June 27, 2015

We had a long, steady, heavy rain this morning.  It was enough to flood our low spots, making a steam.  It's got a fairly decent current and will go away after it stops raining.  Our new garden is near the stream and got flooded.  Not enough to do anything much besides uncover all the little rocks.  But I saw the sweet potato hill had ended up making a dam and had waterfalls eroding dirt between the plants, so I got a shovel to cut out a spot for the water to flow.  My husband came out and got carried away, digging a trench along the side of the garden.  I think he wiped out my second attempt to get some spaghetti squash growing while he was at it.  We're thinking next year it will be okay if we just make the rows going the long way so the stream just goes between the plants.

June 26, 2015

Our latest dirt project- the new pool location.  We're moving it to be just off the deck.  Eventually we could extend the deck out to it.

June 25, 2015

This is what a computer server can look like.  It's a place separate from your computer where you can store files.  We could host internet stuff now if we wanted.  

June 24, 2015

My day lilies started blooming today.

June 23, 2015

It stopped raining long enough to get the front yard mowed today.  With our one working tractor.

June 22, 2015

My younger son has always been sound-sensitive and didn't like loud noises like thunderstorms.  Thus, I was shocked to come outside and see him standing in the middle of the yard watching a storm, despite all the thunder (and lightning) going on.

June 21, 2015

We've had rain every day for a while.  It's been rare lately to be able to see the open sky.  This evening I could see the moon beyond the few large clouds left from today's storms.

June 20, 2015

A robin built a nest in one of my apple trees.

June 19, 2015

A mower blade fell off our newer garden tractor.  From what I understood and remembered of the men-talk, this thing is what broke, it's some kind of spindle (or maybe just one part of it is a spindle), and there was complaints about something being inlaid and it was a bad design.  It broke though because of a piece of string winding around it.  We ordered a replacement part online, so hopefully the other tractor doesn't break this week.

June 18, 2015

June 17, 2015

His braces came off today!

June 16, 2015

The purple martin babies sat on my gutter for a while, opening up whenever the parents flew past.  They could feed a baby really fast, without landing.

June 15, 2015

There are a few baby purple martins in the area.  They hung out on our barn for a little bit this evening while the adults flew around chirping.

June 14, 2015

We keep getting storms.  They come about twice a day and don't last long.

June 13, 2015

I froze some strawberries.  They got a little bit frosty in there.

June 12, 2015

We picked strawberries today.  They're a good size this year, and were quick and easy to pick.

June 11, 2015

June 10, 2015

This was the last day of school for my younger two kids.

June 9, 2015

These are some of the fossils we found.  I liked the fossils that had a shell on both sides.  They're like a flattened ball when both shell halves are still connected.

June 8, 2015

My grapes are still recovering from a frost last month.  The new leaves are a cute pink to start.

June 7, 2015

On the way home we stopped at a large Bass Pro Shop store.  I don't know how high the ceiling was, but it looked far away.  We liked the waterfall and pond.

June 6, 2015

This is Fossil Park in Sylvania, Ohio.  It's a small area that was once quarried for stone.  They found lots of fossils in the area.  Now, they quarry nearby, but bring big scoops of clay here for people to look through for fossils.  We got lucky and they had just brought in new dirt so we were able to find quite a few.  Most of what we found were shells, but we did find some coral and pieces of trilobites.

June 5, 2015

We went on a short weekend camping trip near Toledo this weekend.  Here is my daughter looking over the types of fossils we might find at a fossil park.

June 4, 2015

My ivy and roses have grown up to one another.

June 3, 2015

June 2, 2015

Today was my oldest's last day of school.  He's a senior now!

June 1, 2015

A couple years ago, a raspberry suddenly started growing along our fence.  We let it grow, and got a handful of raspberries last year.  Over the summer it grew quite a bit, and we're going to have a lot more raspberries this year.

May 31, 2015

May 30, 2015

One of the growing apples.

May 29, 2015