grandaddy's hoe

I really don't have much time to post today ... we just got home from our monthly book-report day with our homeschool group.  This month they had to make puppets, which was quite interesting ... in our house we had three socks transformed into Hank the Cowdog, the Grinch, and Mike Mulligan.  The kids did a great job presenting their reports and had a lot of fun.  The report time is followed by the moms' favorite part, where we eat lunch while our kids play and we enjoy a few minutes of adult conversation.  This is one of my favorite days each month, but today, I didn't really have time for it.  But we went anyway and now I have to get the kids' rooms clean this afternoon.  I think this would be easier if I had a dumpster in the back yard, along with some place for the kids to go so they won't be lamenting the things that are going to be leaving the house.  Hopefully, we will all survive to make it to church tonight ...  we'll see!

Anyway ... in case you couldn't tell, none of that has anything to do with the title of this post.  I figured since I don't have much time, I would just share a few of my gardening pictures with you.

This is my Grandaddy's hoe and my Daddy's rake ...

look closely at the rake, that is my Daddy for you!  I love anything that can be considered nostalgic, so I just had to take this picture of a little bit of family  history.

JW and LB planting potatoes ...

notice which one has her hands in the dirt!

Daddy showing LB just how to cover the potatoes to protect the little shoots already growing.  He showed her how to do a couple and then she finished the other two rows by herself.