Meghan's party

Yesterday was Meghan's graduation party. It was very nice. Colleen and Bobby had a tent outside and everyone was there. Elaine and Fred was up from Florida, my brother Ronnie was there, and all of the rest of us. It was very nice to catch up with everyone and to talk about how we are all aging. It happen to the best of us - getting old.

Meghan is off to college to study to be a math teacher.

Anna and Hailee are blogging now. Anna has a blog to share her cheat codes and video game tips, Hailee has I-waffle which is about anything and everything. It's good to see them doing something else with computers than just playing games.

not much happening

Yesterday the girls went to see the Animal Planet expo up in Warwick. they had a good time, there was demonstrations and slides and and typical fair style stuff. I stayed home and mowed the lawn and cleaned the pool. All of the rain last week really messed up the chemicals in the pool so I had to do some major cleaning.

The yard is looking really good. The fruit trees are producing. I have to figure out how to keep the birds away from the plum trees though. I can never get any plums since the birds eat them right away when they are little. We've been picking musculin and arugula from the garden. The arugula is really a surprise. It is so easy to grow, it last really long and the kids love it. Who wouldn't love lettuce that tastes like peanut butter?

One of my tomato plants has signs of early blight. All of the Ortho books recommend chemical treatment to restore its health. I'm still searching for an organic method for it. If anyone has some ideas, please let me know.

Huck Finn Day

Today was Huck Finn Day. The local sportsman club hosts an event at Crandel Field that has all of the old time kids style games, like three legged races, wheelbarrow races, etc. They also have a Huck Finn look-a- like. After the games the kids have a little fishing derby where they have to use cane polls and worms and they all fish a small area for sunfish.

Baby bird

We found a baby bird out in the field yesterday. I seems he left the nest a little early and wasn't ready to fly. We didn't keep him. Baby birds do not do very well with humans.

Tour of Sub School

The girls had allot of fun. We got to tour sub school and check out some of the trainers. The girls enjoyed the fire trainer (even though they couldn't start the fire), the gun range and the ship control trainer.

baby bunny

We caught a baby bunny yesterday while I was working in the yard. We didn't keep it.

What's been happening?

I've been gardening alot recently. Since it is still so early, I've only been harvesting sod and rocks. The land I've been getting ready has never been gardened. The place with the best sun, actually has the worst soil. Under the layer of sod was construction grade fill. I guess the previous owners when filling the swamp area and diggin ghte pool took the fill and dumped it back there. I've been conditioning the soil, I do have some greens growing there, put it'll take a year to get it ready for some real planting. I planted some arugala, I always heard how easy it was to grow. I planted last week adn the seeds are breaking the ground. I guess it is pretty easy.

I started tilling up around the barn. The soil is good, but the afternoon sun is not. I think this place will be good for Tomatoes and cucumbers. An area by the stone fence is lacking afternoon sun, but it will be very good for peppers. Next year I want to use the area by the barn as a perennal bed for asparagas, rhubard and horseradish.

The fruit tree are doing good. The apples and peaches are about to be in full bloom. The dwarf peach trees didn't make it through the winter. There were always struggling back there. The full size peaches are doing much better. I had good edible peaches last year.

Now the hardest part of gardening is teaching the kids to get off the prepackage junk food and eat some real food.

The kids are doing well. Hailee has been fighting allergies and sinuses. I think it might be more like her adenoids, we are going to get her checked out if this antibiotic doesn't work through. I took Anna and Jaiden to see Iron Man. Jaiden's new superhero name is Iron Bean (her secret identity).

I've been writing and recording a bit. Same old, same old. Work is going well. Same old, same old.