Our 24th of July

Lindsey got to spend some time at the parade while I was at work. Apparently she didn't take many pictures though...the floats must have been really exciting! I'm too tired/uneducated to figure out how to flip this picture in blogger, so you can crane your neck if you'd like.


As soon as the 24th festivities were finished I picked up Lindsey and whisked her off to exotic Burley, Idaho for the Spudman Triathlon. Despite the fact that we weren't sure if we rememberd how to swim, we had a great time. Yes, Lindsey beat me again. For some reason I like to lollygag along during triathlons. One of these days I'm going to have to get competitive...maybe later. Besides, Lindsey would probably get more competitive and still beat me.


The crew. We had a few people bail at the last moment, but we wouldn't let them bring us down. We had an awesome time. It was a little cooler than years past, and we all felt great afterwards. For those of you not familiar with my family: my brother Chad is in the red, and his wife Rebecca is in the black.

The Yard

This post is mainly for my mother who hasn't seen our yard sinces its conception.


This is my Early Girl tomato plant and if you look closely you can seen my 4th red tomato which I picked today

Do you see the white spots on my zucchini leaves? I can't figure out what it is. Some websites state that it is this mold stuff but I am pretty sure that it isn't mold since I forget to water them all the time. You can see one zucchini it this picture

This is what I was saying about my zucchini leaves. They aren't full like the squash leaves. The extensions on the leaves look really skinny and spindly....I don't know why but I don't think that it has to do with squash bugs. They have a lot of holes in them but I am pretty sure that is due to the slugs and snails.

These are all of my squash plants. It goes zucchini, crooked neck squash and another zucchini. I am picking 2 new zucchini's every day and the squash is about ready to start producing like that.

Here is the rhubarb plant. Thanks Lisa for the start! I didn't think that it was going to survive because it was really hot after I planted the start and kinda forgot to water it but it is looking really good now. I think that I will be a lot of rhubarb this fall.

Here are the lillies from Lynn's yard. They look awesome right there.

Here is the back corner. In the back on the left you can see my struggling columbine but there are some great starts at the bottom so I am sure it will come back strong next year. I love the white grass in the middle-it is a fun color and texture to add. If you look on the right side of the picture you can see some of the zinnia's that survived and one that I am hoping will survive. It looks dead in the picture but there are a couple of green leaves and the stalk is still green so I think there is hope...

Here is the side of the house. You were saying the other day that the Jupiters beard isn't actually Jupiters beard. What is it? I have had a lot of blooms on that but it is taking over a strawberry plant. You can see my Solomen's Seal but it is struggling. I think that it is too hot for it. That or it doesn't get enough water but everything else seems to be doing ok.

These are my favorites!

This is my favorite corner right now. The petunias are going crazy and then the sunflowers are so pretty. There are also a couple of flowers on the ice plant. It is crazy how plants grow! I am sure that start was only about 4 inches across when we planted it but now it is about 10 and is super full! It also helps that this corner greets you on your way up to the front door.

I have a couple more pictures but they were struggling to load. But our corn is getting taller so I am going to start the newspaper earwig treatment thing so that I have corn to eat. Then our peas are like 4 ft tall. They have given me a good harvest but they are on there way out. I am also starting to get lots of lettuce and I even have a jalapeno and green pepper growing. It is a lot of fun. Thanks for helping us get everything in! I don't think I could have done it without you and it would have been a lot more boring and expensive!