Visit to Greg's

These are a couple of pictures that I took when went over to Greg's new house in Spokane. It is nice. The downstairs is not finished so he will have some work to do there but he can fix it the way he wants. So right now it is a two bedroom, one bath upstairs but it is plumbed downstairs for a bathroom. It is a corner lot. We had a good time. Short though.

Random Pix

Guess I'll just tell a little about each picture. The first one is the starting of my "mound". Julie gave me help in designing the shape and ideas of what to put on it. I am now waiting for there to be plants available to plant. This is just the lava rock and a few rocks and pansies.

The next picture is a geranium that we had out in the greenhouse all winter. It did so nicely.

The picture of the new cabinets will give you an idea of the wood but it is hard to tell what it is going to look like when it is finished.

Then some of the Valentine kids coloring Easter eggs. Last but not least....Seth and his chocolate mouth!

Valentine Visit

Just a few pictures taken during our recent visit by some of the Valentines and Tiffany and Zach. I didn't pay any attention to the order and the fact that they all go down the middle but anyway. The first one is Wally and Brigham "cleaning" the fish they caught. I guess Brigham was pretty grossed out about the slimy creatures and didn't want to touch, clean OR eat any of them:0)

Cute little picture of Zack. He had some rough times while he was here but Isaac had him smiling here. He's getting a bunch of new teeth!

Pretty sisters and their pretty colored Easter eggs.

The weather was so cold while they were here but the kids did manage to have some times outdoors. Grandpa had moved some dirt so they did get to play around in the dirt some of the time.

This was at the Easter egg hunt in Okanogan. They just had it divided according to age. When the firetruck honked its horn, the kids ran out and got eggs. It was over in about 3 minutes.....

Smashed

It's kinda hard to see unless you click on the image but the snow has taken it's toll on the cold frames. The big one has had it's test this winter so we think it'll be okay what with the winds and the heavy snow. The small one however was not so lucky.

Time for a Change

I just needed a change from having pictures all along the mantel. You may have to click on this to see what I did, it is a little bit of a change and I am happy with it.

Collapsed:0(

After our last HEAVY snow we got up in the morning to see that our small cold frame had collapsed under the weight. It is hard to see but it's that "flat" thing to the right of the big coldframe. Not sure what we'll do with it.

What is it with these beards?

Our produce is doing well in spite of the weeds all around them. Here are Steve, Wendy and Wally at Farmers Market.

A Dentist's dream

Wendy looks like she is having to try hard to beat the pro!

We are at the Stampede's carnival watching people go on the crazy rides.

Wendy's growing up!

Greg and Wally went fishing at a place on the reservstion where they feed the fish and they are a cross between salmon and trout. Dick, and Greg got their's right away and Wally fished and fished. Then he saw a big one swimming by so he grabbed a net and scooped it up and said "I got mine!!!"

Sarah had more fun with frogs while she was here. She had five in a container in here one evening and when we got up the next morning there were only 4!!! Never did find the other 4:-(

SUMMER VISITS

Here is Greg and Wally at Farmer's Market. I will post more pictures tomorrow. My computer is so slow, it takes forever to just put these three pictures. We really enjoyed having first Steve and Wendy's visit, then Greg and Sarah's.

Wendy and Sarah in Spokane.

The hairy brothers:-)

Idaho Pictures

Here are a few of the pictures taken in Idaho a couple of weeks ago. Kinlee didn't know what to think of us. I like the picture of Deacon on Matt;s lap. We had a wonderful time but wish we could have visited with Rusty and Brendi more.

Rattle Rattle

About a week ago we saw a big "bull" snake in our garden. That was okay. Then today Wally spotted a snake just under the edge of the house, where I had a sprinkler going all night. I started tugging on it trying to pull it out so I could see how long it was.....and then I spotted the rattles. 8 of them. The guy that was painting our house pulled it out with a shovel and d-headed him. He was NOT the one we saw in the garden.

Here is Wally with his new toy. The first picture is his new tractor. It can do a lot of things that will save a lot of work. Unfortuneately the first day he really used it, he stayed on it for about 4 hours straight and now his back is hurting. The second picture is the guys enjoying birthday cake. This white cold frame is like the one he is building. We drove up to Tonasket to check out this one that a guy has who has been bringing tomatoes, watermelons, etc to the market really early. This guy had 275 tomato plants in his, each one suspended by a little pully to lower the plants and raisw them to pick. A little too involved for us but he has fun.

Only the beginning

Here Wally is screwing some of the big pipes that will be the frame of the cold frame. It is HUGE! Today he managed to get three of them up that you see only one in the picture below and it was hard. It took all day! Hard work for an old man and his only occasional help from an old woman.