I put up these pictures of my Dad’s family (all in Germany) in the dining room - they are copies and have stickers on the back with information about who/when/where on them. Most of the people in the pictures were dead long before I was born, but seeing them on a daily basis makes them seem familiar.
Update!
My awesome friend Merrill helped me identify my fish. I thought she’d know because she knows her nature and likes to fish. She didn’t know what it was but she was the perfect person to ask because her husband works for the DNR and knows who to ask! He forwarded the pic to someone in the fishieries Dept. who had to forward it to someone else who was able to give it a positive I.D. It is a breeding spotted sucker and apparently they don’t usually have red stripes, just when they are spawning (which threw the first fisheries guy off.) So very cool, it was an amazing thing to see and to know what we saw was icing on the cake. Thanks again, Merrill and Scott! (Merrill is married to a Scott too.)
I’m posting while making crepes for dinner - I can type a sentence between flips and pouring another scoop of batter in the pan - but my attention is divided so bear with me (flip.)
My parents visited last week and my Dad built an arbor for me. An area of our deck (by the door) gets the noonday sun in the middle of the summer and it really heats up the house. I planted a kiwi vine to grow up the side of the deck and over the arbor. This year I’ll also plant annual vines in pots in case the kiwi does not grow as fast as I hope.
One of the days they were here we went to a park near a pretty good sized river. We saw this unfortunate fish that must have flopped out onto the rocks. I tried to look up what kind it was but couldn’t find anything that looked like it - Merrill? Claudia (can you ask Allen?) It was full of eggs. Hazel spotted several others like it resting in a calm pool before venturing back into the wild water.
Today I planted seeds in flats - I’m getting a late start but got so much done. I usually break my seed starting up over several weekends but I did about 6 weekends worth today. Vegetables are the priority and flowers sometimes just don’t get done, but I planted 44 varieties of veggies and 15 varieties of flowers - seed list will be posted soon! Later Hazel helped me plant potatoes. She had to go inside to change into her “farmer pants” (overalls) before we could start. I transplanted chinese cabbages and planted my 3rd patch of spinach seeds.
I’m going to the GA Organics Conference this Saturday - so excited - especially because my boyfriend (not really, he is one of my many pretend boyfriends, but he’s my #1 pretend boyfriend!) M1chael P0llan is going to be the keynote speaker. Sigh, oh yeah, and there are some classes I’m really looking forward to.
Edited to add:
Okay - so now I’ve been outed I should clarify that Elvis, J. Edgar Hoover, Buckminster Fuller and a bunch of other random dudes (mostly dead or farmers) that I will never meet are on my pretend boyfriend list. I was going to explain all this yesterday but the crepes were ready and I was going to explain the criteria for making the list but I just faced the blue screen of death and had to re-write all this and now I just don’t feel like it. She gets what I mean but calls them something different.
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