Sunday, August 31, 2008
Random stuff
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Big Toe's and cantaloupe
When Owen strolled into the house tonight he announced big plans to search out the cricket in the garage that was making noise. We found it. It was fish bait big..
The garden itself isn't very pretty right now, but what's coming out of it has been.
The Roma plants are producing like crazy. We picked up another 1/2 peck over at Weavers this past weekend to complement our own and Allison made the best batch of sauce ever. My watermelon hill only produced one melon, but it looks great. The cantaloupe plant produced two. This one was ripe today...
The numbness is almost gone... off to find the advil.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Rough & Tumble 2008
It's really a little boy's paradise. Garden tractor pulls, farm tractor displays as far as the eye can see... trains, trucks, dozers, cranes, hit & miss engines and lots of other stuff that puffs smoke, whistles and toots.
Here's the boys hanging out in a Rumley Oil Pull tractor wheel.
Mark is pointing out the coals under the burner box in this pumper.
The boys on the Martin's tractor train.
Riding the Little Toot Railroad!
The very popular Corn box... we made a pit stop here before AND after lunch.
Out in one of the back fields, they had an area set-up to play with vintage earth moving equipment. This was our last stop before we left for the day, but I think the boys would have stayed here for another hour if we let them.
It's definitely something to check out if you get the chance. They have an event calendar on their website: http://www.roughandtumble.org/
Mom & Dad Visit
Dad and I finished a bunch of stuff on the basement and he mowed the lawn and helped us load up a new table and chair set for the deck. Our old set blew over this spring and shattered. No glass this time... it was the end of the season, so Lowes had their stuff 50% off. They had everything in stock except the umbrella, which was sold out everywhere... I'll have to search later.
Mom helped clean up the garden which I've shamefully let turn into a jungle. She used our monster zucchini to make bread with Owen. Here's a picture of the little kitchen helper. He's quite the expert stirrer.
As usual, Grandma had all sorts of great and wonderful things to do with Owen and he just loved it!
Grandma's Birthday
Grandpa arranged to borrow the neighbors barrel train to give rides with the tractor. As always it was a huge hit and we made many.... many... many laps around the lawn. #1 request from the boys was always to GO FASTER uncle Josh!!!
Here's Owen climbing in the Allis Chalmers barrel. He's usually obsessive about the green John Deere barrel... I guess this day was just an orange day.
Here Owen had brought a chair over by the pool to "watch" kreepy krauly clean the pool. He spent several minutes making sure kreepy was doing a good job cruising around in the deep end.
And here's a cute picture with his cousin. I forget if it had started to sprinkle or if they were just setting up the umbrella between them. Either way, there was an awful lot of giggling going on... :)