Tomato heaven...

So my tomatoes are growing great this year, though it is kinda hard to tell just how good from this picture. Lemme explain. This is a picture of just 3 of the plants, which were each planted with a minimum of 3 ft between them. They are now chest high on me and full of tomatoes. I only have 8 plants in the garden right now but I have more seeds started to extend my growing season. I am hoping to be able to can a lot of sauce this year. Speaking of canning, I finally learned how to do it...and I have been canning green beans and jams for the last 2 days! I am so glad I know how to do this now. I just have to go buy my own pressure canner now. I am borrowing one from a friend and am VERY grateful for it.  :)  I am also grateful for the girls of the gardening club that helped to make this all possible!

Iron Rod Experience

What a great idea! The Young Women leaders planned a really cool Iron Rod activity for the girls. We camped out Friday night and they had a hike set up for the girls. The ward pitched in and loaned 950 ft of rope to construct the "Iron Rod" It led through a nicely cut trail past the Great and spacious building, then got into some rougher terrain (fallen trees and rocks, sticks etc) The girls were blindfolded through "the mist of darkness" and were being tempted/encouraged by some adult volunteers, to let go of the rod to make the hike easier. I am happy to say all of the girls held tight and made it through to the Tree of Life safely. We had a lot of fun and we are really excited about girl's camp now.

                                     

We didn't go completely without incident though. We found out that Tarzan (or girl's mimicking him) are NOT invincible LOL

ScoutQuest 100

Scoutquest was a BLAST!!! We had so much fun! There were more than 20,000 scout and leaders there, not including the parents that just randomly showed up (like me) There were so many things to see and do. Here are just a few of the pictures I took while we were there.