How Does Your Garden Grow?

So, I've decided that being a home-owner is one of those good/bad things. Of course, we love having a home to live in, and we especially love that we have over a 1/3 acre of land, but that also comes with a lot of work. Spring time is a very busy time of cleaning up from the winter and prepping our garden to be planted. All of our Saturdays are spent in our yard, as well as several weeknights. Our land is very generously endowed with a lot of rocks, so in order to prep for our vegetable garden we first raked and then screened A LOT of rocks. I should take a photo of our pile just to give you an idea, but I'll describe it instead - it stands about 3 or 4 feet tall, about 7 feet long and oh, 3 or 4 feet deep. I don't know what we'll do with this pile of rocks, but for now we are just glad that those rocks aren't in the garden anymore (I know there are a lot, lot more, but we can only do so much...). Yesterday we did get most of our vegetables planted. Our peas, carrots, lettuce, potatoes, and onions have all sprouted and are growing nicely. Our raspberries are just going nuts. Blackberries and strawberries doing well. Corn, squashes of several varieties, melons, and cucumber seeds are now in the ground. We should have put our tomatoes and peppers in the ground yesterday also, but we just didn't have the energy at the end of the day. Talking about all those fruits and vegetables gets me all excited for the end of the season when we get to enjoy all the fruits of our labors, so there is a light at the end of all this!
We did get some fun family time yesterday too. It was such a warm day that we bought a blow up pool for Ellie to play in. She loved it.