July 27th

*First day in the garden, I came dressed appropriately in a tank top and sandals. Kansas is hot. We all (Momina, Samantha, and I) met the volunteers in the garden: Nancy and Bill (long time committed volunteers), Glen (the master gardener that helped to plan the garden the last two years along with Carey) Katie (a soon to be departed intern), and Carey (my awesome boss/supervisor/mentor). The garden looked pretty decent, about 10 or so different plants growing with some weeds starting to stake out territory in various spots. *The rest of the day the three of us VISTAs just kind of hung around and tried to become acquainted with this large system called Cross-Lines. There are lots of things going on here, figuring it out will take some time, so many intricacies to note.