Terrie and Chuck 
Mom and Chuck
Well, my husband, Chuck, has been very busy trying to build a raised bed garden for my Mom, and also one for us. For those that have visited us before, you know that we have lots of trees. Since sun is such a valuable "garden growing commodity" we had to place the beds in just the right places.
Hers is now complete and after adding the final mushroom compost (6 bags no less), we finished planting the vegetables yesterday. He designed the beds so that they would be high enough for us to sit comfortably on the little ledge seats he put on both sides. (weeding was never so easy)! It works very well! Chuck built Moms last Sunday and when I arrived home from Chain of Parks, Mom had the wine glasses ready for the "garden toast."
He has worked on ours all day today with some help from Mom and our friend Joe, and hopefully it will be ready for the mushroom compost tomorrow. Then we can begin the fun part of planting some vegetables. We will all work on them together. The bed at Mom's has beans, tomatoes (several varieties), cucumbers, eggplant, bell peppers (green and red), and some hot peppers plus several varieties of basil.
We have had a very beautiful and a very productive weekend!
I finished my residency for VSA Florida last week and tomorrow will be the first Monday in several months that I haven't gone to teach. This residency was a good one and I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate the students' efforts in the art projects I presented and how much I value and appreciate their teachers!
So everyone go out and have a good week. From time to time I will let you know how the veggies are coming along!
'til later,
