Gardening . . . maybe?

Usually I try to post a picture of something beautiful, 

or delicious, or interesting -

but today I am posting a picture of what will be the before 
so that when I show you the after it will actually appear to be wonderful!

I am revealing this not so pretty fact about me . . . 

I am not a natural gardener. 

In fact - I probably should not have posted gardening on my blog. 

I have some flowers in my yard that have survived my killing skills - 

but only because they are all extremely hardy varieties. 

Sooo . . .

I am attempting to grow some vegetable garden items in this barren area. 

So far I have killed the blueberry bushes I bought at Costco at the beginning of the year.

Don't ask me how. 

I keep wanting to blame Costco. 

Maybe I just should. 
If I hadn't thrown away the wrappings in a moment 
of rare gardening self-confidence 
I might have returned them a month ago.

But now I am going to try to attempt to plant some kind of vegetable 

and hope that the winter/summer freeze ends  -

and we actually get enough sunshine for squash to grow. 

Or maybe raspberry bushes. 

Anything but weeds please.