Greenish Thumb?

I am so proud of myself! I grew up helping my mom plant and take care of a garden, but this year.......I planted my very first garden ALL BY MYSELF!!!! Whats even more impressive.....IT LIVED! When we lived in Twin falls I was convinced I had one of the blackest thumbs, I couldn't keep a easy house plant alive. Since moving out to Dietrich I have been able to keep many house plants alive. So I decided to try my luck with a  garden. I have really enjoyed having a garden for the most part. Next year should be better! This year there was almost weekly phone calls to either my mom,sisters, or my mother in law asking how the heck to do something! Without the help of these guys I'm sure I would of had the best watered weed patch in the Magic Valley :)
Now if I were good at this blogging thing I would of thought ahead and got a picture of my garden when it was pretty and everything was in bloom. Well.....I didn't. My potato plants are already half dug, and my beans are all done due to a earlyish frost. But everything else is still going strong. So don't mind the ugly dead looking spots

Like my garden decoration ;) Hank thinks it's the best looking part of our garden. When we moved here there was this snowmobile right in my lawn. After MUCH nagging to my husband to get rid of it..........its still here. So I decided to just plant my garden around it.

I planted a row of Zinnia's in front of the garden ( Thanks Devri for telling me about these flowers) I have LOVED them!  We got a little bit of a frost a couple weeks ago, it kinda made some of them die, but they are still very colorful and pretty.

E-I-E-I-0

Hank and I do not have any kids yet but I would like to introduce you to 2 new members of our family. (one that didn't last very long).  Never know what type of new "pets" you pick up while living in the country.  Now most "pets" are welcome and don't bother me to much if they stick around for a little while, but one of our new additions sent me screaming through the house! I'm sorry to say our family is back down to 7 instead of 8.

 

I would like to introduce you to Charlotts(as in web) evil cousin Herman. Herman was not the most friendly pet. And to be honest he was kind of a messy guest, he even had the nerve to leave one of his incredibly sticky strong web stings across my doorway. So when I walked outside it stuck right to my face making me instantly freak out! (Don't even act like this has never happened to you!) Then I look up and EEK!!!!!......there he be. He was just making himself right at home. Sorry Herman I couldn't keep you, I would never have a good nights rest knowing you were crawling around somewhere along my house. R.I.P Herman and please let your family know your kind is not welcome here! ( I also had to point out the size of this sucker!!!! See the other spider in its web?? That was actually a pretty regular sized spider. See how much bigger Herman is!)

Now these three little ugly ducklings swallows have made a nice little home for themselves above my back door. Well I guess it's not their fault it was their mother that picked the location of where their home was to be built. As much fun as it has been to have piles of bird poop on my back step I am ready for these little babies to leave the nest! I don't have the heart to knock it down while they are still living there. But I will need to hide it if my mother in law comes over while they are still living there. She is stronger then I am, she knocks down any nest in sight of her house. They are kinda shy, I took a number of pictures but never could get a picture of all three. The one you can see on the far left.... that's Tiki and other two are Lola and Kiki. I sure hope I have not offended them, do to the fact that I do not if they are male or female. Not sure how to tell on a bird???

If you're a little confused on the # of our family, I was counting Hank and I...that's 2, we have 2 dogs Zipper and Ziggy...that's 4, Tiki Lola and Kiki....that makes 7.

Sure hope I'm not the only one who has been getting a few extra little house quests the last little while. You can tell it's getting close fall when all the things that live outside start trying to live inside. Hope everyone is enjoying the almost change of seasons.....kinds feels like the mother nature can't make up her mind yet about what to do. I'm voting for a change to fall!

Sweet sweet summer time

Well I started out with all the motivation in the world to be a great blogger, I was going to try to have a new and exciting something to write about every week. BUT.........as I had mentioned before, my life is rather uneventful. I did have a couple of fun trip/outings but as they came and past I only manage to snap a few shots. It is a lot of work for some reason to remember to ACTUALLY take pictures with the camera that I carry around in my purse almost all the time. I used to take pictures all the time. Didn't matter what we were doing I had my camera out, but in my "old age" I have gotten lazy. My sister in law Jami is the champ at taking pictures so I am going to blame it all on her as to why I my camera has gotten dusty over the last two years! So way to go Jami ;)
 

 I was able to watch these two cutie pies. This is how us Koyle snorkel ha ha.

 

I have so much fun watching Alli every week. This little girl keeps me on my toes!!! I opened a can of spaghetti O's, put her up to her chair; then I went to change a load of laundry. I kept hearing her giggle and a few minutes later I came back and found her like THIS!!! She sure was enjoying her lunch. Spoons are for wimps! Good thing I had the feeling to take off her cloths before feeding her. I guess if you're still clean at the end of the meal....you didn't enjoy it enough;) !!

 

My awesome sister in law Jami

 

Grandpa Burt and Christine showin us how to get to get the job done! Grandpa Burt grows an amazing garden, wish I would have got a picture. 

 

Maybe in another week I will have some more uneventfulness to share :) Until next time.............