Early Summer 2016 Ramblings

We are still catching up with blog posts and wanted to include some pictures from the early part of the summer, 2016.  We tried to have a little garden while Beverly was taking her chemo treatments and it turned out pretty good since we had a lot of rain early in the year.  The potatoes were good and we had a few green beans as well.  The remainder of the summer, the garden took a back seat to more important things such as traveling to Temple pretty often.

The rains were plentiful during the early summer even causing a lot of flooding around the area.  We had some minor flooding along the creek in the park behind our house and Lake Proctor got so high that one of the major roads across the lake bridge was closed for several weeks before the water went down enough to re-open the road.

Nana and Grandad had a couple of old time metal garden chairs that we inherited.  They had about 10 coats of paint on them and most of that paint was trying to peel off!  We had the chairs sand blasted to get the old paint off and then had them powder coated in Stephenville.  They turned out beautifully and look like new. We are looking forward to using them this spring and summer.

Here's the moment.  Do they have any potatoes under them?

Yes, as a matter of fact, they do!  These were the small ones!  I just gave

these small ones away to the neighbors.  Not!  This reminded me of

the days when they grew potatoes at Munday, Texas!

We harvested all of the onions at the same time.  Not as large as usual but still

good to eat!

The proof is in the skillet.  We like to slice up the small one and cook them

in a little olive oil and eat up!

A few green beans from last year.  First time to try beans.

Farmer, time to take a break from your labors!

Like new!

We chose red for this one and.....

yellow for this one!  Sort of retro back to the early years of our childhood.

Water up over the walking bridge in our nearby park.

Rushing waters closed one street at this low water crossing.

Creek was pretty wide down by the old grain elevator.

Near the walking trail just west of the library.