1. Grammar: Amy is continuing to develop her language skills and formulate her own grammar. We’re hearing some complete sentences occasionally, like “I found a beet,” recitations of familiar phrases from songs and books like “Toad woke up. House a mess! Blegh. Down in dumps. Why Frog,” and, most recently, things like “lie downing” and “look upping,” which shows she’s noticing grammatical patterns and trying to generalize them.
2. Bunnies: I have been weeding in the garden, which has been largely neglected. I’ve tried to keep weeds away from the plants, but they’ve been growing at will between the rows. I half wonder if all those weeds are the reason the rabbit and the groundhog have mostly left the garden alone — just a few nibbles on bean and zucchini leaves at the edge of the garden. We’ll see if they eat more when the weeds are gone. Meanwhile, I was moving some mulch aside to get to the roots of some weeds, and I found a nest of baby bunnies. They were able to move a little, and it looks like they have some fur. Eyes still closed. I hope that my disturbing the nest won’t make the mother abandon them, and I hope that removing the weeds doesn’t make their nest too hot. I covered them back up as best I could.
Yet another reason I don’t believe in weeding – LOL. We have a tiny garden this year – just 8 tomato plants. First, because at 7 months pregnant I’m not weeding or doing much outside at all. Second, because the massive water restrictions we are under makes it too difficult to maintain a garden. I’ll just live vicariously through the rest of you.
Comment by Enola — July 1, 2008 @ 8:53 am |
I looked up baby bunnies and found that it’s unlikely that disturbing the nest will make the mother abandon them — I checked on them again today and they’re fine, and a couple huge zucchini leaves are shading them.
I didn’t want to garden this year — lost my motivation after getting pregnant two years ago, and hoped to get a community supported agriculture share instead, but the one CSA farm here had already sold all their shares. I’ve been a little more motivated once it was planted and growing. So far I only had to water it in the beginning.
Do you can your tomatoes?
Comment by Marcy — July 1, 2008 @ 1:38 pm |