I MISS SUMMER ALREADY

Our "summer" is quickly coming to a close. In short, as far as weather goes, our summer was short. It rained LOTS, much to my huge disappointment. Payton is pretending to "swim" in our dry pond. It just dried out about a month ago. Usually it is dry by the end of June or start of July. It will be filling up soon.
The sun-tanned grass, turned brown for only a short time. Then the rains began and in less than a week, it was . . .

this green. In the Fall the deer and turkeys come closer to the house. We call this guy "Spike".

The beautiful hibiscus stayed pretty for a short time and then the rains beat them up.

In the Fall the stonecrop(next to the hibiscus) begins to bloom.

Our garden wasn't great, but it produced the best watermelon we have ever grown. 15" long and 22" around. We cut it open, ate it and it was soooooooo sweet and delicious!

But the best part of this whole weekend, was that Jim got 2 HUGE projects done, that he's been wanting to get done for years. Kevin and Jim cut down 2 big rotten oak trees, that loose huge limbs into the pond every year.

Here goes one of them. Kevin cut through in 2 places, but it needed some "nudging" to finish the job.


Yaaaa, it's done and cut up for the winter.

The other big project was getting 2 rusted cars off the property. They were almost to the bottom of our 10 acres. We had to get them up to the driveway, loaded onto a trailor and taken to the auto wrecking place. Kevin and I had to cut away a bunch of brush and blackberries just to get to the cars. Then Jerry pulled them up the hill. This one is only 1/2 a car. The other one was whole. Jim says they are from the 50's, a Ford and Buick, I think.


The trailor tilted and had a hand-crank wench, but Jim had to get it started and guided it with this 20-foot 2 x 4.
Good job Guys. Testosterone was oozing all over the place this weekend.

But the thing that really capped it off, was the trip to the wrecking yard and seeing "the Claw" in action. The part I liked is that they gave us money for the old cars. Who knew "rusted tin foil" could bring a price?

Hope you're having fun with your Fall projects and maybe you had a better summer than we did. Take care and enjoy the beauty of those colorful falling leaves.