Salvage wheelbarrow

Look what I just finished from a wheel from the farm, an old drawer, and some scrap wood.   I want to show my inspiration piece too, but I can't get it to load.  I'll try again later.

Third year geranium

This is the 3rd year for this geranium that my Uphoff kids gave me.  While it's not at it's showy-est in this picture, it's the only picture I've managed to take of it so far this year.  I just wanted to show off that it's still around!!

The fence came down

This doesn't really show the fence so much, but you can see at least part of the combination of snow fence, chain link and latice (among other things) that we put up for a temporary barrier to keep the dogs off of where we needed to put grass in the back yard. 

    Since building the shop, we've had nothing but barren ground (like you see to the left of the tree below) and a few weeks.  Nothing to keep the soil from washing down into our brick and covering about a foot or two along the edge. 

You can see here - my hostas aren't doing so good this year either - none of my flowers / plants seem to be doing so well this year.

We finally took the fence down and the dogs weren't sure what they could do, but they loved running, playing and just plain rolling on it!  There still is some areas that will need some patching, but hopefully it will work out.

Zep's Haircut

Megan was over today and.....




Zep got himself a haircut

He actually was quite relaxed here.

Lots of fur left behind.












It will even out in a couple of days, but for now, he's so much cooler, and not so prone to those hot spots he keeps getting.

remi and the butterfly

Remi and and Zeplin spotted a butterfly floating around the yard.  Remi became fascinated by it and in her most stealth manner, eased up to it until it finally flew away to the other side of the fence.

Uphoff Updates: Speechless

You've gotta go see the new picture of our grandbaby at:
Uphoff Updates: Speechless

Alyssa's Birthday

Alyssa Ann Patterson turned 2 yesterday.

This is her with her daddy looking over the new Eye Spy quilt Nana made her.

You can see all the rest of her Birthday pictures at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/brianina/PattersonS#

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALY!!!