their move to their final destination (hopefully). We learned our soil wasn't draining like it's supposed to, so too much water was collecting at the base of the roots and essentially, suffocating them to death. After having a specialist come out, help diagnose the problem and offer solutions, we decided it would be best to lift the roots of the trees up higher and put them in raised beds. Can you tell we're quite serious about our gardening?
In the photo above, the trees will go against the wall at back left and in the beds at far right with the trellis system on the right with the wood posts (where we will train pears and apples into espaliers). Immediately in front and left of these beds was where the trees once were; in their place, we now have three, 3 x 13 ft cor-ten steel raised beds and this is where all the seasonal vegetables will be planted (in the photo above, you can see where Ben has already started another trellis system for our tomatoes).
Every year we get better at gardening and learn from our mistakes (make more and learn from those too!). Some have been costly mistakes and some we're glad we made, because things have turned out better. We research as much as we can, Ben especially, and talk to as many experts we can, but these things still happen. I'm excited about how everything is situated now and things already look so much better from just a couple months ago. It feels good to finally be moving forward with our garden. There were a few months where we just weren't quite sure how to troubleshoot problems, but things are looking much better now, and hopefully everything keeps flourishing.
I wrote a post about our cor-ten steel beds here and I will have an updated post about how that side is coming along. Cor-ten steel beds are a bit of an investment, but putting money into our garden and house is important to us, and we hope one day to be able to have fruits and vegetables coming out the wazoo in our own backyard. We've done pretty good with vegetables in the past, so we can only get better, right?!
WOW!!! She is growing so fast & has changed so much and looks so much older…she's now looking like a soon to be toddler already.why can't they stay little for longer??
What a beautiful baby. I love your photos!
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Her face is light with joy!
She's gorgeous, and I've been following her along in that little chair.
So precious!
OMG!!!!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this shot of her!!! It really just blessed my heart and made me smile!!!
what a wonderfully joyous absolutely delightful smile.
You must be smitten. I would be LOL
just saying hello I am not sure how I got to your page…. LOL I have been link hopping giggle
Have a great week/weekend
So cute, she looks so happy. I always go through all sets of her, its fun to see.
oh my gosh, how cute she is!!!
your kids are soooo sweet!!
wonderful blog, you inspire me!!
thanks a lot!
greetings from germany 😉
omg can't believe it's already been a month! so so sweet…
j.
What a happy baby. So cute!
You and your gals are just gorgeous!
That hair! Love it!
she is adorable! and has more hair than my 18 month old 🙁
you have one sweet little family, thanks for sharing here..it's one of the few “random” blogs i look at 😉
i loveeeeeeeee her!! toooooo cute
love adorable babies!:)
She's gotten so big! Awww!!!
OMGosh! She is getting soo big and I see she is also wearing her daddy's hair do! I love it! 😀
Seeing this little one smile always makes me smile!
i am loving watching your little one grow up! she is so beautiful! may God bless her and draw her near to His heart.
6 months? No way! Too cute. xoxo
seriously gorgeous picture. and her smile is SO cute!
ohhh my adorable!!!
Gorgeous!!
She's so beautiful!
awe! she is so big now! i remember when she couldn't even sit up!
this is just the cutest photo EVER…i hope you frame it!
i've been lurking for a while now, and this photo made me come out of hiding… =)
Time is flying! Soul is so cute!
eek! She is just too cute! I haven't been here for a bit, so I'm trying to do some catching up 🙂
I hope all is well my friend!
gorgeous!
these are so cute!