July 2012 in Photos

Lucky Days making aebleskivers at the museum and the Polk County Fair were the big events for July.  

74th Annual Sterling Old Settlers Picnic at Cushing

The sand garden starting to dry out in July

Margo and I again spent time hosting the Red School house on the fairgrounds --this year for the Polk Genelogical Society

Farm girls know what a fork is for!

Lundgren's Marshland Farms registered holsteins cool off!

Indianhead Gem and Mineral Society meets first Monday of the month at Luck Senior Center

Remembering June

Got tired of the snow so started 2012 review!  June photos

Luck HS Senior Art Show

Margo at the Farmer's Market  Eureka

The big rain flooding

Butterfly garden at Pine Island

Garden Planning!

Apple trees outside the garden fence

     Starting to look at the garden seed catalogs.  Nothing like looking at the summer pictures from the garden to think about what to do this year.  Mom's garden pictured in June. Fenced to keep out the critters.  Mom, age 91, is getting her garden planned already!  

  The dill is left over from when Mom was the "dill lady" growing dill  to sell to the neighbors and the local stores.  Easy to grow and brought in several hundred dollars each summer at 50 cents for 3 large multi-head stems.  

Mom's Garden -- Volunteer dill all over!

A few tomatoes peaking out of some weeds and dill.

Raspberries are set--had a great crop!

Strawberries and bird distractors

The Shadow Knows who the photographer is!

Can he jump the 6 foot fence?

A garden should have some strawberries and raspberries!

Gurneys has lots of older varieties of watermelons for our sand garden
Gurney's link

With Margo and I idling this winter while our health improves, we are spending time planning spring and summer gardens. We want to do the farmer's market again--and have our pumpking/squash garden, our watermelon garden on the sand, and a general purpose garden.  Also thinking a lot about maple syrup season!  May or may not be ready for that this spring. 

   Have a lot of slow time, so am looking through the photos from 2012. 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!    Already had a call from Mom wishing us the same.  She is over her cold and feeling pretty good seven days into being 91.   She is having brother Ev down this morning for Christmas brunch.  

   Had a nice photo from cousin Ardyce out there in Los Angeles of her Christmas eve table--even had cheese ordered from Burnett Dairy!

Cousin Ardyce's Christmas table
beats ours!  We had paper plates, a bottle of
Gene's home made rhubarb wine in plastic medicine
 measuring cups and regular crackers with Cheese Whiz and Peanut Butter! 

Burnett Dairy Cheese in Los Angeles at
Cousin Ardyce's table

Trying a night camera move shot at the lights

Margo has several amaryllis and paper whites blooming in the south windows

The Christmas tree is a small Norfolk Pine this year.  The south
end of our house is full of windows so we have a wonderful
view of the outdoors from in our front room!  The windows
are big sheets of insulated glass that we built into the walls--quite
inexpensive compared to regular windows from Arctic Glass along  Hwy 94 -- about $100 bucks each for two 4x6 and four 3x6 with two regular windows and a patio door all wrapped around the south end of the house on the main floor. Upstairs lots of windows to the south too.  Furnace barely runs during sunny days with the passive solar heating effect. 

The pastel sunrise this morning