2010 Vegetable Garden Harvet totals

Chad and I really wanted to have a vegetable garden at our house even though we're in a townhouse and don't really have much of a yard.  We enclosed a flower bed and Chad build two more raised beds for the vegetable gardens - so one 8'x1 1/2' bed and two 4'x4' beds.  We planted heirloom seeds on 5/18/10.  Here are our garden totals:

3 zucchini plants = 20 zucchini and 1 3/4 gallon bags of frozen slices
and 2 sandwich bags shredded zucchini

3 squash plants = 19 squash and 1 1/4 gallon bags of frozen slices

4 cucumber plants = 65 cucumber

10 okra plants = 384 okra and 22 1/3 sandwich bags of breaded frozen okra

1 lima bean bush = 43 lima bean pods (only got about half of a sandwich bag of shelled beans)

4 tomato plants = 8 tiny tomatoes

1 basil plant

I was extremely happy with our garden this year!  Chad and I really decided that we were going to make the best of what we had to work with in our little yard.  And now we know how to do things better for next year too.  We probably would have gotten more squash and zucchini if we hadn't had a squash bug invasion - I will definitely be working on how to prevent them for next year.  Also, something was wrong with our tomato plants - they grew fine, but the actual tomatoes only got a little bigger than cherry tomotoes and then they would start splitting.  But, overall I'm very happy with how things went and especially our okra harvest - that was what we wanted the most of!  Here are two pictures of our frozen harvest waiting for us to enjoy this winter:

Our frozen squash and zucchini slices - and shredded zucchini.



All our breaded and bagged frozen okra!

Last garden pictures for the season

Our vegetable garden is pretty much done now.  We only had the okra still growing and it's pretty much done now that it's gotten colder.  Here are a few pictures from the final days of our vegetable garden:

A praying mantis on one of the okra plants.

One of the last okra flowers - they are so pretty!

A huge bluebird in our neighbor's yard.



Pam & Phil's wedding 10-10-10

My mother-in-law's cousin Pam got married on Oct. 10, 2010.  Most of Chad's family was there so it was great to see everyone and celebrate Pam's marriage.  Here are some pictures from the wedding:

Mark Kano at the Evening Muse

My friend Nicole and I were able to go see Mark Kano (the lead singer of Athenaeum) perform solo at the Evening Muse on Oct. 7.  The venue is small, so it was really nice to get to enjoy almost like a private concert.  Mark is my absolute favorite singer/songwriter/musician.  I was so glad to finally get to see him perform his solo work.  Here are a few pictures from the show:

Mark Kano.

Doug Davies played the keyboard with Mark during his set.

Chris Trapper played after Mark and was very good.

He even played an ukalele for some of his songs!

Sandy loves to sleep in the sun

Sandy loves to find a patch of sunlight to sleep in.  She is so cute!



Asheboro Zoo Visit

Chad and I went to the Asheboro Zoo for the first time in almost 8 years!  It is a very nice zoo and we really enjoyed it.  The weather was beautiful and we got to see lots of animals.  Here are some pictures from our visit!

The Elephant sculptures at the zoo entrance.

Chad with the elephants at the entrance.

Jess with the elephants.

The zoo is divided into two areas - the North American side and the African side.  Here are our pictures from the North American side of the zoo.

Here are our pictures from the African side of the zoo.

The view on our way home from Asheboro.

At least it's paid off....

I just happened to catch my car right when the odometer turned to 100,000 miles.  At least it's paid off and hopefully it will last at least another 100,000 miles or more!