It’s Marybeth. My mom and I were out in my garden to see how it was going. We were talking and I glanced over at my tomatoes and I immediately GASPED and almost fainted. (: To my surprise there was…
Vining off!!!!
Hi, it’s Marybeth. My pumpkins are starting to vine of and take over our yard with their vines. I find it interesting how pumpkins sprout and then, start to grow (vining leaves.) You can see in this picture that the…
PUMKIN PLANTS COMING UP ( also other sprouts in our garden)
Hi, my name is Marybeth. You may remember that last year I blogged on my garden and I am 10 years old. I am also pastor Chris Brauns’s daughter ( if you read his posts you may have heard of…
Sunrise, Sunset: Another Year of Gardening for Marybeth
Where does a year go? Last year, Marybeth decided to farm. Which led to a whole series of posts on our garden: Marybeth and I are Farming Planting Day for Marybeth’s Farm Marybeth Update This year’s Lowe’s pictures below!
A Back to School Meeting for our Pumpkin
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way,…
Pumpkin Journaling #5
Hi this is Marybeth I am happy to say that our pumpkins are doing amazing maybe. Even better than normal! There is a little girl named Amelia that goes to our church. She loves to look at my garden. I…
Pumpkins Bigger Than a Softball. Our Baby Bigger Than a Pumpkin.
Marybeth’s pumpkins continue to delight her with their growth. It is hard to believe that planting day was only two months ago. The drought has required a lot of irrigation. But Marybeth has been very diligent. …
Pumpkin Journaling #4 from Marybeth
The pumpkins are actually turning into pumpkins like orange things but…green and a little bit bigger than golf ball size. They are looking great!!! I can not wait for orange big punkins!! (for carving) I guess I really do know…
Produce in Mary Beth’s Garden
There are some moments as a father of little girls that I wish I could bottle. Tonight was one of them. We at a Brick in the Valley are pleased to announce that Mary Beth harvested her first round of…
How will children see themselves if the most important work we ever ask them to do is play a video game?
Never has it been more important to teach our children to work. Parents who allow their children to be lazy undermine the child’s sense of dignity and compromise their future. For parent seeking to teach a work ethic, Proverbs is…