It’s summertime, and that means gardening here at the homestead. I grew up in the country, where to me, gardening meant hard labor. After meeting Mary, who already enjoyed gardening, I learned that ‘city gardening’ isn’t quite as labor intensive, and is actually enjoyable. It’s not the most manly hobby, but I [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 17, 2006
Last summer I built this patio with the extra tim…
Last summer I built this patio with the extra time I had after my lay-off from XO. That orange chair you see is currently the only place to sit. Eventually, we’ll buy a patio set to provide a more comfortable spots to relax. That pipe you see sticking up is the fill [...]
June 17, 2006
Summertime BBQ
Mary tends to the veggies grilling on the BBQ. We tend to BBQ once a week or so lately.
June 17, 2006
BBQ Buffalo
Focusing my energy rays on the broiling Buffalo burger bites burning on the BBQ.
June 17, 2006
A view of our backyard. The tree in the pot you se…
A view of our backyard. The tree in the pot you see next to our patio is a columnar apple tree it never gets much bigger than what you see, and it does produce apples (this particular tree hasn’t been the most ‘fruitful’). It’s engineered for patios and small spaces.
June 17, 2006
Veggie Garden
For the past few years I’ve been tending a small vegetable garden in our backyard. This little city garden is a lot more modest than the vegetable gardens I grew up with. I used to clean our cow stalls and haul via tractor the cow manure to the large garden where it fertilized the crops [...]
June 12, 2006
Rose Festival
Today, the last of Portland’s Rose Festival fleet left town. Every summer for the past 99 years, Portland has thrown a big party called the Rose Festival. Part of the festivities are visits by ships representing the US Navy, the Coast Guard and the Canadian Navy.
This year only one Canadian Naval vessel docked at the [...]
June 5, 2006
A Few Vegas Snapshots
As you might recall, Mary and I took a trip to Las Vegas last month with some of my family. We have very few photos of the trip, but I thought I’d share some with you anyway. Here we are in our hotel, Caesar’s Palace.
Some of the photos of my family mysteriously got deleted from [...]
June 5, 2006
You Wynn Some…
..you lose some. Here’s what some are calling a “Wynner”..the new Wynn Hotel and Casino.
