It's Finished!

My dear, sweet husband is finally done with his classes at school. By Friday we should know whether or not he graduated and what his final grades were, though we're pretty sure he got A's and will definitely be graduating. It's finished! Two years of non-stop school is over. Discussions, assignments, papers, projects, late nights doing homework, high stress when the computer freaks out, racing to the computer after work to keep working on homework is finally over! Let's all take a moment to shout HOORAY at the top of our lungs for him!

Everybody now:

HOORAY!!!!

He's so happy. I'm so happy. It's going to be nice to have the time to spend on other projects that had to be set aside while this took precedence. It's over. ~sigh~ I'm so glad.

On a separate note, our garden is not looking so great any more. It has been overrun by a swarm of grasshoppers that seemed determined to eat everything. They ate our marigolds first (they really had no chance). I miss seeing that pop of orange sticking out from all the green in our garden. They then took out the potatoes (our lovely potato plants!), the carrots and the onions (they were eaten down to the ground). Now they have attacked my brothers broccoli and our bush beans. They have tried to take out the sunflowers, and I'll admit they aren't looking so good, but they are strong and keep growing. They keep putting forth the flower heads and keep trying to survive. Our squash, zucchini, tomatoes, pickles, corn, watermelon, horseradish, and pole beans are still hanging in there, but any hope we had of having a grand crop is kind of gone. We have big plans for next year, though. Big plans.

Here are some pictures of the garden we took last week (the 16th of July). We went out to the garden a couple of days ago and the bush beans were practically gone. They don't look as good as the picture below looks.

I wonder what the garden is going to look like this week. I hope they don't start eating our tomatoes.