Green thumb? We shall see!

This morning we got up and out way early in the am... on a Saturday... ouch. It was tough but I'm pretty excited that we did. Mike and I headed out to the Brazoria County Master Gardener sale in Angleton and purchased THREE citrus trees. Don't guess I need to tell ya what we did the rest of the day. We are so very excited about our lemon, grapefruit and satsuma trees. We also got a blackberry vine and completed our garden with tons more tomatoes than last year, broccoli ( I hear it's not really the season but we loved them last year!), onions, red, yellow and green bell peppers, jalapeno and habanero peppers, lettuce and cucumbers. We changed it up a bit from last year and this time I'm taking good notes!! I don't remember much from just last summer and wish I had initiated a garden journal. Good thing Mike's got a memory. Typical. We forgot to get out the camera until we were headed off the lot. The sale opened at 8am and by the time we got there at 7:30am there were hundreds of people in line. Little did we know a friend from church and my own mother were up at the front of the line. Stinkers! But we ended up getting what we wanted except for the avacado trees. Maybe next year. It was way fun to be a part of it all.
We didn't space the trees as well as we would have liked, but our back yard is not the biggest and we have lousy electical/phone wires dug underground right smack in the most inconvenient places. Then there is our storage shed and Mike's boat. It's the best we could do with what we had but I think it will be fine. Especially if we keep it good and pruned.
I am totally stoked about our grapefruit tree. Growing up I was not too big on the fruit. My mom has had great success with hers and a few weeks ago sent some home for me to share with the kids. Well, I guess my tastebuds have changed because now I can't get enough! And Zack and Maddie love them also. Our lemon tree already has lemons on it! We very well could have fresh lemonade this summer!! Woo hoo! I can't even explain how good it feels to have this initiated again. Such a productive day! It's good to know that just weeks away we will have fresh veggies for dinner and possibly in a year from now we will enjoy our very own backyard fruits.

I'm trying so hard to be more self reliant. This is my year to change things in that area. I'm determined to learn more!! It's encouraged in church and by our leaders, but I'm especially grateful to my mother for all of her wonderful ideas that she shares and for her example throughout my life. I remember watching/helping her in her garden and even now I love it when she calls me with grocery sales or yummy recipes. What a woman!!

So the kids are home from their mom's for the rest of the weekend and we are so ready to just get some R and R tonight. Oh happy day.