2016 Gardening with my boy

"Dad's away, so ... let's pretend that it's summer and you don't have to do much school, sound like a good plan son my heart?"

Son: "But mom, I want to veritas press and veritas bible and ESA.. can I do that?"

What does a mom say to that?   "Sure lad, get 'er done."

Once the "I want to's" were done, my lad and I headed outside to get some work done.  My goal, to get some gardening done before it got too hot. 

Our biggest job was to put up the tomatoes.   This involved the use of a simple machine... a pulley!   Normally hubby helps as I simply don't have the arm strength to do it but he's not here, so I figured with some creative thinking and a lad's determination we could do the job.  it worked SO WELL I was quite amazed.   The lad was pleased as well, it took him a bit to figure out how to get the rope over the beam, I was so pleased he didn't get frustrated and stuck with it.

Watering the plants he just planted.   Oregano, thyme and rosemary into our herb planter.   The summer savoury and sage kept over from last year.

When gardening one meets all sorts of wee creatures, the lad thought he should catch some for "Columbus" his pet jumping spider.   Columbus, was apparently quite pleased with selection chosen for him.

Dahlia's all planted (we'll be selling some once they come up better), peppers planted as well.  The lad did one of the pepper bins by himself, he was pleased as he hadn't planted peppers before.   By this time he was looking flushed so I sent him off to put things in the garbage and then to rest in the house while I tided up the remaining bits.

We had a great time together, mixing dirt, talking and figuring things out.  It's good to share work with a helpful lad.