The Pond

The pond project is continuing. We are working on landscaping the east side of the pond. hope to get it completed this week.

Why are my hands making yellow soap?

Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes..They just keep coming! Everything else has given up the ghost but we still have tomatoes! We are eating tomatoes at every meal, "have some tomatoes on your toast"!! I love tomatoes but would like to have some nice fresh vine ripened tomatoes in January!! Tomatoes out of your garden are plump, full of juices, red, but not firm. the tomatoes you get at the grosser are picked while still green and hard, when ripened they remain firm and turn red but are missing the juice of a homegrown one. Oh well you get what you can, my Great grandfather never has a "fresh" tomato in January, or for that matter a fresh head of lettuce. Progress It always cost something!

THE WALL

The wall around mountain lake is built! Some of the backfill is done, we just have the hardest part, the part from the mountain lake to the pond, to backfill with dirt and cover with mulch. My leg is getting better but it still is weak in the knee and will let me know when it doesn't like what I am doing. I sure am looking forward to moving into the new addition. it is so cool in there! The house is cooler also. So far we haven't turned on the AC after we installed the new insulation.

THE WALL

Look out. Regan asked for the Berlin wall to come down, but we are putting one up. A small one around one of the water features in our pond. look for pictures in the near future.

The Pond

Our pond sure is a tranquil place to sit and think. The fish that Mom was so worried [Photo]about this spring have multiplied from 9 to about 75! We have had babies and babies and babies!!! I wonder if there are any good recipes for goldfish??? Just kidding. God has blessed us!!! Just to sit and watch the fish, frogs, dragonfly's, bees, flowers and all of Gods creation is very relaxing. Like a Good neighbor God is there. He holds us in His hands. The way the world is going that is a good place to be. Does anyone want some gold fish, if so I know where to get them. C enjoys the pond a lot and likes to spent time feeding and watching the fish. I think that she has run out of names for all of them.

I've fallen and I can't get up!

As we put in 54 bags of blown in insulation above the old house last Sat,I bent my left knee backwards. So now I am limping around the house. Mom and I feel that the insulation will make a big difference in the HVAC bills. We have already noticed it is much cooler during the heat of the day. Or is it just that the weather is cooler? It sure was better when I could find my mind!! My neighbor needed some help determining the stud spacing in a bolt circle. That had me trying to find my mind again. I think that i took trig. in high school back a few years. But then I could be dreaming. Oh well, I came up with an answer for him. I hope that he doesn't use it....
I am trying this kind of blog, maybe my kids will read it. They sure don't read my other one...