Good Morning, All! Hope today finds everyone doing well.
It's a cloudy day here so far; probably have more rain coming per the radar and by the way my knees are talking to me Of course, that ache could be from being silly enough to join Hubby in a nerf war against five 8 & 9 years old boys yesterday. (Boy birthday party - my ears are still ringing!) We put up a good battle in spite of being outnumbered AND only having single shot weapons when the aggressors had multiple shot ones. We had strategy and teamwork going for us and were able to hold the kitchen/dining room/side hall; and ran a sneak attack from the back stairwell. Hubby also covered me so I could run out and grab ammo; we piled it on the dining room table and waited for them to run out - took a while 'cause one of the short people brought a 200 count jug of nerf bullets as a birthday present to go along with all the ones already in house. Luckily, daughter had used some as a table decoration, so we had a stash to start out with!
We took off for home with older grandson in tow around 5 pm - luckily avoiding the water balloon battle that took place shortly thereafter (some evil grandma type person put packages of those easy to fill 'Bunch O Balloons' in the take home treat bags, and had a few extras that were left on the buffet by accident (uh-huh.... ) Daughter looked like she was about wiped out when she dropped off younger grandson a couple of hours later, but said she was going to find her an isolated piece of shoreline and throw a line in; she swiped a few hot dogs from the fridge to use for bait and got while the getting was good - we got a video of a darned nice bass about an hour later.
We've had a bunch of rain over the past few days - 3.5 inches a few days ago, followed by another 2.5 inches yesterday. No way I can get in the garden to hoe let alone till so there are some weeds coming up; the good news is that the late beans, beets, etc... I planted last week are also coming up so I reckon I'm a little bit ahead of the game at least. Squash and melons are blooming, small tomatoes are set on - I'm trying to decide if a couple of the tomatoes I bought were mislabeled, or if I've got a mineral imbalance going on in that area - the small 'maters on those two plants are purple-ish looking. The other tomatoes that are set on are all a normal light green, so if there is an issue, it's just in that one small area
Peaches are in at the local orchard; I'm going to call when they open around noon today and see if we can run up and pick up a bushel. If I get them today, then work Monday night and sleep Tuesday morning, they should be just about ready to can on my Tue/Wed/Thu off work. I'm going to have Hubby drag a pressure canner upstairs as well as I did detour to the store when I went up to the VFW to pick up a few of their fish dinners Friday afternoon; I came home with a dozen 24 oz bottles of catsup so will pull out some dry beans and get them prepped to can into pork 'n beans while I'm working up the peaches. I've got a three day work weekend coming up over the Independence Day holiday, so won't get anything useful done at home during that time. There are no fireworks or other gatherings scheduled anywhere in the area on the 4th; makes me sad, but I remember that it's about the sacrifices made, not about the celebration.
Well, my coffee cup is empty - and so is my belly from the way it is growling; everyone else has been fed so I guess I'd better find myself something to eat, and then put out some chicken breast to cut in to strips to feed these youngun's before we take them home this afternoon. You folks all stay safe out there...
It's a cloudy day here so far; probably have more rain coming per the radar and by the way my knees are talking to me Of course, that ache could be from being silly enough to join Hubby in a nerf war against five 8 & 9 years old boys yesterday. (Boy birthday party - my ears are still ringing!) We put up a good battle in spite of being outnumbered AND only having single shot weapons when the aggressors had multiple shot ones. We had strategy and teamwork going for us and were able to hold the kitchen/dining room/side hall; and ran a sneak attack from the back stairwell. Hubby also covered me so I could run out and grab ammo; we piled it on the dining room table and waited for them to run out - took a while 'cause one of the short people brought a 200 count jug of nerf bullets as a birthday present to go along with all the ones already in house. Luckily, daughter had used some as a table decoration, so we had a stash to start out with!
We took off for home with older grandson in tow around 5 pm - luckily avoiding the water balloon battle that took place shortly thereafter (some evil grandma type person put packages of those easy to fill 'Bunch O Balloons' in the take home treat bags, and had a few extras that were left on the buffet by accident (uh-huh.... ) Daughter looked like she was about wiped out when she dropped off younger grandson a couple of hours later, but said she was going to find her an isolated piece of shoreline and throw a line in; she swiped a few hot dogs from the fridge to use for bait and got while the getting was good - we got a video of a darned nice bass about an hour later.
We've had a bunch of rain over the past few days - 3.5 inches a few days ago, followed by another 2.5 inches yesterday. No way I can get in the garden to hoe let alone till so there are some weeds coming up; the good news is that the late beans, beets, etc... I planted last week are also coming up so I reckon I'm a little bit ahead of the game at least. Squash and melons are blooming, small tomatoes are set on - I'm trying to decide if a couple of the tomatoes I bought were mislabeled, or if I've got a mineral imbalance going on in that area - the small 'maters on those two plants are purple-ish looking. The other tomatoes that are set on are all a normal light green, so if there is an issue, it's just in that one small area
Peaches are in at the local orchard; I'm going to call when they open around noon today and see if we can run up and pick up a bushel. If I get them today, then work Monday night and sleep Tuesday morning, they should be just about ready to can on my Tue/Wed/Thu off work. I'm going to have Hubby drag a pressure canner upstairs as well as I did detour to the store when I went up to the VFW to pick up a few of their fish dinners Friday afternoon; I came home with a dozen 24 oz bottles of catsup so will pull out some dry beans and get them prepped to can into pork 'n beans while I'm working up the peaches. I've got a three day work weekend coming up over the Independence Day holiday, so won't get anything useful done at home during that time. There are no fireworks or other gatherings scheduled anywhere in the area on the 4th; makes me sad, but I remember that it's about the sacrifices made, not about the celebration.
Well, my coffee cup is empty - and so is my belly from the way it is growling; everyone else has been fed so I guess I'd better find myself something to eat, and then put out some chicken breast to cut in to strips to feed these youngun's before we take them home this afternoon. You folks all stay safe out there...