Anyone who has a garden must feel good about this time of year.

Picked our first strawberry today. Yum! I planted some corn, squash, beets and sunflowers today.

My mother was a really good gardener - for decades doing a large vegetable and flower garden in the back yard. Over time, she took over the *entire* back yard. The house was on a total of 1/2 acre, so the backyard garden was about 100' x 60' when she finally stopped. I sort of didn't pay too much attention to her as a kid back in the 70s and 80s. But the last couple years, I've been able to put together a 50' by 40' garden plot in the back yard.

This year, I'm not as into it as last. But it's time to spend more time on it to get the final stuff planted (peppers and tomatoes). Working in the garden also was part of a weight loss program I did last year and the prior year. Ended up losing nearly 40 pounds through the added exercise of the garden and eating right. Sadly, this year, I lost the interest in the weight loss and put on most of those pounds again. Time to stop feeling down and get back on the program, right?

Thanks mom for planting the "seed" for doing gardening back a couple decades ago. I can see she got much out of it (and still does at 88 years old!)