A Day At The Park

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Birthday highlights...
~ Out to dinner with Ryan at The Green Room
~ Birthday morning to myself
~ Cards and flowers
~ Family for lunch
~ One of my favorite walks ever with Grace and Jackson
~ Blueberry pie and my favorite ice cream

The Unruly Garden

The garden has become one giant jungle of tangled greenery. The paths have been covered in plump watermelons and pumpkins, both of whom have refused to stay in their designated areas. The squash are climbing up the bean poles and into the onion bed.



But it is a lovely mess to have... assuming they can all live peacefully amongst each other.



Today I picked a pile of green beans that were ready (dinner tomorrow night). And we have been eating sliced cumbers everyday this week.



The edamame is almost ready.



The bees have been busy, busy, busy. Perhaps that is the reason for all the unruliness.



The corn is way over my head.  Not too much longer (fingers are crossed that we can keep it from the deer).



I tilled and planted another bed of peas before we left for vacation and today I added a fall round of lettuce, carrots and broccoli to the garden.



The chickens (after already eating all of the oats, kale and collard greens earlier in the summer) have now also tried to claim the tomatoes as their own. Oats, kale and collard greens I can live without, tomatoes I cannot. Time to build a fence (or have a big huge chicken dinner).

Secret Beach

It's still a little flooded but we made it work. I forgot how much I love it here. It was just the medicine we (I) needed today.

We're Back (Oh and I May Have Forgotten to Mention We Left)

This years highlights...
~ Sunny days
~ The early start to our vacation
~ Time with family
~ Swimming with the loons (and getting looned at)
~ Taking Grace and Jackson on a "boat ride" in the blow up boat
~ Playing go fish with Grace
~ Time to read
~ Lake air
~ Homemade pie
~ Watching all the kids/cousins play together
~ Sunsets
~ Boating to the sandbar
~ Troll
~ Grilling
~ Antique shopping and my purse find
~ Playing cards and domino's
~ Warm water swimming
~ Dragonflies
~ Having the lake to ourselves on the last day

Makin'

New clothes...






Colorful bouquets... (yesterday morning I got to sleep in for just a little... when I came downstairs Grace and Jackson were just coming inside with this beautiful bouquet. needless to say it was a pretty good start to my day.)


Winter scarves (Grace recently learned how to knit!)...


Dried herbs (for winter)...


Our favorite taco salad (with our lettuce and first tomatoes)...




(I think I'm starting to get my energy back...)