The 4th of July

On the last blog I described how nice it was out on the freshly stained deck. That was early in the morning.

I never moved from that spot all day. Even though I didn't have any, (heaven forbid), Leinies I did just fine doing nothing but read my book. The book was "Buried Prey".and I finished it.



Nan joined me in the afternoon to read, drink beer, and enjoy cheese, crackers and olives stuffed with jalapeno peppers.

The Rescue Garden

It is 9:00 in the morning on the 4th of July and I am out on our newly stained deck. It is 72 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and we are expecting it to get to 85 today. Once I open the first Leinie's it will be a perfect day in Wisconsin.
As I am sitting here blogging, I am being serenaded by a large bull frog in the pond and by all of the birds that surround us out in the woods.



But I digress, the reason that I am blogging this time is to update what the Rescue Garden is doing at this time.

The top pic is of a Hosta that I always wanted from Nana's garden. It grows to about 3 feet tall and about 3-4 feet wide. But this one was not rescued by me but started by itself 2 years ago. This is the first year for flowers.





The next pic is of the ground cover that we planted about 9-9 years ago and it has really spread out. It is called Lamium.


Last but not least is the Bain Berry plant. This was rescued from the woods and planted close to the garage. There are red and white Bain Berry plants. So this is the best year yet for the plant that I moved 2 years ago.

Hosta La Vista Garden

This is the rescue garden by Jonesie's garage. It is a place where the plants go once Nana wants to get rid of them. I have added two hostas from a garden center.






This year I also added 5 Jack in the Pulpit's. These were found in a clear cut behind the garage and I was told they don't like the sun so I moved them. In with all the other things I have transplanted red and white Bainberries. These are doing very well this year.





The ground cover was started from about 7 small containers and it really has grown. You can abuse it all you want and it still comes back.

Full Woodshed

The woodshed is full for next year. We will be burning poplar, red oak,sugar maple and hickory.
It is time to start on the wood for 2013.

Jonesie's Baby Picture

Nana and I were going thru some old photos and came across this one of Jonesie when he was very young.

North Shore Holiday

Nana and I spent the holiday weekend on the north shore of Lake Suprior. The weather was fantastic for us to do some hiking. This is a photo of the Beaver River. It was a really nice walk for this view.






This a picture of Fall River or sometimes known as Rosebush River. The amount of spring water was very nice as all of the rivers put on a fantastic show.

It's Turtle Time

Well it is time for the baby turtles to come out of the ground after a long winter and head for the pond.


So we were trying to find different ways to show how small they are when they come out of the ground.

The best one was the teaspoon.


Next was Jonesie's idea, what else but to compare the turtle to the pop top off of a Leinies.









Nana wanted to use her hand as a way to show the size of the little one.

Anyway, last week we found 3 of them trying to get to the pond and they did with a little help.