Goodbye...

Kelly Tone in the news...

At Harrison Daily Times, online edition.

For Patsy's blog friends that do not recognize him, that is Patsy's son, Tony, standing behind his boss, Nancy. The city of GF was honoring her son by naming the street in front of the school for him. Our Debbie always called both of Patsy's sons Kelly Tone. 

And that's the way it is

Hannah: Can I take a bath?

Grandma: Not now?

Hannah: Why?

Grandma: Because it is too early, you would just get dirty again before bedtime.

Hannah: But I want to take a bath.

Grandma: No, not now.

Hannah: Do you know where Grandpa is?

First baby of 2013

Or at least the first baby fawn we have seen on our land this year.  We are seeing more deer on the salt block and in our pasture, but this is the first fawn we have seen this year.

We did see two does the other day here on the salt block that each had a white mark on their side.  The one is our doe we have seen with twins for the last two years, and I bet the other one is here daughter, but, neither had fawns with them at the time we saw them.

Mama jumped the fence and wondered off towards Dan's pond.  Baby wondered a few feet up the fence and then settled down in the weeds to wait for Mama's return.

Can you see me now?

Photos by Robert

He also took a bunch of pics just of the dog, but they were not a cute as these.

The one below, I took today.  Our first watermelon and it was really good.  We should get several melons from our 5 or 6 vines.

Rainy Saturday...

Yes, I took boy shopping yesterday.  No, I will not do that again.  I knew boy was not a clothes shopper, but I was not sure what size jeans would fit him since he has gotten so fat.  He wore a size 7 regular Wranglers.  So, if I want to shop for him again, I will leave him with the boys and just take Hannah.  I can just measure other brands against the Wranglers I know fit.  We got several new T shirts for him.  He was not into the clothes thing at all.

We went to Mickey Dees for lunch.  Rob ate all his lunch, half of Hannah's burger and half of my fries plus the apple slices from both Happy Meals.  I need to start buying him regular meals instead of kids meals, but he still really likes getting the toy.

It is raining again and has been only in the 80's for the last few days.  Patsy says it is fall.  Some of my tomato plants are falling over because they are top heavy and probably have shallow roots from all the wet weather.  I have more tomatoes than I know what to do with.

Today, the kids are supposed to go to the theater and see Smurfs 2.  I plan on going through their clothes while they are gone and sorting play clothes from school clothes.  They both have lots of nice clothes because someone bought them new school clothes in April.

We are getting 6 to 9 eggs a day now.  The chickens go in their hen house each night and so far we have remembered to lock them and and the critters our each night, but last night it was 10 when I remembered.