How Our Garden Grows

Not with silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row...

Our garden grows with...

Peas
Tomatoes and lettuce

Onions

Herbs and flowers

We also have cucumbers, beans, peppers, squash, corn, carrots, radishes, an apple tree, a nectarine tree, and an avocado tree.

We actually had to do our first harvest of peas. We had creamy peas and new potatoes for dinner on Friday night. It was really yummy.

Honduras

We got to "chat" with Deric yesterday. He is definitely going to be transferred. That will happen tomorrow. He doesn't know where he is going, but he is excited. Last week, he told us that he had contacted every home in his area at least twice since he has been there. I think he is ready to move on.

Yesterday was a fun day. Ten elders and 2 sisters from Deric's district went to San Pedro Sula for P-day. They had lunch at Pizza Hut and then went shopping at a huge department store. Deric said it looks like "Wal-mart on steroids" and it carries everything a missionary would ever need and lots of things missionaries don't need.

Deric finally got his birthday package. It was only a week late. I guess I will have to send things even earlier. I thought 3 1/2 weeks would be plenty of time. Oh, well. Deric loves the ties we sent and the UNO cards and Skip-bo. The games will come in handy on P-days.

News from Deric

Deric is loving his mission. It is the hot, humid season. It hasn't been raining as much so the boots are not getting as much use. Maybe we won't have to send new ones until this summer.

This photo is Elder Fernandez (from Chicago), Paola (getting baptized), her mother Ersilia who got baptized a few weeks earlier, and ElDeric.

All Kinds of Stuff Going On

Our garden is in!!! I'm so excited. We have tomatoes, onions, green beans, romaine lettuce, and red peppers in the ground. The peas are left over from last fall. They survived the winter and they are so sweet and yummy right off the plant. In the house, we have started corn, green pepper, poblano chiles, cucumber, yellow squash, zucchini, spinach, celery, pumpkin, cantaloupe, broccoli, brussel sprouts, and more lettuce.

We put flowers in a couple of pots on the front porch and firecracker tulips in the pot from Grandpa Reynolds' funeral (the plant was finally too wild and we had to let it go). I love living in a place where we can start our garden early and enjoy the benefits for a lllllooooonnnnnggggg time.

On another note, Larsen's have moved to Spring, Texas. They had a good trip and saw lots of different weather. They got to the new house this afternoon and the gas hadn't been turned on so they will spend 2 more nights in motels. The trailer with their stuff will be there on Tuesday. The kids love the new house and the huge backyard. I'm excited to see it when I go to stay with the kids for a couple of weeks in April so Cristi and Lars can make their journey to Kenya.