Moving a Garden

It truly has been wonderful having Aunt Helen and Uncle Bob here.  They have been helping in so many ways.  One major task that we undertook was setting up a new garden.  This involved clearing and preparing the new site, moving dirt from another garden that was built on the south side of the house and was too hot to grow things in.  We figure we moved about a dump truck load of dirt mostly with wheel barrows. 
We are so thankful to have this new garden ready to be planted.  We are experimenting with various plants and seeing what we can grow up here.  We are hoping that people in the community will be interested in copying this idea and grow vegetables for this families with gardens in their yards.

This is the new garden site before we started clearing.

Jonathan loved using his hatchet to help clear the brush.

Everything had to go, so we all worked together to get it ready.

The new garden site had to be leveled, so we needed to bring up fill from the back yard.

We were so thankful for the Gator to help with this task.

Everyone worked together to move all this dirt up to the new garden site.

Robert was the driver of the wheelbarrows back down the hill.

The almost finished product.  Now to plant it :)

Pray for rain

It has been extremely dry here.  This capped spring (pictured below) usually has many people around it gathering water.  For the past few weeks it has been dry and the people are having to walk much greater distances to get water.  This is the first time since the spring was capped, many years ago, that it has went dry.  Please join us in praying that God would send rain.