TRAP

this spring we have had lots of squirrels making pest of themselves in and aournd our house so it has been time to drag out the hav-a-heart trap to see if we can reduce the population....so far we have caught 20 gray squirrels and 3 chipmucks...i'm not so sure i will mention what lar does with them but for some reason they keep on reproducing...

our pheasant also appears daily to fill up on seeds that drop out of the feeder and he is somedays like an alarm clock..wish he would get here later in the morning 5am is a tad tooooo early to be outside our bedroom window squaking...but he has been fun to watch and he now has a name..."philpot"

the garden is growing potatoes have popped up out of the ground...blossoms on the squash-cucumbers-tomatoes---so soon we will be eating out of it...sure like thiose very fresh veggies...this year at christmas lisa and andy gave us onoe of the topsy turvy hanger things so we have some cherry tomatoes planted in it and it is on the back porch...we have several green ones on it already ..waiting for them to turn red so we can eat them...all in all the garden looks good..lawn still needs to be mowed every 4-5 days..like roy says can't wait till the lawn turns brown ahhaha...

least week we saw our first fawns...we were at the dinijng room table and lar says look out there is a deer wtith a fawn on no there's another one so she has twins fun to watch romp around out by the grapes..then a flock of turkeys come thru nthe back yard so i guess there is wildlife on our hill...now if we lived in the city we would be seeing all these creatures so it is fun to watch and enjoy...

life is good!!!!!

GIFT

when we went down for jjohn's graduation he gave us this [picture of a dog and duck he had done in school...sure looks like mitch to us..and what a great job he did...we now have it framed and have already thought about where we are going to hang it...in our hallway overlooking our dining room...we didn't realise that he had aas much art talent that he seems to have...just a couple more weeks and he has to report to georgia to begin his basic training in the army..we are proud of him for doing this...something he has wanted to do for a long time...

the garden continues to grow but right now needs a wee bit of weeding in it but the ground is wet from all of last weekends rain...more expected later this afternoon and tomorrow..so today lar wants to try to till the garden and i need to mow the lawn...never ending chores...

pictures?????

ok here are the pictures from this morning blog...the eggs--the baby robins--and my mom peonies....

GRADUATION

we were off to PA this past weekend to attend grandson john's graduation fro HS...the ceremony was held outside and it was a very pleasant evening ..the weather was just right for an outside event...john will be going into the army june 28the and heading to fort benning in columbus , georgia...he is excited about going in says he has wanted to join th army since he was six..so we sure wish him all the good luck to be doing what he has wanted to for a long time...

now that he has graduated we have 2 more grandchildren to go across the stage to recived their diplomas...shasta should do so next year and mellisa is just going in 9th...so she has 4 more years to get her ast together and decided what she might want to do when she grows up...(as if we did when we graduated)...

we camped about 10 miles away from the town where they live and on sat we had a family graduation breakfast...john brought his girl friend haleigh--the first we have met her..we dined on pancakes (made by grandpa)--scrambed eggs-sausage-oj--.cherries and whipped cream-as lar said he made over 5,000 pancakes and they w were all gone so i guess they all had enough..ahahha...

now we are back home and had gotten the garden ALL in before we left so it is now time to mow the lawn again and several other chores around the homested...summer has arrived and not by the calendar but by the weather...so go enjoy...