Mid July 2009 Gardening .Notes!

After getting our garden in 2 weeks late I have harvested the 1st of many red potato's. My Mother explained to me that you take a shovel and dig deep under the plant and pull out the potato's and leave the plant in place to produce more, you can have fresh potato's through out the entire summer. How cute are these:) This amount of potato's are from under 2 plants I planted 9 potato starter seed things.

About 2 hours later they were transformed into Betty's Garden Salad. I really don't have a recipe it was what ever I had available at the time. Boy was it good!

Notes:

*Plant more rows of potato's farther apart, no animal has be interested in eating the plant itself. Try white, yellow ones next year.

*Cover bean's and pea's as soon as they are planted, if the deer don't eat the baby plants, June gets to them when the plants are about 4" tall.

* Don't plant carrots again, don't even try, I can't get them to grow in our garden.

* Add Grandpa Jason's watering sprinkler about 2 weeks after planting seeds. Leave on 30 minutes twice a day increasing up to 1 hour in mid July. In addition to the underground sprinklers.

To be cont...

When you are from a small town!

cheese curds from warden washington!
Casey was snacking on these at his work when he noticed that they are made in Warden Washington, the small town where his Grandma Marie lives, the farm we got married at. His Mom's side of the family is from there, and it is very small. I love Warden, I have had such a great time there when I have gone with Casey. You can't even find much about Warden on the internet! So we were pleasantly surprised when we found out about these.

wrote by: Holly Rausch via flickr

While I was enjoying my Daughter-in-law's photos on Flickr, I came upon this post she did. How funny is this, well probably not to you unless you are from a small town. Casey use to spend most summers at his Grandparents Farm. I know for a fact there were times he didn't like it but today I bet he has very fond memories of the times he rode on the tractor with Grandpa, or drove the truck in the corral to feed the cattle, watching cartoons with Grandma on the 1 of 3 TV stations they got on their TV. What a great find you came upon. Have a good day to all that read this silly blog of mine:)

What one chooses to do!

Glenn's son Andrew has a friend named Joe from Portland that has chose to go on an adventure of a life time. I am very excited about what he is doing right now because not just anyone can do this from start to finish.



Joe started the Pacific Coast Trail trek this year, WOW. Right now Joe has completed over 1000 miles , from his blog he seems very driven to finish and why wouldn't he be. I encourage you to take some time out of your busy day and read his blog because he is doing something different then the average person with a very big GOAL in his future.



http://sheeppct2009.blogspot.com/ , check it out, it will be good for you.



Joe, I don't know you, but reading your blog has been a pleasure. This trip will change your life forever! Take care my friend and Happy Hiking!!

Ochoco's Wild Horse's part II

Last time Glenn took a drive up to the Ochoco's take a look at what he saw.

Yes spring time has been there, wild colts born and learning to live in on their own in the wild. This moment in time is a bitter, sweet snap shot since the outcome of these animals survival rate is questionable.

But what a sight to sit back and watch, I hope we get to see them in a few weeks when we are camping in this mountain range. I really don't understand my fascination with wild horses, maybe it is the freedom they have for a short period of time, I don't know but I like them. Side note: you can hardly see the 4 colts in the photo's but they are there if you look real close. Cute!

Fun after work.

About once a week we as Grandparents are blessed with spending the evening with Lucy. At her current age of 2+ years old she is like a sponge and full of comments that are surprising at times. Last week she brought with her a plastic tub full of "teapot" toys . No matter where we were in the house or outside she brought along her tub of "teapot" toys, and of course she served us tea pretty much the whole evening.

Her Grandpa commented that Lucy was just like her Mom at this age, Lucy would not serve you a teacup without the spoon and plate matching in color she would dig in her tub until she found a matching set. I tried to serve her tea with the cup, spoon and plate all not matching and I was corrected with a very point blank response of; "No Grandma like this", CUTE!

I can't wait to see what is going on in Lucy's world the next time she is at the house. Until then "I Love Lucy"!!!

By the way June just watchs Lucy these day's. It looks like June could be thinking, "now what is she up to"?

Fun stuff going on in the backyard!

When you sit in our backyard it really looks like any other backyard you have been around. Well maybe we don't "manicure" our yard like others but we do have a garden area and misters up in the juniper trees to keep cool, wild daisy's and raspberry bushes trying to grow. We also have a standard "fire Pit" in the back part of the yard for our annual bonfires. They display a wonderful original "art" drawn on cinder blocks or should I say the seats Glenn put there for people to sit on while enjoying the fire.

Thank you Debbie I love your work!

Monica also showed her creative side with sidewalk chalk on the basketball court. Glenn and I decided last night while we were sitting outside that we would put out the side walk chalk at our annual bonfire to see others creativity, I can't wait to see what happens. As for some more permanent drawings I would like to see Monica and Emily draw on our basket ball court and I will seal your drawings for us to enjoy for days to come.

Have A Great Summer!

Weekend Getaway!

What constitutes a bad week?

*working a long week

*behind on your house work

*being a Mother

*eating habits

*not enough exercise

*worried about aging parents

*LIFE????

All great answers, but! That was my week last week. Thanks to my wonderful Husband, Glenn was able to take me away none to soon.

I packed a bag for 2 nights, arraigned for Kadie to stay with Monica and June as Glenn took care of the rest.

Friday at 6pm I sat down into the MGB GT named PO and off we went. Two hours into the drive I was still pretty uptight and I knew I needed to unwind quickly if I or should I say we were going to have a fun time:) As I was having my "self talk", I looked over at Glenn I could see he was having the time of his life, driving to the middle of nowhere (to some people) cruising about 70 MPH all while smiling. As I turned my head back to the window my eyes caught sight of his blackberry sitting next to a 1974 car clock both displaying the same time but beating to two different drums. WOW, I thought if only life were that easy.

Relax Betty Relax - was what everything around me was saying, let me explain what I saw:

* 1 wild Turkey in the ditch

* A Badger running across the road

*bunches of wild birds

*cows grazing in the fields

*The Dog at Dairy Queen that was the size of a pony

*and not to forget the pony running in the pastures.

OK it working, I can't help but let out all the clutter I have been storing up in my head. We ended up somewhere we have been to multiple times each time better then the last. I would say it's one of our top 5 places to go because for the next 2 days we:

*swam at dawn, well early morning to most

*slept a lot

*ate well

*hiked

*drove the sports car, fast

*went on a picnic

*explored

*drank

*read while Glenn prepared all the meals

*enjoyed happy hour and/or hours

*watch a movie on my laptop

*swam at midnight

I feel very fortunate to live only 2 1/2 hours away from somewhere that can provide all of the above and almost cost us nothing but a good time!

None of this could ever happen without the love and support I receive no matter whats going on in my little world from my dear Husband, Glenn.

THANK YOU, GLENN

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Thank you Crystal Crane Hot springs Resort for always being available when needed. Take a look at their web site if you do go you won't be disappointed, it will cure what ever is ailing you! http://www.cranehotsprings.com/index.html