August 29. 2012

Waiting for the bus on the first day of school.

August 28, 2012

We planted a grapevine a year or two ago.  It is finally growing this year, reaching the top of the fence.

August 27, 2012

He is making a lego stop-motion video.  The camera has a round part that is grey and black near the center.  On his computer you can see what the camera sees.

August 26, 2012

I've got some cauliflower ready.

August 25, 2012

There was a tent at the fair with miniature horses.

August 24, 2012

We went to the tractor pulls.  Here's my parents and all 6 grandkids watching.

August 23, 2012

We went to the fair this morning.

August 22, 2012

My son has been saving money for a desktop computer.  He finally got it today.  Then dad had to put it together!

August 21, 2012

We were in Akron today.  We saw a guy mowing the baseball field.

August 20, 2012

We picked the corn and froze it today.  It took 3 adults and 3 kids 5 hours to get it all done.  But that's it, all of the corn is done now.

August 19, 2012

The castle turned out cute.  So did my daughter. ;)

August 18, 2012

My attempt at a pretty castle cake for my daughter.  I knew before I started there'd be no way it's going to look like the box.  What I didn't expect was that it would need two two layer cakes (4 boxes of cake mix!).

August 17, 2012

Praying mantis

August 16, 2012

We're going to have some cantaloupe this year.  Some (most) years I get 1 or less, but every now and then I get quite a few.

August 15, 2012

The tomatoes are getting ready too.  I had enough to make 4 quarts of spaghetti sauce.

August 14. 2012

Some of the sweet corn is ready now.  It looks surprisingly good for how bad the weather was this year.

August 13, 2012

Steam vac'd the family room. 

August 12, 2012

We stopped at a car show.  They also had tractors, including a pulling one and that huge Case.

August 11, 2012

The kids picked out this fridge magnet.  They think it's hilarious.

August 10, 2012

We had a lot of interesting clouds this evening.  They looked like fall clouds, and it did get colder today.

August 9, 2012

Snapping green beans (again).

August 8, 2012

I'm going to have a bunch of tomatoes ready soon.

August 7, 2012

This butterfly's wings looked like it had gone through a lawn mower.  It still flew around like it wasn't bothered though.

August 6, 2012

The 'back garden' where the corn and green beans are planted.  (You know you have too many gardens when they start having names.)

August 5, 2012

Pink clouds at sunset.

August 4, 2012

Freezing zucchini and yellow squash.

August 3, 2012

August 2, 2012

"This is my whole family"... my oldest son caught up with me in height earlier this year.  It didn't bother me much until I saw this picture my daughter drew- and he's taller than me.

August 1, 2012

I made kosher dill pickles today.  But they have to sit for a month before they're done, so it'll be a while before I find out if they're any good.