He actually caught one!

Look at those honeydew vines!!!

The corn is getting tall in one section of the garden.

Can you see the green beans?

The beginning of a honeydew!

A tiny cucumber.

This is the shady spot in the garden. It's taken a long time for the watermelon vine to get going.

This is the catfish Garrett caught!!!

The proud fisherman with his catch.

Yesterday around 8 PM, Garrett and I headed over to an urban fishing pond. He took two poles with him. He prepared one pole and cast out his hook (baited with a worm). He put that pole down, and while he was in the middle of preparing the other pole, the first pole moved slightly. He picked it up and...reeled in a catfish! The catfish was about 14 inches long. We stayed and fished for another hour and a half, but the catfish was the only catch of the day. Still, a pretty good catch if you ask me! We're going to have catfish for dinner tonight.

The garden is also coming along. The cucumbers are doing well. What I'm really hoping will do well are the honeydew vines! I love honeydew!

A Beautiful Day in June

The temperature was high for most of the week, but it cooled off and became quite pleasant for this weekend. Our garden plants could tell the difference too, and the soil wasn't bone dry by the afternoon either!

I finally realized I made a horticultural error with the cucumber plants in the planter. When I planted the garden, I thought that for each seed I planted, I would get one cucumber. Not so, not so! For each seed I planted, a large vine began to grow. Each vine had numerous, large leaves that began hogging all the sunlight. Thus, we had a garden full of cucumber plants that were preventing the tomatoes and the bell peppers from growing. I like cucumbers, but not that much! Garrett and I experimented with transplanting some of the plants into a garden space we had left in front of our house. The results were sad, as you can tell by the pictures. I ended up cutting most of then away and putting them in the green box. We'll have to see how the tomatoes and bell peppers do now that they have access to some direct sunlight. Garrett and I have also been amazed at how much difference two or three feet can make in the amount of sunlight an area gets, and how much that affects the growth of the garden. From the pictures, you will be able to tell what plants get the right amount of sun, and which plants need a bit more in order to grow faster.

I also included a couple of pictures of the inside of our apartment so that you can see what it looks like without all the moving boxes everywhere (I should have posted pictures of this sooner-the moving boxes have been gone for a long time).

Family Reunion Fun

Garrett and I went to his hometown last week for his brother Jordan's graduation (congrats Jordan...sorry I didn't get any pictures). From there, we journeyed to a family reunion on Garrett's great uncle's ranch. I'm not sure I will have any luck properly labeling the pictures, but I will try:

The first picture is of Garrett's parents. The second picture is of Garrett's oldest brother and his family. The woman working the kitchen cutting up peppers is Grandma Pitrat. After that is a picture of Garrett and me. Below us is a picture of Uncle Wayne and Aunt Sheri. I didn't get any pictures on my camera of Amber (one of Garrett's older sisters) and her family, nor of Candy and Clint and Darrell and his family. However...I do have some video footage of them on my video camera. The area where the ranch is located is beautiful! The food was delicious-Wayne and Sheri sure know how to feed a crowd! We had bar-b-q chicken and pork, rice, a bell pepper/vegetable medley (grilled), fruit salad, plus roasted green chiles and "cheese crisps" (tortillas filled with cheese, grilled, so that the cheese melts). Aunt Candy brought chili too! The drive to and from the reunion was also fun. We drove on Route 66 and stopped for ice-cream on the way, plus we saw the town where Garrett's mom lived from age 7 to the time she left for college. Reunions are a my favorite way to collect family history!