August 6th - Saturday - Rain !!!
We are finally receiving some much needed rain. Lou and I have taken advantage of not having to cut the grass and have started several other projects that have needed our attention.
Several boards on our little barn have needed replaced and Lou has gotten them done and we have many boards on our board fence that needed to be replaced, so I got them painted and then we measured them and put them in place. The next job is to get the rest of the fence and posts scraped and repainted. That is indeed a job, one which Krista and Steve can agree to, as they painted the majority of it last time. We went to purchase the paint today and found that it will be on sale on Thursday so will wait until next week to purchase it and later to paint it. It will take many hours to scrape the barn and the fence.
Our garden has been doing well, thanks to the irrigation hoses. We have made pickles, frozen beans and had fresh salads, green peppers, squash and beautiful radishes. Janet and Brion have been very generous with the contents of their garden also, so we have been richly blessed with fresh produce.
Due to the very dry weather, the wild flowers that grow on the bank have bloomed and dried up, so Lou and I cut them down as we usually do in the fall and we were able to find the wonderful stone steps that Tim built for me in 2008. Hopefully, this spring we will get back from Florida early enough to keep control of the flowers as they come up and not allow them to grow over the steps. Tim did such a nice job constructing the steps. Lou took up the pathway lights that we had along the steps and we will replace them with new ones for the fall and get some new mums to set out along the steps. Will do all of that after we finish the painting job.
Lou was tying up the tomatoes and accidentally knocked off some green tomatoes and brought them into me and asked me if I would fry them for him. I told him that I was the story I always heard from Krista, as she dearly loves them, we had no more than started to fix them and she came in the door. Smell travels next door ........ It is really nice having them next door, we get to see baby Matthew almost every day, and how he does grow, he is full of smiles now, with his tummy feeling ever so much better.
Lou and I have been enjoying watching two flocks of turkeys working in the field across the creek each day, they come early in the morning and stay all day long. We also have a nest of Red Tailed Hawks, which we listen to and watch. On occasion we watch the Bald Eagle as he soars overhead, but this afternoon I saw something that I have never seen before. I thought it was a big black dog under the apple tree, so Lou got his binoculars out for a better view and found that it was a coyote. It was a bit sad, as it went into the woods at the same place where we had just seen a doe and a fawn enter a few days ago. Made me happy that I no longer am raising sheep.
Tomorrow, Lou and I are going to miss church to take a bus trip to Erie for a tour of two wineries and then to a dinner theatre. We will be seeing Honky Tonk Angels. This we are doing to celebrate Lou's birthday a bit early. Next weekend on his birthday we are going on a SMART campout. Of course, we still do not have the repairs done to our RV, but we are hopeful they will be done prior to our time of departure on Thursday.
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