3.07.2009

Fishing Derby and Farming

Today, we started out our morning going to the Skousen farm and planting a garden plot with some friends. The Skousens own a large farm and have kindly let us plant a community garden (our whole Stake was invited to join in). We only needed to purchase the seeds, plant them and then come each week to weed it. Awesome! We planted watermellon, cantelope, pumpkin, zuchinni, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers. Can't wait to see them grow. We are so excited!

Today was also the annual fishing derby for our city. I dragged a reluctant hubby and 3 very excited kiddos to the park. 150 kids and their families all around 1 pond stocked with fat catfish. It was fun. Ty caught his first fish. And then his second and third. He skunked Carly and Ridge as they didn't catch any! As you can tell, Carly was a little miffed that she never caught one. But in the end, said it was so fun! Ridge was a trooper and actually had an excellent cast!
When Ty caught his fish, he reeled it in just to the edge and then it wiggled and splashed him. He was so excited up until that point but that ruined it. He bolted. He wasn't getting near that thing!



3 comments:

-Katie Joe- said...

hehe that is so fun! ty you are such a good fisherman! you must smell good to them!
and im excited for your garden too! youve got some good food in there. i planted more in mine this weekend too, with hunter ben and emma.

The Picketts said...

I'm excited that we have our plots next to each other - might be handy for weeks we might need to rely on each other! ha ha ha - just kidding. I wish I could have gone - but we didn't want to wake Gracie that early!
Jason said he hoped that he planted the seeds HIGH enough and that they didn't get washed away. Maybe they'll all wash away and you will look like PROS next to our garden! :o)

spudandrobe said...

Did Ty actually Win?