Sunday, July 10, 2011

Simon's homemade planes }--I-->




 The maiden flight of Simon's homemade P47





Aerobatic flight of the re-built P47


Simon loves flight. He is clever and even built a couple of his own planes. A nice feature of these foam planes...in the event of a crash, they rebuild easily. Simon can replace the crumpled bit and reinforce the new piece and voilá! it flies again! 

Zion National Park

We had a wonderful trip to Zion National Park a couple weeks ago. We visited Grandma in St. George first and then continued to the Park.

Minor run in with some critter or other.

I love adventuring with my husband!


Saturday, July 2, 2011

Flowers and the Garden


We planted flowers in our front bed. Our mums had come back from last year, but will flower later and we wanted to make the bed look prettier in the present.
We picked up a few flowers at a couple local green houses. In all, we spent about $10.




We had a few to put in our pots to tie in the flowers on one side of our front door to the pots which sit on the other side. 


Our Garden continues to Grow

June 30th, the first flower appeared on our zucchini.


We have two plants growing quite well.

 Our third...well, it got a little munched early on and now is quite prolific and wild-like with its leaves. We're not sure how it will turn out at this point.
 July 2nd both zucchini plants produced new flowers. They're pretty. If they grow more, we may not be able to walk along the path around the house.
 Our alyssum  finally blossomed. We planted a few of our green house flowers here as well.

 Boy, have the tomatoes grown. They are really getting tall.
We even have tomatoes starting to form.

Our grape tomatoes starting to form.

Tomatoes continue blossoming.

 The main tomatoes are getting pretty big.
I started a couple tomato plants by seed. I want to see if we'll be able to get any fruit from them.


It is so much fun to watch the garden grow.

We're now eating several peas every day. It is quite delightful.