2 Coverstone Corner: OTHER OCTOBER OCCASIONS

Every year, at Bishop's Pumpkin Farm, Kelly has the kids stand and get measured. Addy, at 16, 5' 11"

Sophie, at 11 1/2, 5' 10"

Dylan, at 4, 3' 6"

So what do you do with such a tall girl like Sophie? She can run fast on the soccer field.

She is just getting started with a Volleyball club. She has tryouts on the 11th.

Here are her 3 friends that are also starting Volleyball and yes, they are all the same age. YIKES!

These 2 mamas and their babies think they own the backyard. But we are making some changes to the yard. We added 85 yards of dirt to help raise up the sloping backyard. We hope the deer will stay on the grass and not the soft dirt after the rains.

We loved unloading it like this. Those dirt clods were huge and hard as rock. I could stand on top of them and they wouldn't even loose a little dirt on the edges.

At the end of the day, we had 23 piles of dirt. While we were at work for the next few days, Kevin took the tractor and smashed most of the huge dirt clods. They were like cement almost. I was amazed he could get it this smooth, but still not smooth enough for grass seed.

Our friends let us use their box scraper. It really helped smash some clods and level high and low spots.

This is as good as it gets, ready for grass seed.

Kevin turned THIRTY on Oct. 21st. On his last day of being 29, he and Jim went fishing at a private 12 acre lake.

They caught 2 trout and 3 bass.

The big boy bass, 16" and 4 lbs. No fish stories here.

On his birthday, I made one of his favorites--ribs. Sorry these 2 pics are out of focus.

His new slippers.

So the "old man" is 30 now. This past summer, in his younger years, he worked on a farm. He drove this truck back and forth from the field to the warehouse. It was filled with wheat, or ryegrass, or radish seed.

In the early Fall, he drove this tractor with a harrow and roller. Brought back good memories for me. I drove this same setup when I was working for a farmer about 19 years ago.