Summer is passing much too fast! With all the rain we've had, the lawn mowing hasn't let up at all! Beefy and the girls have had plenty of pasture grass and we've not had to supplement their diet with hay. Usually by the end of July the grass is pretty well burned up, but not this year!
We had a great vacation with family in the Ozarks. We shared some great times, and some of our group also shared a virus. We had two kids sick the second day, and then one or two different ones every day after. I think there were a total of 12 who got sick while we were there. In spite of that, I think everyone had a good time.
Dennis especially enjoyed skiing with Travis.
The garden was a total failure this season. Even the pepper plants failed to produce a crop. The only thing we planted that actually came up and matured were the zinnias. They've been blooming profusely and are very pretty. I'm planning to till it all up again and plant some fall crops. Maybe we'll grow something yet!
We've been cutting the low hanging limbs of trees all around our property. It's nice to mow without dodging those branches that used to slap me in the face. We're really thankful to have had the use of a pole saw.
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| August 20, 1971 |
