Since it's almost June.

And the snow seems to have stopped, I guess it's time to put the garden in. Which means that first we have to clean it up. Someone is more than willing to help. And our local hardware store had some little kid-sized tools on sale the other day, so Katie got her own big shovel. She loves it.

Here she is, trying to get Mommy & Bailey to hurry up.

You'll notice also, the kid-sized gardening gloves, courtesy of the same store. They're a touch big, but they have ladybugs on them, and that makes up for the size discrepancy, apparently.

She found this little patch of sand where the mole came up after the turnips last year (that's the only thing it touched!), and wouldn't budge. Not a ton of help that way, but not so much in the way either. She seems to have gotten over her dirt phobia.

Her faithful followers, always on the look out. Then we ate lunch on the deck because it was such a beautiful day. And because she was very, very dirty.