GARDEN

this year has been quite the year for our garden...early this spring and the start of summer we've had alot of rain and the garden looked like it...some days it was full of water and we thought that the seeds and plants were just going to float away...so we have been surprised that we are now beginning to reap the harvest from it...

we are enjoying cukes--zucchini--onions--radishes--lettuce--to name a few..

the corn is just beginning to make tassles and we hope in a week or so we will be able to pick some...i have even made some pickles this year and haven't in a few years due to the harvest of the cukes...our tomatoes have gotten the blight i think-- so the tomatoes will be few and far between...no canning of any of those not enough...oh well there is always the grocery store...tonight we will have fresh dug potatoes for the first time...no new peas to go with them thou...one thing i can remember as a kid  is new potatoes and fresh peas with a cream sauce that my mother would make to make you die for...mmmmm good...

the apples from our trees dot the lawn already it appears that we may have a good crop it they stay on the trees...haven't seen any deer under the trees eating them yet..but the rabbits are..

trying to get caught up on projects around the house before we take off for sept...home for a week or two then off in oct for 2 weeks..home then hunting season starts ...;leaving for florida before christmas as lisa and andy are moving there the end of this month...

lots of things going on here in upsatate ny...

 life is always good

LONG TIME

it has been some time since i have  put anything on our blog so it is kinda a rainy day so i thought it might be a good day to put something on the blog...

this spring we watched a pair of barn swallows make a nest on our back porch and lar has keep a picture record of them...when we would walk out the back door we even talked to them...the parents didn't like us so much and they would dive bomb us to drive us away so off we went to do what we were on the way to do...

it has been fun watching them from eggs to fledging ..that we never saw except we know when they did it...one morning i went out to hang clothes on the line and they were all 4 of them sitting on the edge of the nest..i told them it was time to jump and in the house i went to finish my coffee...about 1/2 hour later out went lar and they were gone...with lots of barn swallows flying around  the back yard...no mosquitoes...so they had left the nest...

life goes on in the country