Wednesday June 29th 2011

Watered the garden again this morning a picked four zucchini now we will have to figure out how we want to fix them. I also see more tomatoes, little but tomatoes.

I have to go in to work at 9AM and work all day.  I did lots of round up spraying and picking up limbs and bark.  The dead trees are shedding bark and it makes a real mess.  One of these days maybe we will get all the dead trees taken down.

Grant and I went to Russell Street this afternoon and I kept on trimming the row of trees behind a mobile home. I have it pretty well cut out but need to make a few trips with the limbs to the burn pile.  We were going to make an extra trip but was to close to going home time.  I can always find things to do for a last few minutes.

Not much else going on, will take it easy again tonight….Night Y’all..

Tuesday June 28th 2011

Well, back to work today, at least it is a little cooler, a little rain this morning but still nice.  A cool front came through yesterday and it was a little one but cooled of nicely during the night.

I had to make some bread today.  We are getting a little low and at Wal Mart we bought some whole wheat flour so I will make some bread and Linda will make a pizza!  Love pizza…

The bottom piece is the wheat bread.  It actually turned out very nice and it tastes pretty good too.  I think it is about 50 – 50 white and wheat flour. The pizza is just veggies and cheese. Excellent pizza…

Doesn’t that pizza look good?  Had to show a loaf of bread also.

Work went well today, even got out on time.

Not a  lot going on at home, we finished the pizza and after getting off at seven the night is short.  Sparky got his exercise when I got home.  I stood outside and talked to Daniel for awhile and he had Chloe out and Sparky just doesn’t know how to behave himself, kind of hyper around other people and dogs.

Well I think that is all for tonight….Night Y’all….

Monday June 27th 2011

Well today Linda and I get to go get our physicals.  That will be this afternoon.  Linda slept in this morning and I worked a little in the garden and around the yard.  The garden looks terrible after the wind storm yesterday.  Not much I can do about it.  It seems to perk up after the sun gets to shining on it.  Hope it shapes up again.  I did find some tomatoes..

You have to look hard to see them, they seem to be hiding towards the bottom.  The okra is starting to get blossoms too!!!

The plants aren’t very big yet but the blossoms look nice!

After our visit to the clinic we stopped at Wal Mart to get a few things.  Always expensive at Wal Mart.  We always need “stuff” can’t figure that one out!

Going to take it easy again tonight, guess I will go to bed early, after the weather…Night Y’all…

Sunday June 26th 2011

Going to go to church at Fellowship Baptist this morning.  They are having a pizza and spaghetti dinner after church.  I’m looking forward to that. Sunday School was funny, well, the lesson was good but Harold was elected to teach about an hour before SS and he really didn’t want to do it. Rick came in and volunteered  to do it.  He did a good job.

For some reason on Sunday morning I have a real problem staying awake. I didn’t do to bad, didn’t fall on the floor.  Sunday night is a lot easier, maybe because it is more interesting to me.  Revelation and the mother of harlots!  Good lesson, back to church this morning, after church I went to where they were serving and decided I had time to take my bible to the car. I had time.  When I got back there were probably fifty people in line and it didn’t look like it was moving very fast. I left, guess I don’t like lines very well.  Linda and I had left overs for lunch, really good.

We took it easy this afternoon, didn’t do much of anything.

Have to look at the pics I took and see if I missed anything…

The free plant was a yellow squash plant!  Finally got one to grow big enough, didn’t really pick it the wind blew so hard it came loose on it’s own. I have a picture of the clouds before the storm hit…

Not sure if that is rain coming down from the clouds or not but when it got here it was dust!!  The wind blew like crazy, sure didn’t do our little pecan tree any good that’s for sure…

The limb that is hanging down should have been trimmed a long time ago but I didn’t do it, now I have to.

Taking it easy tonight. Night Y’all…

Saturday June 25th 2011

Glad I mowed the lawn yesterday, it rained good last night and it is raining now.  Glad for the rain though, it was getting really dry.  The garden is looking pretty good now…

The last row of corn which you can’t really see which is the closest is up about an inch now. The corn is starting to tassel now but is only a couple feet tall and not very many took from the first batch.

The tassel is green and almost in the middle of the picture.  We are still waiting for tomatoes to start popping out.  They seem to be really slow this year.  The zucchini is really producing…

The big one I couldn’t see??  Really big to be missing something like that. Dozens of blooms will probably mean dozens of zucchini!  I like zucchini!

