July 31, 2013

After waiting many years, this pear tree is finally having a couple pears.  Maybe, in a few more years, they will not be puny, odd shaped nubbins.

July 30, 2013

Aluminum shavings

July 29, 2013

Stores are having summer clearance, so I bought a bunch of things for the camper.  They're bright and colorful!

July 28, 2013

July 27, 2013

School sales have started, including dorm room supplies, such as these blankets we'll use in the camper.

July 26, 2013

July 25, 2013

Queen Anne's Lace

July 24, 2013

Pea flower

July 23, 2013

It keeps raining. The kids might have to mow in a flood.

July 22, 2013

I made them stop playing farm simulator on the computers to do some real farming- snapping green beans.

July 21, 2013

My hummingbird feeder.

July 20, 2013

My son's stack of notecards.  He seemed happy to take them down to the furnace to be burned.

July 19, 2013

We found a tiny grasshopper in the house.  Took a bit to get him outside, as when he'd hop to escape me, he'd hop several feet, which is quite a ways for something so tiny.

July 18, 2013

The oregano is blooming, and the bees seem to really like it.

July 17, 2013

July 16, 2013

The tendrils on the grapevine are very good at wrapping around stuff.

July 15, 2013

July 14, 2013

Bi-plane flying off into the sunset.  (If only that tree didn't get in the way!)

July 13, 2013

July 12, 2013

We washed some of the bug guts off the camper today. 

July 11, 2013

July 10, 2013

Heavy rain came through, causing minor flooding.  Most of this water in our yard came from the ditches along the road.  There was a much larger puddle and practically a stream, but some of it was gone by the time the lightning was done and the kids could go out and play in the puddle.  They were completely soaked by the time they came in.

July 9, 2013

July 8, 2013

July 7, 2013

Back home, it was disturbing how much the weeds had grown.

July 6, 2013

My dad and his grandkids.

July 5, 2013

The barn at night.

July 4, 2013

We got some more hay in today.  You can see the second, small trailer we used back on the ridge, as well as the baler, my dad raking on a blue tractor, and I think my younger son walking up toward the baler.

July 3, 2013

Our parking lot behind the house.  Also note the lovely grey clouds that keep raining on us, every day.  We got some hay in though.

July 2, 2013

Out for a drive (and ice cream!).

July 1, 2013

There are a lot of gas wells being drilled here now.  There are big trucks, mostly large dump trucks, going by constantly, some going really fast.  This was one of the 'oversized loads'.  The berm is barely a foot wide before the hill drops off sharply on both sides at this point.  A couple of days after this, a super oversized load met two dump trucks here.  They took about 10 minutes backing up, finding a spot for one to stop and others to pass. Also later in the week, the kids started pumping their arms to get the trucks to honk.  At first I thought maybe they shouldn't 'distract' the trucks, but then realized that all the trucks were honking, which meant they saw and knew kids were around, and they seemed to slow down quite a lot after Monday.

June 30, 2013

I put several pictures together to make a panoramic view from where we parked the camper for our first camping trip.  We're staying at the farm to put in hay this week.  My husband seemed nervous about the truck making it up the big hill pulling the camper (it was fine), I was a little more worried about encountering oncoming traffic on a narrow road around a hairpin turn (fortunately I didn't!).