Garden Guy

April 21^st was a really fun day for Robert; I was sick, so my day was not so fun and I could not attend the nifty event of that day.  Anyone who knows us will know that we have been trying our hand at gardening at home (with mixed results), but a new thing for Robert is that this year he was part of a group that started a community garden.  He works for a nearby city and a group of city employees thought it would be a great idea to start a community garden.  Materials were gathered and organized, and with some old-fashioned know-how and work, a community garden was born.  At this point, the city employees are really the only “gardeners”, but I think that there is hope to expand the program if it is successful.  Robert has really enjoyed working on it, and here he is with his little plot:

Here are a couple of more pictures that Robert took – they’ll give you an idea of what the overall garden (located at the library) looks like:

Anyway, April 21^st was a day where there were several activities rolled into one big day.  The mayor performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the garden, Earth Day was celebrated, and a children’s reading program was also recognized.  Here’s the agenda:

There were several visiting authors, and lots of children’s books for sale.  Paisley’s Grump-Pa came home with two new books for her.  One of the books is the most beautiful children’s book that I have ever read:

If you have a child in your life, I can’t recommend this book enough.  It talks about all the wonderful things that happened on the night the child was born (the moon stayed up until morning, the bears danced all night).  I cried all the way through the book – it was just so sweet.  I hope that the author won’t mind me sharing the last couple of pages with you.  The next-to-last page says:

“Heaven blew every trumpet

and played every horn

on the wonderful, marvelous

night you were born.”

And the last page simply says:

“You are loved.”

To make it even sweeter, there was a stuffed bear that went along with the book, and Grump-Pa got that for his girl, too.  Here is the world’s most beautiful child with her bear:

Yes, I must say that great things are growing due to the community garden!