Squirrels in the garden

The pesky squirrels are at it again.  Brody is watching them out the back door.  They dumped out all the bird food.

I'm guessing the three bird feeders in the back aren't enough for them.  They have dug up all of my bulbs in the front yard again.  I am going to have to put them in cages next year.  They have also eaten the few corn cobs I had left on the stalks.  I wanted to keep the stalks for fall decor on the porch but between the birds and the squirrels I don't know if we will have any left.

Making goop

This didn't hold the kids attention as long as I would have liked.  Michael didn't even want to leave the computer for a minute to see what Nicole was doing.

August Garden

My tallest sunflower has bloomed.

The lemon trees are just slightly bigger.

The corn is all finished and the beans are just starting.

These are the second time I'm planting the cucumbers.  They did not like being behind the corn.

These are apple trees. 

Nicole makes me save the seeds from everything.  Out of a dozen seeds we only had two germinate.  We do have a peach seed I think we will plant soon.

I love bell peppers.

Visiting Uncle Franks grave

Aunt Ginny asked us to give her a hand cleaning up Uncle Franks grave site the other day.  She can't get down to pull the weeds, so we all went together to give her a hand.  While Ed and I were digging out the weeds and the crabgrass.  Michael asked why are we digging up Uncle Frank.  Aunt Ginny seemed to get a kick out of that.  He also asked her what the head stone said.  She read it off to him and at the end she was telling him that they left a spot and will have to put the date she dies on it.  He looked at her very sincerely and asked when that will be?

Raptors at the Library

We had some visitors at the library.  I was very surprised when Nicole raised her had to help out.