Daddy and his tomatoes

I finally got to "PLAY DIRT," which had been a big tease for a few days.....for those of you that know my daddy, you'll know he loves his tomatoes.  He'll spend $35 on new dirt and $24 on the plants, just to end up with 6 varieties of yummy tomatoes (which would probably cost him $10 in the store). 

Anyway.....I got to play in the dirt with daddy, so who cares.......

 Here we are prepping the soil, and daddy telling me what we are going to be doing.

 I was given this cool rake thing - - - and told to smooth out the lumps.  Um, OK, sorta.....

 I think I am starting to get the hang of it.  Daddy is squatting (we didn't put on "work in the dirt clothes" - silly daddy), so....so am I!

 These pesky strings are fun to play with

 Job well done with the raking.....all nice and smooth.  Now can we do a little bit of shoveling please?

 Aah, that's more like it....now, just to put in the cages (check), get a little bit of rain (check), and next weekend we can go to TOMATOMANIA, to buy our plants!  That will be fun!

 Here's one more from Uncle Andy's visit.  This is a great picture, don't you think?  We are reading one of my new favourite books, TOOT TOOT, BEEP BEEP

 Another fine family photo.  I'm looking good!

And, finally, here's a good with with mommy, dad'n (whom I call JOE every now and then), and ba ba (Spencer).  Have a good week everyone!