June 30, 2017

This is one of our kittens, Mika.

June 29, 2017

My daughter got her hair cut.  She wanted it short, and so ended up with a bob.

June 28, 2017

We had a weak moment today and got two kittens.  This one, solid black, is Skyler.

June 27, 2017

Our pool liner had a slit in it, since it was a cheap pool.  We ordered a new one, the type that should last a decade or two.  So now we have to tear this one down and try to make flat, soft ground again.

June 26, 2017

This is our new fridge.  It was a scratch and dent floor model, with a surprising number of dings.  With proper magnet placement, however, you can't see any problems.

June 25, 2017

We noticed a pigeon on our barn roof with a band.  We looked up the part we could read, and found out there are clubs around that race pigeons.  We could only see the club ID on the band, so could not identify the owner.  This pigeon, however, seems to like our barn, and is attracting wild pigeons to join her on our roof.

June 24, 2017

This is potentially my first zucchini of the season.  In my experience, though, the first one never grows right or dies, so I need to watch for the second one to appear.

June 23, 2017

The eastern sky turned a bright blue, which isn't too unusual other than the time of day- the sun was setting, and maybe had already set, behind me.  The eastern sky is usually rather dark at this point, but instead was a bright, almost turquoise blue color.

June 22, 2017

I found a finch nest in one of our trees.

June 21, 2017

This is a false blue indigo plant I bought at Monticello.  Early colonists could use it's flowers as a blue dye.

June 20, 2017

We put birdseed in the feeder since the woodpecker kept showing up.  Today he was followed by a young woodpecker, which he kept feeding.

June 19, 2017

June 18, 2017

My husband has the tractor partially disassembled in the garage.

June 17, 2017

June 16, 2017

We hoed the potatoes today.

June 15, 2017

They keep saying it will rain, but we've only seen about 30 seconds of rain.  We watch the radar and see the rain and clouds go around us.

June 14, 2017

We had to replace our fridge.  This is the back of the new one.  I'm hoping it will be a while before I need to see the back of this again.

June 13, 2017

They scraped our side of the road today.  It's so dry the brush made a massive dust cloud.

June 12, 2017

They came through and scraped away grass/dirt/rocks from the side of the road. 

June 11, 2017

June 10, 2017

June 9, 2017

We're back home.

June 8, 2017

We stopped at horseshoe curve in Altoona, PA on the way home.  You can see the same train on the right and left.  It curves along the hill from the right, behind me, then around to the left.  We saw five trains go by, with between 3 and 5 engines to make it up and down the hill.

June 7, 2017

We made it to Monticello today (the building on the back of the nickel).

June 6, 2017

We went to the top of a mountain on Cass Scenic Railroad.

June 5, 2017

Today we went through a cavern, and saw the radio telescopes at Green Bank.

June 4, 2017

We went on vacation to West Virginia and Virginia this year.  This is Seneca Rocks, as seen from a trail in our campground.

June 3, 2017

My son's allergies have been bad this week, I assume this stuff has a lot to do with it.

June 2, 2017

It's the last day of school. 

June 1, 2017

The weeds are growing faster than the potatoes.