Work went well today, not a lot going on but today was the first day I handled absolutely no cash, everything was paid for by credit card, well, I did trade a $5 bill for quarters but that was it!

Linda made tuna salad and that’s what we had for supper.  Good supper!

I worked on the blog tonight, crazy, just seem to forget a lot of what is going on and make a few mistakes on the happenings not that anyone would notice or even care, except Linda.  She likes things perfect but she knows I’m not..  Night Y’all…

Friday June 24th 2011

I am going to mow the lawn this morning but have to wait until later so I don’t disturb to many people.  I would probably start around 7AM but will wait until 9 or somewhere in there.

I started around 8:30AM.  I have some bushes at the end of the driveway that hinders seeing if anything is coming so I got Mighty Mac out and cut them down.  I should probably take the rest of the stuff out because it really doesn’t look very good and is terrible to mow around.

I got the weed trimmer out and trimmed a few places that I couldn’t get to with the mower.  I had to take it apart to get the string to come out.  Seems all trimmers are different, took awhile to figure this one out.

Doesn’t look like rain so I did a little better job mowing today.  Last week it started raining before I got finished so really had to hurry then.  I adjusted the deck on the mower and the lawn looks great, well, looks flat anyway. My grass has lots of dead spots in it and the grass isn’t all one kind. Not a picture perfect lawn for sure.

After I finished mowing I cleaned the deck on the mower then started weed eating at Daniels but ran out of fuel and I am not sure if it is two or four cycle and if it is two, I’m not sure what he wants for the fuel mixture so I will have to ask him about that.

Work I figured would be boring again today but I was surprised.  I had a lot to do and kept busy most of the day so today went really fast!!

I took a few pictures of our flowering bushes which I call “Rose of Sharon” but I’m sure that isn’t what they are but they are pretty….

The zucchini plants are really looking good too…

So far we’ve gotten eight zucchini’s and there are a lot more coming on.  They are doing a lot better than the plants I planted in the last garden but then I give these more water.

Since I got off at seven tonight and it is supposed to rain I decided not to water the garden, let the rain take care of it….but…. sure looks nice out tonight…

Not hardly a cloud in the sky, wonder if it will rain??? Guess I will let the Lord take care of that… Night Y’all….

Thursday June 23rd 2011

I think I must be getting old.  I write my blog twice in one day for the same day and then I forget the next day!  Well, I will try to remember what I did today, for the record.

Today is an all day work day.  I usually get up at 6AM and have to be to work at 9AM.  Not to bad, gives me time to mess around for awhile. I watered the garden this morning I think, or maybe it was last night, think maybe it was last night, it still looked kind of damp this morning.  Now this may sound like Alzheimer's  setting in but actually today is Saturday and I have to strain my brain to remember Thursday.

Today Grant and I “Kool Sealed” another roof.  This mobile home was a little smaller and it took us a little less than two hours to finish it.  The cleanup took about 45 minutes.  Mark says we only have fourteen more to go.  Grant is a little skeptical about walking on the roof and the height.  Don’t blame him the roofs aren’t solid they do give, a lot!  Hard to walk on. I use the step ladder and go around the edges so I have to move the ladder about every five or six feet.  Takes awhile.

In the afternoon Mark had on the list to blow off the roads in the mobile home park with the leaf blower.  I think there must be a mile of roads over there and it took me a little over four hours and about five tanks of fuel. My shoulders were starting to get sore from carrying the leaf blower.  After I finished that I did some cleanup around an abandon mobile home.  Same one we cleaned up around yesterday but had some limbs to trim and weeds to spray.  Still didn’t get it all done.

After work I stopped at Food Giant again and got some more chicken.  Their chicken is pretty good and the price is great  $3.99 for eight pieces which does great for Linda and I.

This is our “free” plant that came with a tomato plant.  Does it look like a yellow squash?  I think it is, this is the biggest that one has gotten so far.  I think maybe it is a squash, yellow type.

Daniel said he was going to let his son Landon use the push mower to go around the house and trim it up then let him use the rider to mow the lawn. I told him I was planning on doing it either tomorrow or Saturday, probably tomorrow cause it sounds like rain on Saturday.

I had to take some Advil tonight.  Probably going to be sore. Definitely going to take it easy tonight….Later Y’all…