I'm still here!
It's been a busy time for me lately. Camp is getting real busy and will stay so until August. My night clerk got promoted, so I'm training her replacement this week. The new girl is real good, thank goodness!
Hubby and I have spent the last week putting in the gardens. We had such good luck with petunias last year that we went with them again this year in the front borders. I also finally planted the gardenia and hydrangia I always have wanted. The vegetable garden went in too. This year (hopefully) will yield corn (two varieties), green beans, butter peas, purple hulled peas,5 varieties of tomatoes, 4 varieties of peppers, cucumbers, strawberries (summer bearing), and blue berries. Earlier this spring we planted two new apple trees, two Asian pear trees and two plum trees. If it all goes well, we and the in-laws will have plenty of good eats!
The birds have also come for the summer and our full feeders. We have loads of beautiful, colorful birds that call our property home. The owl has been greeting me as I return home from play rehearsal every evening. I think he really enjoys scaring me to death as he swoops low in front of my windshield as I come up the drive. The red hawk is back this year, nesting in the oak tree right off the back door. the yellow finches and blue buntings have got their summer colors and look gorgeous sharing the feeder with the bright red cardinals.
The cat particularly enjoys the back feeder. He really thinks if he sits under it, the birds won't notice and they'll fly into his mouth. I call this photo 'Optimistic Cisco'. Needless to say, the birds have his number and he's stuck with Iams.
Now for a meme gakked from Fernwithy, off FacebookPut an X by the states you have been to. The average is 8; how do you match up? Put an O beside the states where you have lived.
Just for fun, beside each state you've visited, note your favorite sight or thing about that state.
Airports don't count!
Alabama XO My work place! US Space & Rocket Center
Alaska X Dog sledding through the frozen swamps of Wasalla
Arizona XO The petrified forest
Arkansas X Crater of diamonds
California X Sequoias
Colorado X Pikes Peak!
Connecticut X Durham (a post card town)
Delaware X the drive between Anapolis and Dover
Florida X Ft Walton Beach
Georgia XOO the view from the top of Stone Mountain
Hawaii X the wild beaches on the windward side of Oahu
Idaho X Snake River Valley and my mother's home town (Fruitland)
Illinois X Art Institute of Chicago Museum
Indiana X Lincoln's boyhood home
Iowa X the giant strawberry
Kansas X mushroom rocks!
Kentucky X antiquing in Elizabethtown
Louisiana X New Orleans, the entire experience!
Maine X Lake Sebago
Maryland X the harbor
Massachusetts XO Snowy winters
Michigan X Holland in the spring
Minnesota X visiting my neice and her three lively boys
Mississippi X Natchez trail, in the spring
Missouri X going to the top of the St Louis Arch
Montana X the hidden places in Bozeman
Nebraska X Sioux Falls, walking along the river
Nevada X the planetarium in North Las Vegas
New Hampshire X Loon Mountain - great skiing till you tear your ACL!
New Jersey X the western part of the state
New Mexico X skiing in Alamogordo
New York X the area around Cooperstown
North Carolina XOO the Outer Banks
North Dakota X the giant catfish!
Ohio X the Armstrong Space Museum
Oklahoma X my great aunt's farm in Thomas
Oregon X Crater Lake
Pennsylvania X Pennsylvania Dutch country
Rhode Island X just walking around Providence
South Carolina X Hilton Head
South Dakota X the Corn Palace!
Tennessee X visiting Jules
Texas XOO riding my horse through the desert along the Rio Grande
Utah X visiting my sister, aunt and cousins
Vermont X learning to ski and meeting Maria von Trapp
Virginia XO (Home state) colonial Williamsburg (where my mother, sister, niece and her husband all work or worked)
Washington X family reunion clam bakes in Sequim
West Virginia X skiing in Winter Valley
Wisconsin X cheese factories
Wyoming X Devils Tower
I've visited all fifty states. The states in which I've lived two different times, I've marked with an 'OO'
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