Coming Soon---Grand Baby #3

This time last week we were in Denver, Colorado for a visit with our middle son Jeremy and his wife Annie, and our “coming soon” grand baby which is due November 1! We are so excited! One of the first questions we asked them was “Does this mean you are moving back to Texas?” All we got was a little laugh, which probably means we will be making lots of trips to Colorado. But, we don’t mind because we love Colorado.

It was a short trip but we had a great time, visiting, seeing a few new sights and helping them with a couple of projects around the house. This is the first time we have been to their new home and we really like the house, especially the view of the foot hills to the west, downtown Denver to the east and Pikes Peak in the distant south. Real estate there is pricey but they were able to find a great home in the southwest part of Denver. They worship at a church in Littleton which is just south of them.

While we were there we went out to Red Rocks Amphitheater where many musicians have performed. Jeremy and Annie saw Bob Dylan there a year or two ago. We also went to Golden (home of Coors beer and Colorado Schools of Mines) and to Lookout Mountain, the grave site of Buffalo Bill Cody. Mostly we just enjoyed getting to visit and driving around and seeing some of the scenery in and around Denver. Beverly’s highlight was when Jeremy took her to a little place in Denver called Happy Cakes. It is a cupcake shop, not just your regular run of the mill ones, but those with fancy names. It will become a tradition to go there each time we visit. They were yummy!

Thanks for everything Jeremy and Annie and we hope to see you again in a couple of months.

How Does Your Garden Grow

This year we expanded our garden area a little so we could have more sun. We planted onions (they haven't done too well), broccoli, potatoes, tomatoes, jalapeno peppers, sweet peppers, squash, zucchini, corn and beans. We are about to plant our okra and black-eyed peas. The squash have little ones on them already so we are excited about having squash before long. We are about to put a privacy fence behind the garden and plant some shrubs along the front of it. We have been putting in the posts and it dug surprisingly easy, except when we hit big tree roots that had to be sawed out. Sawing in the dirt is hard on a chain saw! So, we are hoping that the rains will continue and we won't be watering all summer long. But, if it means some fresh vegetables, we will just have to do it.