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| view of pond with blueberries |
We spent most of the weekend visiting family in Pittsburgh and Ohio, celebrating Opa’s birthday on Saturday, and Toben’s birthday on Sunday. Samantha however had to be back to work in Carlisle, so she left early and spent part of Sunday and Monday painting the barnyard fence by herself. She finished the entire fence and took some photographs of a beautiful fall day as well.
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| backyard flowerbed |
We spent all afternoon fixing the “barnyard”. This included fixing and painting the fence by the blueberries and moving lumber and rocks.
We moved our pile of pressure treated lumber, which had been stored in the barnyard, to the back of the blackberry field, and moved 3 tractor buckets full of rocks and slates over to where Tina is still trying to build a stone wall.
Lars and Tina pulled off the roughest and broken fence boards and replaced them with newer (and straighter) boards. They also pulled out all old nails and various hardware still attached to the fence-rails from the days of an electric fence.
At the same time, Grace and Sam worked on painting the repaired fence parts white. It is looking so much better already!!!
We had an extraordinary high amount of rainfall so far this year – and here comes another storm! According to the national weather service, our region (Middletown data) has had over 60 inches of precipitation already this year – the total amount of precipitation in 2010 was only 39.43 inches.
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| Picking “apples” off the tomato plant in the herb garden |
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| Trying to pick petunias |
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| Stone wall looks a lot bigger with Toben in front 🙂 |
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| on the gaudy dog that Zach insisted we need as grandparents |
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| waiting for the bus at 6:30 am |
Yes, today was the first day of school and the start of 7th grade for Lars. Unbelievable, how fast this summer went. Even though football practice has been going on since the beginning of August, it seems that no one is ever quite ready for the first day of back to school. But, Lars was happy at the end of the day when he got off the bus – always a good sign 🙂
