Happy Memorial Day!

I love Memorial Day! I love to drive to the cemeteries and clean graves and reminisce about loved ones and see all the other people who do the same. Cemeteries full of flowers and balloons and flags make me feel happy. I told Merritt today that we are truly ungrateful if we do not remember our loved ones and those who fought for our freedoms, and I believe with all my heart that is true.

I also like Memorial Day because it gives us an extra day to spend together as a family. After six stops at different gravesites (we know a lot of dead people) we headed home for a lunchtime bbq - hamburgers and hotdogs - and then headed into the backyard to make some serious progress on my Mother's Day gift...a raised herb garden. The previous owners of our home left us with a very fine rectangle of weeds courtesy of the fact that they parked their trailer in the backyard. We had originally intended to re-seed the spot, but then I saw a picture and had an epiphany; we could make that dead zone into a wonderful garden! I had the dream, the energy to dig it out, the enthusiasm to see it through, and bought the stone and the weed barrier, but I really had no clue what I was doing. This was especially true since my proposed garden is on a slope! *Sound the trumpets!* Chad to the rescue!! He figured out how to make it work, and despite the fact that I am digging alone in the following picture, we grubbed TOGETHER and he made my dream a reality. Well...almost. I did run out of stone toward the end, so it's back to Lowe's tomorrow! I will post a picture when it's all finished and planted with the seeds I have carefully gathered: thyme, rosemary, sage, oregano, basil, marjarom, chives, parsley...oh, the list goes on! Such fun! Also, I'll post a picture of my vegetable garden when I get some serious signs of life from my fun seeds, I only planted them on Saturday so it'll be a bit. You're so impatient! (Actually, that would be me.) :)