The busy month of July

The busy month of July is upon us....it started off with a bang! No, we didn't have any fireworks this year for the 4th (we save those for New Year's Eve), but a visit from my cousins from Calgary was a "bang" for me. We really all had a good time. Come again Laurance and Andy. I then made a quick visit to Renton for a dental appointment and an Irvin fix. Once home again, it has been nothing but what to do with three cherry trees full. Rock has been a picking fool and I have made fruit leather for Amya, pie topping and am getting ready to make jam with Dionne on our next visit to Renton, this week, for business and fun with the Irvins. Rock gets to come this time. I have also tried to sell cherries down at the Keller ferry but only sold 9 pounds at $3 a pound! Rock got over 25 gallons off our one Bing tree. Let's see what the two Lapin trees will yield.



River Fun

Hang that washing Philimon!

Yes it was you

Smile

Not a rattle snake Andy, don't worry

Throw those shoes boys!

Rock relaxes before company

Amya loves Grandma and Grandpa's cherries

"Hulloh!"

Smile for Grandma Amya

Just like Mason's chair

Look.......

Ride this car

Come and find me Grandma

Grandma taught me how to rake and dump leaves

I can do this all by myself

Mommy teaches me at the Children's Museum

I like this place and glad you came with Grandma

I think I will sleep in the sun while you pick cherries

Rock's Life in a tree

Ahoy there

Organic all right

God's Country

It is their fault we have so many cherries this year, they were down at the ferry!

With babies

Two coolers full and more to come, oh so much more

Sitting under the braided tree waiting for customers

The Life and Times of a Cherry Dealer!

Some comic relief

Even the Captain is eating cherries

A ferry view after a hard day's work!

Too heavy a burden!

Do we have to pick these or will a bear help?

Yum but a lot of work

Rock's life in the tree

Pit away honey

The cherry picker in his mosquito gear

I'll take sleeping in the sun any day over picking cherries

Lovely Lavender

Joseph's Coat, forever changing

Pink Lily

Day Lilies

I love my red Lilies

My newest Columbines (three different plants and colors)

Queen Anne's Lace

Wild "African" Daisies

Viola "Weeds"

Crazy Columbines

Blooming Hens and Chicks

Hollyhocks

Poppies everywhere

Garlic Harvest will be huge this year

Hummingbird in the rain

Rain rain go away, NO......

We had the most amazing lightning on the 11th. The sky put on quite a show for us and it rained overnight and most of the next day. I never thought I would love rain so much, but we need it in this dry place.

Busy Month of July at the "Tessadora Manor Farm"

OK, so before we read about the busy month at "Tessadora Manor Farm" and news from Farmers Tess and Rock in July, just had to post this video of Ms. Amya Ruby, whose favorite word of the day I took this video, was (is) "BUM". She has just learned this word and we here are all so happy that it is BUM and not BUTT. Have to keep a bit of her English/South African background in check!

Wrapping up June in the Garden and Some Local Life on the Res!

My Irises are all gone, but now Poppies are up, Columbines are blooming, Clematis putting on a good show, Lilies coming up and Hollyhocks will be next. I love my ever changing garden. Speaking of gardening. I went down to the local Post Office the other day, and the Keller kids have planted a vegetable garden behind the Post Office with the help of Diane (the 5th/6th Grade teacher) and Kari, the secretary at school. I am so happy they are doing a garden this year, as it is something to keep these kids busy. They really seem to be enjoying it. It is women like Diane and Kari who make life on the Res so rewarding. Thank you so much ladies. Our new well pump is installed and oh to have pressure again and be able to water the yard with more than one thing at a time. Happy 4th of July and July month, hot, hot, hot. Water pressure just in time.


Poppies everywhere

One Rose (Joseph's Coat), love it

Lavender is back after being butchered in 2006 for Dionne's wedding sachets!

Lilies I love you

Especially my Lady in Red

Bell Celmatis, how cute

How deep is your well?

Diane teaching how to plant

Good job Keller kids

Pay atttention to Kari now

Let's go Juliana, Diane's daughter helps

What a view from the garden with mountains all around

Wrapping up in June

I love Bananas

Last Picture Grandma!

Sitting and spinning all by myself

Splish Splash

I like popsicles with Hayden

Bye Mommy and Daddy, have a good time I am with Grandma for the night!

Grandma said to put my feet up for her to push me

I like my house and play in it with Grandma

Look at all my toys Grandma

Well, June's journey ended very well with a trip to Renton for a dental appointment (two to go and DONE), a visit with the Irvins, babysitting Amya quite a bit and not minding it at all, coming home to my garden and some local life on the Res. Oh, and having to have a new water pump installed at our well. Bad timing and one more huge expense. Oh well. Getting ready to clean and have company as in my first cousin Laurance and his wife Andy. They are also ex-South Africans who now live in Calgary and have not been to visit us in the States yet!! We have been to Calgary two or three times since they have lived there so we are really excited to have them and to spend July 4th with them.