Yankee Doodle Dandy!

Roadside before trimming.

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After trimming.

Another "after" photo.

It has been a busy time here at Blossom Ridge Farm. Kathy has been on vacation, or, as she calls it, a working vacation. She goes back to the library tomorrow for one day only before she has two more days off...then she works Friday before having two more days off. Hmmm...we detect a pattern here.

The hoeing is caught up, the vines have had a foliar feeding which is also supposed to help with mold and mildew and other nasty vine issues. The trimming along the road (all 300' of it) has been trimmed once. Kathy managed, of course, to get poison ivy, but not her worse case, which was contracted when clearing a fence row.

Bonnie has been weeding her veggie garden and insisted Kathy remove the previous photos she took of her garden and replace them with more weed-free pics, hence the later date on the photos than the date of that post.

Denny went truck shopping and came home with a 2010 Toyota Tundra! Very, very nice!

Today Kathy finally got around to shortening some inexpensive navy bed sheets to hang over the windows of the walk-out doors. Not the greatest "curtains," but they will keep the sun from pouring through the windows and making it too hot for Millie, Gizmo and Gennie. Kathy also bought them a small fan for when it gets over 80 degrees in the basement.

Kathy's son is now driving solo for Hiner Transport here in Huntington. He completed six weeks of being a driver trainee, did his orientation, and was given his own tractor, an '06 with over 300,000 miles on it already! Kathy drove to Hiner yesterday for a tour of the tractor and thought it was very nice. KJ has a small fridge, a microwave, a CB radio, a Tom Tom GPS, and the TV Bonnie gave him with built-in DVD player. Bonnie also has an older laptop he can use while traveling. It has bluetooth and wi-fi.

July 4th was overcast here with some light rain. Most cities postponed their fireworks until Sunday, but Timber Lake set theirs off about 10:15 p.m. We couldn't see much of them because of the trees.

The 4th included a funeral, wedding and birthday and Bonnie headed to Pierceton for the wedding of the daughter of a friend we used to camp next to. Denny, Barbara, their son Keith and Keith's fiance, traveled to Michigan to celebrate daughter Shelly's 4th of July birthday, and Kathy drove to North Manchester for the funeral of Allen Dingess, the father of KJ's wife, Sherry. Allen was only two years older than Kathy, who herself lived in the North Manchester area for over 20 years, raising her family on two acres in the country. It is sad to know that we will never get to visit with Allen again.

Kathy heads to Logansport for another sleepover on Wednesday and is very much looking forward to the time with her mother. They are doing surf 'n turf this month...sauteed scallops and fillet mignon. Yum!

We worked on the villa a few days, getting it ready to show. We had to move everything that was still on the carpet to either the garage or 4-seasons room so that the carpet could be cleaned. It was disappointing that some stains did not come out. After the carpet was cleaned we returned to mop and clean. No word from the people who kept after us to show it. That is twice that has happened now. We also set some large pieces of furniture by the road to be picked up and that should have been done today. We still have much to give away, throw away or donate, boxes to go through....