Mother’s Day weekend

To make things easier we had split up the weekend.

Saturday; yesterday, we were with Nina’s family and we celebrated with her brother & sister-in-law who just had a baby a week before Joe’s 1st birthday. His original due date was Joe’s birthday which is why we set up Joe’s birthday party a weekend after in expectation of that matching due date happening.

Anyhow it was good. summertime cookout was the fare, hot dogs, hamburgers & seasoned skirt steaks which was so good. A few good sides and we were content. It was interesting watching David & Liz with their son Stephen, he being so small and how they managed him. It made me think that Joe was at one time this small and yet I had to think hard on remembering this. He’s just so big now, not exactly a baby anymore and yet he’s still my little bear. He walks around now with little trouble, a bit stiff legged but man can he move.

Today we started off the day with a breakfast get together at the diner to celebrate mother’s day and of course as is tradition, sunday dinner at my parent’s place early this afternoon.

We have been having some harsh wind (55mph+) here over the last 24 hours and I’m a bit peeved since I just put up my upside down tomatoes (2rd year in a row now) and one of them got damaged with last night’s wind. I worked all day yesterday from morning till about 3pm to dig up roots, lay soaker hoses and prep the raised garden beds for the new season. 

I have 6 tomato plants (3 pineapple variety, 2 Black Krim (ukranian heirloom variety) and a Couer de Bue (Oxheart) ), 2 casper egg plants, plus sugar snap peas which are already at least 1 ft high, plus I have to plant cucumbers plants, watermelon from seed, and a Dill’s Atlantic GIANT pumpkin.

I really want this year’s crop to be better than the dismal results we got from last year’s horrid weather. Here’s to hoping. 

 Ok that’s all for now. Waiting for my brother to deliver a truckload of cut off timber that his clients can’t use. All useable pieces but what they don’t realize is that it all burns the same.

Bye now.