I finally got some tomato plants in the ground. If they don't do better than they did last year, I might cry. I wanted to expand the garden this year, but figured I would never get around to doing it properly, so just tilled the plot I had from last year. Maybe the lack of space will motivate me to finally get some raised beds going.
We set up the pool last week in spite of the chill, and I set the water a-dribbling to fill it. It takes a while to fill the pool with clear water out of the well. Draw too much too quickly, and the dirt gets stirred up into the well water. The next morning, there were puddles around the feet of the pool frame, so we think there is a leak somewhere. Now we are in a quandary. Do we keep filling it and hope that if there is a leak, it seals itself somehow? If it keeps leaking, will it be at a tolerably slow enough rate? And what is that tolerable rate? Do we just trash the thing and head to the parks' pool more often this year?
I bought the ducks a little pool of their own and filled it today. They were rather suspicious of the thing, but their curiosity won out after they saw a chicken drinking from it. They took a few hesitant sips, then one dunked her head. A few more seconds, and another jumped in. The ecstasy must have been immediate, as suddenly there was a flailing of wings and feet and duck under water. It made me a little sad, though, to see the joy limited to such a small radius. If only they would know to come back home to safety after swimming in the big pond...
Zivah got braces on her top teeth yesterday. Although smiling in this picture, she wasn't smiling much this morning as the ache had set in.
Tomorrow is the last full day of school for the kids. Somebody check on me in two weeks to see if I'm still alive. ;)
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