introducing....

the ladies.

me.

movement is everything.

ever sit by a mosquito infested swamp?

gardening 101

well, it went something like this.

till the soil.

set the fence poles

beg my sister for a really cool old gate

get that gate- thanks btw!

manage to put up 1/2 the fence

use gate in another garden as a trellis

plant stuff

weed a little

rain

rain

work

rain

hot

humid

rain

work

work

rain

vacation

rain

it made me very stressed to see it in such a state that one day while on the mower.. i mowed the whole thing down, besides the sweet corn and potatoes and the surrounding weeds.. and i believe the watermelon and strawberries survived as well, but they too have a weed buffer around them.

but the rest.. gone. it felt good at the moment, but now the weeds are higher than ever.

this morning God lead me to read Jeremiah 4:3-4 in my ESV. "break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns. Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskins of your heart."

so i looked it up in an online commentary, to just get another perspective here's what it said...An unhumbled heart is like ground untilled. It is ground which may be improved; it is our ground let out to us; but it is fallow; it is over-grown with thorns and weeds, the natural product of the corrupt heart. Let us entreat the Lord to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within us; for except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.

how's your garden today? mowed over? there's hope in these verses.. lots of it. hope for a fruitful and abundant life.. IF your garden is properly cared for.

and the award goes too...

ok so i know it's not the most flattering picture..

but after driving in 100 degree heat with

no air through south dakota you try to be gorgeous.

what i DO like about this particular picture is that it's filled

filled to the brim with the personalities of my world changers.

and that makes me happy. because acting like you love the badlands

apparently isn't high priority for anyone in this pic but me.

so i win the award! YEAH!!! i LOVE to Win!!