This past weekend was a big garden day as we added about 800 feet of drip line with water emitters to all of my exotic fruit trees. Oh, no we are not done perhaps only half way or so as we have to rewire the broken wire cut by the trencher machine and we have to still cover up all of the trenches which is a real hard job.The good news is that now my trees will grow one third faster and perhaps even more, they just do not get enough from a lawn sprinkler and this drip line concentrates all of the water on the roots so there is not a single ounce of water lost! We did a lot of trimming back of all the frozen stuff so It all looks so much better now. Also I added a few tomatoes into the ground and lots of lettuce which i am using for food as well as an attractive groundcover under my Longan tree. I have discovered that at least one rabbit knows where the Lettuce is I am hoping that he keeps it to himself and won't tell his family as we are a huge salad family and eat it almost every night.

All of the dogs are fine and the newest stray now is one of two leaders in the house and bosses the other dogs but she is older so they seem to put up with it. The weeds are still growing so I have to deal with them soon, gardening would be so easy if we didn't have to deal with weeds.We are doing lots of family activities now and checking lots of homework in the evenings now. I took the kids on a great boat trip the other day and it was a blast, the sunsets are spectacular this time of year and i am trying to teach the kids to respect and enjoy the natural beauty that is all around us. sometimes they seem indifferent but then later on they surprise me and come up with some profound observations. So i keep talking and hope that half of it sticks and it will I am sure of that.