Wow, it has been so long since I have posted.  In fact I only just recently started to post on my other blog.  Summer has just been busy this year.  I wish it was long and lazy like it was when I was a child.  I remember times when I was just so incredibly bored!  I think it might be nice to be bored again sometimes!  This summer we redid the siding on our house, so far we only have the back done, but we really need to get the front done too, before the snow flies again.  We don't have a huge section to do at the front though, but it is the money that is hard to come by!

Our veggie garden was just weird this summer.  For the first time in ages, I have had luck with tomatoes.  I have to pick them when they are just starting to turn orange though, as they start to crack if I leave them.  They are all maturing at different times though, not all together, which is fine for us.  Our carrots were weird too.  We used seed tapes, and when we picked them the other day, some were huge, and others were teeny tiny.  Some were just gross, as they had slugs and so on eating them.    The runner beans did not do anything much this year, but the leaves and flowers are pretty.  We got loads of peas.  And our raspberries, oh my goodness, they were huge, and they just kept coming!  I didn't get enough to freeze, as I shared them with friends, made a pie and made muffins.  I just love raspberries.  We have a very tiny garden, so I had to trim the raspberry canes back so they don't over run everything.

We haven't gotten a trip to the beach in yet.  August has been cool, and we have been busy.  My dd has been volunteering at her horseback riding barn, she has been taking lessons since February.  So that was a lot of driving back and forth.  But she loves it so much, and she is so good at it too! I never got to take riding lessons when I was young, and I am just a horse nut, so it is a blessing for me to see her be able to ride and have so much fun. 

Anyway, that is my update for now, but I will be posting more regularly ( I hope!)