What? Two Posts in One Day?

Yep,  too many photos to put all in one post.  You know how I like to tell our stories with lots of photos!

So, remember we told you about these great guard dogs for keeping away deer, rabbits, armadillos, raccoons, etc. from our garden?
Hmmm, not so great after all...

...we had put up our first batch of refrigerator pickles...

 ...when we noticed about a week later we weren't producing anymore cucumbers...so we thought...it turns out our guard dogs a.k.a. "Scruffy and Buddy" were helping themselves to the cucumbers.  

I caught them red handed the other day,
this is how the conversation went:

Me: "Hey guys, what are you doing?  Is that a cucumber you have there!!!?"

Guard Dogs: "Cucumber? What cucumber?"  

Me: "THIS cucumber, with the bite marks in it!"

Scruffy (turns to Buddy): "Hey Buddy, do you know
anything about a cucumber?"

Buddy: "Hmm, umm, well, (clears throat) I dooooon't know"

Me: "You better tell me the truth or else!"

Buddy: "Sorry mom, we won't do it again"

Scruffy: "Yea, sorry mom.  Buddy made me do it!"

Me: "Wait until your father gets home!"

AND THEN last night something broke into the yard and mowed down 

the first two rows of our potted tomato plants!  

Where were the guard dogs?  Sleeping on the job, thats where!

No more leaves

So now what do we do about the guard dogs eating all our cucumbers and sleeping on the job!? 

Who is going to guard them?

These guys?  

We think not, too lazy...

...these guys? 

Ahh yes, no one dare get by them!

Just joking Scruffy and Buddy, you can have the cucumbers.  

As the plants grow up the trellis you won't be able to reach them anyway!

Speaking of pickling, we also tried pickling radishes.  They were not bad.  

My flower garden continues to do well. 

 I really enjoy having fresh cut flowers!

And finally, we will be hosting an "Outdoor Movie Night" for the Junction boys on Friday. This will be their end of school year party.  I have wanted to do an outdoor movie night for several years now and we are finally going to it!  Yesterday we bought a nice projector and Gerald figured out the set up.  We hung Tevek paper we had left over to serve as a screen.  It worked out great!  The two of us sat out on the lawn last night and watched a movie.  It was awesome!  We are going to transform our backyard into a sort of drive-in movie atmosphere including a concession stand.  I can't wait!  We look forward to hosting outdoor movie nights through the summer and into the fall for our friends and family!  

Here is a sneak peak, I took these pictures this morning.  Since we brought in all the equipment last night I will have to post pictures of the full set up next week.

This is where we sat last night watching our movie

Thanks for Rockin with us!