The Garden

All cleaned and ready. The plan is to plant broccoli, radishes, carrots, lettuce, pole peas, bush peas, pole beans, bush beans, salad cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, strawberries, pumpkins and corn to start.

First Flowers

Some of the first blooms of 08









Not the best yet but on the way

Garden Fairy

This little fairy was seen flapping her wings on the swing.

Monkey Boy

I learned how to climb a tree today.

Mail from Grandapa

The difference between Female and Male thinking ...

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A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday.

"I'd like to be six again", she replied, still looking in the mirror.

On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms, and then took her to Six Flags theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was.

Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake.

Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favorite candy, M&M's. What a fabulous adventure!

Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted. He leaned over his wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, "Well Dear, what was it like being six again??"

Her eyes slowly opened and her expression changed , "I meant my dress size, you dumb ass!"

Carbon Credits

This just in...The carbon credit scam.


Grandpas' who "don't believe in global warming" are feeling bad about their upcoming lawn mower usage and trying to sneak in some Carbon credits by getting the grandchildren to plant trees.

Garden Song

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The Garden

Late July 2007 when we where deciding to buy











Early Spring 2008





After we dug up and transplanted (Flat out moved some with the whole family).





New homes






















After the tractor







Wonder what comes first the seed or the plant?
Have to have a seat and wait an see

Farming

Time to make the Vegtables

Regular Tomatos

Rainbow Cherry Tomatos

We started some tomato seeds to plant in the garden

And as you can see the kids just hate helping out

FILLIN CUPS

Seeding

Watering

Stay tuned for growing.

Feel free to leave comments with any thoughts, ideas, knowledge, wise cracks or advise.

The Gardens

We knew we would be busy. Some TLC needed.

Guess its time to expand on the rather small plant knowledge we have.

Mail from Grandpa

THE PLAN

Robin Williams, wearing a shirt that says "I love New York" in Arabic. You gotta love Robin Williams......Even if he's nuts!

Leave it to Robin Williams to come up with the perfect plan. What we need now is for our UN Ambassador to stand up and repeat this message.

Robin Williams' plan...(Hard to argue with this logic!)

"I see a lot of people yelling for peace but I have not heard of a plan for peace. So, here's one plan."

1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we will never "interfere" again.

2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea, the Middle East, and the Philippines. They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.

3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.

4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.

5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.

6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while

7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)

8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.

9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.

10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH..learn it...or LEAVE...Now, isn't that a winner of a plan? "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?' "

Mail from Grandpa

Pray For Me

Bubba goes to the revival and listens to the preacher. After awhile, the preacher asks anyone with needs to come forward and beprayed over. Bubba gets in line.
When it's his turn, the preacher says, 'Bubba, what do you want meto pray about?' Bubba says, 'Preacher, I need you to pray for my hearing.' So the preacher puts one finger in Bubba's ear and the other handon top of his head and prays a while. After a few minutes, he removes his hands and says, 'Bubba, how'syour hearing now?'
Bubba says, 'I don't know, Preacher.
It ain't until next Wednesday.'

First lunch

Opening Day

Take me out to the ballgame Take me out with the crowd


Buy me some peants and Craker Jack
Don't forget you want to buy me a hat,
Let me root root for the Seadogs,
Root roOOT ROOT FOR THE SEADOGS,


For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, At the cold ball game!!






ROCK CATS SPOIL THE HOME OPENER, BEAT THE 'DOGS 3-1 Portland's bullpen scoreless for a second straight game
(Portland, ME) - The Portland Sea Dogs opened up their 15th season at Hadlock Field on Friday night but suffered a 3-1 loss to the New Britain Rock Cats. The Sea Dogs have dropped three straight home openers and fall to 5-2 on the season.
Rock Cats righty Anthony Swarzak (1-0) fired five scoreless frames on three hits, no walks and four strikeouts to earn the win. Michael Bowden took the loss for Portland, yielding three runs (two earned) over 4 and 1/3 innings on five hits, two walks and four strikeouts.
Ben Julianel pitched a scoreless ninth, retiring Mark Wagner on a double play to end the game and notch his second save.
Jeff Natale (2-for-4) accounted for Portland's lone run, knocking in a two-out run in the eighth inning. The Sea Dogs had six hits and have scored a total of three runs in their last three games.
New Britain scored a two-out run off Bowden in the first inning. David Martin doubled and scored on a run-scoring single by Luke Hughes. Bowden's four strikeouts came in the first two innings, including three in the first. The Rock Cats added an unearned run in the third inning and Steve Tolleson led off the fifth with a solo homer.
The Portland bullpen of Chad Rhoades (1.2 IP), Mike James (IP) and Jose Vaquedano (2 IP) combined for 4 and 2/3 scoreless frames.
Notes...Portland falls to 7-8 All-Time in home openers...The Sea Dogs were 0-for-24 with runners-in-scoring position until Natale's RBI single in the eighth.

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The long lost path

When we bought the house we knew that it had lacked some TLC both inside and out.

Sept 2007





Few days ago



Thanks Mommy



It took a few days but with all Cynthia's hard work the flower gardens around the house are looking good