Garden Update

We've had an unusually wet and warm summer. The garden is just exploding. Everything is at least a week ahead of schedule.

We tried a radish mix and were fairly pleased by the outcome.

These are asparagus ferns after we were done eating asparagus. They get huge and ferny and have to remain so for the rest of the summer. Take a look at the very wide asparagus stem. It looked like 4 stems growing all together.

We've never seen anything like it. The asparagus came up just fine when we were harvesting it. It will be interesting to see what comes up there next year.

Here are some June 30th pictures. We started harvesting beans about a week later.

Stephen in the corn. This was also taken June 30th. Our corn was way past knee high at the fourth of July. I think we'll get corn a full two weeks before we usually get corn.

Baseball, Baseball, and more Baseball

Sorry for the long break in posts. We've had birthdays, baseball, vacation trip, baseball, garden, and more baseball. Aaron and Stephen were on one team and Nathan was on a junior team (for 13-14 year old boys). Aaron's and Stephen's team was very good this year and won most of their games. Aaron pitched this year and really had a great year.

Stephen improved tremendously and really came into his game this year. He loved playing third base and assisted in making a lot of outs this year. His coach said he had improved the most of all the players on the team.

This was the first year there were enough boys for a junior team. They had a rough season. They almost won two games, tied one game, and beat one team. Nathan pitched again and played first.

Nathan sliding into second. His personal goal seems to be trying to wear out a pair of baseball pants every year.

Deborah's Pictures

Deborah asked to use my camera and take pictures of the house and woods. She took a lot of pictures but she also took some that were just wonderful. Here are her best (in my opinion). It looks like she has a little of her Uncle Mike in her (see last three pictures).

Birds, Birds, and More Birds

My, how time has flown. I have garden pictures to post and two more birthdays. And all my baseball pics. For now, we'll settle on bird pictures. The first one was taken by Deborah of our rooster.

We have a Cardinal pair that comes around when we fill the feeder.

Somehow the Goldfinches are only around when their bird sock is filled. They don't seem to be around if I have left it empty. I wish I knew how the word got out that the sock was full again.

Earlier this spring, we had up to 8 turkeys showing up for free food. But they seemed to have moved on because we haven't seen them lately.