crib and garden

our crib came in yesterday! we got it all assembled and it looks great. we're both surprised at how large it is (even though it's a standard size). it makes it all that much more real. we also found a good deal on a mattress at target (thanks to the Baby Bargains book). many thanks to mom and dad wiegers for springing for it all.

we also got a bunch of little plants for the garden. we got 4 different tomatoes (to join the 2 already in the ground), 2 peppers, a triad of basil, a sqash, a zuchinni, and 6 cucumbers. I got all but the cukes in the ground before sundown, and we set out more slug bait and sprayed insecticidal soap on everything (this years motto: early and often). soon we'll get 6 more cukes, 6 more tomatoes, and a few cantalopes too, and that should do us for plants. we have seeds for spinach, lettuce and some other stuff that we may try, as well as some flowers too.

we're off to Estate of Confusion (a really cool junk store on Main) to find some materials for building trellises for the tomatoes and cukes. we already have some up, but we ran out of the garden fenceposts.

oh and I almost forgot: score at least one more for the good guys against the rats. I found one drowned in a bucket under the house. but they're getting us back right now, as one has apparently died under the house, wedged somewhere in between an air duct and the insulation around it. it's not yet bad enough to motivate me to remove all the insulation, but we shall see.