Friday, July 27, 2007

Carter on fishing

The first is his first impression of what fly fishing might be.

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Next we have him casting. He loved it. He really truly thought he might be able to catch a fish. We did not give him a real worm or hook, for obvious reasons. He's almost 4.

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Finally, I saw him doing this a few times. I thought it was because he was bored, but I found it this is his impression of Daddy's fly fishing.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Our family vacation

Yes, I'm going to bore you with a slide show of our family vacation up north. We had a great time. We relaxed, rested, napped, swam, fished, played,visited with family, and just flat out had a great time! I love making memories with these kids! We were gone 6 days, 5 nights at Nana's up north cottage with one (rather large) road trip in there too. Videos to come soon!

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Mid-July Garden Blog

Well things are growing and growing! I started a butterfly garden along the back fence. Only about 5 of my sunflowers took, so I started planting some very young, butterfly attracting, perennials along the fence line.










The vegetable garden is flourishing! One surprise was my red cherry tomatoes were actually yellow tomatoes. That's OK, the kids still love them! We ate our first green beans fresh from the garden today. Carrots and jalenpenos are growing! Paul and I spotted several cucumbers well on their way. The pumpkin is taking over! It's sort of just a learning plant for me, I don't know if it will actually grow a pumpkin! The other two squashes have several flowers but no fruit. I planted marigolds to keep rabbits away and it seems to be working! Yay!!



The herb garden has several new items; oregano, lavender (french and English) and I just planted some lemon balm today (hope it takes!). I love making salads and going out to get the fresh herbs to add to it! Yum!






The bulbs mom gave me have started to bloom! We have a beautiful red Glad and now a crisp while Lily! Can't wait to see what the third bulb was (I forgot!). And the hydrangea is growing very well!
















I noticed my morning glory has a flower on it, hope it gives me a good show tomorrow!






Notes for next year;
sugar snap peas for the kids
more stuff for kids to just pick and eat!


I have to say I love this journey of gardening! I never really thought I could be good at it. But I am, and I LOVE it!!