Our Garden is Officially Cool

Our garden is officially cool because the first vegetables were ripe for the pickin'! 4 zucchinis today. I cannot tell you how exciting it was to walk out there and literally pick the fruits (well, vegetables) of our labor! I was just jumping inside with glee! I admit, I do talk to the plants, and I told them how proud I am of them! With such encouragement, I expect to be picking veggies all summer long. :)

Let me just share a few more pictures... with captions because I like writing them... not because I think you can't see.

[Left]Our garden which will be producing beans, tomatoes, onions, crookneck squash, and, of course, zucchini. [Right] Crookneck that will be ready soon!
[Left] A tomato that needs to turn red so I can eat it. [Right] One of the zucchinis I picked today before I actually did with one growing to the left of it.

Vegetable Garden

I have got to say that I love our garden! There are 4 tomatoes growing and 4 crookneck squash growing, and 4 or 5 zucchinis! I am so excited!!! Hopefully in a few more days we can pick our first zucchini. Mmmm...

Random DC Highlights

RANDOM DC HIGHLIGHTS:

Chilling with the presidential candidates.

Here I am reflecting at the Reflecting Pool (haha!)... Spelling that made me laugh, offically. :)


Josh with a million dollars... Josh and the Korean War Memorial...




Hanging out with the Edwards... At the metro's steep escalator that used to scare me as a child...


At a dinner theater where we saw West Side Story... At the DC temple.












OTHER HIGHLIGHTS:

• Seeing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I felt so strongly looking at them that they were inspired of God.
• Being at the Capitol and hearing The 1812 Overture with live cannons! Need I say more? It was so COOL!
• Being able to hang out with my husband!
• Hearing the organ at the National Cathedral.
• Eating out!
  
• Going to the Wright brothers exhibit room at the Air and Space Museum. It was really interesting. It sounds a little sappy, but I really gained an appreciation for what good men they were.
• Seeing the dinosaur bones and the Natural History Museum. I can't believe those bones were actually parts of living creatures on our earth even though I know they were!
• The monuments. It was a good reminder of great men who helped found this county and those who have fought to keep this country.

NOT HIGHLIGHTS:

• Heat and humidity.
• Massive reaction to a bug bite. [See picture.] I wore a bandaid to try to cover it. After the day shown, I wore a bigger one.

Alas, the Glabes Have Left Us in Mourning

Yesterday, the Glabes left us. They moved out of Twin Pines, leaving us the only couple on our floor that moved in during the summer of 2006. Yes, we are the "old" couple on our floor now. Of course, though we've been hanging out for almost two years, we hadn't actually taken a picture together--we're not as good as the Christensens about that. (The Christensens are another summer '06 couple that has also left us, right after having little Kelsey.) So literally minutes before they drove away, we snapped a picture. We wish the Glabes luck--they'll be missed. We hope they, too, will be peer-pressured into posting on their blog. :)