Mom and Pops Bateson visited Katie and me in Austin for the first time this past weekend!
We relaxed a lot but also did a lot, including, planting a small vineyard (5 vines) in our backyard, tomato plants and peppers in our garden, encircling our garden with the black plastic divider stuff to keep out the grass, going to The Domain for the first time (ooh lah lah), and going to Mass at St. William’s.
We also told two neighbors about our plan to get honey bees, and none of them had a problem with it! One of them saw our “boxes” in the backyard and asked if it was some kind of composting system, so Katie informed her that it was actually going to house our hive of bees. Then I told our next-door neighbors, whose fence the bee hive faces, and they brushed it off quite non-chalantly.
Here are some pictures of our weekend:
Mom Bateson cooking pizza with Katie:
Garden, apiary, vineyard, compost:
Our neighbor’s beautiful rose-bush spilling over our fence just beside our bee hive.
My dad and step-mom came over to help and also gave us some plants, and one night we had my mom and a Legionary priest named Father Andrew over for dinner–it was very joyful and good, topped off by Mass in the beautiful St. William’s parish that included an excellent and brief homily by Father Joel and insightful words just after the consecration of Jesus’ real presence in the Blessed Sacrament “here in Round Rock Texas, in March of 2007″.
Deo gratias!
Looks like you had fun. I am curious though….how do you survive with so little cabinet space in your kitchen? or do the pictures not show them?
I was afraid we wouldn’t have enough room, also, but Katie assured me that it would be enough, and it turns out to be! Granted, it is just she and I at this time in our family life, so we don’t have lots of sippy cups and baby stuff yet!