Monday, September 20, 2010

End of the growing season is upon us...


The last of the cherry tomatoes are ready to be picked, the Roma's are really starting to come in now too.














The Basil is going to seed as is our Broccoli now, I could have kept it cut and had 3-5 more meals out of it.

We've dried several batches of herbs, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, yeah I know... Basil too.














The Morning glories are just starting to seed up too. So many volunteers around the yard don't know it it's worth the effort to save them.
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Monday, September 06, 2010

Hopkington Fair 2010

James and the friendly sheep. A great time was had by all this year, the dust wasn't intolerable, James thought the sheep were pretty cool, Rabbits and few odd breeds of chickens with the feathers on their feet.
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Texting is getting out of hand, Jason Texting...

Texting is getting out of hand, even Jason at the haunted house is Texting...
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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Listening to the Barking Dogs...


Sitting down reading the morning blogs and all of a sudden Gordon our (Beagle lab mix) starts barking and barking.

The usual banging on the window, yelling at him, threatening to bring him in, %&#$! dog expletives wouldn't stop him. Rose opened the window shade and saw Gordon with his hair all up on his back barking towards the neighbors property, and look what she saw...

A great Blue Heron just standing there looking back at us. You can see the dogs Kennel in the corner of the picture, so this is what he was seeing. We've seen them at our pond and flying overhead before, never just standing in the yard though.

Several rounds of Good Dog Gordon ensued!

Neighbor put in a small pond a year or so back, he was complaining last week that the water level is very low due to the dry summer maybe there was a good frog crop this year.
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Fixing the yard hill & Labor day

  Fixing the yard hill: Tuesday we're got 8 yards of 3/4" crushed stone, and 18 yards of loam delivered to fix a lot of sloped are...