Cale School Garden: The Smiles Keep Coming!

Wow! That was another great garden club. Today we worked on the flower bed. I managed to clean about a couple dozen lamb's ear plants out my home garden and brought them in to help fill in some of the holes in our school flower bed. Afterwards, we worked on weeding some of the grasses that are starting to poke their heads up where we don't want them. Mr. John, our most excellent school custodian, has ordered a load of mulch for the flower bed. Hopefully it will be here when we return from spring break.

Today Mr. V was back and taught us about umami. That's the taste best described as savory (as compared to sweet, salty, bitter, etc.). We got to taste it at the end of club today. . . Doritos. Not our usual snack, but sometimes only they will do. "All things in moderation," as Mr. V often reminds us. Ms. Shutz, a kindergarten teacher here at Cale, also came out this afternoon to join the fun. She'll be running her own club for a while but will rejoin us later in the year.

Today's pictures are courtesy of club member, Larry. I also took some with another camera, but his were much better.

BIG NEWS! Cale alum Dylan Berger has agreed to build a shed for the garden to fulfill the requirements for being an Eagle Scout. I met with him this afternoon right after garden club, and it looks like it will be completed just after the end of this school year. We'll have a Grand Opening celebration when we come back next year.

OTHER BIG NEWS! Look for the return of the Armstrongs (Ms. Deirdre and Mr. Phil), our farming friends from over in the Valley, in the near future.

Well, that's all for now. Hey, turn your computer off and get outside. It's a beautiful day!

Mr. Rough

P.S. Nicky, I'm really sorry I've been misspelling your name in the other posts. Thanks for correcting me.