Gardens

After loosing most of our pepper garden to wild life last year we took Belle's old kennel and used it to enclose our garden this year. Well worth the effort! We have peppers now ready to harvest with much more to come. Cayane, Cherry Hots, Hungarian, Habenaro, Sweet Banana, Bell and few we are not sure of till we taste them.


Even though I am not a tomato person Sandi loves them, especially fresh. With all the rain we have had this year we have plants well over six feet tall but all the fruit is still greeen. Green fried tomatoes anyone?

The herb garden was not so good this year and again I think the rain had a lot to do with it. Everyone knows how much I love Penze's but there is still nothing better than growing your own.

Oregano hanging to dry, one of this years better crops.

And yes, fresh peppers for tonights dinner.

More fun at Grey Fox

There is much more than just the Main Stage at Grey Fox Bluegrass , the younsters

Grey Fox Saturday Morning

As people start claiming their spots for the weekend the hillside slowly fill with every type of folding chair you coulf think of.

The Main Stage where all the major acts perform in addition to them playing at the Dance Tent, the Masters Tent and a few places in between.

Sue and I had both brought our guitars for the week to play together and met up at some of the offerings the have for aspiring string players. Rich took center stage and learned a few cords.

And then the rains came, and boy did they come.

Rain, rain.


Mud, mud.

Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival

It appears the economy has even struck the youngsters on the Bluegrass circuit. On the first full day we observed a young mandolin player set up on the Mid-way playing for festival food money!

Oour site is all set up with Rich & Sue tucked neatly in. Plenty of room for lounging and cooking and some very serious guitar playing in the evenings.

The view down our 'road' to the dance tent Thursday morning.

What a difference a day makes, same view Thursday morning.

Oak Hill New York

This year we decided to arrive at the Grey Fox Bluegrass on Tuesday evening. This was the first time we had done this and we were surprised to find ourselves smack in the middle of a giant cow field all by ourselfves. I guess you could say we had the pick of any site we wanted.

Home Sweet Home for the next five days. Rich and Sue will be joining us tomorrow along with 4,000 additional campers. All the camping tickets sold out three weeks ago.
We are looking forward to a mix of weather, music everywhere and meeting up with friends and making a few more in the process.

Wild Duck 2009

Last year our friends Sarah and Ernie introduced us to Wild Duck Campground up in Maine. We were lucky to once again spend the Forth of July there with our friends Rich and Sue.

The view from our site is awsome! We camped once again right on the tip of the watershed.

The wild life is amazing.

Of course we were decked out in our colors and our outdoor shelter.

Well perhaps the weather wasn't perfect everyday all the time but it was wonderful. We had several storms roll through along with some sun here and there but hey, Sandi and I are used to wet camping. Just ask anyone who has camped with us.

Yes we had a great time!

It is really amazing how many ballons they get onto the field and the crews start working side by side to get them ready for flight.

Every where you looked there were balloons.


Friday night they had a balloon glow set to music.

More fun in Quechee

The Thursday arrivals enjoy some of the sun we had for the weekend.

Susan, Rich, Sue, Andre' and Sandi in front of our Camp.

The "Disk Dogs" were a lot of fun. All the dogs are rescue dogs

training in the fine art of Frisbee catching. A really great

show all done to music.

We were treated to several sky jumps of four sky divers.

No need to mention our love of diners. The Farmers Diner is a classic example

of a well restored vintage diner.

The interior is completely restored to its original state with a very large addition.

Thursday in Quechee, VT

We arrived at the Balloon Festival Thursday and set up camp.
Andre and Susan, Rich and Sue and us in the middle. Ken and Kathy will be joining us later.






Happy 15th Anniversary to Susan and Andre'!

Mr. Bill joined us for Happy Hour and as usual he jumped right in.

Sara's Wheel

Sara's Wheel of Fortune is all done and ready to go.

She has lots of fun carnival prizes and we know

everyone coming to her Airstream Kids Karnival

are going to have lots of fun.

See you all there!

New Neighbor

Gardens

This year has been a tough one on our gardens with concerns to wildlife.

It appears someone place a "free buffet" sign at the edge of

our property this year. This Chantily Lace hosta should be

about three feet wide by now.

The ferns have done much better since they do not seem to be on the menu.

As new addition, Patriot. Of course we just planted this so it has yet
to be placed on the menu and eaten yet.

Our grasses always do well each year. I should have taken this photo two weeks ago

when the cinnamon fern was in full bloom.

The left side of the walkway down is completed for the season. A little feeding

and wild life monitoring and we should have a lovely mid summer

shade garden to enjoy.

Sara's Carnival

Sara is hosting her first Airstream rally next month with a wonderful theme:

Kids Karnival.

The idea is that each attendee bring a carnival game to set up at their rig

with raffle tickets and prizes to be awarded.

Sara decided to have a "Wheel of Fortune" for her booth and we had started

working on the construction with pretty good results.

The wheel is almost done; needs a coat of clear and the inserts need to be done.

But the base still has work to be done.

We are looking forward to finishing this up soon. All of the "prizes" will be here next Friday.

So true

Last week the sensor light on the barn stopped working. Not the end of the world, but something that did need repair. At first I tried adjusting the settings, but that didn't solve the problem of the light not coming on. I then proceeded to taking the unit apart, cleaning the pieces and then reassembled. Well that too proved to not be the answer. Later that night I explained to Sandi the details of the light failure and the rescue operations resulting in failure. It was at that moment that true intelligence prevailed; "Did you change the light bulb"?