Sunday, September 27, 2009

Matt is really enjoying baseball

Matt is in Little League this year and has a great eye for the ball. I'm thinking baseball scholarship Ha Ha.
Suzette bought this setup which has a ball mounted on it and you use it to practice hitting the ball.
I have already planned out the location for our baseball field. Now that I don't have an ultralight I can use my landing strip as a baseball field. Matt and I are practicing hitting and catching a little every day. He seems to be having a lot of fun and that's what counts.

Church and rodeo combined, only in Creston.

We had an interesting church service the other day. It was held at the rodeo grounds at Creston. Every year they have a large rodeo and traditionally they hold the church service in the grand stand and then the rodeo events begin. I thought this was a cool picture, and they served yummy donuts. You know we will be back again next year.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Hey look, the grass is growing and so are the weeds

Here is a shot of Suzette striveing to beat down the weeds. The grass is growing fast but man, those weeds are growing even faster. We have to continue hoeing them out for at least a few more weeks, then we can hit it with Weed-and-Feed and really put a hurt of them. Suzette has been out there every day working on it.

Saturday, September 5, 2009

The grass plugs are planted and my back hurts.

Here's the grass planting warrior working the soil and spreading potting soil on the surface. It's been so hot during the day that I put out halogen lights so I could work on it in the evening when it was only 80 degrees.
Once the soil was prepped Matt and Suzette really worked hard and made it all possible. We had 20 flats to plant with 72 plugs per flat, that's a whole bunch of plugs at 12 inches separation (for you people without a calculator handy, its 1440 plugs). We got an assembly line process going after a little practice. I measured and drilled the holes and watered them, Matt got the plugs out of the tray, dipped them in a root grow solution and dropped them on the holes and Suzette planted each plug.
And here is our finished product! I am so glad they are in the ground.

I fired up the sprinklers and everything is looking good. Of course my back is killing me. Lucky for me I have a cold corona with lime in the fridge calling my name. Waayyyne, Waayyne, please come drink me.
Gotta go, duty calls.