Since last Saturday we moved our vegetable garden from one side of the backyard to the other and filled the new fenced-off section of earth full of potato sprouts, tomato plants, peppers, herbs, beets, carrots, beans, zucchini and cucumber. Children and a puppy have made for the change in landscape design and this flexibility… this thing where Christian and I, lying in bed at night just before turning off the light, considering this season’s garden, the dry summers, the kid’s fun with the inflatable pool, the sandbox, the dog’s muddy paws when it rains… It’s a leisurely back and forth of thoughts and ideas. I enjoy this. I love how we can up and decide that play space wins over deck privacy and mediocre apples, and Christian, next weekend cuts down the apple tree. I like how we can see that the yard plan we started out with needs modification and both of us are game to do it.