That project morphed into something else so I ended up having this extra shadow box to use up..

For all of us.. Only in the country.Oh, this garden.I just can’t keep up with it lately.

Kennedy and I took these photos last week and it looks nothing like this now.. It’s suddenly much, much fuller..This is the time of year when the corn grows taller by the hour,.And you give up on fighting weeds and bugs altogether.. You just run out with little planks of wood everyday and try to cradle the melons and cucumbers and keep them safe until they’re ready.. And take a big metal bowl to fill up with your harvest as fast as you can before the sun gets too hot and your courage for dealing with bees buzzing around your head wears out.. And then you forget once again to rinse off your veggies BEFORE coming inside and scream at the little buggies that come crawling out into your sink.. Yup, it’s exactly that time of year in our garden right now.Most normal folk would probably classify this as a “weed”.

If you’ve been hanging out around here for long, you may know that I love weeds.So much so that I may even from time to time call them “plants”..

So what is this plant?

It started growing in my front flower garden and it made such nice ground cover that I just mulched right around it.But.. We’d just finished working on Jack’s nursery for the last year or so and I didn’t want to start on any big projects.

So I said we could do it, but we really should just put the cabinets up, power through it, and be done in like 2 weeks.Famous last words, of course.. Chris actually got the old shelving ripped  out and the new cabinets up in about 24 hours, which was an awesome start to the project.

But then it was all the little details like adding in the little wood countertop, trimming things out, and painting all the cabinets that feel like they took forever, as usual.You’d think I would have learned by now!.