Pride Before a Fall

Have you ever heard the Proverb "pride goes before a fall" ? Well, last night I had a fall, face first into my little brother's giant box of Lego! I had been thinking some prideful thoughts along the lines of," Oh Lucy, you're so cool..." and then I tripped and landed in the Lego bin. After I woke up my little brother and mom with my cries of pain and surprise, and picked the Lego blocks out of my hair, I had to laugh at myself. So next time I think I'll think twice before having a prideful thought. Escpecially since I have little rectangular bruises all over myself as reminders!

Bootlegging and Gardening

I just got in from watering our garden. I feel a hint of pride when saying that. You would understand why if you had seen the way it was before we weeded. Since I don't have any before pictures I can describe it accurately by telling you that the weeds were waist high.
Also we discovered that the previous owners of our garden had used it as a garbage dump. After I found a broken wine glass and a bald tennis ball I came up with a theory about the person who lived here before. By the wine glass I surmised that he was a bootlegger, I also deduced that he was very large and like to sample his own wine. Plus, he had a bushy red mustache. After a quick peek of the bald tennis ball it was obvious that the large bootlegging wine guzzler enjoyed torturing tennis balls by sadistically scraping their green fuzz off.
Once we had cleared away the weeds and all the incriminatory evidence of bootlegging, we filled the garden with bags of lovely new soil (now that I'm an official gardener, I feel obligated to use the word 'soil' instead of 'dirt). It was during this stage that I discovered two new things that I love:
a) pulling fat juicy worms out of the ground and listening the popping noise it makes (I realize that that may sound a little weird...)
b) walking barefoot in new soil
Our new garden plot ready, my mom and I planted about twenty strawberry plants and some tomatoes. We cheated a little and bought the plants instead of planting from seed, but I'm just as excited to see how they turn out!
Thanks for reading!