Easter Fun 2011: Part One

I hope that you had as much fun over the Easter weekend as we did! Dean was gone for a few days getting the Fountain City house ready for the new renters, so Abby and I had plenty of bonding time.

The celebration began by selling ALL of the Easter Lilies we grew in the greenhouse. Since this was the first time we had done it, I only ordered 30 of them. I didn't feel like I knew our market and wasn't sure we could make it work with our epic fail on the poinsettia front earlier this school year. Temperature is everything and as the kinks have been worked out in the new greenhouse, things have greatly approved.

The end result...glorious Easter Lilies! Some had ten buds on them! Every one of them had at least six blooms. Thanks to James and Rochell at the Baldwin Greenhouse, we were successful with great plants to work with. We learned a lot and will do that again.

Here's an example:



Abby has been having fun cruising the yard in her Barbie Jeep these days. She put on her bunny ears to celebrate the holiday.



We also tried our hand at coloring eggs this year. Abby did a great job!

Getting the cups ready with the coloring tablets:


Using extreme concentration to put the wax crayon on:


The infamous ABBY egg:


All the colorful masterpieces:


More Easter fun tomorrow...
Stay tuned...
Rachel